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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01
Polite. in Hudson Probe.

To tho Editor Of the Evening Star:
While 1 was In Union Hill yesterday
I went to a meeting of the Senate
school investigating committee in the
North Bergen Town Hall. for I was
Republicans, Progressives, Democrats
and Independents-that the committee
is working only in Democratic town
ships and boroughs in the hope of get
ting something against leading Demo-
Gratis to offset the malestrom record
of the last Republican Legislature, and
to boom Senator Freellnghuysen, he
chairman, as a candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for governor.
when you go to the meeting of the
committee" a bright and well-informed
Progressive Republican said to me,
observe closely the questions of the
attorney of the committee and William
III. Morrow, who is, like Frelinghuy-
sen, a hayseed, and you will soon
know that a game of politics Is being
played to the limit"
He was right, for the questions
dSheu ny Tic COIHIIliLte65 allOfIlcy Ol
the witnesses and of former Congress
man Leake and Mr.. McCauley, attor-
neys for witnesses, were plainly eff
forts to connect some leading Demo-
Gratis or hackers Of men alleged to have
made money out of the sale of real es-
tate to the township school board.
County Register John c. Mcmahon,
who was custodian Of the school funds.
when the school board bought the real
estate. was Attorney Leake's client,
and by his advice declined to answer
any questions, and John DAILY, for
whom Attorney McCauley appeared,
did the same. Mr.. Daily said the
principal reason he declined to give in
formation vas that a county judge was
reported as saying that the cal es-
tate deals were the worst W put
through in Hudson county, an intima-
ton that they were criminal.
When the attorney for the committee
and Mr.. Morrow started to bull
doze the witnesses and their lawyers,
Frelinghuysen ordered them to answer
but they refused, mostly on the ground
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01
THE DA YS BEST STORIES

A TRAVELLING man who suffers spent all afternoon in trying to ell a
- grouchy business mn a bill of goods, and vas not very successful
AS the salesman was looking up his grip the crouch "a inn
polite enough to observe in the presence of his clerks: "You must find that
impeachment in your speech very announcement"
Oh n-no" replied the salesman. Everyone has his p-pecuiarty.
S-stammerng IS mine What's y-yours?'
I'm not aware that I have any" replied the merchant
DIDO you stir our coffee with our right hand?" asked the salesman
why yes, of course" replied the merchant.
"W-wen" wen IN the salesman, "t-thats you popularity Most people
use a t-teaspoon"-Chicago Journal.
~ GORGE RICHMOND HAYES, the San Francisco ethnologist, said at a
1 p recent dinner: #44M
THE yellow aces are held in better esteem than used to be the
case in the West =
81 nee visited a very rough boom town ain Oregon near Cottage Grove
In the leading saloon a mai in a red shirt said to me: a@#ftf -
"Ye wanter carry yerself almighty straight in these parts. stranger
Go wrong the least mte and. by crnus well lynch We quick al look at y"
81 smiled.
Would you lynch me?" 1 asked IL I killed a dogT 9N
Would we" he snorted. Why stranger we've lynched fehers here for
KILN Cinnamon Minneapolis Journa L
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01
The People 5 Rostrurn
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that their lawyers advised that the
committee had no power. Mr.. Leake
and Mr.. McCauley said the opinion of
the assistant encouragement had no
effect on them, the highest courts
would be asked to decide whether the
committee had the power it claimed.
They also said that If the witnesses
were arrested chaged with contempt Of
the committee they would bring action
against members of the committee on
the allegation that the committee is a
dead body.
1.-THE object of Frelinghuysen's COM
mittee in probing school boards in
Hudson county is plain to every man
In h county" a prominent business
man said to me: "It is a political
scheme t. boom him as a candidate for
he Republican nomination for gov
ernor. He will not be nominated, and
he never will be United States Senator.
He has not the brains or the ability
to make him the successor of three
Frelinghuysens who represented New
Jersey In the United States Senate"
The voters Of our State do not like
peanut politicians. Frelinghuysen is
a servant Of the railroads and trusts.
The general opinion here is that his
committee is a farce. 1t has accom-
plished very little yet. No man who
knows John Mcmahon believes he was
in anything wrong while school GUS
todian. None of us here asked for the
investigation. Why is not. the Repub-
lican State Board of Education investi-
gated? That's what l ask Frelinghuy-
sen. OLD OBSERVER.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01
A NEW STATE INSTITUTION SCANDAL.

