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two or three times to the table where
the ladies in black were sitting. With
every round of drinks he was serving
them with the enchilladas, and so it
was all over the room.
"Enchiladas served free with drinks -
1t was almost like free lunch coun-
ter, was it not? A polite, well bred,
esthetic free lunch counter, lie you
please, but not very different after all
from the sort our men folk tell us
about. And what clever idea it was,
to be sure. The clever idea of shrewd
manager.
Meanwhile the orchestra continued
playing and the place was filling up.
Two women came in and took the
table next to us, lately vacated by nv
nice old lady with the gray hair. I
watched with some curiosity to see
what they would order, because they
were so proper looking as to be al
most severe.
Surely" I thought, these two will
have tea"
Not they. When the waiter brought
in their order it proved to be high
balls
out of the variety of drinks one
sees served in these places it would
be difficult to choose the favorite. OF the
cocktails-the Manhattan, Gibson. Du-
bonnet and Martini-the Martini seems
to have the preference. although one
sees quite number of those red Du-
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toward the door was a steaming chafing
dish, and from it boy In white linen.
with white cooked hat on his head,
lifted something upon a large platter.
Then he moved all over the room, here,
there and everywhere Whatever he
had on that platter was popular; that
was evident.
What is that boy serving to those
ladies in black?" / asked of our waiter
Those are enchiladas," he answered.
They Rre served free with drinks"
When we first sat down my friend
had said:
Lets have tea-let's have tea at tea
time, even if we commence drinking
cocktails the next minute.
So we were having our tea and some
little sandwiches, and / give you my
word we were about the only women
in that room who were drinking tea.
The women of San Francisco have
the courage of their convictions They
do their drinking in the open in plain
view of any one who chooses to look.
In contradistinction to this thought
of a certain new and elaborately gilded
New York hotel, and at the present time
the fad of the 400" for afternoon tea
and. of the things they drink out of
those dainty china tea cups instead of
tea 1t is really the same thing, only
they go about it little differently in
the more conventional east
had noticed the boy in white going
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forbidden. They, however. were the
exception. Mostly they came in with
that indifference of . manner that is
born of custom and habit suppose
one might say, the cafe habit
I noticed a slight difference as to
class here. They were more mixed
there was a bigger percentage of loud
looking women, but, for all that. the
great majority were nice, respectable
women.
More beer was being drunk here, and
not so many cocktails. as acEoss the
street.
After the woman had finished sing
ing, four girls in the uniform Of
soldiers came out and played cornets
A couple Of pretty, quiet looking
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bonnet things being carried about by
the walters. OF the highballs / think
one sees the most of the lighter colored
Scotch. 1 must not forget the gin fzz.
for it. too, has its deVoteeS, and they
are not few in number.
Just across the aisle from US was an
interesting group drinking beer, two
women and two beautiful children of
about 6 and S years.
What do you think of that?" said
my friend, glancing over at them.
I looked The woman facing US was
of the vivid type. one of the few 1
have mentioned. She was very pretty,
too. Blond of hair and beautifully got
ten up, but seemingly different from
the majority of women about US. She
was of the class one expects to see in
a cafe.
DO you think either of them belong
TO her?" said I, referring to the chill
dren.
NO" she answered.
Just then the other woman turned
partly around SO that could see her
face.
"of course, both belong to that one."
said I.
She was different altogether. Quiet
looking. Not made up III any way.
Curious that she should be with the
other one, and have her beautiful lit
tie children along, too. Papa had bet
ter look out for his little mamma, and
the company she keeps, or there'u be
trouble in another family.
The orchestra had put their instru-
ments away and taken their departure.
and a barytone singer from one of the
uptown theaters had taken their
place.
Everything was at its brightest, with
the place nearly full and the enchilada
boy still busy. but there were other
places I wanted to visit, so we took
ourselves away. 1 should state that
another man had come in. That made
two in that whole roomful.
We crossed Powell street and went
downstairs into a big place brilliant
with white light. quite different from
the soft, pink shaded twilight of the
room we had just left, and not nearly
so seductive.. 1t was ful1-or seemed
so at first gHhce-of pillars. big pill
lars. OF course, that is an exaggera-
ton, but there are great many pill
lars in the place. At the back of the
room was stage and a regular vaude-
Vile program was in progress.
A woman was singing as we went
down the stairs, singing an aria from
an old italian opera, and she was ac-
companied by one of the best orches-
tras In town.
There was a good crowd, and they
were still coming.
We sat down near the entrance, and
it was interesting to watch the women
as they came down the stairs and
were shown seats A few wore an air
of timidity as though they were ad-
venturing into something unknown and
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have been OF what followed
However, let us draw a veil. If you
lock women in a warm, close room for
hours at a time, with all the cham
pagne they can, or rather, that they
can't, drink the result is inevitable.
Anyway. we're no different from the
rest of the world. and New Years eve
comes but once a year.
But this other matter-this after
noon cocktail drinking-that's a diff
ferent proposition On the two follow
ing days I again visited these same
places and others, and these other vfs-
its simply verified what tried to de-
scribe to you here. As my friend said:
It's the music that draws the
women
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-27
FEDERAL RAIDERS
SEIZE NINE TONS
OF FROZEN EGGS
Government Officers Make Rec
ord Haul at Jersey City Re-
frigeration Warehouse.

