The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-04
ORANGE EXCISE
BOARD TO PROBE
. MORGUE' CHARGE
To Consider Saloon Criticism of
Grand Jury at Meeting
Tonight.
BLAME FOR SUCH PLACES
LAID TO THE POLICE
Police Scout Story of Plan to
Dynamite Two Hat
Factories.

AS a result Of the criticism Of a
"morgue" in South jefferson street,
Orange, by the Essex county grand
jury in a presentnent to Judge Thomas
A. Davis yesterday, bearing on the
Orange hating troubles, the Orange
Board of Excise will tonight at its
regular meeting take up the criticism
of the grand inqulsition. The place in
question is supposed to be the saloon
in Freeman street at South Jefferson
street. and Camillus @. Kidder, presi-
dent of the Orange Board of Excise,
said that while the board could sit and
hear witnesses and have a sort Of
hearing on complaints against saloon
men the matter OF dealing with the
saloon was properly a police case.
A coffee house. which was also
scored by the grand jury as a fruitful
source of trouble is not a saloon, hence,
Mr.. Kidder stated, the complaint
against hat resort would be properly
a subject for the police to handle. The
coffee house, is a store with several
hDAC az EttFCi liOtts 1IliCllJ u ttCl y
play cards and have a good time, and
it is located nearly across the street
from the e. v. Connect hat factory.
Complaints Of stone-Throwing.
The complaints against the "morgue,"
~so-called, a resulted from the al
legged. throwing of stones from the sa-
loon and the fact that many of the
strikers patronize 1t and frequently as
semble there.
Reports of sensational plans to dyna-
mite the No Name and Berg factories
by floating explosives down the East
Branch of the Railway river and via
tunnels beneath the Berg shop were the
principal topic of conversation among
the police and sheriff's men today. The
authorities laughed at the yarn and
humorously pointed to the slender
stream of water lodging tin cans, rocks
and other distractions in the bed Of the
brook. The river is a storm sewer
that occasionally has two or three
inches of water when a heavy rain falls.
The tunnels that were said to be in
course of construction were declared
not to exist.
"Ill bet So you couldn't float a post
age stamp in the creek said Detective
Drabel, of Orange. who has taken a
more active part in the police manage
ment since a recent conference Of police
officials.
| No Danger, Police say.
"A pretty good fake" commented
Chief Washer. Of the Orange police.
I've looked ND the report and in
vestigated it thoroughly" said Chief
Bamford, of West Orange. and l must
give that man who wrote the
story credit for his imagination"
Manufacturers of the hating district
had a good laugh over the rumor. John
j.. Booth and Mr.. Fowler, of the No
Name concern. denied the Arm paid
any attention to the ~nonsensical report
of danger to their structure. A letter
from a workman. who was worried over
the connection of the theft Of dynamite
with the hating trouble referred to
publication in the Philadelphia papers
of the theft OF explosive from the Spot
tiswoode quarry a week ago, and was
told the manufacturers did not connect
the theft with their trouble. The man
Is at work in the shop and has been
right along.