c. CANDAL turns up now in the State Home for Girls at Tren-
ton. There are charges of irregularities that the board of
managers is invited to inquire into. One of the members of
the board is also superintendent of the farm for the home, and it is
alleged he has bossed the Institution to its detriment. Irregu-
larities in the purchase of fertilizers for the farm and supplies for
the home are charged. The State Home for Girls passed through a
period of scandal under Mrs. Eyler's management, which was ended
by Governor Murphy by a change in the management. Evidently
the board of managers has left the management of affairs to the
member who draws pay as farm superintendent, and, it is charged,
uses his authority as a board member to dominate the whole insti
tuition. 1t may be observed that the State Home for Bows, at James
burg, has given rise to no scandals of management. For years it
has been a model institution.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01
CIVIL VAR IN SPAIN
IvIL war impends in Spain, and in the nature of thing
struggle is precipitated, it will be cruel and sanguin;
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HsS1 IvIL war impends in Spain, and in the nature of things, if a
" struggle is precipitated, it will be cruel and sanguinary, as
all such wars are, especially in Latin countries. Spanish
Institutions are deeply rooted, and no people are more devoted to
national traditions, which are the life of Spain. A decadent coun-
try now, Spain was once the master of Europe, the centre OF world
culture and the seat of world enterprise. The phiosophic his
torian has shown that, as in the cases of Carthage, the Roman en-
pire and the Venetian republic, conquest and riches brought enerva
ton and decay. SPANS dominion of the American continent and
the vast riches extracted from it fatally affected the national char
acter, and politically Spain sank to be a thirdrate power. But the
great traditions remained and have fed the popular imagination.
The present trouble arises over differences between the government
and the Vatican, but they are more deeply seated than that. They
have their origin in the intrigues of Spanish politics There are
four elements in Span-the M%onarchists, the Republicans, the
Moderates, and the Carists who adhere to the pretender. Both
the Republicans and the Carlists invite trouble in any shape, SO
they may fish in troubled waters, and if the government is drawn
into a conflict with the Vatican all the better to light up the flames
of civil war and make graveyards of some of spains fairest
provinces.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01
REFORM AT OVERLOOK.

0Ta HE grand jury's presentment of the management of the Over.
brook Hospital should be followed by radical reforms in that
unfortunate institution. The removal of Medical Director
Dill, recommended by the grand jury, is only one step. With Dr.
Dill eliminated, the Encouragement would not be ended. Reform
must begin at the root, and the root is the Board of Freeholders
which has demonstrated an utter incapacity to manage. We wit
ness at Overlook the evils that existed under the rule of the old
elective Board of Education in Newark, and which had previously
existed under Common Council control of the street, police and fire
departments. Mere changes in the personnel of the executive man.
agement at Overlook can be of no avail as long rs a freebooter
committee has charge of the institution. The Overlook Hospital
should be separated entirely from politics and the personal inau-
ences and interests of freeholders and politicians.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01
would eliminate Justices.
To the Editor Of the Evening Star:

10 the Editor or the Evening Star:
The repeated justice of the peace OUT
RACES should be stopped, and Prose-
cutor Motifs stand in the matter is GER
tainly a p~raiseworthy one. But every
time I read of the action Of these So
called justices I wonder what use
they really are to the community.
With u up-to-date police court sys-
tenn why are these men needed? In
nearly every case their Offices are
thieves dens.
I was recently told that a certain
justice, dissatisfied with the new mar
riage law, had given up administering
justice and had gone back to work in
a factory. 1t would be we'll for all
hands concerned if the whole tribe of
Justices, their constables and the
shyster lawyers would follow in his
footsteps. JUSTICE.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01
A Question of Ethics.
. the Editor of the Evening Star:

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
wish that some reflective reader of
your excellent newspaper would inform
me hence most professional people of
our times get their manners and ethics
O Gastons! Are the same natural or
acquired? That university degrees are
freely granted to those who have not
even acquired ethics is rs much a pity
as Is the fact that the people at
present 10 not properly appreciate real
culture foundation-good old-fashioned
A doctor of philosophy re-
Gently assured me that ethics and
manner have become humbly vulgar.
1t is certainly about time for us to
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01
A SINGLE PURPOSE.