JERSEY CITY, Dec. 2.-Nine tons OF
alleged rotten eggs were seized today
by United States Deputy Marshal Louis
G. Beekman and United States Food
Inspector Herman Lind, at the Mer-
chants Refrigeration Company's plant
at Bay and Warren streets The seiz-
ure is one OF the biggest yet made by
the government in it's crusade against
bad eggs to bakers, confectioners and
others for use In food products.
The warrant for the seizure, which
was issued by United States Commits
sioner Carpenter, describes the frozen
liquid egg as filthy, decomposed and
putrfd animal matter"
Frozen solid 1t has no odor, but when
thawed out, the government officers
say, IL emits a stencil which 10 unbear-
able. In all, Beekman and Lind seized
$50 cans of liquid eggs, each can con-
tanning thirty pounds Of the article.
The cans were traced by the govern
ment from Chicago to the merchants
stores.
On October rs the Merchants Com
pany received by way of the Erie rail-
road 253 cans of liquid eggs from the
Chicago Cold Storage and Warehouse
Company, and on December 1 there ar
rived 1873 cans from the same concern.
Two hundred and ten cans came from
the Union Cold Storage Company, of
Chicago. October IS, by way of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The
Jersey City Board of Health will be
called upon to destroy the eggs for the
United States inspector.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-27
MATHIS QU|zzED
BY GRAND JURY
OF OCEAN COUNTY
Defeated Senator, Judge Berry
and Election Board
SubpOenaed.
Especial to the Newark star,

TOMS RIVER, Dec. 27.-When the
Ocean county grand jury met here to-
day to take up the election frauds in
East Lakewood. Judge Maja Leon
Berry, counsel for Senator Mathis. was
the first witness. Senator Thomas A.
Mathis homself was the second wit
ness, and the examination of these two
men lasted from the time the jury met
till noon.
Among those subpoenaed we're the
four members of the East Lakewood
election board, H. E.. Havens, Cornelius
Conklin, Chester Lane, Norman s.
Grant and q number of Lakewood resi-
dents. :.
Assemblyman Harry Newman will be
a witness and has with him $50 afh-
davits from voters that they voted for
George Low for senator in East Lake.
wood district, though there were but
1877 Low ballots In the box In the dis
credit recount.
Joseph B. Hoff, of the County Tax
Board, and chairman of the Republi-
can County Committee; Assessor Harry
J. Terwilliger Collector Forman T.
Johnson, the entire Lakewood police
force and many others are here to tes
tify before the inquest.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-27
Four Meet Death in Freight
Wreck on B. and O. at
Parkersburg.
THREE TRAINMEN PERISH
IN G. AND A. Filler CRASH
Fog Responsible for Collision of
New Haven Express with
Freight at Attleboro.

