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The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-08
JERSEY FOREST
FIRE SWEEPING
ON TO ABSECON
Residents Work With Desperate
Energy al Embankment
10 Halt Flames.
DAMAGE Is CAUSED !.
IN THREE PLACES
Farmers Battle. All Night TO
Check Onruslling Sheets !.
of Flame.
Especial to the Evening Star. !

ATLANTIC CITY. April S.--Although
somewhat abated in fierceness, the
forest fire. which started yesterday in
oceanyille, 10 miles from this city. still
ragged today but it was expected to
check its progress when it reaches Alb
secom.
Residents of Port Republic and other
small towns in the fires path We're up
all night fighting to check the flames,
making wide clearings or throwing up
sand banks But the onrushing sheet
of flame leaped across the clearngs or
over the sand hills and continued in
the teeth of the strong wind blowing
shoreward.
Remarkable were the many escapes
of homes from destruction. So far not
dwelling has been destroyed, although
the fire burned trees or LGrns not ten
feet away from homes.
The fire passed a school house with
out burning it at all, and yet carried
a telegraph pole close to the ground
So far, the towns of Oceanyille, Bay
View and Port Republic have suffered
from the fire, which is now headed
toward Absecon, but residents there
are hopeful of checking its progress.
A wide county road is directly in the
fires path, and upon it residents of
Absecon are relying to prevent a fur
ther spread.
A wide clearing has been cut on the
shore side of the road and a sand bank
thrown up, so that when the flames
reach the country road it is expected it
will burn itself out without getting
further.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-08
Mary FeeIian and Helen Rourke
Disappear on Errand 10
Nearby Store.
BOTH TWELVE YEARS OLD
AND GOOD CHI. .DREN
Uncle and Aunt of Former AL.
most Frantic Over Unknown
Fate of Their Niece.

Accompanied by planclothesnan
from the Second Precinct, Joseph Me-
Crudden. of q Lombardy street, is
anxiously searching the city from end
to end today for his 12-year-old niece,
Mary Feehan. while the child's aunt.
Miss Margaret McCrudden, remains at
Ecme i'll state of collapse. fearing
that The child has met some untimeN
fate.
In company Of Helen Rourke. of 8
Atlantic street, who is her playmate,
and also II years old, Mary left her
home yesterday at 8 a. m. and went to
the grocery store on an errand for her
aunt, with whom she makes her home.
The movements of the two children
have been traced as far as the store,
but after that ehey disappeared as il
the earth had swallowed them. Miss
McCrudden said today that Mary was
an unusually good girl and never left
home before unless sent on an errand.
and that she always returned promptly.
She has visited every friend with
whom either of the children could pos
sibly have stopped, but has been un-
able to get the slightest clue Both
girls are unusually bright and attrac-
tive. Mary Is possessed of a sweet and
strong voice and is a. great favorite
among the children i'm the Cathedral
parish, where she attends Sunday
school. She, with younger sister, has
been cared for by Joseph McCrudden
and Miss Margaret McCrudden ever
since they were infants.
THE parents of the Rourke child are
equelly apprehensive, and they, as we'll
as the police. are unable to account for
the children's absence.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-08
LENTz' WILLING To
RESUME CONTROL
IN ESSEX COUNTY
Doughty Major Said TO Be Work.
ing to Regain Republican
Craftsmanship.
ALARM in DALRYMPLE
RANKS AT HIS STRENGTH
Fremont Society Comes Out in
Strong Resolution lnd0rsing
the Old Leader.

