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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07
TOO Many school Holidays.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
According to the papers the Essex
County Medical Society is very anxious
that the Board of Education should
close the schools the first week in June.
~contending that the hot weather is
detrimental to the health of children
confined to classrooms. 1t is particu-
larly gratifying to note that the
teaching staff of the city is a unit
against keeping the schools open so
long" which, after all, may be the
a for the agitation.
1t was only the other day tina some
well-known educator said that the
trouble with the schools today is that
they suffer from too many holidays,
and that the actual teaching time Is
being gradually made shorter and
shorter.
Our parents and grandparents went
to school carly and stayed late. holi-
days We're few and far between, and
the summer vacation was of about one
months duration and covered scarcely
more thar the month of August. 1t is
not recorded that heat prostrations
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07
Too Many Stray Dogs.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Now tina the Board Of Health has
passed an ordinance requiring all stray
dogs to be muzzled. let the police see
that it is enforced. Every day one
reads in the papers of children bitten
by dogs, stray or otherwise. Certain
quarters Ct the city are overrun with
them. The Italian quarters, about Sew
enth avenue, is one spot in particular
that is simply infested with them.
There is more canine flesh per square
inch on that street than on any other in
the city. When the hot weather comes
enough mad dogs could come from this
place alone to cause serious trouble.
Why not start with some such
place-and there are plenty of them in
this city-and clean it out? Better get
them out now. before they have done
any harm. ANTI-DOG.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07
Pensions for Old soldiers.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Sir-No patriot will object to have the
veterans of the Civil Wa aged 20 years
or more paid a pension of $50 per month
for the few remaining years of their ex-
isteEce. Again, why should there be
any objection to the surviving officers
of the Civil War being placed on the
same footing as the regular army Off
GERS as regards pensions? The latter.
at the age OF. 60, are retired on half-pay.
whether they have served a period of
peace or war, which is just. The volun-
teer officers who survive. who risked
health and life in defense of the flag,
ask that the same privilege be accorded
them when they shall have reached
"three-score n tenn-O years of age
that is allowed the regular army Off
GERS, eight years younger, at 60 years
of age A. w. s.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07
HOW THE INSTITUTIONS WERE CARED FOR.

WW mental appropriations by the Legislature over and above
the total of last year it might be expected that the State
dependent and correctional institutions would receive some good
share of the great outlay. In January Comptroller west mace d
statement to the Legislature. in which he presented estimates of
the special needs of departments and institutions TO be provided
for in the supplemental bill. The total was $12O0,S44, while the
estimate for the annual appropriations for the next hscal year
was x51 952. There are wide differences between the estimates OF
needs and the supplemental appropriations. For example, the two
State insane hospitals asked for $26S,63S, and receive $S3,17O. The
Epileptic Village specially needed $50, $50. and it got $13,5O0. The
need of the tuberculosis Sanatorium was $6O.315, and it was given
$43.3OO. The State Home for Girls required $o0960, and will get
ONLY S3.1O0. The sum of $4,000 was wanted for a school for the
deaf. and nothing was appropriated. A request for $4,000 by the
State Home for BOYS was pared down to $500. The Vlneland
Soldiers, Home needed $46,S96, and gets s., 496. 1t is evident that
tIe institutions were given the least possible amounts in the sup
Elemental bill to meet their pressing necessities.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07
ACT!
The People s Rostrum


were any more numerous then than
now. and pupils in those days had a
chance to learn something.
At the present time there is a holt
day on h slightest p~royocation, and
the school terms are being forever
made shorter. We have just finished
a so-called Easter vacation that was
about as unnecessary as anything that
could be imagined and now comes the
agitation to close the schools earlier
for the summer vacation.
What we need in our schoolSNis less
attention to holidays and Vacations and
more attention to serious instruction.
A PARENT.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07
Smaller rreeholders, BOARD.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
There is but one solution, to my mind,
of the troubles that habitually beset the
Board of Freeholders in their manage
nent of the important institutions of
the county entrusted to their care, and
that is to have a smaller board. In
stead of q board of thirty-two mem
bers, including a director at its head.
who also has a vote, let the number be
Quartered, and business would proceed
in a business-like way.
l am sorry to see that the Legislature,
probably for reasons only Of political
expediency, has failed to rid the county
Of this thirty-two-member rule.
ESSEX.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07

~ a compromise between the Governor and the State Board
ID of Assessors the board is to discharge its appointed duty
of revaluing railroad property, and is to employ one of the
Governors three special commissioners. The annual Appropriation
of the board is about $4,000. The appropriation is to be raised
10 $4,000 for this fiscal year. SO the State will be saved $o9OO0
in the cost of revaluation. The only doubtful feature of the plan
is the requirement upon the board To appoint one of the three
suecial commissioners as engineer. which is calculated to make
the engineer independent of the board. But the work is to be done
in the regular way. under the proper auspices, and in the end there
will be less question about the results and less litigation for the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07
nine Practise for schools.

