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The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29
Fragment from Chorus of Maggie Murphy sTIorne." :"
BY Dave BrahaH.
Copyright, 1890. by William A. Pond & Co.


not surprising that the author and composer of after
the BALI has been said have got his idea for the
song from Alexandra Dumas Queens Necklace"
This sanza is quoted as showing similarity to Mr..
Harris words and as having suggested them
after the tragedy's over,
After the play is done,
We must go home with the ladies,
Coupled and not by one"
Aside from the fact that it most unlikely that Mr.
Harris familiar with the Queens Necklace"
that the meter of the stanza just quoted is by no
means an unusual and that any writer of
readily might drop into it there little or no resem-
blance between the Dumas stanza and the lines of
after the Ball" with the familiar refrain:
after the ball is over,
After the break of morn
After the dancers leaving,
After the stars gone.
Many a heart is aching if you could read them all;
Many the hopes that have vanished-after the ba1l'
Mr.. Harris has composed great many more songs
among them Somewhere" would You Carer.
Dreaming Love- of You" and "The Belle of the
Ball. but nothing of his later work has made the
same universal hit as the song which first brought
him his reputation.
To have city named after them is not the lot of
common mortals. Musical composers, like artists,
used to be named after cities. This in the days of the
old Italian painters and the old Italian composers of
church music. Since then it has not happened often,
if at all to any of the composers of serious music.
It IS not recalled that there city rejoicing in the
name Of Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven. But out in
lndiana-"way down in Indiana might be more ap-
propriate to the occason-there is city named
Dresser. 1t named after the late Paul Dresser
when his great song hit "On the Banks of the Wa
bash, was at the height of its popularity.
Pau Dresser was wonder at writing words with
the sentimental home association that fails to
touch the hearts Of the people and wedding those
words to tuneful and appropriate music. Even if you
never had seen the Wabash but heard his song about
the effect of the moonlight ION the banks of the Wa
bash far away, you longed to go there and look at
the thing for yourself regretted that you weren't
born there, that you could share the poet compos
ers homesickness for those pcturesquely described
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29

tween each verse had habit or saying, Have you
the Wabash? It's just about that broad"
making a gesture with his hands indicating that the
Wabash about the width OF a brook.
THE BANKS OF THE WABASH
Paul Dresser AZ years old when he died. few
months ago, after illness of only three days-heart
failure induced by dropsy, rather sad ending for
man who really had done nice work OF its kind. He
from the state through which flows the Wabash
and he lived there until he 20 years old, when he
left home and went into patent medicine house
While he there he wrote paul Dresser's Song
ster," but it not until he gave up business and
took to the stage appearing opposite to Billy Rice
in minstrel troupe in Chicago, that he his first
hit Il Believe 1t, for My Mother Told Me So, words
in every way typical of the home and mother style
of songs he turned out But home and mother are
good old standbys for song writer's if they only know
how to work them right and Paul Dresser did. That
first home and mother" song of his took him off the
stage and took him east to New York. where he set
tied down to the profession of song writing At
time it seemed If there wasn't popular singer in
vaudeville, minstrel troupe or quartet in rural
melodrama that wasn't singing "On the Banks of the
Wabash" with "weeps" in the audience.
Another wonderful "home and mother" production
of Dresser s-wonderfu that is, from the standpoint
of the popular song wrter-was Just Tell Them that
You Saw Me" The words may be banal, but in a
popular audience they somehow failed to make
straight for the heart.
'Just tell them that you saw me,
And they will know the rest.
Just tell them | looking we'll, you know;
Just whisper, if you get chance,
To mother dear and say
That love her as did long, long ago."
The song is in narrative form and whatever you
may think of the words from literary standpoint
they fetch" you every time In fact the charm of
all truly popular songs is that you don't stop to think
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29

shores Nor you apt to be disillusioned unless
you heard the ditty sung by the comedian who be-
tween each had habit OF saying, Have you
the Wabash? It's just about that broad"
making gesture with his hands indicating that the
Wabash about the width of brook
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29
AFTER THE BALL