Will Major Carl Lentz be the next
chairman of the Republican County
Committee?
The question is being asked with
renewed vigor just now, as it is an
open secret that the ambition of the
major is to resume control of the coun-
ty organization, which he resigned two
years ago. He Is said to be quietly
working to that end and the friends
and supporters of Alfred n. Dalrymple,
the present chairman, view his activity
with alarm.
During the long reign of Major Lentz
there may have been dissatisfaction
here and there. but there was harmony
Oh election day. and victories We're
nature and he also understands politics,
and the policy he invariably pursued
In the old days was such as to com
mand sthe respect of his political op-
ponents and the united support of his
party. He is a bold, clever and re-
sourceful campaigner and attracts con-
fidence Ills Retirement was a distinct
loss to the picturesqueness of local
politics.
New IdeaIte. stronger
Major Lentzs s,lpporters assert thai
since Dalrymple beeame head of the
county organization the Regular eIe-
ment has been on the decline. The
New Idea followers of former Senator
Everett Colby have increased In in.
fiuence, and under Assemblyman Will
lam p. Martin. w Fellowes Morgan,
Lathrop Anderson and other able lieu
tenants the insurgents have made
themselves a factor to be reckoned
with. Only the defeat of Colby and
Morgan at the last election halted the
New Idea men in their march toward
complete control of the organization,
the Lentz cohorts claim.
Inc election of a county chairman is
good way off yet, but it is reported
aihopg those best Informed that when
lhat day comes 1t will find Major Lentz,
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-08
MEAD TRANSFER
TO Be PROTESTED
TO BISHOPS BOARD

An official protest against the trans
fer by Bishop Neely of the Rev. DR., c.
L. Mead from Centenary NJ. e. Church
to the First Church of Hoboken will be
drawn up at tonights meeting of the
official board of the Centenary Metho-
dist Church and sent to the Board of
Bishops.
Frank A. Sterling one of the board.
said no appeal could be taken from
Bishop Neely's appointment, but that
the board of bishops could be in
formed as 10 the way the Centenary
Church regarded the transfer. He
stated that the matter was in the hands
of lawyer, who would report tonight
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-08
APRIL GALE BLEW
. 60 MILES AN HOUR
At ITS HEIGHT
Fierce Wind Storm Shook
Houses and Did Much
Minor Damage.

Trees were snapped and limbs torn
from their trunks; signs and chimneys
were blown down. and windows were
blown IL last night during the heavy
gale. The wind blew at the extraor-
binary rate for April, of sixty miles an
hour.
The wind wrought greater havoc in
the suburbs than it did in the city
There windows were blown in, but no
one was reported as having been hurt.
Linemen employed by the telephone
and telegraph companies and by the
Public Service Corporation went out
bright and early this morning. The
building department inspectors report
ed many minor incidents, but nothing
OF serious nature.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-08


here today after long and severe ILL
ness.
Helena Modjeska, as she was known
throughout her career on the American
stage, was not only the greatest actress
of Poland but was conspicuous In many
of its political movements. She came
to this country not to act, but to found
a colony in which several of the most
enlightened literary and artistic spirits
of Poland hoped to find the opportuni
ties for intellectual freedom denied
them in their own country. She died on
her estate not far from the spot on
which this colony settled.
The enterprise was not a success, and
she found herself compelled to return
to her profession. She was already
the wife of Count Charles de Bozenta
Chlapowski, who had accompanied her
to this country and was one of the
most active of the patriots in this
group. She was born in 1874, and at
the age of 16 married g. S. Modjeska.
He died eight years later leaving her
a widow with one son, Ralph Modjeska,
now well-known engineer in Chicago.
Nine Modjesla, who knew little of
the English language and never learned
to pronounce 1t without q strong ac-
cent, found a friend in John McCul-
Tough, who was the manager of Bald
wins Theatre in San Francisco, who
recognized the ability which had won
her fame in Poland, where she had
acted and managed theatres in Cracow
and Warsaw. For a quarter of CEN
"a ha1d a tI,o
American stage, and for a season was
the partner and co-star with Edwin
Booth.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-08
u. S. DISPATCHES WERE
PURPOSELY MUTILATED.

WASHINGToN. April S.-lnvestiga-
tion has convinced officials here that
cipher dispatches passing between
John H Gregory, the American charge
in Managua, Nicaragua, and the State
department in Washington were pur-
posely mutilated when Nicaragua was
engaged In unusual military activity
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-08
MRS. LIppMAN WEEDS AGAIN.

