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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-24
BOOM IN BUILDING
STARTS IN kEARNY
WITH RECORD DAY
Permits Issued for Thirty-nine
Houses Estimated to Cost in
Aggregate $4,000.

"A big building boom has struck
Bearny,'' said Building Inspector Ralph
S, Young. Of that town today. The
building inspector told of issuing per-
mits yesterday for the construction Of
thirty-nine houses as an aggregate
total cost of $4,000. David Harper, the
Harrison contractor, who recently con-
structed a long row of houses in Harper
place, received permission to build
thirty-two dwellings in Chestnut street,
north of Laurel avenue Arlington. The
total cost Will be $4s, 800.
Tie Boyer Realty Company was given
permits for the erection of six houses
in Brighton avenue, near Halstead
street. TIE estimated cost Is $1,000
Jacob Mhman YVES given permission to
construct a $4,000 dwelling at the cor
ner Of Maple and Grove streets. Per-
mission was given the Kearny Hat
Company 10 make an extension to its
plant in Sheridan avenue
Tho days business was q record
breaker for tne building Inspector.
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CHILDREN HELP
IN PROGRAM OF
LITERARY CLUB
Arlington Women Hear of New
York Charity Work on Their
philanthropy Day."

What has been done to improve the
conditions OF women u children in
New York's cast side was explained
al the meeting Of the Woman's
Literary Club Of Arlington yesterday,
scheduled MS "Philanthropy Day
Mrs. Belle G.. butcher was the chair
ma of the day and presided over the
program, III which children belonging
to the Sunshine Society played a prom
inent part. Brief talks were given by
Mrs. c. II. Noycs, Of the domestic sci
ence department of the Sunshine Set
tiement. Lexington avenue and Sixty
third street, New York; Miss Sarah
Curry, of the Little Missionary Branch,
80 st. Marks place, and Mrs. S. s.
Frost, of the Mothers Club. Mrs. Frost
told of work in the recreation centres of
New York. and said that a police cap
tain reported that in his district two
saloons had been closed and two police
men removed from the beat as a re-
suit of the recreation arrangements.
Miss Curry said that this had been
the hardest winter in fourteen years for
the poor in New York because OF laci;
of work, and in the Little Miesionary's
Day Nursery from 1875 to 1856 children
were cared for daily. They had also
nursed 300 cases of pneumonia this
season. They teach the mothers, have
classes, ven a shopping, ella So, and have
meetings for men as well,
Mrs. Noyes said Thai the Sixties on
the East Side IN New York formed The
most congested district in the world,
not excepting China. Talking OF the
domestic science, she said that lessons
were given In laundry, cooking. plain
sewing, embroidery and millinery. Es-
pecial effort has been made TO teach
the emlgrants to become housekeepers.
Little Miss Bessie Sheppard contrib
uted piano solos, as did Master Van
Rensselaer, butcher, a young man OF
10 years, who shows remarkable prom
Use. a delightful, recitation, '"Tbe Owl,
t1e Eel and the Warming Pan" was
given by four tots Of 4 years Of age.
Josephine Fra2ee, Kathleen O'Brien,
Wallace Frazee and Whitney Bird.
A pretty tableau. 1.-THE Pied Pipes of
Hamelin," disclosed Stuart Ross as the
Pied Piper. and Agnes Sheppard, Car
roll Lyon, Evelyn White, Florence Cas-
sidy, Kitten Irwin, billiard Jones, Mil
dred Strong. Kathleen Edwards. Evelyn
Vosburgh. Constance Gross, Edith Fro
bisher, Marian McLain, Kathleen
O'Brien, Ruth Ross. Louise Schaaf,
Bessie Sheppard, Norman Kennedy.
Jack Callen. Harold Callen, George
butcher, Ruth Edwards, Frank Vos-
burgh and Jessie shopper as The rats.
The tableau willie Wrinkle Wee was
rosed by Marian McLain, Jack Callen.
George and Van Rensselaer, butcher, in
costume.
Mrs. Maude Marvin was the hostess
for the day and the ushers were Miss
Beatrice McClintoch. Miss Leonora
Blackmore, Miss Mildred Strong, Miss
Ruth Ross, Miss Edna McClintoch and
Miss Olive Arnheim.
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LECTURES ON LAND OF
THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS.
Miss Ryerson Describes Japa-
nese Customs in Orange.