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
Big appropriations Tor new battle
ships are all right in their way as a
preparation for war, but a much bet
ter preparation is the building of men
and preparing them to become useful in
an when men are needed.
Loyal men will flock to the call When
wal is in the air, but their usefulness
is sometimes sadly lacking, n q man
who cannot be useful n show some
signs of training in some branch of the
army costs the government in pay, sup
port and expense of transportation
more than he is worth.
Without taking up time, imposing
tedious drills and giving the young men
of the country recreation, rifle shooting
could be taught in the schools. teams
could be maintained for friendly
matches in the secret and patriotic So
cieties of the country, and every man
could easily learn how to handle a
gun, and then. if yer they were needed,
they would volunteer for service with a
knowledge of 10Y to put a bullet where
it would do most good for their cause.
A battalion of sharpshooters is a
better asset than a warship, and would
cost infinitely less. BY placing sub
target machines in the schools the boys
can be taught the principles of rifle
shooting with the national arm of de-
tense. while If the boys were taught
the way to handle the rifle, they would
spend their time On the ranges in he
open air at a healthful sport, and there
would be fewer complaints of their
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07
THE JONES "cITY CHARTER" PETERS our

1Tn HE claim by Assemblyman Ninard, the introducer of the fake
charter bill for Newark, which died in bad odor in the Sen
ate last night, that the bill was in fulflment of a campaign
pledge" borders on the humorous. The people of Newark never
asked the Republican County Committee for such a pledge, and
never got one, never dreamed of looking to the committee for a
charter, and it never entered the head of any Newark citizen that
LAWYER Jones, a rank outsider and a political partisan III the en-
ploy of the committee, would patch up a charter for the city. A
performance so grotesque shows a lack of ordinary common sense
in the getters-up of the Jones charter, as well as absolute ignorance
If the Newark community.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07
NATURALLY.

Come. ~varlet, why do you trem~
ble2 You're keeping sometrins
from me. out with t." said the
DISTINGUISHED Traveller inpatient
". for a few minutes before nc.
again put his foot into it.
He who was thus addressed hesi-
tatingly drew a cablegram from his
pocket.
your country is going Demo
cratic. Sire" he faltered.
A smile of Afric sultriness illumi-
mated the features of the DIS
tinguished Traveller.
Some such thing was TO ne ca
pected during my absence III
said modestly.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07
WHAT A CHANCE.

The man who made the sugges-
ton that Colonel Roosevelt be made
a ambassador Of peace
to foreign courts is either gifted
with a profound n of humor OF
is a bloodthirsty wretch who would
like to see his country constantly
involved in war. -
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07

rS, ASSAIC COUNTY and the State have been well served by
w two men. Senator John ID. Prince and AsseTblynlan Thomas
r. McCran, The one in the Senate and the other in the House
Mr. MctJrans name is linked with a bill, of which he was the author,
that gives him an honorable place in legislative history. Senator
Princes advocacy for that bill in a foresworn Senate and the.
supreme efforts he put forth to have it passed will always be re-
membered to his honor.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07
ABSOLUTELY ABSURD!

Citizens of Mississippi were re-
Gently subjected to an indignity
which would well-nigh excuse des-
perate retaliation.
During the course of a sensational
murder trial, a rumor to the effect
that an effort to assassinate the de-
PENDANT would be made in the event
of his acquittal was bruited about.
And whenever rumors begin to be
bruited about they are likely to be
serious.
The authorities took that view or
it, at any rate, and the court issued
the order that eye.ySman entering
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07
JuRlEs TO FIX CONTRADICTORY NEGLIGENCE.

