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The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-16
INAUGURATION DEATH ROLL
One Hundred of Massachusetts
Coast ArtiIIerymen Ill.
Washington Organization Which Man
ages Ceremonial Faces De-
ficit This Year.

Washington, D. C.-Out of 500
members Of the Massachusetts, Coast
Artillery organization who came to
Washington and participated in the
inaugural parade, no less than 100
are now ill at their homes, in most
cases with pneumonia, as direct re-
suit of their experience in Wash
ington.
The members of this organization
were especially unfortunate. They
were quartered in Washington in the
National Rife Armory, and there
were not even cots provided for them.
So they slept as best they could on
the floor On inauguration day they
were held two or three hours in line,
waiting for the parade to form and
move; and finally they marched about
five hours, most of the distance in
snow and slush and a biting wind.
1t was fearful experience. The
Washington authorities had cleared
away the snow from Pennsylvania
avenue, but on the other streets
which made up the parade's route the
snow was in the main untouched.
One member of this organization
has already died, another is reported
dying and several more are consid-
cred in the gravest danger. These
are by no means all the fatalities the
inauguration fete has caused. 1t is
estimated that complete roll will
show score or more of lives sacri-
feed to the performance.
Even this is not SO serious as were
the results of the last Cleveland in
sugural, when about seventy-five lives
were yielded up to pay for the in.
augural jollification.
The Washington organization
which had charge of the inaugural
arrangements faces, in addition to
other troubles, a deficit. A big fund
was guaranteed, and the guarantors
will have to pay considerable assess
ments in addition to their subscrip-
tions. The revenues are secured in
the main from sale of inaugural ball
tickets and tickets to the big concerts
in the Pension Building for two or
three days after the inauguration.
This year both these occasions proved
unfortunate because of the bad
weather and the disgust of the people.
1t has been seriously proposed that
the people of Washington refuse, four
years hence, if there is no legislation
to change the date of inauguration.
to put up money for the inaugural
festivities. 1t is by no means certain
that this would deeply impress Con-
gress, but it would relieve Washing
ton of its apparent responsibility for
the unfortunate results of the oc-
casion.
The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-16
.sDEcE1r ALL RIGHT TO HOLD HUSBAND"

Chicago Feminine deceit is all
right. Love piracy is all right. Keep
your husband loving you by any hook
or crook. But for heavens sake don't
go to bed with quarter of an inch
of cold cream on your face to tip him
off on how you keep beautiful"
These pregnant thoughts were
vouchsafed 800 of Chicago's wives
and mothers at the Music Hall, Fine
Arts Building, by Nine. Hatton, mat
rimonial PHILOSOPHERS to the Windy
City's Smart Set.
81 don't care what method wom-
an uses to make her husband think
she's prettier than time has let her
be. If she succeeds in that and holds
him true to her, cosmetics are the
real agent of morality. But scores of
married women know of deserve to
lose their husbands. They think so
much of him that they leave their toi-
The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-16
PRIEST FAILS AS FINANCIER
Cardinal Gibbons Assumes His
$4,000 Obligations.
Father EIbert's Creditors Suffer No
Loss and Cardinals Signature on
Notes Will Not Be Questioned.

Baltimore, Md.-About a week ago
Cardinal Gibbons announced the re-
moval of the Rev. Casper P. Elbert
from the rectorship of st. Katherine's
Church in this city and appointed
his successor.
At the time no reason was given
other than that the interests of the
church made the change advisable.
1t now develops that the priest had
spent 100000, all of which was bor-
rowed money, in backing and promot-
ing various enterprises. What he did
with the money no one knows. Faith
er Elbert is now in Mount Hope Sani-
tarium under treatment and no one
is permitted to see him.
The priest, according to those
thrown with him, was money mad.
He had visions of acquiring great
fortune to aid the church and the
school in his parish. The Cardinal
expresses the belief that he was men
tally irresponsible on the subject of
money, and that he does not admit
consciousness of having done wrong.
Cardinal Gibbons has assumed re-
sponsibility for the debts of the priest.
The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-16
Cartoon by G. R. Macauly in the New York World
Mrs. Taft to Make White House Home
official
Police
Renaees ard NearoE Are poork