Quaint Japanese customs and festi-
walls were described in a lecture given
by Miss Marie F. Ryerson. of East Or
ange, before a highly interested audi
ence in Grace Church parish house.
Orange. last night. Miss Ryerson knows
the micado's people we'll from long
visits among them. and conveyed her
Impressions most entertainingly. Her
collection of pictures OF Japanese scenes
enhanced the interest of the lecture
greatly.
Educational work in the country was
given particular attention. this. the
lecturer explained. being much more
elaborate for hoys than for girls. How
much a trip to the Orient broadeus
ones interest in foreign affairs was
also dwelt upon. OF Japanese charac-
ter, Miss Ryerson said, simplicity and
naturalness were the most charming
attributes
Speaking OF navigation in Japan. Miss
Ryerson said that only Japanese steam
ers arc allowed to come UP to the
"Hataba," or wharf. the steamers of
the Canadian Pacific Steamship Com
pany and Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany being required to pay 500 g day
for the privilege, which they prefer to
save by anchoring at the breakwater.
a hslf-mile from the shore.
additional att~ractiveness was added
to the evening by Mrs. Edward w,
KetchaIn's singing of "A Japanese Love
Song A good sum was Melted for
the siek relief fund of the Guild Of
st. B~arnabas.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-24
KEARNY FORESTERS
ELECT NEW OFFICERS

The annual meeting of Court Green
wood No. %, Foresters of America, Of
Kearny, was held at Evans's Hail.
Kearny, last night and the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: Chief ranger, Walter Carr: sub
chief ranger. John Dent; financial seq
rotary. John Davies: treasurer, Thomas
Lister; recording secretary, James Cox;
senior woodward. William Hsuck; jun
ior woodward, James Pettigrew; senior
beadle, Robert Quinn; junior boadIe.
John Osborne; lecturer, James Shaud,
trustees, William Evans and Hugh
Wilkie; physician, DR.. Henry Alters.
The annual convention OF the grand
court will be held in the opera house,
Bayonne, on Tuesday, May II. The fol-
lowing delegates were elected to rep
resent Court Greenwood: John Ander-
son and Thomas Macfie. The alternates
are John stark and Thomas Reid.
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ANOTHER PEN-A|R
MEETING PLANNED
BY SUFFRAG|STS
Progressive Union of the Or
anges Makes Plans for Con-
tinuing Its Campaign.

The Progressive Woman Suffrage
Union of the Oranges held a business
meeting last night at the home of the
chairman, DR.. Emma O. Gantz, % Park
avenue. East Orange, and discussed
plans for continuing the work of the
organization. A second open-air meet
ing will be held Saturday night at the
same location. corner of Main and Day
streets. Orange, in front of tho First
Presbyterian Church. The secretary
was instructed to send a letter of
thanks to tho Rev. Charles Townsend,
pastor OF the church, and the board of
trustees for their courtesy last week in
permitting tho speakers to stand inside
the railing on the church property, al
though the speakers preferred to stand
on the street curb. Yellow was adopted
as the color OF the union.
a number of signatures were added
to the membership list following the
open-air meeting Lash week.
Miss Edith NJ. Moore. OF East Orange,
daughter of Arthur w. Moore, who is q
loyal supporter of the new movement,
was elected chairman of the member
ship committee last night.
Mrs; Is. Borrnann Wells, IN responSe
to a request called out from some one
in the crowd last Saturday night, will
speak again at the open-air meeting
this week, In addition to other speakers
from Few York. Chief George p.
Washer, Of the Orange police, who was
present at the street meeting last Sat
urday night. which was marked by per-
feet order, said We'll, II this is the
way the meetings are conducted. l don't
SEE why anyone should object to them. .
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AMATEUR "JEFFSS"
PAY FINES FOR
ORANGE SCRAP
Judge Bray Sets Them $40 in
Arrears for Disturbing Hat
ting NeighborhO0d.

