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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12
SATURDAY EVENING. MARCH 70, 1910.
II PRESIDENT AND BALLlNdER TESTIMONY.

IT T is to be presumed that the testimony taken in the Ballinger
investigation is read by President Taft as 1t is very generally
by the people of the country. The President is responsible
for Ballnger in two senses-he appointed Ballinger to what is now
the most important position in his cabinet, and when Ballinger was
under accusation last year he not only gave him a public expires
sion of confidence. but dismissed the accuser, as we'll as Clifford
Pinchot. from office. The investigation of Ballnger was made in
evtable by these acts. The country could not sit still and see grave
charges against a department officer invested with enormous power
over the public domain and it's natural resources thus summary
disposed of by the dictum of one man, even though he be the Presi
dent. 1t was with ill grace that Balinger himself was impelled to
ask for an investigation that could not be avoided. And the results
so far obtained are of a character to fully Justify the warnings given
by CLAWS to the President and the precautions taken by Pinchot.
4 cabinet officer should be. like Caesars wife, above suspicion. By
the utmost charity of language it could not be said that Secretary
Ballinger fits that description. His confessed policy alone con
dennis him, according to that standard, while his acts, as testified
to in the investigation and as shown by documentary evidence, are
a more severe condemnation. But how is the President reading
this testimony, and will he be satisfied with a verdict of mot
proven?'
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12
street signs, Too.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
1t is gratifying to note that some ac-
ton Is about to be taken to have the
houses of the city numbered correctly,
but while this is being done would 1t
not be a good thing to have the street
placed at every corner? The city
has been awful stingy with the signs in
the first place, and the size in every
case indicates more stinginess. A man
irving, or on a street car, has no
chance to read some of them, while
after dark there is no chance for the
strange or the wayfarer. Many are
employed in vocations which call for
their getting about the city. Many of
these are from outside the city and the
expressions about Newark and it's
street system often heard are far from
complimentary. When fixing up the
numbers why not attend to placing the
street names. COLLECTOR.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12
Sweeping
tor of the Evening Star:

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
/ may not be able to do much good
by writing you, but / would like an
opportunity of stating what l feel to
be a gross evil that ought to be eradi-
Gated.
Some time ago considerable agitation
was started in this city because of the
sweeping of sidewalks by merchants in
the early morning hours, at just the
time when people were walking to
work. This abuse, although not an ap-
parently great one, is really fraught
with much danger to the people as a
whole, and is a breeder of consumption.
Is there not some law or police regu-
lation which can be brought to bear
upon these store proprietors to make
them observe ommon rules of decency
and sweep their sidewalks before the
rush of people walking to work begins?
Yours truly,
CHARLES FORTELL.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12
SENSATTONALLSM AND PUBLIC DISORDERS.

m RESPONSIBILITY upon the press, which is too often fla
~ gravity disregarded, is that of avoidance of sensational ex
aggeration of events such as the carmens strike in Phna
delphia. til unquestionably true that much of the Indictment to
disorder and violence in this case was furnished by local newspaper
sensationaIsm when the trouble began. After the strike assumed
large dimensions New York newspapers that cater to sensatonahsm
sent their most imaginative reporters to Philadelphia to send on
highly colorad reports, describing in detail occurrences that they
could not possibly have witnessed, and not a few of them purely
imaginary, At least onehalf of the stories sent from Philadelphia
and published in New York have been pure fiction, copy" produced
in the safe recesses of Offices, or stories based entirely on vague
rumor. The comparatively trifing strike of carmen on one small
line in Trenton was likewise dished up in pennydreadful style by
publications reckless of the ultimate effect of such romances upon
industrial and business interests and upon the public, which in all
cases of disorder is the worst sufferer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12
Daddy Good Night Stories
FAITH POTATO BUGS FRIGHT.
BY FARMER SMITH.

<<"v HE sun was streaming in the window of Mr.. Potato Bugs house
~ when Mrs. Potato Bug called lei husband" sid EtheIs father one
night
Outside the cnckets were trying to sing hot as it "a n the stree toads
making In effort 1T noise.
what do yu want? asked Mr. Potato III of his good wife
"I wish yu would see where those dear children are said his wife.
MI Potato Bug put or his hat n went GU to see where the youngsters
were, but he could not find them anywhere. A
ct say there, Mr.. Cricket have you seen my children anywhere" asked
Mr. Potato Bug
"I think they are all playing hide ID seek, said Mr.. Cricket
:" THAT means a jb fr me- said Mr. PotatoB g for he vas very warm
and he did not like tic z o hopping over all IN clds of dirt He would rather
lie on the sofa in h cool pHIor an rest himself
Children, where ae your shouted MI Potato Bug a IS loud as lie could
This so amused Mr.. Cricket that he had to lie down n laugh. 'You
can't make enough noise to fighten a mosquito he said % Mr.. Potato Bug.
Just then he children came sampering across the field al fast rs their
little legs coud carry them. N
." Father father Faith has had such a fright d tell us what she saw,
and hey ran nut of breath into their fther's arms
They knocked their fathers glasses off and mussed his hair all up.
Father / saw something dreadful said Faith 4 was hiding under the fence
and 1 looked u and a something Ill wet and two big holes in it, and then
lMn of a sudden / saw w great big eyes n then two horns stick i, and
when thu thing opened its mouth I thought was going to be swallowed
up. The eyes kept rolling round i'd 1 tried to hide under the dirt. but
1 could not 81
!. rather do tell us what II was, said Fath-4Ma
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12