Washington, D. C.-Mrs. William
Howard Taft, first lady of the land
has assumed duties without public
ceremony or oath of Office which, in
weight of responsibilities, magnitude
of Importance, delicacy of execution
and lack of compensation. have no
comparison.
President Taft is charged under
his oath with executing the Office of
President" Mrs. Taft is charged,
without oath, of administering the
social and domestic affairs of the
White House. Mrs. Taft will execute
these requirements primarily by
lie life. She is in full possession of
the detailed requirements of her po-
sition, has reached her own conclu-
sions, and is already making the mi
nor changes in the administration of
the executive mansion necessary to
meet her own ideas.
The addition of the executive Office
building permits of an entire divorce
ment of the official business of the
President from the White House pro-
per, and this is to be availed of to
the full extent That the main en-
trance of the White House may pre-
sent as near as possible the appear
ance of a private residence, the uni
formed police officers and frock-coat-
ed doorkeepers have been eliminated,
and in their place are negro footmen
in livery. For safety an officer is re-
tanned on duty in the miniature Office
room inside the main entrance, and
another ON the second floor of the
mansion.
The rights of the public are recog-
nized by the maintenance of the hour
from noon until / o'clock, when ad-
mission is granted through the east
entrance to the historic East Room
and the parlors of the mansion.
Mrs Taft has abolished the posi-
tion of steward, and will conduct her
domestic arrangements through a
woman housekeeper
While the season of prescribed Of
ficial dinners is over, 1t may be pre-
dicted that the new tenant of the
White House will conduct a series of
informal social functions during the
special session of Congress which will
bring renewed animation and social
life to the sedate and sombre struc-
ture during the first few months of
the Taft regime.
President Taft surprised church
goers by walking democratically to
services at All Souls Church. He
was accompanied by his brother,
Charles P. Taft. The crowd of GU
rious that had gathered at the edifice
to see the new Presidentawere expect
ing him to arrive in an automobile,
and the President and party were at
the doors of the church before the
expectant throng realized that the
Chief Executive had walked through
the crowd without being recognized.
There was no demonstration along
the street or at the church. When
the services were over the President
elbowed his way through the crowd
The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-16
RATE DECISION FOR MILWAUKEE
Ruling Against Rock Island Affects
Every Road in the Country.

1tulinZ ASaAuSG EtOCk 1SlauU tAIkGCtS
Every Road in the Country.
Washington, D. merchants of
Milwaukee are to have the benefit of
as favorable through rates on grain
as those of Chicago, in a decision
handed down by the Interstate Com
merce Commission. The case was
that of the Milwaukee Chamber of
Commerce against the Chicago, Rock
Island &c Pacific Railway Company
and others.
The decision affects every railway
in the United States. The commits
sion says:
I'm claiming that as Chicago af-
fords as good market for grain as
does Milwaukee the principal defend
ant may therefore lawfully so adjust
its rate schedules as to force the grain
to Chicago, the defendant overlooks
the right of the shipper to choose his
own market and to do business where
he prefers or finds it more advan-
tageous to carry it on. 1t also over
looks the chief function of common
carrier, which is to carry at reason
able rates the traffic that is rendered
to it.
"a carrier has no right to insist
that shipment shall go to the end
of its rails If the shipper desires it to
be diverted at an intermediate to
another market off it's rails. Nor
may a carrier accomplish these re-
suits indirectly or by any unreason-
able adjustment of it's rate schedules
with that end in view. 1t cannot law
fully compel the shipping public to
contribute to its revenues on any such
grounds"
The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-16
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
NOT GUILTY OF REDATING
Verdict of the Federal Court
in Chicago.
JUDGE INsTRuCTs The JURY
Government Defeated in the Famous
Case in Which the Fine of $780,
100000 Was Imposed by Judge
Lands.