John Cullen, of "a Ogden street. Or
ange, and John Donovan, Of III Lake
side avenue, hat city. ambitious anna
teur prize fighters, who had a hit and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. scrap last
Thursday night in the fashionable resi-
dence section of Essex avenue and
Clarendon place. Orange. were before
Judge Bray in the Orange Police Court
today as a result of their impromptu
fisticuffs. The fight followed the out
break in the hating district. but a few
blocks distant, and tool place at 9
o'clock at night. 1t had the residents
of the peaceful section in a state OF
great excitement, as several hundred
youthful lovers of fighting crowded
about the lawns of the residents to see
the row.
Sergeant Daniel Leary announced to-
day hat he had three telephone calls
in as many minutes when the fight
started and thai he dispatched Police
man Michael Giordano ON his bicycle,
with instructions to gather in all the
police along the way, the reports tc
the police indicating that a riot was in
progress. Giordano got Cullen, and
then rounded up Donovan later.
Judge Bray warned the men against
any fights during. the present state O
excitement in the city, and announced
that he would deal with the witnesses
to the scrap later, as he had a Nst OF
names of those who were present. The
court then fined each fighter $40, and
after much hustling. the admirers Of
the young men who had crowded tho
courtroom raised the money. Donovan
accused Cullen of lighting with his
teeth as we'll as his hands. and said hs
had three bad scars on his body as &
sequel.
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SEALED

eEALED proposals Will be received at the Of
Ace of the Town Clerk of the Town of Bloom
field until Tuesday. March 30. 1909, at 8 O'Clock
D. m. for the construction of the following sew
ers a. stated below:
The following are tho approximate quantities
which are FOR the purpose OF comparing bids
only:
State street sanitary sewer, between Belle.
vile avenue and Broad street;
1850 lineal feet S-inch vitrified tile pipe.
Three go manholes. complete.
Sixty (60l o-inch ''Y' branches on 6-inch pipe.
Broad street sanitary sewer. between Warren
street and Bay avenue:
500 lineai feet 15-inch vitrihed tile pipe.
One ~ manhole, complete.
Twenty-Five (25) "Y" branches on t5-inch pipe.
Jerome place storm drain.
40 linea1 feet of 20-inch vitrified tile pipe.
Plans and specifications may be seen and bid
ding sheets received for these proposed i'm
rrovemenfs at the office of Ernest Baeehlin,
Town Engineer, Bloomfield National Bank
Building, Bloomfield, N. j..
Each bid for each improvement must be ac-
companied by a certified check for fifty dollars
$3.50. 0W drawn to the order of the Town OF
Bloomfield. a a guarantee OF good faith OF the
bidders.
Tho Town Council reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
Each proposal must be sealed and Endorsed
with the name Of the street and addressed to
Raymond r. Davis, Town Clerk.
BY order of the Town Council.
RAYMOND F. DAVIS.
Town Clerk.
Bloomfield, N. j.. March 20, 1909.
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STAR CHAMBER
METHODS SCORED
IN So. ORANGE
Freeholder Evans Objects TO VIII
lage Political Factions Meet
ing Behind Closed Doors.
SAYS TRUSTEES DO TOO
MUCH SECRET BUSINESS
Plans for Election on April IL
Being Laid by Both
Parties.