PAWTUCKET, r. l., Dec. 27.--While
running today at its regular rate OF
speed passenger train from Boston
for Providence on the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad. when
Just out of Attleboro, crashed into the
rear end of a freight train and badly
injured a fagman. Gilbert D. Smith,
who was sitting on the caboose OF the
latter train. The passengers of the
Boston train we're badly shaken up,
but none was hurt.
The accident was due to the dense
fog which hung over the tracks. The
engine of the passenger train was
driven into the whole length of the
freight caboose and into the next car
rs we'll. So great was the force that
three other freight cars were thrown
from the track None of the passenger
coaches left the rails.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-27
FIND BODY OF
WRITER WHOSE
YACHT PHRA SANK

KEY WEST, Fla, Dec. N.-The body
Of Captain Stuart Bennett, of New
York. magazine writer and owner of
the yacht Phra, was found today near
Western banks. His wife and Herman
Parker, one of the men on the yacht.
also are believed to have been drowned.
Bennett sailed from Fort Myers last
Friday in his yacht, which coilided
with the jetties near here Sunday night,
sinking in a few minutes. Three of the
crew who were picked up yesterday re-
port that they saw Captain Bennett,
his wife and Parker clinging to a mast.
There were only six persons aboard the
Phra.
Bennett was about 35 years old. He
was we'll known in New York yachting
circles His wife had relatives at
Tarrytown and White Plains, N. Y.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-27
BLOODY FRACAS
FOLLOWS SESSION
At CARD TABLE
Free-f0r-All Fight in Saloon
Leads to Hurry Call for
Ambulance.

During a free-for-all fight in a saloon
at Polk and Glover streets early today
razors and chairs were used as
weapons. George Czugas. who lives at
Ferry and Chamber streets. is at ST.
Joseph's Hospital as a result of the
row, and may have a fractured skull.
Isidor' Storhikas, OF rs Van Buren,
street, is another who was badly cut.
He has an ugly cash on the left side
of the head and the nose.
Storhikas, Joseph Banis, the bar
tender, and Joseph Orben are held as
witnesses.
Joseph Vansargis and Charles Mis-
zeikis both of 100 Polk street. who
are accused of knocking Czugas down,
kicking him and beating him with a
chair. are missing.
Mike Vasilenckas. the proprietor Of
the place, telephoned to the police. but
when Policemen Miller and Morley
reached the scene In the patrol wagon
the guilty ones had escaped. A call
for the First Precinct ambulance was
sent, as the patrol wagon was not
equipped with the stretcher. Plain
olothesman Adubato Joined In the in
vestigating, and with Plainclothesman
Miller expects to round up the missing
pair. The witnesses declared the fight
followed a dispute over a game of
cards. The information the police were
able TO secure was that the men spent
the night In a saloon several blocks
away from the one where the fight
took place playing cards and drinking.
Storhikas was in an ugly mood and
picked a quarrel with Vansargis.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-27
THREE TRAINMEN KILLED
IN CRASH OF "RED HUMMER

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. Dec. 27.-Train
No. 8. known as the Red Hummer
on the Chicago and Alton railroad
which left Chicago last night for Kan
sas City, ran into a freight train near
Farber, Mo-. early today.
Three trainmen were killed accord
ing to a statement Of local officials OF
the road. The dead are: B. Davis, pas
senger engineer; M. ]. Crabtree, pas
senger fireman. and H. M. Flora. the
freight brakeman.
None of the passengers were injured
say the officials here. The passenger
train struck the caboose of the freight,
which had failed to clear the main
track in going onto switch.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-27
G. 0. P. TO RUSH
!. ITS NEW PROGRAM
THROUGH SENATE
Legislators of Upper House Plan
to Steal March on Governor
elect Wilson.
SENATOR'S HOLD LONG
SECRET CONFERENCE
Rate-Making Public Utility Bill
on the Legislative
Program.
Especial to the Newark Star. I