Chicago, Ill.-Judge Anderson de-
cided to instruct the jury in the
Standard Oil case to find the COM
pany not guilty.
The decision was announced at the
close of an argument by Assistant
District Attorney Wilkerson, and the
jury was Immediately summoned and
instructed to return verdict of not
guilty.
This means that all but two of the
pending indictments against the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana are
void and will be abandoned by the
Government.
The two cases not affected by this
action are cases involving the ship
ment of 1915 carloads of oil from
Whiting to Evansville, Ind, via Dol
ton Junction, over the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois Railroad.
The prosecution, which ended in
failure after having once been tried
by Judge X. M. Lands, whose decis-
ion was reversed by the Court of APPS
peals, had it's beginning August 27,
1906.
Ten indictments were returned by
Federal Grand Jury, charging the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
With accepting rebates from railways
IN shipments of oil from Whiting
Demurrers to two of these, invo;v-
ing shipments over the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois Railroad and connect
ing roads to Grand Junction, Tenn,
we're sustained and the indictments
we're quashed The remaining bills
we're demurred to, but the demurrers
were overruled.
Two of the eight indictments in
volved shipments over the Chicago
and Alton Railroad from Whiting to
East ST. Louis, one containing 1908
counts and the other 1874 counts. 1t
was the 1903 count indictment on
which the oil company prosecution
was based.
With 146 counts allowed to stand
the case went to trial before Judge
Lands March 4, 1907. The trial
took six weeks, and resulted in YER
iict of guilty.
Arguments for new trial were
beard, and a motion for a new trial
was denied. On August 3, 1907,
Judge Lands imposed his famous
S29,240,000 fine.
On appeal, the case went to the
u. S. Circuit Court of Appeals and
was argued year ago. The decision
Of the Court of Appeals reversing
Judge Lands, and remanding the
case for new trial, was given July
%, 1908.
The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-16
BANK wRECKERs MADE USEFUL
They Find Big Errors in Pennsylvania
Penitentiary Books.


Pittsburg. g.-Irregularities unearth.
ed in Riverside Penitentiary were
made public after a meeting of the
prison inspectors. 1t is admitted that
the prison books show a discrepancy
Of $4,000. The inspectors sent out
call for Warden William McC.
Johnston, who has been away from
the prison some days, presumably in
Ohio, to return and try to fix matters
up.
A novel feature of the affair is that
1t was trio of the most notorious
bank wreckers in the history of Penn.
sylvania, serving terms in the prison.
who discovered the faults in the
books.
Some days ago Henry Reiber, who
stole at least $1,500,000 from the
Farmers Deposit National Bank OF
Pittsburg, was put on the books. He
found the breaks and called for help
to verify them. Billy Montgomery,
who wrecked the Allegheny National
Bank of Pittsburg, and Rhinehart,
who put the Farmers and Drovers'
National of Waynesburg out of COM
mission, were put on the job. The
three experts" decided that matters
should be reported to the inspectors,
which was done
The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-16

let articles lying in full sight about
the house, confess they go to massage
artists, throw rats carelessly about
and even admit to strenuous gymnas-
tics to keep down weight'and give ar
tificial lustre to sinking eyes.
Women ought to keep their hus-
bands guessing all the time-just as
the coy girl of romance plays hide
and seek with the grande passion, un-
til she has her sweetheart groveling
and trembling lest the Yes she has
secretly meant to say from the start
won't be said at all.
Here's the secret of keeping a
husband. Stay beautiful and don't
let the male half know the reason.
Also, don't eat too much. Given the
aid of modern corsets and lacings, the
American wife is indefensible IL her
husband deserts her because she has
grown fat"
The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-16
). R. Macauley- in the New York World.

that had again gathered at the doors
and on the sidewalk to see him
emerge, and with his brother saun-
tered quietly up Fourteenth street.
For some distance hundred or so of
his admirers followed, but they event.
ually dropped off one by one.
President Roosevelt always caught
the crowds on his way to and from
church. His rapid gait, and the diff
Guilty the Secret Service men had to
keep pace with him always served to
attract the attention of passers-by.
Mr.. Taft declined to walk too rapidly,
observed all the conventionalities and
altogether was disappointment.
1t was noticed that the two Secret
Service agents who kept close to the
President wore the conventional frock
coat and silk hat which is the distinc-
tive garb of the service operatives.
President Roosevelt never insisted
upon this, and as a result the men
who watched over him arrayed them
selves as they saw fit The change is
taken to mean that President Taft
proposes to maintain more dignified
establishment than his free-and-easy
predecessor.
After Sunday luncheon the Presi-
dent bestrode Sterret, his newly ac-
quired horse, purchased at Hot
Springs, Va, and with General Clar-
ence r. Edwards, his military aid;
Captain Archibald Butt and ex-Presi-
dent Roosevelt's orderly, McDermott,
went for a twelve-mile ride over the
newly constructed Potomac speedway.
Automobiles will be almost the ex-
elusive ISethod of Iocomotion of Pres
ident Taft and his family. The
White House automobile will have
the right of way throughout the Dis
trict of Columbia and will know no
speed limit.
Two fine new automobiles already
have been purchased with the $12,-
900 appropriated by Congress for this
purpose, and Mr.. Taft has given them
thorough trial. One is good
weather machine, a big touring car
with detachable top, and painted in
dark green of three shades. This will
be the one most used by the Presi-
dent. The other car has a limousine
body painted black, and was pur-
chased for the use of Mrs. Taft. Both
bear ON each door the official coat Of
arms of the United States.
The cars are in charge of men sent
from the factories, who will turn the
machines over to the White House
head chauffeur, who will receive 500
month. He will have one assistant.
The White House garage will be in
the present stables. Besides the two
automobiles they will quarter seven
horses, which will be at the disposal
of Secretary Carpenter and his assist
ants, or may be used by the Tafts.
The only horses which will be used
by President Taft and his family will
be the new saddle horse recently rur-
chased in Virginia for the use of the
President and any saddle horses re-
quired by the other members of his
family.
The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-16
Praise of American Wit.