There does not seem to be much association be-
tween Charles K Harris and the late Alexandra Du-
mas, but not make success without being
found fault with by those who haven't it is, perhaps
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-06
Many Important Matters
Referred To in the .
Document.
EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHTY
ONE PETITIONS RECEIVED
Assessment of Bank Stock of
Newark Institutions Is
Considered.
TFrom a stan correspondent.l

TRENTON, Dec. 6.-Recommendins
to the Legislature a change in the as
sessment for taxation Of machinery in
New Jersey SO that the assessments
would be levied by county boards In
stead of a board for every taxing G.s-
trict as at present. improved methods
of listing property, a law making II
sworn statements from each taxpayer
concerning the value of his personal
property. enactment of so much laws
a. will place bank stock shares upon a
basis OF equality with other personal
property in the making of assessments,
the annual report of the State Board OF
Equalization Of Taxes was today sub
mitted to Governor Fort.
In the report the board makes an
appeal that some arrangement be made
whereby there will be more time for
the making of revision and completion
of assessments and statistics which will
place the value of real and personal
property in New Jersey.
At the outset the report deals with
the value of taxable property in this
State and shows that the net valuation
of real and personal property assessed
for local taxation Is 81, 045. 1898, 213.85, Of
which 81, ZIG, 408, 029. so represents real
estate and s271. 941, 2e7.s represents per-
sonal property.
The ratables for 1910 have increased
500, 30, 926. Sc over the ratables of the
previous year, Essex county leading
with a gain OF $50, 533, 447, and Hudson
following with nearly $14,0 900. 900 over
the assessments of last year. OF this
increase in Essex county about 500, 000,-
coo is on real estate and $1,000. 900 on
personal property The city of Newark
contributes about ST., 100000 of this in
crease, of which q scant $11, 200, 900
represents real estate and over $6,000,-
900 is assessed to personal property.
The average tax rate of $1.356 per
500 of valuation, as reoprted this year
for the entire State, is considered by
the report as not excessive.
The report includes extensive tabular
Statements s~howingsthe total amounts
apportioned in each county for the
three general purposes for which taxes
are raised: State school, county and
local for the years 1909 and 1910, and
the average tax rate for the same
years. In Hudson county the increase
in the State school tax has been s47,-
446.58. The increase in the county tax
has been 5000. 459. 33. The increase in
the local tax has been 1878, 425. rs. The
increase in ratables has been $13,9 $50. =
54s, and the increase in the average
tax rate .102.
In Essex county the increase in the
State school tax is $116,S0 0 so: county
tax, $116. 412.7 70; local tax, 1881. 1856. 16;
ratables, $50. 5aS, 447; average tax rate,
.008.
The total State school tax for the
State is increased 1927. 425.47 the coun-
ty tax for the State also shows an in
crease of $704. 324.7 z. an increase of ST.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-06
ESSEX LEADS IN
BIG INCREASE IN
STATE RATABLES
City of Newark Contributes
About 7,OOO,O 900 to Coun-
tvs Total Increase.
HUDSON COUNTY MAKES
NEXT BEST SHOWING
Net Valuation Assessed in State
Is Given at S2,045,-
898,213.85.
lFrom a STAT Correspondent