A turtle once lay on his back in
the sun
And cared not how worlds in their
courses might run
Nor whether the earth was fixed
fast or a rover,
But taxed himself solely with how
to turn over
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01
THE BERGEN COMMUTERS OPPORTUNITY.

cT1 HE Republican voters in Bergen county who commute on the
railroads will have their first opportunity to show their re.
sentiment against delinquent Legislators when primary day
arrives, next month. Neither Senator Wakelee nor Speaker Ward
will come up for reelection this year, but one aspires to get the
Bergen delegation Endorsement for governor in the State conven-
ton, and the other wants nomination for a fat county Office. If the
Bergen commuter turns in and elects delegates for the one and
dominates the other the fair presumption will be that they are for
given.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01

might make his wishes known. Then
The cabman refused to let the po-
liceman down.
Despite the pleas and entreaties
of the peace officer, he was taken
perforce to West Orange, where the
fare was dropped. Animated by a
feeling, of perversity, the cabman
then drove to a remote and COM
paratively unknown section of Or
ange, where he pushed the copper
off and left him to his own devices.
Had there been a law on the South
Orange statute books providing a
severe penalty for anyone who could
so far forget himself as to annoy.
~persecute. browbeat, maltreat or
otherwise injure a policeman his
outrage might not have occurred.
Should not the guardians of the
law be in turn guarded by the law?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01
DIDN'T CARE POR IT.

"There is n spasm Of reform
with which 1 heartily sympathize,"
remarked the householder from the
top of the stepladder as he vainly
endeavored to disengage the wire
from the hook.
What is that?" asked his wife,
more to continue the conversation
than because she wanted to know.
1.-THE agitation against moving
pictures" he replied.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01
TRUE ENOUGH.

An exception to the rule of "out
of sight, out of mind must be
noted in the case of the creditor
who learns that the other end of
the transaction has moved away.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01
EVENING STARS TWo-PAGE MAGAZINE x
WMEM
ALL THE TIME.

There was a physician named
Crippen
Who thought from the law he was
slkippin':
But the world via wireless
Gossipy-tireless-
In all Of his business was dippin,i
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01
EVERYTHING ELSE THERE.

The list of questions now asked
candidates for matrimony in THU
State lacks What business have
you got to get married, anyway"
to make it complete
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01
FALSE ALL THROUGH.

"Why do you think he doesn't
love his wife? He seems very af-
fectionate."
That's merely another of his af-
fec~tations."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01

The STAR extends the privilege
of these columns to the public and
invites signed communications 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, 1910-08-01

class them as exalted and correct, for
there can be displayed about a human
being nothing else so beautiful. Yours
sincerely, JOHN P. DAVIS.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01

The wireless pursuit of DIR. crippen
and Miss LIE Neve ended just as it had
been planned it should. and as the world
was daily assured, while the f~ugitives
in fancied security approached land, It
would. Builders of the melodrama will
find here a production ready-made. and
1t is now merely a question as to which
n of them can get UP their paper first.
So rich is the dramatic material in
which this modern drama of the seas
abounds that it will need rs touch
ing up" for the purposes of the sensa-
tional stage.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01

That night Waterman who, through
wearing a veil. created so much early
morning excitement in Belleville, may
have set a useful fashion. When asked
by a regular policeman, who had been
number of agitated residents of the
neighborhood, for an explanation the
night Waterman explained that he had
found the mosquitoes intolerable and
has assumed the veil in self-defense.
Wells for Jerseymen may get to be the
rage.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01