Mrs. Eta Fl. Lippman, of 9 Tichenor
street, this city, was married at noon
today to Marcus Heller, of New York
city. The wedding ceremony took place
at the home of the Rev. DIR. Edward
Lissman. of New York city.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-08
S3,OOO,OOO GRAB
FROM SCHOOLS IS
NOW Up TO FORT
All Three Measures Advocated by Fort Are
Jammed through the House Martin and
BlauyeIt Vote with the Democrats.
NEW IDEA MEN FIGHT TO LAST DROP.
FORD, OF ESSEX, AGAINST TWO BILLS
frrom a STAFF Correspondent.


solid party vote the House this afternoon after the bterest
x school tax
- which will
o votes with the Democ
o ainst
The
tax hi unnsr rassedh ID nn15
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-08
.AOUBATO PUT
BACK ON FORCE

Thomas S. Adubato was reinstated
this afternoon by the Police Board as
patrolman in the Third Precinct He
was suspended March s, following the
fatal shooting of Frank Santamaria in
the latter's saloon in Adams street on
March s. The grand Jury failed to in
dict Adubato.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-08

Telephone us, 112S, Philips Bros,
florists. obs Broad Ut. Largest Easter
colIectfon.--Adv.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-08
.MESS|NA RUINS
ARE AGAIN RENT
BY QUAKE SHOCK

MESSINA, April s.-A violent earth
quake was experience here last night
at 9:45 o'clock 1t was accompanied by
subterranean rumblings
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-08

HustIers and Ash-Cans.
Macknet & roremus Co.. 96-7gS Broad st.--AAv-
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-08
NINE. MODJESKk,
FAMOUS POLISH
ACTRESS, IS DEAD
Star in America for Twenty-Five
Years and Once Partner
Of Edwin Booth.

LOS ANGELES. April 8-Mme. Hell
ena Modjeska Countess Bozenta) died
here today after a long and severe ill
ness.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-08

land. If you want to keep track of
diamond events read the STAR morn
ing and evening.
ma
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-11-04
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

The Texas cotton crop has nearly all
been marketed.
Twelve men were killed by an explosion
in coal mine near Johnstown, Pa.
A gang of forty night riders were put to
flight in Mason County, KY, by girl.
Five men were killed at Yankee Dam,
W. ", by the explosion of locomotive.
Great Britain is facing the greatest
political crisis in the history of the country.
The government of Mexico will advance
81, OOO,O 600 to alleviate suffering in the corn
famine districts of that country.
Thomas Robinson, at Darlington, Ala,
shot and killed his wife and mother-in law
and fatally wounded his father in-law
Robbers dynamited the safe in the post
office at Colorado City, Col, and escaped
with between $1,000 and $4,000 worth of
stamps.
Six persons were killed and twelve were
injured by the derailment of an electric
train which was being tested for speed in
France.
Cotton went above fifteen cents Saturday
on the New York Exchange. Monday the
marketadvanced from one totwenty points.
The 'bulls" declare seventeen cents will
look cheap before the season closes.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-11-04
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE,

The twenty-nine persons recently con-
victed of violating the prohibition law in
Shreveport were sentenced by Judge T. F.
Bell to one to four months on the public
roads and in addition each fined from 500
to $500. Total amount of fines, $500.
An oil mandatory at Wakefield, Va,
purchased two car loads of sacked peanuts
from farmers in the vicinity of Ruston,
paying eighty-fv cents per bushel. One
farmer had approximately thirty two acres
in peanuts, and it is estimated that the hay
from the vines which yielded the nuts he
sold is worth $3.50, which pays for the
making of the crop in toto.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-11-04
A Story of Stevenson.

After one Of Dumas plays which he
saw presented in Paris and In which
man employs an unworthy stratagem
against a woman Robert Louis Steven.
son wrote:
II came forth from that performance
in a breathing heat of indignation. On
the way down the Francois stairs
trod on an old gentleman's toes. where
upon. with that suavity which so well
becomes me. turned about to apollo
gize and on the instant repenting me
Of that intention, stopped the apology
midway and added something in
French to this effect: NO. You are
one of the persons who have been ap-
plauding that piece. retract my apoi-
ogy.'
"Said the old Frenchman laying his
hand on my arm and with a smile that
was truly heavenly in temperance.
irony. good nature and knowledge Of
the world. 'Ah. monsieur. vous etes
bien jeune' tab. sir. you are very
young,."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-11-04
JurleS and Homicide.
New Orleans States.l