RI F the Governor. signs the bill which gives to the jury, and not
the Judge, in railroad crossing accident suits the discretion as
to whether the injuries of a plaintiff were due to "contributory
negligence or not, there will be a big change in the outcome of
railroad damage suits. AS a rule, the law has been interpreted
against the sutton. If the injured man stopped and looked and
didn't listen he lost the suit, or if he stopped and listened and his
view was INSTRUCTED by some object so that he did not see, he
usually lost his case. Juries will not be as technical as the judge,
and the usual rule of the jury is to give the benefit of the doubt to
tAc plaintiff in such cases.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07
ANOTHER MONOPOLY.

where's tina bird dog you used to
have?"
ooh. the milliner down the street
complained that he kept her customers
away by o%bstructing the sidewalk"
Constructing the sidewalk"
Yes. You see he spent all his time
down there pointing the birds in the
window."-Everybody's Magazine.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07
THEY NEVER LIE.

q had this fellow licked" u
the defeated champion angrily. Il
slipped and he took advantage OF
it."
The new champion smiled. 1
cave it to the picturas.' he said.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07

tie journey and see If / can find out where those nice come from"
Then Wames st down quietly and ate the cheese which the children
had left. .
my. but that is good" h said to himself 1T would be a fine idea to
finish my meal with a little mouse. The only thing know to do is to leave
something here which looks like a piece Of cheese; then / will hide in the tail
grass and wait until the little mouse comes back % get the cheese, for there
certainly must ave been some mouse here unless my snifer deceives me- and
| do not think it does"
Wanes squaued down in the tall grass and lay very, very still MY.
how still am; L don't believe eve ny whskers are moving Just then
he saw little Matte Mouse creeping toward. him, ad he said to hmsef:
"Oh, my,o oh, my, how my mouth doss water" Little Matte Mouse crept
nearer,a and just Is Wanes "a getting ready to spring Rover cam barking
down the field and wames said to himself: II know III mss that mouse, but
OF the grass and RAJ toward the barn
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07
Dqddy;s Good Night Stories
WAFFLES, THE CAT.
BY FARMER SMITH.

THEL'S father opened the window last night and
then took his seat beside the bed and told his little
- daughter the following story:
When Waf1es the Cat woke up he stretched himself
and looked all around TO see if there might be anything
new in the way of something to eat.
He saw that the children had left the playground and
also that there were some dainty morses of bread and
cheese left. II there was anything that Waffes did like
it was a nice piece of cheese.
TITS funny" he said to himself, ito think that mice
like cheese and so do cats"
by the way, I think | smell something that reminds
me of a little mouse" said he, as he carefully picked
his way among ths clods of dirt. Now, just as soon as
I get through with this cheese 1 am going to take a lit
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07

shooting song birds or getting into bad
company. Rifle shooting is an attrac-.
tive sport to the young man and
should be taught in the schools.
c. w. V.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07

She-How does it happen that
you never married, when you've
been engaged so many times?
Hell ear give the best refer
ences from all the girls who brooks
the engagements. They all say I'm
too good for them.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07

The STAR extends the privi-
'ege of these columns to the
public and invites signed com
munications 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, 1910-04-07

There has BEEN a decided relapse
from dry to wet in towns in the
West in this weeks town elections.
Evidently the prohibition wave" is
receding. a phenomenon that was to be
expected.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07

Jersey farmers complain of their ina
bility to &c help. even at $50 a month
with board. AS the large cities are con-
gested with labor. much of it of the i'm
the lack of farm labor seems ~inexplic-
able. The cause Is largely lack Of an
agency to direct labor in the cities into
the country. The State should provide
that agency in collaboration with the
farmers organizations.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07

Roosevelt has departed from Rome
He made as much of a commotion in
the town as Alaric once did.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07

One of the effects of the water-snake
bill fight at the legislative session is to
eliminate Everett Colby from State
politics. Even the Progressive Repub-
Leans would not now take Mr.. Colby
up as a candidate.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07

The great objection to the subway
bill for Newark, introduced by Assem-
blyman Goldingay, was the contract
clause. BY the elimination of that fea-
ture of the bill it's enactment was made
possible. opposition being withdrawn,
and the bill was passed.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07

Shelf l promise to marry you,
will you promise to work for
woman's rights?
He-My older friends who are
married tell me I'll have my hands
full working for my own.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07

President Taft has been making de-
fensive speeches right along, and they
don't seem to convince anybody. Posi-
goes he cracks up Aldrich. II vas
right after the Presidents big persona,
tribute to Aldrich at Providence, r.
l., hat the Old Colony Congress dis
trict in Massachusetts changed its
majority from 1900 Republican to
about G,000 Democratic. Mr. Taft is to
do more defensive speech-making i n
the West. Probably he will cut out
Aldrich.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07

He-Darling. when we're married
We'll live or bread and kisses.
She-But. dearest, the cost OF liV-
ing has gone up so.
) He-But the trusts haven't got
control of that diet yet.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07