TRENTON, Dec. 6.-Extracts from
the State Tax Boards report show that
for the year 1910 the net valuation of
real and personal property assessed for
local taxation in the State is 81, 0x5, 1885,
213.S5, of which 81, 77s, 40s, o2s. so repre-
SCENTS real estate and s271. s41, 2e7.s3 per-
sonal property. Deductions for debts
amount to s7.167, 2s5.
The total amount OF property exempt
from taxation IN the State is SIP, s75.-
15s, which is divided as follows:
Public school property. s33, 1852, 7so:
other school property, $s,47s,ss5; public
property. s65, o06. s2s; church and chari-
table property. s57. 2s1, $50; cemeteries
and g~rave-yards, s7,747, 2o7.
The amounts of ratabIes and exemp-
tons are given in detail, by taxing dis
tricts and counties, in the appendix to
this report. These abstracts are COM
piled by the county boards of taxation
from the books of the several assessors,
after such books have been examined,
revised and corrected by Them accord
ing to law, and they also show the
apportfonment of taxes and the tax
rate In every taxing district In the
State. The table of totals at the end
gives these figures by counties in more
condensed form.
Essex Leads Increase.
The rltables for 1910 have increased
500, 210, s26.5 over the ratables for the
previous year, Essex county leading
with the notable increase of $50, 533, All,
and Hudson following with nearly
fourteen million over the assessments
of last year. OF the increase in Essex
county about twenty-three million
dollars Is or real estate and seven
million on personal property. The city
of Newark contributes about seven
teen million dollars of this increase, of
which a scant eleven million dollars
represents real estate and over six
million dollars is added to personal
property.
In Hudson county the increase of
$13, $50, $40 is almost entirely on real
estate. In which the increase is s12,-
S51, Sss.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-06
MRS. EDDYS BODY
WILL Be BURIED
IN CAMBRIDGE

BOSTON, Dec. 6.-F1nal arrange
ments for the funeral of Mrs. Mary
Baker Eddy, the head of the Christian
Science Church. who died at her home
at Chestnut Hill on Saturday night,
will not be perfected until the arrival
of her son. George W. Glover, who is
expected here from Lead, S. D., some
that the body of the leader will be
buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery,
Cambridge.
In the meantime the directors of the
Christian Science Church, Archibald
Mcclellan, Stephen A. Chase. Allison
Stewart, John V. Dittemore and Adam
H. Dickey. have taken full charge of
the church management, and the scope
of their power includes matters of or
g~anization, of finance and of discipline.
They are supreme in the Mother
Church, and control branch churches.
All were the personal nominees of Mrs.
Eddy, and they are a self-perpetu-
ating body.
MI. Mcclellan is editor of the periodi-
cal issues in this city and is a native
VI HlOu1lODs ~ d. NIL 01oot - liz
treasurer of The Mother Church and a
resident of Fail River; Mr.. Stewart is
the publisher of Mrs. Eddy's works and
was born in Pennsylvania; Mr.. Ditto
more, who is clerk of the organization,
comes from Indianapolis, and Mr..
Dickey. recently appointed to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Ira
o. Knapp. was Mrs. Eddy's private
secretary for many years and came
from Kansas City.
AT the mansion at Chestnut Hill,
where the body lies in an upper cham
Der, there are no outward signs of
grief. There IS not crepe on the door.
the window shades are up, and the
members of the household come and
go as usual. The undertaken has per-
formed his duties with the exception
of laying the body in a casket-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-06
HARRISON MAN CHOSEN
HEAD OF NEWARK KNIGHTS.

Bernard ]. Foran, of Harrison. was
last night elected grand knight of
Newark Council No. $50, knights of
Columbus, of Newark. Mr.. Foran 8
election was unanimous. The new
grand knight is a brother-in-law of
Grand Knight James A. Brophy, OF
Kearny Council No, 402, knights OF
Columbus, of West Hudson. Martin
A. Toohey, a Harrison business man
of prominence, was unanimously
chosen financial secretary of the New
ark council last night. Many West
Hudson knights were present at the
meeting.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-06
WEALTHY PLAINFIELDER
DROPS DEAD in COURT.
Lester B. Harris Stricken at
Trial of Auto Speeding Son.
Especial to the Newark Star.