l>ew Or1e&nB StAtes.I
Although absolute justice at all times in
courts administered by human instrument
talities is idealistic, yet the frequent illus
trations afforded of the inadequacy of the
jury method of dealing with homicides are
painfully prominent. In Louisiana two
incidents that have occurred within the last
few days have served to strengthen the
hope that we are gradually approaching
more satisfactory conditions, and that the
dream of the idealist who would have the
penalty follow the crime swiftly and in
evitably, may at least be approximated.
Those incidents were the hanging OF
Blount in the Parish of Tangipahoa and
the conviction of Bouvy in the Parish OF
lberville. The first event undoubtedly
ushers in new era in Tangipahoa and
places the decent and law abiding citizen
ship in the saddle from whence they cannot
be displaced unless they lose courage and
surrender. While the verdict and sentence
in the Bouvy case were inadequate, still it
is more or less emphatic notification of
the fact that the plea of self-defense may
not always be invoked with success to ex.
cuse the crime of the cold blooded assassin.
But while these induces of an improving
public sentiment are encouraging, it still
remains that the standard of law admins
tration in connection with crimes is dis
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-11-04
Above and Below Proof.

Before the means of determining the
true quantity Of alcohol In spirits were
known dealers employed very rude
method to form a notion Of the
strength" given quantity of the
spirit was poured upon gunpowder In
a dish and set on fire. If the gunpow-
der continued dry enough it took fire
and exploded. but If it had been damp
ened by the, water in the spirits the
fame of the alcohol went out without
setting the powder on fire. This was
called the proof" Spirits which kin
died gunpowder were said to be "above
proof" those that did not set fire to It
were said TO be "below proof" but this
did not fix the strength. Clark in his
hydrometer, which was invented about
the year 1870. fixed the strength Of
proof spirits on the stem, at the spe-
cific gravity of 800. at the temperature
of GO degrees. This is the strength at
which proof spirit is fixed by act Of
parliament, and at this strength 1t is
no more than a mixture of forty-nine
pounds of pure alcohol with fifty-one
pounds of pure water-London Stand
ard.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-11-04
Sickness and Superstition,

For the cure of epilepsy. or the fall
Ing sickness, numerous were the
charms that were invoked long ago.
A very common remedy among the
poor people about London and partic.
ularly in Essex was to cut the tip of
a black cats tail 10 order to procure
three drops Of blood, which were to be
taken In a spoonful Of milk and re-
peated three days successfully. II the
patient was Informed Of the compost
ton 1t lost its efficacy. The patients
also were to creep head foremost
down some three pairs of stairs three
times day for three successive days.
London Answers.
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Meredith's Advice to Stead.

W. T. Stead tells characteristic
story Of George Meredith, which is all
the more appreciate as It Is told
against himself.
He was true friend" says MIR.
Stead, mot less faithful In criticism
than he was cordial in his apprecia ton.
OF the former I remember we'll The
neat way in which he put me out of
conceit with my first attempt to write
a story. sent him my little effort
with fear and trembling. My trepida-
ton was not without warrant. 4 have
read From the Old World to the
New he wrote. Some of the char
acters are interesting and well drawn.
One Of them especially reminds me of
Cecil Rhodes. But if any one of your
friends tells you that he likes the story
as story don't believe him."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-11-04
The Genealogical Question,

The business Of life allows no spare
time any more. One cannot get rich
nowadays in Office hours. nor become
great, nor keep geographically inform
ed. nor do his share of talking and
listening. Everybody but the plumber
and ,paperhanger works overtime
How the earth keeps up necessary
amount of whirling in the old twenty.
four hour limit is more than We can
understand. But she can't keep up the
pace much longer She must have an
extra hour. And how to snatch it from
the tail end of eternity is the burning
genealogical question. - Dallas Lore
Sharp In Atlantic.
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Beautiful Queensborough

