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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-01
OFFICIALS BEGIN
FIGHT ON UNSAFE
ERIE CROSSING
K. X. Commission Hears Appeal
to Have Riverside Intersec=
tiOn Filled with Gates.

TRENTON, Feb. AT the meeting
Council James r. Nugent, City EAgi-
neer Morris r. Sherrerd, of Newark,
and counsel representing the Erie Rail-
o Company, appeared before the
commission and considered the condi-
tons at the Riverside crossing of the
Erie Railroad Company. Counsel for
the railroad urged that the crossing
was a private affair, while Mr.. Nugent
and Mr.. Sherrerd insisted hat it was
a public thoroughfare, n showed that
the company was without a doubt re-
sponsible for the making of arrange
ments to have all necessary safety de-
vices constructed so as to safeguard
life.
After the matter had been discussed
at some length the commission asked
Mr.. Nugent to furnish them with the
record leading up to the establishment
of the crossing.
When this is done and If 1t is ascer-
tanned that the crossing is not a pri-
vate affair, the commission will make
an order to compel the railroad COM
pany to install proper gates for the
crossing.
The Pennsylvania railroad has noti-
fled the commission that it has carried
out the order of the commission to
change it's interlocking system in Jer-
sey City. The order was made after
the Investigation which took place on
November 6 last.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-01
FRANK S. HARRlS0N'S WILL
LEAVES ALL TO WIDOW.

The will of Frank S. Harrison, of SO
Broad street. who died at his orange
grove, Rock Ledge. Fla, on New
Years Day has been filed for probate
In the ~surrogate's office. The entire
estate. the value of which is not stated.
is left to the widow, Emma B. Har-
rison, who. with r. Heinisch. for whom
the deceased worked for forty years,
is named as executors of the estate.
Police Commissioner Lyman e. Kane
and Garrett S. Bryne, a former New
ark lawyer, witnessed the will. which
was executed on July 8, 1892.
Frank Harrison vas known as the
oldest travelling man in the world at
the time of his death. For more than
forty-fve years he had been selling
firearms, cutlery and similar hardware
from coast to coast and from the
Canadian border to the Mexican line.
Most of the time he was working for
the Heinisch Company. a Newark con-
Germ.
1t was his habit to spend two or
three months each winter at his orange
grove in Florida. He went there as
usual last fall, leaving Newark Just
before Thanksgiving Day. He had been
in ill-health for some time and failed
to recover his health, as he usually did
in the trips to his Florida property.
Years ago Mr.. Harrison took a team
of American rilemen n marksmen to
England and brought to his country
a lot of valued trophies. many of which
still remain in this country.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-01
SHADOW
OF HIGH OFFICIALS
SENT TO ASYLUM
Henry Underwood, Who An.
nOyed Prominent Men, Is
Declared Insane.

Henry Underwood, a well-known resi-
len Of Belleville, is now an inmate OF
the State Asylum for the Insane al
Morris Plains. He has been committed
as a private patient and the whole
matter was conducted with much Sc
crecy, both on the part of the family
and the officials interested in his COM
mitment.
With the young mar under restraint
certain men high in the affairs of the
county and State are somewhat more
at their ease, as young Underwood had
a habit of following them about and
nobody knew the reason.
Among those whom he annoyed per-
sistently by his presence In the streets,
the Court House, or within its shadows,
were Chief Justice William S. Gum
mere and Sheriff William Harrigan. It
was after his shadowing of these men
that constables from the sheriff's office
were directed to watch him. The result
was his apprehension, and after the
legal forms had been complied with,
his detention in the asylum.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-01
USE STAR WANT ADS.
VETERAN OF 80 BATTLES
SUCCUMBS IN IRVINGTON.