The secrecy with which plans for the
coming election of village president
and three village trustees in south
Orange are being laid, and also the
manner in which the Village BOARD OF
Trustees thrashes out problems OF
public interest in South orange, were
today attacked by Freebooter Walter
A. Evans. of that place, who said he
had decided upon getting out q petition
to have all public business done at a
public meeting.
THE various factions in the village
meet in private houses behind closed
DOORS hi declared. land nominate
men to serve as village fathers, and the
people must vote on the men they se-
lect." E.
Instead of having the village trus.
tees meet in secrecy every Friday
night, preceding a regular meeting, ana
at that time ~transacting practicable
all of the business and merely voting
on it at the open meeting. he said all
should b. lone at the public meeting
as the county Board of Freeholdera
does.
Plans for the village election to be
held April II are being carefully laid
by both the Citizens and Peoples faes
lions, but none have as yet been made
public. u
An additional election district has
been decided upon, making three in all
The first district will comprise all
that territory lying east of the centre
line of Valley street and south of the
centre line of South Orange avenue
and south of the centre line of Irving
ton VENUE. The second district conl~
prises all that part Of territory lying
east of the centre line of Scotland road
and north of the centre line of Irving
ton avenue and the third district viii
be all hat part lying west of the centre
line of Scotland road md west of tbs
centre line of Valley street.
The polling places will be-: First dis
trict, Liberto Conversano's barber shop
at 6S South Orange avenue; second dis
trict. Village Hall. and third district.
Joseph Abbott's barber shop. . South
Orange
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KEARNY F|REMEN
NOT COMPLAINING
!. ABOUT ENNU|
Brush Fires Have Been Keeping
Then on the Jump--AIarm
System Repaired.

kearny firemen are having lots of
trouble with brush fires throughout the
town. There were three such fires yes-
terday and another one today.
DR.. a. A. Mutter. of Kearny, tele-
phoned to the police station yesterday
ner OF Bergen avenue ana Maple street.
Patrolman Bell tried 10 send in an
alarm. but tho system was out of order.
The Highland EIosc Company extin-
guished the blaze before any damage
was done.
Mre. George y. Dunlap, of Arlington.
telephoned 10 the police station that
there was a brush ire at Grand place
and Elizabeth avenue. Efforts 10 SEND
In an alarm were again futile. as the
system was ont or order. Assistant
Chief Thomas Burns, with a number of
Arlington iremeil. extinguished this
fire. also. before il had gained any
Roadway.
Late last night a pile Of brush in the
Arlington cut of the Erie railroad was
on fire. Citizens and a Kearny police
nan ~extinguisiled II.
The fircmen last night vent out to To-
cate the trouble with the system, and
Assistant Chief James Butterield found
a broken wire in Passaic avenue, near
the Marin Linoleum Company.
Investigation showed hat the broken
strand was sa fire alarm wire that had
been broken by coming in contact with,
the limb OF a tree. The wire was re-
paired and once more the system was In
working order.
An alarm sounded from box So, at the
corner of Elizabeth and Kearny venue
today. The firemen answered and
found brush burning.
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MADE GOOD
s225 SHORTAGE IN
HARRISON LODGE
Amount Recovered from Walter
j. Walsh by the Royal
ArCanum.

Walter j. Walsh, the Harrison young
man who about a week ago was taken
into custody on a charge OF embezzle-
ment, said to have been committed
two years ago when Walsh was en-
ployed as a collector for the Harrison
store of s.. Scheuer & Co., and who
was also said to have misused funds
of the EdEward r. Mcdonald Council,
Royal Arcapum, of Harrison. of which
he was collector. has made good in The
amount Of about 1925 TO the Ar
canumites.
A committee was appointed a Short
time ago by the Harrison society to
see Walsh and toll him the exact
amount of his shortage. Upon being
told the ex-coIlector made good in the
amount stated I'M said he would have
done SO before but for the fact that
ne Vas not ware of the exact amount
The committee reported with the money
at a meeting of the council held last
night.
Walsh Is now under $500 bail for the
grand jury on the Scheuer charge.
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GHtAI UANt OOU
CHASED BY MOB
IN ORANGE VALLEY.
Big Brute Had Bitten a Boy and
Was Supposed to Be
Mad.
KILLED BY POLICEMEN
ON MOUNTAINSIDE ROAD
Owners of Other Dogs Attacked
by the Animal Keep Them
Under Observation.