PLAINFIELD, Dec. s.-Lester B
Harris, a wealthy Plainfeld man.
dropped dead In Elizabeth today in
court at the trial of his son for ex-
ceeding auto speed limit and smashing
a car here some months ago. Harris
has lived in this city several years. but
was formerly a o o farmer near Mt.
Pleasant, foul miles from here.
BY the will of an uncle, five years
ago, he came into a fortune of $3.50, 900,
and has since lived here at ease, spend
ing literally and keeping automobiles
and a stable of horses. He was asso-
ciated for a time with an automobile
company in Jersey City.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-06
man NEAR DEATH
AFTER DASH FROM
OVERLOOK WARD
Carl Wagner Braves Tempest in
Attempt to Escape from Hos
pital for Insane.

Carl Wagner is lying seriously in
tured in the Paterson General Hos
pital today after a dash of eight miles
over h Orange Mountains through a
binding snow storm in a desperate ef-
fort to escape from the Essex County
Hospital for the Insane at Overlook.
Wagner, who had been regarded as
only narmlessly unbalanced and per-
fectly safe" had been given ground
privileges during all of the seven
months he had been at Overlook, and
he had seemed to justify the confidence
of the keepers for he never so much as
offered to leave the grounds before.
Yesterday. however, when a binding
snow storm came up to obscure him
from the sight of the guards as he
loitered back and forth at the edge OF
the hospital grounds he vamoosed
Braves Raging Storm.
He wore only a fiimsy overcoat above
a light suit, with a summer cap upon
his head, but he plunged off into the
raging storm as though il had been
a summer breeze. When he was
missed AT noon Wagner was four miles
out on the mountains pushing his way
to Paterson, where it is believed he
had friends. But Wagner is ar old
man, almost SIS, and as the storm grew
hercer and the way rougher his
strength began to wane and ne fire.
quentiy stumbled and fell. With his
hands bleeding. his clothes torn, h
aged fugitive tottered along almost
within sight of his goal; then utterly
spent he swerved and plunged suddenly
headlong TO the bottom Of a steep
gully on the River road just opposite
the Riverside private saritariupl.
Half an hour afterward attendants 81
that Institution picked him up. upcoIl~
seious, carried him inside and teles
phoned to the Paterson general hos
pital for an ambulance. The surgeon
found that Wagner's face had been cnt
almost to ribbons as he struck AGAINST
rocks down the side OF the embanlf
ment His skull was also badly hurt
though it wasn't fractured, and despite
a hundred other cuts and bruises he
viii probably get well.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-06
WILL REMOVE DEADLY CURVE

ATLANTIC CITY. Dec. s-The dead
" curve in the road popular with auto
mobiles, near Port Republic. Is to be
eliminated. as the Freeholders. who with
meet here tomorrow, are ready 10 buy
the necessary land. II the price + rea-
soTable The deadly turn has wit
messed several fatal accidents.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-06

Der of assessing units I o twenty-one
and centre responsibility in a compar-
atively few and easily reached asses
sing boards. One objection which may
be urged to the plan here proposed is
that the task of assessing by counties
might be difficult of performance in
the more %populous counties, contain
ing the great cities of the State, and
that in such cities the work of assess
ment is now being done by appolntive
boards, in a highly efficient amer.
The efficiency of these boards in the
large cities is a strong argument in
favor of extending the benefits of the
system to the counties. If. however,
II should be deemed advisable not to
disturb the assessment machinery IA
the larger cities the proposed new sys-
tenn could be readily accommodated to
that situation. Under the county plan
the assessment should be made by
small n~on-partisan boards, appointed
by the Governor, and composed of men
fitted by training and experience to
appraise property of all kinds"
More Time Asked For.
Pleading for more time for assess
ment work, the board says the time
hat is proportionately the least ade-
quate lies between the first Tuesday
in August, when the assessors are to
appear before the county boards with
their assessment lists and duplicates,
and the first day of October, when the
completed books should be handed
over to the collectors.
After this work of taking each
property individually is completed, the
valuations as between taxing districts
must be considered and equalized.
After the third Tuesday in August,
when the various amounts to be raised
by taxation have been received by the
County Board of Taxation, the appor-
tionment of State school and county
taxes must be made. a work which has
been considerably complicated by chap
ter 81 of the laws of 1910, providing
that in making this superintendent the
county board shall allow for all re-
auctions or increases made on appeal
by this board. by the county boards
or by any court. Tax rates also must
be figured out, applications for in
crease considered, and all changes or
additions entered in the tax lists and
duplicates, which are hen turned over
to the assessors again for them to
figure out the taxes against each tax
payer and enter the same. with the
total rate and the items thereof.
This involves considerable time be-
fore the books can be returned to the
county boards for cer~tif1cation,
I'VE do not think it feasible that the
time for the work should be extended
later, but rather that it should begin
earlier, and this would involve a CORE
spending moving back of previous
dates In order that the assessors time
for making his assessments may not be
unduly limited.n
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-12-08