Bergen county is largely populated by
New York commuters. and it is the
commuter vote that IS responsible for
Wakelee. In Essex county this man
could not be elected to any office. But
commuters have an interest in the well
fare of the State they live in and they
cannot be W of the acts OF
Wakelee in the Legislature. His acts
at the session this ear must certainly
arrest the attention of the most indif-
ferent commuter in Bergen county.
Wakelee's term expires this year, and
he will come up for denomination, with
the support of the corporations he has
served with so much zeal in legislation.
If Bergen county Republicans do not
repudiate Wakelee they will consent to
a stain upon their county.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-07

Roosevelt's contributions to natural
history total 1887, consisting of NAM
mails, birds, reptiles and other verte-
brates and fishes. Included in these
specimens, nearly all of which will
come to the United States and most OF
which will go to the Smithsonian In
stitution at Washington, are many that
are entirely new to our museums, and
some that are new to collections in Eu-
rope. A great service for science has
been performed by Roosevelt. No other
maj could have accomplished as much
for the simple reason that only a man
of Roosevelt's prestige could command
the aids he received while in Africa
from government officials and others.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-29
Were in Storage Yards Of the At
Gibson, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway at Topeka, Kan.
LOSS PLACED AT 100000
shopmen Worked Hcrocally, Throw
Ing Up Eartl, Embellishments to
Stop Spread OF Fire.

Topeka, Kan, Oct. a9-Fire here TO-
day in the storage yards of the Atchi-
son. Topeka & Santa ITe railway de-
stroyed 900 freight cars. cntaillng u loss
estimated at close to 100000 The big
shops OF the company were saved.
through the efforts Of 1000 men en-
ployed in them.
John Purcell. superintendent OF the
Santa Fe shops. says<tltat a revised
estimate is that 70G. cars were de-
stroyed. Part of these were undergoing
repairs. so that the loss may fall as
low as 100000 The fire was extin-
guished at noon and a hurried estimate
of the loss was made.
The fire would have been more seri-
Gus had it not been for the heroic work
of the shopmen. The storage yards are
outside of the fire district and the only
method of combating the flames was
by running tank cars MS near as posi-
BILE ana these manned by shop work
mon did excellent service. Earth en-
bankments were thrown up to prevent
the flames spreading to dwellings on
either side of the yards and the burn
ing cars were Isolated by making a
clear path between them and the big
car repair. shops. This was done by
moving all the cars in the vicinity,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-29
FIND FOOT IN STREET.
Discovery Shortly .Aftcr Noon To-day
In Edison st. Causes CONSERVATION.

i
Finding a mangled and apparently pait-
ly burned foot In the street. n pedestrian
along Edison street shortly after noon
today lelcphoned the police station. Desk
Sergeant Spears dispatched Gasoline Po-
llceman Grundvig to the scene on his
motorcycle, Glundvlg found that the re-
port was true and started an investiga-
ton.
The foot appeared somewhat recently
cut away from leg. right or left though
could not be determined for tho reason
that the flesh and skin had been torn
awly and the object more or less mum
sed, Pursuing his investigation.
uynndviE found that 1t was not the foot
81 man. 1t was not the foot of Il boy,
nol OF Il woman. but of Il bear, carried
70 the spot at which II was found by n
des, who lad cliewed ut It with evident
shs Judging from the appearance Of the
S Sroe It had been stolen by the dog
rom nearby taXldcrmists establish
,heht, During the course Of the inves-
SsSauoli, the colorcd population of Ed
~" street vas much upset, surmises rs
wv, whose foot 1t was being many and
o on.ifu Constcrnationi ruled In mpre than,
y NV iowiy nome In the street. for not MI
s .le iathers and husbands are precisely
,seuiar IN their habits and several wom-
vm we're keyed up to Intense excitement
c uInul Grlndvlg's skill us a detective
Hr"icu up the mystery, - 4t Hff
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-29
CAN RECOVER BALLOON.
EXPLOITING OF IMMIGRANTS
IN CHICAGO DENOUNCED

Chicago, Oct. "a vigorous attack
upon conditions in Chicago that have
resulted in maltrcatment of immigrants
and severe Arrangement of the police
were features of an address made last
night by Prof. Graham a. Taylor of this
city before members of the COngrega-
tional Brotherhood of Chicago.
According to Prof Taylor, the pull
ing and hauling" OF Immigrants by
eXpressmen at the Dearborn street sta
ton, Is one of the "Chicago's shames."
Women immigrants, he said,arc made
easy prey for agents of disordery
places. and statistics that have been
compiled he declared. show that in
some instances only onc-half of the
women immigrants who leave Ellis Is
land, New York. for Chicago, reach
their destination in this city.
In illustrating this point, he asserted
that white slave emissaries board
trains at points many miles from tho
city and by various devices lure tho
unsuspccting women into their clutches.