James Harding, who fought in thirty
three pitched battles in the Civil War,
died at his home, 81 Florence avenue
I%rvington, last night, after a lingering
illness.
Born at Nelksham, England, sixty-six
years ago, Mr.. Harding came to this
country at the age of IL years, settling
i'll Connecticut, where he enlisted as a
member of Company II, First Regi-
ment, Heavy Artillery, on May %, 1861.
He reenlisted as a regular on Novem-
Der 6 of that year, being ho%norably dis
charged on September 25, 1865, at Fort
Weed, Va. He served in all four years
four months and foul days in the army.
At the close of the war Mr.. Harding
came to this city, where he became
engaged in the hardware manufacture
ing business, retiring five years ago.
The deceased had been a resident of
~Irvington for twenty years. While in
Newark he married Miss Henrietta II.
Klein, who died on October /, 1902. He
is survived by a daughter Miss Julietta
Harding, and a ION, Roy J. Harding,
both of Irvington. His brother is
Joseph Harding, of Philadelphia.
The funeral will take place from his
late home Thursday afternoon, the
Rev. Uriah McClinchie, of the First
Reformed Church, Irvington, ~officiat-
ing The interment will be in Fair
mount Cemetery.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-01
CONE ESSION OF WOMAN
EXPOSE SARCH-CRIMINAL
Deserted Wife Tells Police
Amazing Tales of Alleged
Robbers Career.
SAYS HE DRUGGED AND
STOLE FROM NEWARK BAKER
Prisoners Life in New Orleans
to Be Subject of Probe
by Officials.

Following the remarkable confession
OF Mary st John, in which she adj
mits her part in the robbery of DOM
enick Giordano, in his bakeehop at 32ih
Garside street on October &c, Captain
Brown, of the Second Precinct, is in
v~estigating the record of Victor An
tonic PASCAL, and has already connect
ed him with a case now before the
police of New Orleans.
Full of intense interest and melo-
dramatic situations, the confession,
which was extracted through diplo-
matte questioning by Plainclothesmen
Harmon and Goodwin, reads like an
excerpt from the work of a master
novelist. To the St. John woman Vic
tor Antonio PASCAL admitted that he
was a member of the BLACK Hand
and, thrusting a knife Into his flesh
until blood came, he said that her
blood woul1 flow similarly if she dis
closed any details of the robbery of
'Giordano, who, the confession states,
was drugged with choral, and While
he was unconscious PASCAL rifed his
trunk, stealing $3.50 in cash n jew
elry, the aggregate value being $575.
Deserted by her husband with her
y - OAo lin PiChtu up Wy L dSCdlif
who the police believe is capable of
any crime on the calendar. and forced
by him, under threats Of death, to lead
a life of crime, is the pathetic story
of the pretty Italian girl. who is q
years old. Falling under the notice of
the police by being arrested two weeks
ago as an Inmate of a house kept by
PASCAL, the woman's dread of the man
who conducted the place led Plain
clothesmen Harmon, Goodwin and Volk
to go further into her record, and after
visiting the foreign quarter in the Sec
ond Precinct they found that she had
been with the baker, Giordano, at the
time he was robbed.
Kindness and offers of protection drew
from her little by little the strange taIe
of her connection with the crime, the
horrible threats of her master and the
deadly fear with which she regarded
him, and what she supposed was his
limitless power to follow her and do her
injury through the medium of the
"Black Hand.''
Traces Of rare beauty still remained
In the face of the n~erve-racked
woman, and her story SO affected the
police officials that they are going to
any length to discover the past record
of the man who was yesterday held
with her in bonds Of s {. $500 for the grand
jury on the robbery charge.
While the woman drank with Gior-
dano. PASCAL waited outside, and, fol-
lowing his victim to a saloon, poured a
solution Of choral into the can In
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-01
MAD DOG SCARE
TRANSFERRED TO
NORTH ARLINGTON
Strange MOngrel Runs Amuck,
Frightening LabOrers and Pas
sengers in Waiting Room.