A regular pr~ofessor-not of Chicago
University-says flirting is all right II
1t is not carried to excess. The same
thing has been said of a number of
other practises, too numerous to cata-
logue here. II doubt if any girl in her
teens was ever seriously in love-" con-
tinues the professor. A storm of protest
in chorus from a large percentage of
girls In their teens will greet this state
ment. But, after all, how can the pro-
fessor expect to be taken seriously
when he finds the following six degrees
Of owe "Emotive delusion, fixed idea,
rudimentary paranaoia, psychic neuras-
thenia, episode symptoms of hereditary
degeneracy and psychic emotive OBJ
session.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01

After looking over the official record
for July 1t is difficult to understand
how anyone could have suffered much
discomfort. The average temperature
was between 76 and n degrees. The
average of the humidity was GA de-
grees. Sunshine was featured through
put the month and there was less than
an inch of rainfall. But it is one
thing to read the pleasant averages of
a midsummer month which a passed
and quite another thing to live through
the month in the city, particularly when
its extremes of temperature, So and 9S
degrees, are attained within two days.
Robert e. Lee has come to be gen
orally regarded as typifying not only
all that was best in the cause to which,
at the behest of his native State, he
gave his services, but also the most
loyal and unmurmuring acceptance Of
the complete overthrow of that cause"
So wrote Attorney-Ge General Wicker
sham in handing down his opinion that
the statue of the great Confederate
general could not legally be removed
from statuHry nan in Washington. He
added that there were many reasons
why it. should remain. The opinion
will be generally popular. With the
exception of a small and ~prejudiced
minority, Americans, North and South,
are proud of this American, who is
numbered among the great generals
of the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-04
MAY HAMPER PROSECUTION.
Leading Witness in the Case Against
Heike Ia Ill

NEW YORK, May 4.-The illness OF one
Of its chief witnesses may seriously ham,
per the government in its prosecution of
Charles r. Heike. secretary OF the Amer
lean Sugar Refining Company. whose trial
on sugar underweighing conspiracy
charges is set for May 10. The Supreme
Court in Washington Monday threw out
Heike's immunity plea and the long-ds-
layed trial was expected to begin next
week.
Today however, there was manifest
anxiety on the part OF the prosecuting
oficials over reports Of the condition Of
Richard Parr. the customs oficial who
discovered the fraudulent device by which
the government was deprived of duties on
sugar imports and whose testimony was
expected to play an important part I'm the
trial Of Heike and other men indicted
with him In connection with the alleged
sugar fraud conspiracy. Parr IL threat
ened with appendicitis and an operation
may be necessary.
The prosecution, at the least, will be
considerably hampered IL arr IL unable
to appear. although II il said that since
the trial Of the last sugar underweighing
cases new evidence Of an important ma
ture has been discovered. Parr has play
ed q prominent part in the trials pre-
viously held.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-04
SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS
REPORT HAS BEEN FILED
Nine Years of Labor Ended-Dam-
ages to Amount to 81 1877 ,645
Are Allowed.