Lamb, Woodland, Wash; second. Viii.
liam II. Aherns, White Salmon.
Best five boxes of Spitzenburgs-
First J. l.. Carter, Hood River, $50
second, F. A. Shogren, Mosier, silver
medal; third, Peter Mohr, Hood
River, bronze medal.
Best five boxes Yellow Newtowns-
First, Home Orchard Company, of
Hood RIVER, $50; second, F. b. Fri
day, silver medal; third, F. c. Deth-
man, bronze medal
Best three boxes of Spitzenburgs =
First, Fred Jacobs, $25; second, Law
renee & Smith, Hood River, silver
medal; third, J. l.. Carter, bronze
medal.
Best three boxes of Ortleys- First,
Peter Mohr, Hood River, $40: second,
Buttertield Bros, silver medal.
Best three boxes of Wageners First,
John Hakel, Hood River, silver cup,
value $40; second, II. G. Rumbaugh,
Albany, silver medal.
Best three boxes in Mosier district
First, McCargar & Nordby, Mosier
$40; offered by Portland Hotel
second, f. A. Shogren, Moser, silver
medal; third, James L. Carpenter,
Dayton, bronze medal.
Best three boxes in Willamette
Valley-First, Edwin Hamer, Salem,
$780, second, N. c. Jorgenson, Salem,
silver medal; third, d. c. Van Dorm,
Dayton, bronze medal.
Best two boxes, one of each variety
&C. J. Tidcombe, of Scappose, $40;
second, N. G. Jorgenson, Salem, silver
medal; third, j. Beebe, Eugene, bronze
medal.
Prizes offered by the Corvallis Com
mercial Club for the various exhibits
from Benton County were awarded a
follows: Best box of Spitzenburgs,
Baldwins. Northern Spys, Kings,
Wageners, Ben Davis, and best decor
ated box-H. G. Rumbaugh, Albany,
SIS each.
Lane County awards we're For the
best box in Lane County: First, f.
l.. Waite. Eugene, $40; second, J.
Beebe, Eugene, $5.
For Linn County the awards were
Best exhibit, Albany Commercial Club,
$35; second, Henry Struckmeir,
Thomas, SIS.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-12-08
E. H. HARTWIG
ELECTED MAYOR
H. c. SMITH NEW COUNCILMAN
All the Balance of the Old Ticket is
Reelected Hardest Fought
Election in Years.

Mayor Mcdonald went down to de-
feat at the city election Tuesday owing
to the combined efforts of the opposi
tion eentered upon him, making use of
personalities where effective, and ig-
noring the water question almost en-
tirely. Mayor Mcdonald and the ad-
ministration ticket stood for reelection
entirely on the water question and the
improvements of streets and other
matters which are under way, while
the opposition, more especially the
private water company interests, used
every method, including scurrilious at
tacks on individuals and mud sling
ing" to gain their point.
The result gives the opposition
mayor and one councilman. This may
result in a change in some of the ap-
pointive officers of the city, it being
the prerogative of the mayor to make
new appointments if he sees fit, sub
ject to the confirmation of the council.
The election was the hardest fought
political battle which the city has
had in years. 1t was mostly "gum
shoe campaign, there being no public
meetings and but little public work in
the way of circulars through the mails.
The result of the election still leaves