The Kearny mad dog scare subsidized
suddenly yesterday afternoon, but
North Arlington, just across the Belle
Vile turnpike, took it up, and the
dwellers in that usually quiet borough
had a lively time while 1t lasted.
At Kearny avenue and Belleville
turnpike, close to the old Jersey City
reservoir, is an old street car used as
a waiting room for passengers who
use the Newark and Hackensack lines
and the little car thai runs to the
Arlington station. Adjoining the old
car is the Mountain House restaurant.
For several days a white shepherd dog,
considered inoffensive, had been hang
ing around the place and no heed paid
to it. Late yesterday afternoon. how
ever, it began to behave strangely and
tried to snap at some laborers who
are paving the Belleville turnpike.
Driven off by them, the dog, growing
more Infatuated steadily, tried to at
tack the people in the waiting room
and customers IN the restaurant, but
they closed the door and held him at
bay.
A cry of ''mad dog caused much
CONSERVATION in the neighborhood, and
q hurry call soon brought Marshal
Fred Riepe to the scene. Getting into
the restaurant through a rear door. he
opened the front door a few inches.
but Just as the vicious animal tried to
thrust his head through the opening
a bullet from the marshals revolver
dispatched the dog.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-01
CITY WILL WEAR
GALA DRESS FOR
Presidents VISIT
Merchants Take Charge of
Movement to Decorate Streets
on TAFT Day."

Plans for the organization of a move
manner to convince President Taft of
this city's appreciation of the honor be-
slowed upon it by his visit on Wednes-
day, February %, when the President
will attend the Board of Trade dinner.
were set on foot yesterday at an infor-
NAL conference of business men, repre-
sentatives of the Market, North and
South Broad Streets Merchants Associa-
lions and the Board of Trade, held in
he Board of Trade rooms The plans
in general provide for the decoration of
Market street, from the Pennsylvania
railroad to the Court House, Springfield
avenue to the Kruger Auditorium and
Broad street throughout the business
district. A meeting of representative
business men from all of the merchants
associations and the Board of Trade
will be held at II o'clock tomorrow to
work out details.
All present at yesterdays conference
entered into the plans with enthusiasm
The decorations on the buildings on the
route to be taken by President Taft
will not impose any extra burdens on
merchants along the route, inasmuch
as Washington's Birthday. coming the
day before, will call for a display of
the national colors. Public illumina-
ton of the route will pehaps be one of
the features of the celebration.
Among those who were invited to
yesterdays c%onclave were Felix Fuld,
of l.. Bamberger & Co.; Charles
Michael, of l.. S. Plaut & Co; S. b.
Harrison, of Edwin A. Kirch & Co.;
Charles Hartdegen; Charles S. Dodd, of
a local newspaper; George d. Smith, of
the Newark EVENING STAR; Theo-
dore r. Keer, president of the South
Broad Street Merchants Association;
s.. Leschziner and James M. Reilly, Sec
rotary of the Board of Trade.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-01
GRAND JURY CALLS
BIG BEEF PLANT
HEAD IN PROBE
Hudson Authorities Start Inves=
LEGATION OF Cold Storage
Methods OF Swift Firm.
Especial to the Newark star.l

JERSEY CITY, Feb. Manager
James Brady, of the Swift Beef Com
pany, whose plant is located at Ninth
and Provost streets, was today subpoe-
naed to appear before the Hudson county
grand jury and to produce the books
of the concern to show what amount of
beef the concern that he represents
has on hand at the present time in it's
massive place, and also to learn what
has been stored in their building during
the past month.
The SubpoenaeS were issued by the
grand jury upon the request of Prose-
cutor Pierre Garven, who claims that
Swift & Co. have been storing beef in
it's plant for the past month and hold
ing it there while the trust is soaring
the prices upward. Prosecutor Garven
seems to have some excellent informa-
tion as to the workings of the Swift
plant, and today's investigation, which
takes place at 3 o'clock, promises to be
a very lively one, and it is said that
the trusts methods will be exposed
very fully by the prosecutor and his
assistant, George #. Vickers.
The plant of Swift is a six-story
building and employs over 700 hands.
1t was rumored about the court house
that the next plant to be probed will
be the Merchants ~refrigerating plant,
which is located at Bay and Warren
streets, and is one of the largest cold
storage plants in the country. In this
plant it is claimed that there are more
Eggs stored there than any other cold
storage pant In the country.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-01
F.CHT TO TEAR
Up TRACKS IS
BLOCKED BY RUE
Public Service Railway Runs
One Car on Clay Street to
Save Franchise.