1t is the best investment in Shreveport.
There can be no doubt whatever about it's
present and future development. It has all
the conveniences of modern city. 1t has
already won the distinction of being the
Queen Of Shreyeport's Suburbs. Put some
of your idle $685. i'll our lots and you will
be gratifed over the handsome returns you
will make on your investment. But to win
you must go in. Don't hesitate. There is
nothing more certain for satisfactory results.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-11-04
THE HUDSON RIVER.
Il Has Been Known by at Least TWEEN
ty Different Names.

ty Different Names.
In the course of the past 400 years
the Hudson has been known by at
least twenty different names. aud even
today-in New York. at any rate-it Is
indifferently referred to both as the
Hudson and the North river.
While Henry Hudson is universally
acclaimed as the discoverer Of the no.
BILE river which bears his name, It IN
we'll known that nearly century be-
fore Hudson's successful exploration
John da Verrazano. a Florentine, en-
tered the mouth of the Hudson and re-
ported that he had passed up the river
about league in boat. not venturing
to sail his vessel. the Dauphine. up
river with which he was unfamiliar.
A sudden squall impelled him TO re
turn to his ship. Verrazano called the
Hudson 1.-The river Of steep hills" This
was In 1924. Some years later Vera
zano's brother made map Of the re-
gion. and he named the mouth of the
Hudson San Germano."
In 1925 a Spaniard named Gomez.
who came to America on an exploring
trip. made chart upon which be des-
ignated the Hudson as "San Antonio"
When some eighty years later Henry
Hudson in his efforts to reach the East
Indian possessions of the Dutch East
India company by northwestern
route accidentally ran into the Hudson
he promptly dubbed it the MANDATES"
from the name of the Indians who
dwelt at it's mouth.
Hudson sailed slowly up the river as
far as Albany. and his experiences
with the Indians and his observations
of the surrounding country were 50
gratifying that he returned home With
glowing reports of the new found
country.
The Dutch at once realized that great
commercial advantage might be gained
in the new territory. and various COM
panies were organized to colonize and
exploit it.
In 1916 a charter was granted to the
New Netherlands company, and the
river was there referred to as de RI
Were van der Worst Mauritius" in hon
or of Prince Maurice of Orange.
In various other charters granted al
this time and public documents in
which the river was mentioned 1t was
spoken Of as the "Groote Riviere." the
"Noordt river" the "River Of the Man.
hattans" and the "Rio de Montague"
In addition to these names. the In
dams had a number Of others for It.
among which may be mentioned "Sa-
natatea." "Shawnatawty." "Cahohata-
tea" and Heterogeneous"
AS late as 1854 the river was referred
to by a French writer as the "River
Orange"
When the English took possession Of
New Netherlands they persistently
called the river "Hudson's river" and
despite the many other names by
which it was known that name finally
stuck" although many Of the early
colonists spoke of it as the North river
in contradistinction to the Delaware
river, which was commonly known as
the South river.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-11-04
Swiss FLAGS.

The Swiss flag is red, and 1t bears a
Greek cross in its center. The Switzers
declared their independence in 1907.
and ut the battle Of Morgarten. 1915,
where the Austrians were defeated.
they carried plain red flag without
any device. During the seventeenth
century white cross was added.
though it is said that the cross ap-
peared on some Swiss flags as early as
1889. The different cantons of Swift
zerland have different coats of arms
and different flags.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-11-04
Two Million Dollars

More in our banks now than year ago,
which is the best expression of our increased
wealth and the improved conditions Of this
section of the State.
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AS high as we have mounted in de-
light. In our detection do we sink as
Wordsworth.
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One Million Dollars

The Kansas City Southern Railway Com
pany will build at once million-dollar shop,
yard and terminals just two blocks north Of
Queensborough. Do you realize what this
means in pay rolls and increased values to our
property? Think it over and act.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-11-04
There Is a Reason

1t has all the modern facilities-natural gas,
lights, ffteen-minute car service, telephones,
graded streets, splendid soil, etc.
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Free from Objections

No negroes or bad neighbors, beautiful al
healthful natural surroundings and, remer
Der, the electric car line runs through o.
Queensborough Addition.