The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-13
NATURALIZATION
MILL GR'NDS OUT
$50 NEW CITIZENS
Thirty-seven in Two Days
Swear to Be Faithful to
Uncle Sam.

Naturalization day in the Court House
on the third Tuesday of every month
always brings out a fin crop OF an
swers to the statutory questions put by
James Reilly, naturalization commits
sioner, attached to the Office of Jerome
c.. Shear, the chief examiner, with
headquarters in the Federal Building
in Philadelphia.
Judge Davis, of the Court of Com
mon Pleas, has the hearings On the
third floor, and the crush is usually SO
great that the third Tuesday crop runs
into the following day.
The chief stumbling blocks W a
definition as to the Constitution Of he
United States and as to the makers of
the laws. national and State. Answers
as varied as the ~rainbow's hues, but not
quite as brilliant, are the rule, and
they often bring the prospective citizen
to grief.
MIL Works Overtime.
Francis A. Fiore. formerly a
paper man, has charge of the mill that
grinds out citizens, and his office, that
of naturalization clerk. is attached to
the county clerks office, where from
early morn to dewy eve' he receives
applicants preparatory to their debut in
court.
That the mill is busy, even during
times when others are idle, is shown by
the fact that during the last six months,
exclusive of the sessions OF yesterday
and the day before, 1873 citizens were
added to the little list of men entitled
to all the glories and duties of Amer
lean citizenship. AS sixteen was the
total of Yesterday and twenty-one OF
the day before. the grand total for 1903
is $50.
The nativity of the 1913 was distrib-
uted as follows: Great Britain and Ire
land and British possessions, 80; Rus
sia, 20; Germany, AZ; Italy. 81; Rou-
mania, 4; Hungary, 6; Austria, 16; Hol-
land, /; Denmark, 2; Sweden, 6; Swift
zerland, 2. Yesterday and the day be-
fore 1s Italians, Z Germans, Z Russians,
3 Englishmen. . Hungarians, l Turk
and / Roumanian received the coveted
papers that allow them to help name
the men tndl rune tHe CtSi
nation.
Many Applicants Turned Down.
During the first six months of the
year twenty-nine cases were turnen
down for various reasons, and some OF
them are somewhat out of the ordi-
nary. one instance is that of John Z.
Clark. an English sailor. He had de-
serted from the steamship Celtic while
il was in New York in January, l902,
never paid his per capita tax or
81 as an immigrant. He has been here
seven years and sought to become a
member of Uncle Sans family. Be-
cause he did not pay the tax his wish
still remains unfulhlled.
Marriage Barred Him.
Another case out of the usual run Is
that of Michael Pho, whose desire to
break loose from the Italian govern
ment was frustrated for the present at
least, because during the probation
period he went to Italy, married the
young woman of his choice and stayed
away thirteen months. The court de-
cided that he would require a con-
%tinuous residence of Ave years before
he could again make application, as the
trip abroad had destroyed the con-
tinuity required.
There is one important matter that
the examinations frequently disclose,
and during the year, as far as IL has
gone, half a dozen cases have cropped
up. This is that men who before ex-
else boards have sworn that they were
citizens, so as to get licenses, have
afteruard turned I'm at the natura1jZa-
ton mill for their papers.
The coaching of some of the prospec-
tive citizens is often done in a most
slipshod way, and h result Is that
they frequently give an answer to n
question that surely is intended for