In order TO protect it's franchise, the
Public Service Railway Company is
operating a trolley car in Clay street.
but so far as it could be ascertained
no passengers are being carried in 1t.
The car runs to and from Broad street
to the Essex county side of the Clay
street bridge. That action on the part
of the Public Service will prevent, 1t Is
said, the Board of Works proposed orr
dinan-e to remove the rails from that
-thoroughtare becoming effective. e
The rails were formerly used by the
Kearny and Hackensack cars, until the
old bridge was removed, several years
ago. The demands of the joint CONF
mittee of the Hudson and Essex county
Board of Freeho.ders for $4,000 a Year
for the maintenance of that bridge, az
well as any of the other bridges, was
met by a refusal of the Public Services
on the grounds that it was excessive.
1t is expected that the matter will DO
settled very soon, as there Is a case
bearing on the question now in the
Court of Chancery in relation to 4
bridge in Bayonne, which, 1t Is ex-
pected. will affect all of the bridges
used by the Public Service Corpora
ton for the operating of it's trolley
cars.
The Board of Works had an ordinance
prepared to force the removal OF the
rails in Clay street If they were not
used. A copy of it was given Colonel
Edwin S. Hine. secretary of the Pubic
Service, when he attended a meeting %
the board last Thursday with the re-
quest for a reply by Thursday Of this
week. 1t is believed that the operating
of the car will be the p. S. C.'s answer
to the proposed ordinance.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-01
MARKET STREET DEALERS
TO HOLD ANNUAL MEETING.
Prominent Men Invited TO At
tend Banquet.

Members and guests of the Market
Street Business Mems Improvement
Association will assemble tonight in
Eisner's Hall, Market street, in the first
annual meeting of that body. David
Wolff Will act as POSTMASTER at the
banquet to be served after the business
session. The annua election of officers
is the most important matter to be
considered.
Among the guests invited are Gov
ernor John Franklin Fort, Mayor
Haussling, Sheriff William Harrigan,
City Counsel James r. Nugent and the
entire Board of Works. Several repre-
sentatives of the Public Service Cor
poration, including President Thomas
N. McCarter, ave also been sent in
vitations. In view of the banquet
planned, discussion of trolley condi-
tons, which it was at first intended to
bring up, will be omitted.
BY tacit agreement among members
OF the association, all of the officers
will decline to run for denomination.
ana an entirely new slate, including
seven members of the board of trus-
tees, will be elected.
The present officers of the ~organiza-
tlon are: President, William j. Wake
ned; vice-president, George A. Schel-
Ter; second vice-president, A. A. Sip
pei; treasurer, DR.. Paul E.. Menk; re-
cording secretary, Harry Berger; finan
cial secretary, Arthur Olive; board of
trustees. Lee Ottolengui. chairman:
William FL. Fielder, Anthony Koell-
h%oeffer, S. H. M. Agens, Philip j.
Bowers, w. w. Winward, David Wolff.
William A. Baker. Sherman Rauch, j.
j. Diskon, Cornelius A. Reilly, Charles
F. Dodd, Fred Victor. s. B. Harrison.
j. J. Sugarman, John Ruckelshaus
John S. Schwinn, Leopold Jay, Thomas
E. Curran. William II. Curran. Nor
land Il. Sofia.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-01
SCHOOLBOY A SUICIDE
WHEN DENIED PROMOTION.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-Chagrined and
disheartened because he was the larg-
est and Oldest boy in his class and
failed of promotion, Walter Thompson,
Is years old, committed suicide by
hanging himself with his schoolbook
strap to a bed post at his home in
Flatbush, L. /.
The boy was backward, but had
studied hard. When school closed his
teacher, noticing his detection, tried
to cheer him with words Of encourage
ment, but he turned aside gloomily,
rap his books together and, dis
regarding his companions, shuffied
home. His brother, Benjamin, found
the body when he went to Walters
room to call him for dinner.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-01