m DEMAND upon State Chairman Timothy /. Woodruff to
IN strike his flag, abandon his post and seek the limbo of
private life and obscurity will hardly be received with much
grace after the victory Woodruff and his lieutenants achieved at
Albany yesterday over Governor Hughes, Senator Root and Presi
dent Taft in the election of a temporary president and party leader
in the Senate. THE Old Guard dies, but never surrenders." Why
indeed. should the Old Guard that took its discipline, as well as
its morals, from PIatt yield in the hour of victory to the defeated
faction? Surrender, too, would mean humiliation. Between the
influences that contended in the Republican senatorial caucus at
Albany there can be no settlement short of that. The struggle for
organization control in New York is a life IT death one for the
Woodruff Barnes regime. The Grand Old Party is indeed in sore
tribulation in New York, with the deadly rivalries and animosties
of the two factional houses, which threaten to rend the party in
twain. But not in New York alone is this unhappy state of affairs.
In the States of the Middle West the party situation is even graver,
and in these States a Republican President is held up to derision
by Republican newspapers.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12
A CAREFULLY CONSIDERING SENATOR.

90 AREFUL consideration is the stock term used by the
" legislator in public office who is urged to some act in
the line of his duty that he is reluctant to do or doesn't
intend to do. Upon Senator Alderman. of Union county, chair
man of the Senate judiciary committee, depends whether there
shall be a committee report to the Senate on the resolution look
ing to an investigation of telephone charges. The people have one
representative on the committee and the telephone company has it's.
representative. Chairman Alderman is the decisive factor. He
can incline one way or the other, and the way he inclines there the
majority will be. Senator Alderman has been giving to the matter
careful consideration for a period of three weeks. He heard the
testimony before the joint committee, he was furnished the facts
at the same time the Assembly committee received them; that com
mittee reported unanimously long ago, but the Union county senator
is still carefully considering. Some minds need a crowbar to be
opened to any conviction. The senator's mind isn't of that Obtuse
kind. 1t is quite acute in some things. 1t can be marvellous in it's
quickness to reach a conclusion in some matters. We might, indeed,
cite examples. Why, then, this prolonged careful consideration, if
it does not mean extreme reluctance or even a settled purpose to
do nothing at all and let it go at that?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12
A TEXAN DREAM.

Things were breaking very badly
for the Dallas nine that day,
But in the ninth at last they seemed
to get into the play.
For they had filled the bases and
although two men were down
The fans felt sure that Matty's goat
they'd lead that night through
town.
The local Casey came to bat and
landed such a swat
He tore the horsehide off the pill
and drove it out the lot.
The Giants lost; men went and
screamed for joy; ali! such a
show.
The greatest day for Texas since
the war with Mexicoi
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12

m BILL introduced in the Assembly at Albany provides that the
IN coldstorage houses in New York shall be placed under the
supervision of the State Board of Health. By the terms of
the bill all food must be conspicuously marked with the date the
storage begins, and six months is the limit, without special per-
mission of the State Board, to which regular quarterly reports must
be made. The bill is almost a replica of the James bill, which is
pending in the Assembly at Trenton. The inspiration for the AL
bany bill is also the same, namely, the interchangeable work done by
Prosecutor Garyen in Hudson county in the exposure Of the pracs
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12
Train Service Complaint.

To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
Residents of Glen Ridge and other
towns on the Montclair branch of the
Delaware, Lackawanna n Western
railroad who work in Newark feel that
they have a rightful complaint against
able to obtain any satisfactory relief
from either the railroad or State Rail
road Commission.
Our kick is this: There is no train
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12

The firm of 7. B. Peddie q Co,
founded in 1885 by Thomas B. Peddie,
who, in the later ears of his success
full business career, was associated with
George B. Jenkinson, has been a land
mark in Newark, and the financial col
lapse of the concern is a matter of
regret to the older citizen. Mr.. Peddie
possessed the typical Scotch thrift and
accumulated a large fortune, which he
used generously for educational and
church interests. The beautiful Peddie
Memorial Church is a monument to his
memory and a greater n is the Peddie
Institute at Hightstown, which he en-
dowed. George B. Jenkinson was
among the most c-spirited citizens
of Newark. He was always prominent
in public as well as business affairs, and
his son, Richard C. Jenkinson, who is
not identified with the company man
agement, inherited the spirit of his
father, and it may be said, added
to it.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12