TRENTON, Dec. 27.-The early pas
sage of Republican measures by the
Senate in order to get the political ad-
vantage of the Democratic House of
Assembly will probably be the legisla-
tive program in the upper branch Of
the 1S5th session. The Republican SEN
ators were in conference at the State
House today on plans for the new ses
sion. The meeting took place behind
closed doors. but from what could be
learned making public utility
bill and some other measures will be
introduced very early in the session and
will be rushed through and. put up to
the, Democratic House.
1t is understood to be the general
plan for the Senate TO put through a
quick legislative program that will
leave as little as possible for Governor
Wilson to exploit in his inaugural mes
sage.
To Break Senate Record.
The Legislature will meet Tuesday,
January 10, and the Inauguration Of
DR.. Wilson as Governor will take place
January H. If the reported plan Of
lile ftcpuOllCdn Otlldlb 10 CdEllcO Outb
therefore. there will have to be a legis-
lative hustle on the part of the ma
jority Senators the first week of the
session that will break the record, for,
7 of course, Governor Wilson will de-
liver his inaugural address the day he
Is inducted into Office
1t is understood that rate-malsins
public utility measure is to be drafted
at once and that 1t will be submitted
to the Senators at a meeting to be
held. probably next week. 1t is pos
siblap<that one or two other bills of
Importance may be taken UP in the
same manner.
According to report today the plan
will be to get these bills introducedand
passed through the Senate by Monday
night preceding the Inauguration in
| forder to take the political starch out
| OF Governor Wilson'S message to be
given the next day.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-27
LUMBAR REFUSES
TO DISCUSS PLAN
FOR HIS DEFENSE
Accused Clergyman Declines to
Say What His Course of
Action Will Be.

'I shall not say at the present time
whether 1 shall go before the East New
Jersey Baptist Council to defend my
self against the false charges that have
been raised against me. But 1 will
say that the congregation of my own
church had decided by an overwhelm-
ing vote that they are amply able to
take care of tho matter themselves.
So far as am concerned the case
stands just there at present"
This was the answer given by the
Rev. w. T. s. Lumbar today to the
the accusation that he is guilty Of i'm
proper conduct with young woman.
1t is also his answer to the resolutions
passed by the deacons and trustees of
Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church urging a
thorough probe.
Statement Unauthorized.
"The statement that I have decided
not to defend myself is unauthorized"
continued the accused minister. But
on Sunday, when the informal vote was
taken in my church, only five OF the
entire congregation put up their hands
in favor of the council probe, and the
united sentiment of the church is on
the side of tending to this affair itself
and In its own way"
The East New Jersey Baptist Council
meets this afternoon in the North Bap-
tist Church. Its session may precipi-
tate another open outbreak of the
scandal when the regular weekly
prayer service is held in the Mt Pleas
ant Church tonight.
Say Probe Was Blocked.
Members of his congregation who are
in opposition to Lumbar were very
frank today in saying that the minis
ter had used every means IN his power
to maneuver himself out of an investi-
CATION Since the letter demanding the
probe has not been submitted to the
council IL is not at all likely, they say.
that the body will break precedent
gratuitously taking up the case.
Moreover, It Is pointed out, Lumbars
resignation becomes effective tonight
after the weekly prayer-meeting, so
that he will be then outside the COM
gregation, and hence not amenable to
an investigation.
There is a sentimen on the part
of some of the opposition, however.
to give the pastor a parting shot, and
they may take steps to make the meet
ing tonight the scene of final up
heava1.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-27
FOIlR GTRAINMEN KILLED
IN B. AND O. COLLISION.

PARKERsBUHG. W Va. Dec. a.
Four trainmen were killed and two
others injured in collision OF two
freight trains on the Ohio river divi-
sion of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road at MERGERS Bottom. w. Va. early
today.
The dead are r. H. Kantz, fireman;
William Steffey. Parkersburg. engineer;
c. J. Moffat. Huntington, brakeman,
and B. H. Bradham, Parkersburg, fire
man.
1t is said that the crew OF one Of the
trains made a mistake in reading its
orders, and that this was the cause of
the accident,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-27
SIX FINE HORSES
ARE STRICKEN IN
NEWARK STREETS