which he was getting his beer. AS the
woman went to get beer PASCAL made
her allow him to pou more of the solu-
ton into the drink, and when Giordano
was overcome by the drug the villain in
the case stole into the bakery and
robbed HIM. This version of the rob-
berry is corroborated by other witnesses
obtained by the police. Marks on the
woman's body s~ubstantiate the cruel
practises of PASCAL, who struck and hit
her in forcing her to do his bidding,
while with knives n a revolver he re-
peatedly threatened her with death il
she told about him or refused to aid
him In making a living by crime.
The IN is known by her nader
name, Mary st. John, but was originally
h wife of Michael Tenore, who is the
father of her child, and who deserted
her Latterly she had been living with
PASCAL, who had a wife abroad, but
who claims to have a separation from
her.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-01
SECOND ACCIDENT ON
TRACKS PROVES FATAL.

After a narrow escape from death
two years ago, when he was picked up
frozen and unconscious on q railroad
track, julius Leopold, of Elmhurst, l..
T., was run over and killed yesterday
afternoon by a train.
Mr.. Leopold was a brother of Fred
erick Leopold, of III Mt. Prospect i've
rue, this city. Mr.. Leopold was great
1y shocked when informed of his
brothers accident. He left early today
for Elmhurst.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-01
COMMISSIONER BONNET BETTER.

Police Commissioner Bonnet, who has
been a sufferer from a sharp attack OF
pneumonia for the last six weeks, was
out for the first time yesterday and
visited the City Hall, where he was
warmly greeted by his associates in
pubic office. The commissioner said
that he was feeling very much better
but that he didn't care to enter any
Marathon races just at present. He
attended the conference of the COM
m~issioners.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-01

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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-01
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AIen delighted.

From childhood I was distressed and
Inundated by an unwelcome growth
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! ever heard of, only to make it worse.
needle without being rid of my blem-
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recommended a simple preparation,
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I then advised it's use to other
friends who found it just as successful.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-01
zREEEsssH 5tsEYEH

Abraham Lincoln, Born Fob.
LIZ, 1909; Died April
10, 1868.
1T may seem strange that
any man should dare to ask
q Just Gods assistance in
Infringing their bread from
the s'oeat of other mems
faces"
-ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-01
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-01
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-31
LOST HIMSELF HERE FOR TWO YEARS, IS
 ARRESTED TODAY
Trusted Clerk of Hammond Co.Taken Into Custody on Wife's Charge.

Tracked to this city by his wife af- ter he had succeeded in eluding pur- suit for several years, Harry Tighe, a trusted employe of the Hammond Beer company in this city. living at S6o Broad street was arrested this after noon by Detective Sergeant Cronan on a warrant charging him with refusing to support his wife and six year old daughter.
 Tighe's wife and her sister came here from Somerville, Mass, last night, on information leading them to believe he was in this city. On verifying thelr clue, they sought the assistance Of At torney Edward F. Hallen, president Of the Board of Police Commissioner, on whose complaint Assistant Prosecutor Redden issued a warrant today.
 The police have learned that Tighe was arrested in Lowell, Mass, several years ago, on a similar charge, and at that time posted a bond for the support of his wife and baby daugh- ter Later he is said to have jumped his bail, and vanished.
 He has been living under his own name in this city for upwards of two years, and he is said to have achieved considerable success as a bookkeeper with the beef house. Promptly on his arrival at police headquarters, M. J. Bowen of the Hammond Go. posted bail for his appearance in the city court tomorrow morning.
 Tighe is 27, native of Lowell, we'll cressed and apparently we'll educated