Suffering apparently with rabies, a
Great Dane dog, sale to have been
owned by Mrs. Jennie j. Vaudeville,
Of Ludington road. South Orange. ran
amuck in Orange Valley this morning
and after a chase through the hating
district the brute was shot by Patrol
man George Gascoyne. With several
bullet wounds in its head the dog
dropped in a yard, but as the crowd
ran toward it the animal struggled to
its feet and running across a brook
over into West Orange was followed by
fully a hundred yelling people.
Policemen Bernard Heslin and Arnold
Campbell joined in the chase and over
hauled the brute on the mountainside,
where they dispatched it with their
revolvers.
Frederick Koeck, IA years old, was
bitten in the face by the dog last night,
as he stopped to pet the big brute, and
attracted by the evident value of the
animal, several boys took it to the
home of one of them and fastened it in
a kennel. The dog got loose, however,
during the Night, and early today
started to run through the streets, Bit
ing other dogs right n left and
chasing pedestrians.
A fine coach dog, the property of
Fireman Thomas Doyle, of the Valley
engine house, was attacked in the yard,
and, attracted by its terrified howls, the
fireman beat off the Great Dane and
later chained the bitten dog in the col
lar to await tho possible development of
rabies. Other animals were bitten and
their owners have chained them.
The dog dashed from Forest street,
where the fire house Is located through
South Jefferson street, scattering the
men in tho vicinity OF the factories
right and left. IT went through Nc
Chespey Valley and West Christopher
streets to where Policeman Gascoyne
wounded it.
Mrs. M%andeville said today that the
dog wass named Tiger had been III
the family seven years, and was never
vicious. She win have an autopsy made
on the body.
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GIRL AMATEURS
Of |Rv|NGTON
TO REPEAT PLAY
"The Three Chauffeurs' to Be
Presented in Hilton Tonight
by Church Auxiliary.

The performance of 1.-THE Three
Chauffeurs.r the comedy which was
given in Irvington last November, is 10
be repeated at the Hilton Annex Hall.
Hilton, tonight and tomorrow evening
by the Young Ladies' Auxiliary of the
First Christian Church. Irvineton.
As a special attraction Mrs. Nellie
Bennett FugIe, Of this city, will sing
during the performance, and Miss u.
Marie Som. director of the perform
ance by the auxiliary, will recite.
The cast for thes play is: Kitty kep-
Green; Lorry Spencer, the host. Miss
Edna Gordon: Marvin Hunter. a love
ly young man, Miss Maybeile Scott;
Mrs. Morry Spencer, the hostess. Miss
Jessie Williamson; Gertrude Castleton
masquerading as Melindy Pike, Miss
Elsie A.. Hainer; Betty Marshall, the
sentimental girl, Miss Ethel Wills; Lois
Drummond, the girl with 81 fad. Miss
May Eckert: Jane Armstrong, the hun
cry girl, Miss Elizabeth Denn1an; Lu-
ellie Beverly. the college girl. Miss
Bertha Heddcn; Minta Morris. tbs
primping girl, Mrs. Edward Higgins;
Eugene Allen. the giggling girl. Mis-;
May Walker; Mary Smith, the practi-
cal girl, Miss Mime Smith; Patience
Primrose, the studious girl, Miss Einmu
Williamson: Mrs. Spencer, the mother
in-law, Mrs. Gilbert Highly; Lieutenant
Is. Churchill. Miss lola Green; Norah
the cook, Miss Ruth Mitchell.
III the minuet are the Misses Emms
Williamson, r.. Hedden, M. Smith, M
Eckert, NJ. Green, j.. Williamson. Mrs
Il. Higgins and Miss Elsie Hainer.
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ION THE @. T." MAKES
FUN AT ORANGE BIJOU