The final report Of the Spanish treaty
claims commission has been made to
President Taft. The commission has been
In existence nine years. During that time
II has passed upon the claims of 542 Amer
lean citizens who alleged that they SUI
fered damages as q result OF the Spanish
American war and the revolution leading
up to 1t.
The total claims aggregated 4.e3l. .694.
of which g. .s25 $50 came from 152 men,
hers Of the crew of the battleship Maine.
The commission awarded damages to the
claim paid was to Perfecto LaCoste, who
Tot $4,000. He claimed 1884 .90S. The
Constancia Sugar Company put in a claim
for LIT .6os: the largest claim nled The
award was 81. 900.
The commissioners. who 30 out OF Office
with the closing up. were: James p.
Wood; w. A. Maury. w. L. Chambers.
Harry X. Daugherty and Roswell p.
Bishop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-04
REASON FOR RIOTS TWO DEAD IN Wreck
Human Province Objected to Eight Others Fatally Hurt
Chinese Railway Loan. When Cars Collide.
WARNING TO GOVERNMENT ACCIDENT NEAR URBANA
Residents Of District Saw 0ppu Runaway Trolley Dashes Down
nifty Make Opposition Plain Grade and Hits Passenger Coach
LENIENCY SHOWN DISTURBERS TWO WOMEN AMONG INJURED
Pretext to Up Wounded
Demonstration by
ACCIDENT NEAR URBANA
Runaway Trolley Dashes Down
Grade and Hits Passenger Coach.
Passengers Buried in Wreckago.
Wounded Removed to Hospital
by Train Crew.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
URBANA. Ohio, May 1.-TWO men
were instantly killed. eight persons per-
haps fatally injured and several others
less seriously hurt. early this morning,
when runaway trailer of an express
car on the Ohio electric railway dashed
down steep grade and collided with q
passenger car a mile and a half west Of
here.
The dead are w. H. Ferguson of Spring
field, Ohio. motorman of the passenger
car. and NJ. n. Roark. Springfield. Ohio,
a passenger.
Eight Fatally Injured.
The fatally injured:
- Davis. Springfield, Ohio. conductor
Of express car.
Grover Pierce. St. Paris, Ohio, pas
senger.
Charles Larner. Urbana, Ohio. pas
senger.
John Kern. Urbana, Ohio passenger.
Mrs. Drummer, Urbana. Ohio. pas
senger.
- Wolley, Urbana Ohio, passenger.
An unidentified woman passenger and
an unidentified man passenger, uncon-
scious.
The passenger car was following an ex-
press car and trailer. When the express
car had reached the top Of a grade the
coupling broke and the trailer dashed
down the grade.
Brakes Fail to Work.
Conductor Davis. on the trailer, At
tempted to use the emergency brake. But
nothing could stop the terrific speed Of
the trailer.
Both cars came together with frightful
impact.
The passenger car rolled over and was
nearly demolished. The passengers. of
whom there were about a score, were
buried in the wreckage.
The crew of the express car. from
which the trailer broke away, reaHzed
that an accident wac inevitable and
started down slowly after the runaway.
1t was on the scene within a few seconds
after the collision and began the work OF
rescue.
The wounded were removed and placed
on the express car and rushed to a hos
pital here.
The unidentified woman is st!H uncon-
scious. Her skull is fractured and her
right leg is broken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-04
Human Province Objected to
Chinese Railway Loan.
WARNING TO GOVERNMENT
Residents of District Saw 0pportu-
nifty to Make Opposition Plain.
LENIENCY SHOWN DISTURBERS
Instigators Of Trouble Used Scarcity
of Rice as Pretext to Stir Up
Demonstration.

CHANG-SFIA, China, May 4.-The re-
cent rioting In this province has placed
the Chinese government in an embarrass-
railway loan. Evidence ac-
cumulated that the disturbance was de-
liberately planned by influential person
ages as a warning to the central authori-
ties not to meddle in the affairs Of Hun
an province, and to make plain the de-
termined opposition of the Hunanites to
foreign participation in the railway con-
struction.
the idea that the government is yielding
weakly to foreign influence, which is
seeking political control in China. China
realizes the situation. and, desiring to
proceed with the railway agreement, un-
derstands that hasty action by the gov
ernment might be followed by the most
serious consequences. A protracted delay
appears inevitable.
No Death Sentences.
Meantime. the central authorities are
making efforts to placate the Hunanites,
and have ordered the new governor to
deal leniently with the rice rioters, and
also with the revolutionists who recently
attempted the bomb outrage against the
regent. The would-be assassins have not
been put to death. but have been SEN
fenced to life imprisonment.
1t appears that the instigators Of the
r1oting employed a large band OF revolu-
tionists. who used the scarcity of rice as
q pretext to stir up a popular demon
stration. The destruction of property
and the looting had been carefully plan
ond u
the revolutionaries lived outside the
south gate of the city, where the rioting
began. Members of the organized party
wore distinctive badges and directed the
movements of the mob.
Outwardly the situation In Chang-Sha
and the adjacent country appears to be
improving. The United States gunboat
Villabos is expected here soon.