The People 5 Rosnum
p

that stops in Newark and also at Glen
Ridge between the hours of $3.50 and
1923 in the evening. AS a majority of
the people who nave business in New
ark get through work about 6 o'clock,
for them and the other too late.
What is asked by the Glen Ridge
commuters is a train that will stop at
Newark about 6:10 or els.
GLEN RIDGE.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12
a Word ON school "rrill..o

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
l notice hal one of the candidates
for the West Orange Board of Educa-
ton asserts that under the present
system of teaching too much time Is
devoted to what is termed 'frills." It
is pretty near time that this fact was
more generally appreciated and lxob-
ably nobody is in a better position TO
reaSize the deficiencies of the modern
common school education than the per-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12
Keen Up Poster War.

10 tne Editor OF the Evening Star:
War was successfully waged some
time by the authorities on theatre
cal posters hat had gone beyond the
limit. There is another class of post
ers, however, that has made it's APP
pearance In this city to which | wish
to call their attention, that to my mind
not only are offensive to decent men
and women, but dangerous to an
alarming degree to the young. This
poster depicts a scene in a police sta
ton with startling realism, a prisoner
bound and evidently undergoing great
physical and mental torture, as several
men are trying to wiring a confession
of crime from him. "Cut it out!''
FATHER.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12
AN EASY ONE.

Dear Sir-Kindly let me know
how a tall girl of II should wear her
hair to a social having dark, curly
hair, also how a Girl Of the. SAN.
age, short, with long, light thick
hair, though not curls, should wear
her hair to the same affair, and
oblige. EDYTHEE."
Whether or no the social has dark,
curly hair, Edythee, in attending
it a girl should wear hair of any
shade in such a way that she may
easily keep it out of her eyes.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12

The STAR extends the priv.-
lege of these columns to the
public and invites signed COM
m~unications of not more than
one hundred words treating of
topics of the hour.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12

PA, what is meant by an able
speaker"
"An able speaker, my boy, is one
whose words come faster than his
ideas."-Detroit Free Press.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12
WELL. WELL. WELL.

Unless a man is willing to use a
little judgment in his business, he
is likely to have a judgment served
upon him.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12

Clifford Pinchot will get an uproar-
ious welcome at the New idea dollar
Inner in Jersey City next Tuesday
night. He would be as enthusiastically
welcomed in any kind of a public
gathering in New Jersey. A man like
Pinchot stands head and shoulders
above partisan politics. From one end
of the country to the other he Is rec
ognized as a champion of the interests
of the American people, the defender
of their natural property from the at
tacks of predatory combinations, n
tie martyr to the national welfare.
If Clifford Pinchot had been an in
vited guest at the Newark Boar of
Trade dinner the ovation given to him
would have eclipsed anything of the
kind in the history of public banquets
in Newark.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12
BRAVE OR HonLHARnYa

HE never was happy unless he
had his life in his hands"
Whats he been doing now?"
Saying exactly what he thinks
about woman suffrage"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12

WMTM
TO v O OPPOSITION.

Lives of great men should remind us
Crafty to play our game,
And in parting leave behind us
Busts, welcome to Halls of Fame.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12

A skull found in thesoil at Gibraltar,
that of a woman, is pronounced by sci
entifc authority to be at least 10000
years old, and science says the woman
could ak No great wonder in that.
A non-talkative woman of 800, 900 years
ago would be a curiosity. indeed. But
this is the Oldest skull there is any record
of. No male skull of any such antiq-
uity has ever been given up out of pre-
historic depths. May not the woman
suffragists construct a new argument
on that fact? Woman was first on the
earth, antedating Adam and Eve, and,
therefore, was the original proprietor.
Should woman now be denied the right
to vote by mere man, who came into
the world a~fterward, born of woman, to
enjoy her patrimony!
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12

H seems to be cheerful"
HE is. He found a dollar in an old
suit of clothes yesterday morning and
now he thinks his luck has turned
Detroit Free Press.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12

Said one Republican Senator at AL
ban in commenting On the discom-
future of Senator Root and "the Fed
eral crowd at Washington" in the mat
Senator Aids as temporary president
of the Senate: Tell President Taft,
Senator Root and Vice-President
Sherman to stay in Washington and
clean their own stable. The Senate of
the State of New York can do its own
housekeeping up here" Not a cour-
teous message, but a vigorous one, and
it meant fight. But it is true enough
hat the Federal stable needs not a
little cleaning, too.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12

Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota are
to be the chief backgrounds of the Re-
publican regulars and insurgents. The
State leaders back the i%nsurgent sena-
tors and representatives and will sup
port the latter for denomination. The
administration will back the regulars
and the Federal patronage will be
brought into play. There will be lively
times in the Republican household in
the Middle West this year.
A threat comes from Berlin that if
the foreign steamship companies dock
ing at American ports are taxed under
the new corporation tax, as they are
to be, the rates on freight and pas
senger traffic will be increased by the
companies to reimburse them. Re-
taliatory rates might provoke retalia-
ton on this side, and there are OPP
portunities.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-08
CITY PLANNERS
ELECT OFFICERS
New Commission Lands on Fog
Horn MonoIith and Et-
fects Organization

The first formal meeting of the new
city planning commission appointed oy
Mayor Alexander was held yesterday
on the concrete monolith recently conf
pleted at the end of the. San Feuro
harbor breakwater. on this block OF
concrete, forty feet square, on Whlcn
a. $s5. 900 fog and light station has been
recommended. the Rev. Dana Bartlett
was elected chairman and MISS flor-
ence Rowland Mills secretary.
The meeting was held after trip
over the harbor aboard the launch
Orient as guests of A. p. Fleming, sec
retary of the harbor commission. First
the visitors were taken up the inner
harbor. Then a trip was made to the
outer harbor and down to the entrance
of the Long Beach harbor at the mouth
of the san Gabriel river. The launch
then returned to the end of the break.
water, when.the party disembarked.
Those in attendance at the meeting
were the Rev. Dana Bartlett, Ihomas
p. Comstock, Purd 3. Wright, =. n.
Randall. Charles Farwell Edison, Gar
ner Curran, Miss Florence Howland
Mills, Mrs. oliver c. Bryant, MRS
Fleming.
The Following committees were ap-
pointed:
Executive-The Rev Dana Bartlett
Miss Florence Rowland Mills and A
p. Fleming.
Planning-Mrs. oliver c. Bryant %
L. blanchard, w. M. Humphreys and
Garner Curran.
Methodist. III. Randall. p. Q. Ed
gerton, T. b. Comstock, p. B. Wright
and j. d. Radford.
The officers are members ex-otftclo
of all committees. The commission VIII
meet regularly every Thursday after
noon in the offices of the harbor com
mission in the Chamber of Commerce
building.
1t was evident today that the COM
mission is much interested In the har-
Dor beautiful as we'll as the city beau
tiful. and that when it's plans are
finally submitted to the council they
will include much detail for the work
not alone along the wharves but also
along the highway boulevard to the
city. Germany and other countries
have proved that it pays to make even
warehouses beautiful, and Secretary
Fleming believes that municipal ware,
houses on the mission plan will ada
much to the harbor improvements to,
be made here.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-08
ACTRESS PROUD OF
OLD LACE COLLAR
Frippery, 1876 Years Old, Was
Worn by Members of the
Grant Family

Anna cleveland. an actress in the
Blanche Walsh company. which comes
to the Mason next week, has fad
for collecting rare laces of which she
has many fine specimens. One of the
most perfectly preserved and one
which she values the most highly is
collar of Irish crochet which was worn
and owned some 1876 years ago by Mrs.
Grant Dalton of Shank's Inn, VIA
crankton, Somersetshire, England. The
story of how Miss Cleveland acquired
this lace is interesting.
Miss Cleveland's grandfather, Eli A
Collins, formerly of the we'll known
leans. became interested in the tan
merry industry in Ohio and Illinois some
time before the Civil war and took in
to partnership with him Jesse Grant,
of Galena, Ill. Mr.. Collins at differ
ent times tried to persuade young
Ulysses Grant to enter the business
world. Young Grant however, was
taken UP too much with military stud
les and tactics to find interest In
mere business. The last time Mr.. Col
Inns was north, before the war, he
found Ulysses drilling a company and
absorbed in rumors of the impending
conflict. Upon saying goodbye to
Grant. Mr. Collins made the remark
now famous in that part of the coun-
try:
''Well, Ulysses, 1t looks as though We
was going to have trouble. Now,
damn you, go 10 war and beat us if
you can
With that parting remark Mr.. Col
Inns sailed for his southern home. 1t
was a number of years before the two
met again, although desultory cor
respondence had been kept up and it
is interesting to know that among the
first letters General Grant wrote after
his election to the presidency was one
to Mr.. Collins.
Mr.. Collins eldest son, the late John
s. Collins of Omaha and General
Frederick Grant. became friends
through the association of their faith
ers. and it was through General Grant
that this rare lace came into Mr.. Col
Inns possession, he in turn giving it
to his niece, together with a facsimile
of the Grant coat-of-arms, a beetle
and pictures of Shank's Inn, the Eng
lish homestead of the Grant family,
and of Mrs. Grant Dalton, together
with an engraving of Mary Slade
Grant Dalton, who also at one time
possessed and wore the collar.