Popular approval, as evidenced in APP
lplause. has stamped the bill this week
at tho Bijou Theatre. Orange, as one
of the most interesting of h season
there. A potent producer of laughter
is the farcical playfet entitled ION the
@. IT," presented by Thomas Meegan &
Go. in capital style. One ludicrous sit
uation crowds quickly upon another. A
splendid comedy acrobatic act Is that
given by Savan and Warren. Ground
tumbling of sensational order is inter
spersed with funny pantonime antics.
Sophie Gordieu, Russian violinist. H.
winning a complete conquest of Orange
with her bow. 1t is not often that vau-i
deville audiences are favored with a
genuine musical treat of this calibre.
The moving pictures this week arc OF.
exceptional interest, with a good
%sprinkling of excellent comedy subjects,
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SEALED proposals will be received at the Of
fee of the Town Clerk of the Town Of Bloom
heId until Tuesday, March 30. at 5 o'clock p. M.
for the construction of Telford pavements in
the following streets. as stated below:
Olive street. between Hinrichs place and East
Orange line:
: 1910 square yards of Telford pavement.
Jerome place. between Berkeley avenue and
Walnut street:
Walnut street, between Montgomery street
and Jerome place:
s75 square yards of S-incfl Telford avemen
The above quantities are approximate only
and are for the purpose of comparing bids.
Plans and specifications may be seen. and
bidding sheets received for these proposed i'm
provements at the once Of Ernest B~aeehlin,
Town Engineer. National Bank
Building. Bloomfield, N. J.
Each bid for each Improvement must be ac-
cornpanied by q certified check for fifty dollars
$4,000 drawn to the order of the Town of
Bloomfield. as a guarantee Of good faith Of the
bidders.
The Town Council reserves the right to re-
jact any or all bids.
Each proposal must be sealed and Endorsed
with the name OF the street and addressed to
Raymond r, Davis. Town Clerk.
RAYMOND r. DAVIS.
ploomheld. N. u. March q. 1901.
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HARRISON GIRL SURPRISED.

A surprise party was held in honor
of Miss Olive Wilhelm at her home,
425 Harrison avenue. Harrison, last
night. Some of those present were the
Misses Julia Marrias, Elisha Norton,
Florence Smith, Margaret Burns. Teresa
Jordan. Agnes Weston, Martha Nc
Govern, Bertha Halsted, Genevieve
Grace. May Rose Grace, May Dalton,
Jennie Evans. Laura Regan and Alice
Benboy, Harry Carroll, Frank Brown,
Leslie Brown, James Conlon, John
Rely, James Mahar, Lawrence and
Thomas Lynch. James Fagen, William
Savage, Theodore Tappan and Joe
Kelley.
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MISS SARAH Y. MOWEN.

Funeral services over the remains of
Miss Sarah " mowen, the 14-year- old
daughter OF Nr. and Mrs. Michael
Mowen. Of ZIG Second street, Harrison,
Who died at the home OF her parents,
Sunday last. took place today from the
Church of the Holy Cross. Harrison,
where 4 high mass of requiem was
offered for the repose of her soul. In
termcnt was in the Cemetery of the
Holy Sepulchre.
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GEORGE E. DOoLgy.

The funeral of George E.. Dooley,
~14-year-old son OF Mrs. Anna Dooley. of
2s5 John street, Harrison, who died AT
the home of his mother last Sunday took
place today from the Church Of the
Holy Cross, Harrison, where a solemn
high mass was sung for the repose OF
his soul. The funeral was largely at
tended. The members of the st. Alloy
sius Society of the church. of which the
deceased was q member, attended in q
body. Interment was in the Cemetery
of the Holy Sepulchre.
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ARREsTfp AFTER STREET FIGHT.

a fight late last night at William and
Dow streets, Belleville, drew Policeman
James Flynn to the spot. BY the time
he arrived, however. the crowd had dis
persed. and only Charles Hawkins, %
years old. Of Al Smith street, was left.
He was locked UP over night, and when
arraigned before Police Justice Council
today said that he was not the aggres-
sor in the affair. He was released.