An alarming epidemic of meningitis
appeared among Newark's horses to-
day, at least half-a- dozen fine animals
fell Ill in the centre of the city within
few hours. At noon two were in
Broad street near Hahne's. another
near Centre market, and others in New,
Rector and Centre streets. Horsemen
attribute the epidemic to the holiday
lull. during which some owners make
the mistake OF feeding their horses as
heavily as when thcy ara AZ work.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-27
ATTELL AND ALLEN MATCHED.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Dec. N.-Abe
Attell, featherweight champion of the
world, and Billy Allen, featherweight
champion OF Canada, will meet in a
ten-round no-decision bout in this city
january 20.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-27
CIVIL SERVICE
REGISTRARS ARE
NAMED BY BOARD
Especial to the Newark Star. j

TRENTON, Dec. 2L-The Civil Serv-
ice Commission today appointed Frank
H. Baldwin of Orange, as civil service
registrar for East Orange and William
E. Christman, of East Orange. registrar
for Essex county.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-27
DETROIT PUBLISHER DEAD.

DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 27.--August
Marxhausen, proprietor of the German
Daily newspaper, the Abend Post. died
suddenly at his home here today OF
heart disease.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-02-16
Citizens Bank

some of the millionaire corporations;
but when it came to enforcing the
criminal clause against his friends, he
baked This great apostle of a
square DEAL" baked. Baked like
the yellow hammer that he is. Balk-
ed, like the loud mouth duffer that he
is. And Taft, the amiable, affable,
gracious william Howard Taft, who
wears the smile that won't come off /,
like his predecessor he will be al
ways going to do it, but he never will.
No republican ever will. Why should
he? Think you a man is going to
run for office. and permit his friends
to spend barrels Of money to elect
him, and then turn and rend them
Prove himself an migrate by prose
cutting these same friends, whose
guilt he knew while they were yet
spending their money to elect him ?
Sacrifice his friends; imprison and
disgrace them, to appease the rabble,
the common people, who have nc
money to buy elections with, and who
many sof them sell that which they
have,-a freeman's ballot! Pshaw
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-02-16

laws base their objections on the
ground that some of the adulterants
are as healthful as, and in some in
stances even more so, than the arti-
cles they are used to adulterate. This
is entirely beside the question; when
consumer buys an article he wants
what he calls for and not something
else that is used chiefly to give the
manufacturer a greater profit. Again,
Mississirpis pure food laws are
dead letter, and neither the state nor
the municipalities have taken any Sc
rious steps to enforce the laws and to
insure to the consumer what he has a
right to expect. In this state and in
most of its municipalities it rests, for
instance, with the butchers, dairymen
and bakers to give us meat, milk and
bread prepared under sanitary arrange
ments; and in the case of an unscru-
pulous man, establishments can be
conducted and otter are conducted
contrary to all rules of sanitation
We are reasonably sure of the nature
of the products used in interstate
commerce, but the feeling of certainty
disappears when we are dealing with
foodstuffs of all kinds produced and
prepared in the state. Strenuous
steps are being taken to enforce the
exclusion of one article of consumption
only, and that is whiskey; everything
else seems of no Importance to our
legislators. News.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-02-16
Nelus From the Tripod

under the pure food law. The country
at large and the state of Mississippi
faults to find with the pure food laws
of the United States in view of the
facts that many of the states either
have no laws on the subject or no
machinery to enforce it, the latter of
which is the case in this state. In
food matters the only protection we
have is from the administration OF
the federal laws on the subject. Many
of the antagonists to the pure food
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-02-16

It is asking too much of a man. And
when he meets at the Club, with the
fumes of wine about him and halo
of smoke around his head, and says
he WILL Mr.. Taft is speaking merely
in Pickwickian nse; and We do
not mean to question his integrity or
doubt his veracity when We say dis
tinctly and positively that he won't;
that he has not the slightest idea of
ever doing any such thing.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-02-16
THE PURE FOOD LAW.

Four hundred and fifty sacks of
"bleached -four" were recently seized
by the federal authorities in New Or
leans; the millers took exception to
the action of the government on legal
technicalities; Judge Foster overruled
the objections, thus putting the case to
trial on it's merits. 1t has been init
mated by the counsel for the millers
that no further steps would be taken
by them, which means that they acqui-
esce in the confiscation of the flour