Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-12
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them in their entirety and an oppor-
tunity for comparison is afforded.
Naturally interest in this State centres
in New Jerseys phenomenal jump from
sixteenth to eleventh place and in
Newark's change in position, which
makes it now the fourteenth city il
point of population in the country.
A comparison of the population fig
ures of New York city with those of
New Jersey might rob this State of its
laurels in the minds of the thoughtless
We're not these greater opportunities
for comparison, to be found in the gen.
eral census returns, available. 1t must
be borne in mind that the metropolis
is IN abnormal growth and outranks
many a group of States picked at ran
dom through the South and West. New
York must Re left out of it when the
comparisons are made.
CALIFORNIA; surprising growth from
the twenty-first to the twelfth State
may be explained through the lure of
climatic advantages, widely adver-
tised, but some of the other changes
are not so easily understood.
While we are not thoroughly conver-
SAINT with conditions in Japan in this
country, anyone is safe in assuming
that the chance of the twenty-six con-
spirators who plotted the death of the
Mikado, in their coming trial, may be
set dow at about ono hundred to one,
with the one shelf-worn and damaged
by fire and water.
The idea that anyone could for a mo-
ment harbor the thought of making
way with the head and front of the
Japanese empire and of the universe
had to be driven into the heads of the
japanese patriots by the discovery of
a genuine plot against his gorgeously
illustrious majesty. The idea that any
one should be permitted to live for a
after such a discovery had
been made was so repusnant to them
that a strong armed guard has had Its
hands full in fostering the lives of the
plotters that they may be snuffed out
in the regular and official way.
Japan has borrowed much from US,
but 1t may be asserted without fear of
successful contradiction that the plea
of insanity will not be made for the
eonspirators.
The coroner's inquest, which included
an investigation of the circumstances
surrounding the High street factory,
must be regarded as successful.
The superintendent of buildings has
promised that those buildings Fire
MISUNDERSTANDING before the coro-
shall be mad safe.
The fire chief declared that there were
in Newark at the present time a hun
dred or more factory buildings where
conditions were as bad, or worse, as
in the High street factory. He added
tlas under certain conditions firemen
might find themselves powerless to aid
the inmates trapped within the build
ing.
The prospect of protecting the work
ers in these hundred or so build
ings in the ordinary roundabout way
seemed remote enough, but now that
Commissioner O'Rourke has promised
to see that they are protected, it is
possible to breathe a small sigh Of
relief.
Sometimes mere population figures
fail to impress the stranger within or
without the gates with the size of a
city. Blu 1t is only necessary for a
Newarker who feels he has failed to
astonish sufficiently an outsider with
an account of the growth Of his home
town to make one remark.
Sixty thousand Christmas trees
were shipped to Newark for the holiday
to watch the effect in perfect con
make a substantial little forest and
such a forest is to be set UP neal Cen
ire Market within a day or two.
It is confidently asserted that each
and every one of these trees will be
sold, although no one pretends that
Newarkers will buy all of them. Since
they have beer cut down and since it
is too late to save them, may each
of these trees make glad the hearts of
many little boys and girls.
While not promising anything def
nitely that might be used against him
later if he failed to make good, Secre-
tary Wilson. of the department of agri-
culture, says that he will in the near
future send broadcast a formula for a
digestible welsh rarebit.
The mere announcement of the pos
sibility Of such a triumph is enough to
precipitate some persons into a fever
of palpitant expectation. That man or
woman who knows what 1t means to
follow the appetizing preparations for a
chafng-dish supper with gloomy inter-
est to its climax and then to say, "Ill
have to pass on the rabbit; the last
time I ate any, etc." a realize what
such an announcement means.
But a word of warning may not be
amiss. If the digestible rarebit be-
comes a fact do not endeavor to make
up for lost time.
The prospect of a lawsuit brought
to determine succession to leadership
OF a cult is strange and unusual enough
to be almost exciting.
Yet one of the heads of the Christian
Science Church has retained counsel
and announced he will make a legal
fight, If necessary, to prove he is the