Mme de Navarro praised, at a
luncheon in New York, American
wit
.'It was horribly cold the other af-
ternoon," she said "a bitter wind
whirled the dry snow through the
air. Two policemen had red, swol-
len faces, and all the teamsters as
they drove kept slapping their poor,
frost-bitten hands against their
breasts.
Getting into my hanson, said to
the driver:
"'This is real winter weather.
isn't it?'
''The driver nodded and smiled
grimiy.
"'I give you my word, ma am
said he, I amt seen a butterfly all
day. New York Tribune.
The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-16
JANER, GUILTY, SENT
TO PRISON q YEARS
Brooklyn Man Convicted of As
sauIt on Girl He Abducted.
BEGINS TERM IMMEDIATELY
Joseph NJ. Janer, of Brooklyn, Was
Found Guilty of Abusing Little
Katherine Loerch-He Might
Have Been Sentenced to Death. !,

Baltimore, Md d-Ten minutes af.
ter the last argument was finished
Judges Burke and Duncan, at Tow
son, found Joseph F. Janer, of Brook
lyn, guilty of attacking little Kather-
inc Loerch here. Ten minutes moro
had not passed before the judges SEN
fenced Janer to twenty-one years i'm.
prisonment in the Maryland Peniten-
tiary.
Janer showed no emotion. He be-
gan to serve his term at once. Kath-
crime, twelve years old, was taken ia
her home, No. 343 Classon avenue,
Brooklyn, by her cousin, George
Dockweiler. Mrs. Janer also returned
to Brooklyn. She did not display
much distress when her husbands
sentence was pronounced.
Immediately after the judges rem
dered their decision, Guilty" ]. G..
Clark, Janer's counsel, made the usual
motion for a new trial. But after a
conference with the court and States
Attorney Owens and brief whispered
conversation with his client, Mr..
Clark announced that Janer was
ready to accept his punishment and
withdrew his motion for a new trial.
After the sentence Mr.. Clark said
frankly that he thought Janer, who
might have been sentenced to be
hanged, had been dealt with merci-
fully.
Janer, testifying, denied all the
accusations against him. The point
the defense accentuated was that ia
ner was so drunk all the time while
Katherine was with him here as to be
stupid and helpless.
Asked how much he could drink,
Janer said he could hold barrel of
the whisky he got in New York, but
gill of Baltimore whisky put him to
The bad
A saloonkeeper testified that in his
place in one day Janer drank quart
Of whisky and part of another. An
other witness describing Janer's con-
iition said critically:
II should not say he was helpless,
because he could hold on to a lamp
post"
Mr.. Clark made an astute point.
He ASKED the judges to strike out
Katherines testimony, that she is
twelve years old, as being hearsay.
The. court overruled him.
No one knows what l have suf-
fered in the last fifteen years." said
Mrs Janer, after she had kissed him
good-by "All manner of torment
have l suffered at Janer's hands, and
am glad that he is where he can do
no harm to me or himself. l am well
acquainted with sorrow at this time.
only live for my dear children. IT
may be that discipline will benefit my
husband during his incarceration, hut
doubt it, for he never has known the
meaning Of the word"
The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-16
The Field Of Sports.

Yale defeated Princeton by the
score of S5 to Is in the annual dual
swimming meet.
Tommy Ryan, the fighter, says he
would like to train Jeffries for a bout
with Jack Johnson.
Jay Gould and Joshua Crane were
defeated in an exhibition court tennis
match at Cambridge by Tom Petit
and Alfred White.
II do not agree with the idea that
the influence OF summer baseball is
bad for university men," says DR..
Hutchins. University OF Wisconsin
nhvaical director
The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-16
Brief Items Of Interest.

Albert T. Patrick wept as he ar
gued his own case in the Supreme
Court, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The cornerstone of the New York
Press Club Building was laid by the
Grand Lodge Of Masons of New York
City. -fN
Theodore Roosevelt, in his first
signed article as associate editor of
the Outlook, assailed yellow" jour
nalism.
Justice Guy. of the New York Su-
preme Court, in an opinion, said it
was the duty Of newspapers to expose
wrongdoing.
The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-16
Among the Workers.

Postoffice clerks have chartered a
new union at Atlanta, Ga.
Operative plasterers at Ottawa.
Canada, organized recently.
The general lockout of tailors in
Switzerland has been settled.
A new union OF blacksmiths has
been formed at Sherman, Texas
The workers compensation act is
to be reintroduced in the Manitoba
Legislature.
The women operators Of the trunk
telephone department at the Leeds
(Englandl general postofice have
organized.
The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-16
Foreign News Notes.

President Gomez of Cuba signed
the general amnesty bill.
The Budapest news telephone sys-
tenn of several years standing is a
success. The service costs only $7.31
year.
1t was rumored in st. Petersburg
that there had been a conflict betweenl
Russian and Chinese troops near
Harbin
Commonwealth of Australia inn
ports In 1908 amounted to $246,4l5,-
000, decrease of $40, O,170, 600. Exj
ports totaled value OF 332.1S5s- :
Onn
The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-16
Football and Baseball Give Har-
ward Surplus of see, 6,OO1.

Cambridge, Mass. - A surplus of
26,091.10 in receipts over expendi-
lures in all lines of Harvard athletics
is shown by the report for the college
year 1907-0S. The total receipts
were $127,318.44 and the total ex-
penditures $101,227.34. The total
net surplus exceeds by $14,450 the
surplus of the previous year, the gain
being due in part to increased re-
ceipts from football and baseball and
in part also to a saving on football
coaching and the training table.
The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-16
PIONEER PULP MAKER DEAD.
A. d. Remington, 80 Years Old, Built
the First Mill.

Watertown, N "a. D. Reming-
ton, eighty-two, died in this city. He
was the pioneer of the wood pulp in
dustry of Northern New York. and
the Remington Paper Company was
the first to manufacture in this coun-
try paper exclusively from wood, that
is, ground wood and sulphite, thereby
greatly decreasing the cost of paper
manufacture.
This was accomplished in 1887 in
the Remington Mill 3D. now owned
by the International Paper Company.
The method was at the time regarded
as impracticable by the majority Of
paper makers.
The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-16
NO TRUST PROSECUTION.
Only Such Suits as Afford Probability
of Success Will BE Undertaken.


of Success Will BE Undertaken.
Washington, D. C.--The slogan of
the Department of Justice in the Taft
Administration is Don't start any
thing you can't finish" At least SIX
ty-five per cent, of the cases pending
will be abandoned. The idea is TO
clear the docket until there remain
only such cases as offer probability
of success.
The Standard Oil case, settled by
order of Judge Anderson, with ver-
dict of not guilty, is out of the way.
There are other indictments along the
same line, but the Department of JUS
tice does not know whether they will
be pressed or not. Mr.. Wickersham
Is waiting until the record has been
returned to the department. 1t is
the opinion in the department and
at the White House that any new
prosecution, criminally, of the Stand
ard Oil will have to be along new
lines.
The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-16
FLORIDA's KEEL is LAID.
Rear-AdmiraI Goodrich's Daughter
Starts Work on Battleship.

Brooklyn, N. Y.-The ceremonies
of laying the keel of the 21,000-ton
battleship Florida were held in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Construction work on the newest Of
the great warships was started in a
drizzling rain by little Gladys Good
rich, daughter of Rear-Admiral Cas-
par F. Goodrich. the Navy Yard
commandant. She fastened silver
horseshoe beneath. the name plate
with silver nails, and afterward put
rpe nrst bolt in two thirty-foot keel
plates.
She was assisted in her work by
several playmates, mostly children of
officers attached to the yard. Many
officials, including the Admiral,
cheered the youngsters as they ham
mered the silver nails into place.
The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-16
:5::. : 81: =::s ::: s::ThOmpsOn's 'sEyeWater
Suspicious.

Suspicious.
How did you lose your position in
the bank-playing the races?"
'tNope."
Strong drink"
Never drank drop in my life."
Poker, maybe"
Don't know one card from an
other"
well, come out with it,"
''The President caught me eating
q plate of Florida Strawberries with
my lunch the other day and called
In the bank examiner New York
Times.