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Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1910-05-19
CROPS IN NEW JERSEY

Trenton, N. sJ., May II. Secretary
Franklin Dye, of the State Board of
Agriculture. to-day gave out the fol-
lowing:
I'm the middle and southern counties
corn and potato planting is finished.
In more northerly counties it is pro-
crossing as the weather permits. In
some. portions OF the southern counties
potato seed has rotted from to 25 per
cent This is a. serious loss to the
farmers thus affected. The acreage
planted to potatoes is increased from 5
to 33 per cent. corn acreage same as
last year. Wheat and rye give prom
ise of good harvest unless later in
jured. Grass for hay is not up to the
average condition at this period.
peaches are reported in good con.
dition. with fair prospects of an aver.
age yield.
Apple bloom was abundant where
they are in good condition. Orchards
throughout the State have been greatly
reduced by the San Jose scale. Pears
and cherries have blossomed abundant
ly Strawberries in some sections have
been injured by frost from to 80 per
cent. In general the season is two
weeks earlier than usual.
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DEATH OF WIN. RICE.

At his home on Proad street, early
this morning. William Rice died after
a short Illness, He was so years old.
Mr. kice was one of the most re-
spected and esteemed citizens of Bridge
ton He had long been actively en-
gagged in the affairs of business here,
for very many years conducting the
shipyard on Water street, with his
brother. J. Lenhart Rice.
Mr. Rice was of the original mem
bers and organizers of Trinity M. E..
Church, and was many many years
the Superintendent of the Sunday
School and class leader
He was twice married, the widow
and three daughters, Mrs. Joseph H.
Powell, Mrs. Harry Springer and Mrs.
Thos. Woodruff, surviving.
The funeral will occur on Saturday
next.
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City Council Awards Con-
tract to Hudson Terminal
Construct on Co.
COMPANY MUST
FURNISH PROPER BOND
Important Business Was Transacted
by City Council Last Night in
Its Regular May Meeting.

For the second time yesterday, City
Council met last night. this time the
session being the stated meeting pro-
vided by the charter.
All of the seven members were
present with President Glaspell in the
chair.
The preliminary details of the
meeting being disposed Of Council
proceeeded..to the business of the night.
Walter Fl. Bacon representing the
Central Railroad Company, appeared
before Council to present the matter
of a-railroad crossing at West avenue.
Mr.. Bacon explained that be had long
beer endeavoring to obtain for the
farmers of this section better railroad
facilities. and he had secured from the
company the consent to build half
mile of side track from West avenue
to the Shiloh pike. This side track
would be used only during the produce
season. In order to reach this siding
it was proposed to cut off from the
main track east of West avenue and
place another track across West avenue.
af the switch was placed west of Vest
avenue all freight trains would have
to stop on West avenue and thus block
the avenue while the switch was. being
opened and while the train was
entering the switch to place the switch
on the east side made it possible to
move the trains over the avenue with
out coming to a stop. Mr.. Bacon said
that the railroad company would be
willing to raise the track six inches,
which it had been suggested would
greatly improve conditions at the
crossing.
Incidentally Mr.. Bacon called atten-
tion to the fact that the Central rail
road company had spent more than
$1,000 here within the past year.
and the present work was costing a
large amount of money.
After some little discussion upon the
ms tier little later in the evening it
seemed TO be the consensus of opinion
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that there should be but "a single track
across the street. Mr.. Whipple moved
that the Central Railroad Company
be requested to place the proposed
switch on the west side of West
avenue This motion prevailed by a
unanimous vote.
Mr.. Clyde Potts, engineer, reported
the tabulation of the figures of the
bidders upon tho sewage disposal
works as follows:
Hudson Terminal Construction Com
pany, $40. $40. 10.
B. Frank Sweeten & Co. Camden,
$4S. 664.14
United Paving Company, Atlantic
City. S52, 632 20.
The Wormser Goodman Construction
Co.. New York, $54, 531. 80.
John W. Heller, Newark, N. j.,
$5s. 936. 30.
Mr.. Mulford moved that the contract
be awarded to the lowest bidder pro-
vided bond satisfactory to the
Corporation Counsel be furnished.
This motion prevailed.
The report OF the Public Safety
Commissioner Geo. H. Hughes,
covering minor details of the depart
ment was read and received.
There were reports from the Over
seer of the Poor and Public Works
Commissioner Woodruff The later
reported that the 1000 feet of 6-inch
water pipe asked for on Coral avenue
would cost 5000. There was to be
built at once upon Coral avenue four
houses which would pay the city $40
annually in water rents
Bills aggregating $17, 1866. 95 were
ordered paid.
Commissioner of Highways F. L.
Fralinger reported the gravelling Of
many streets, together with lot of
other work which was being done on
the highways. Since the last meeting
of Council $1,000 had been expended,
and rs teams and 65 men had, been
employed.
Two ordinances were taken up and
passed upon first and second reading.
The first one was to regulate the
storing OF gasoline. This ordinance
provided that no gasoline shall be
stored within the limits of the fire
district of the city in quantities
greater than 5 gallons. unless the same
shall be stored in a steel tank of mot
less than a inch in thickness, and
such tank shall be buried in the
ground outside of a building, at a
depth Of not less than feet.
Violation of the ordinance shall be
imprisonment in the county Jail for a
time not to exceed days or fine
not exceeding $40.
The other ordinance related to
vicious dogs running at large on the
streets and public places. The ordi-
nance provided an Imprisonment of
not more than days in Jail or fine
not to exceed $40 for any person per-
mitting such vicious dogs to run at
large.
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She Is Required to Furnish
Bail in the Sum of $500
for Her Appearance.
MANY LETTERS
in EVIDENCE
Important Witnesses Caught When
the House Was Raided Forfeited
Bail in the Amount of $4,000.

M1llville, N. j., May 17.-Incrimi-
natlng evidence was given by ply
sicians and numerous other witnesses
against Mrs. Elizabeth Ashmead, pro-
prietress of the alleged baby farm
near Millville, at her hearing on the
charge of malpractice held before
Mayor Smith this afternoon, and she
was placed under $25OO bail for court.
Neither the young woman, who gave
her name as Mrs. Bertha Knowles,
of 642 151st street, New York, and
upon whom the alleged criminal oper-
alton is said to have been performed
nor her husband, J. L. Knowles, both
OF whom were arrested in the raid
at the Ashmead farm, appeared at the
hearing to-day and their cash bail
was declared forfeited.
Hundreds of spectators had crowd
ed in the City Hall when the case
was moved. Mrs. Ashmaad, appear
ing nervous and almost exhausted by
her close Imprisonment, was led into
court, followed by her aged husband,
Rowland Ashmead; her little grand
son and faithful Newfoundland dog.
County Prosecutor j. Hampton Fifth
ian represented the State, and Roy
Oliver and Henry Burt appeared as
counsel for the accused woman.
Mrs. Ashmead, through her counsel,
pleaded not guilty. City Marshal
Charls Biggs testified to leading the
raid, and letters which he found
locked in a dresser were placed in
evidence. These letters appear to
have been written by some of Mrs.
Ashmead's alleged patients in Phila-
delphia, Wilmington and elsewhere,
and were addressed to DR.. H. e. Hud-
son, which is one of the numerous
aliases under which the woman is
said to have operated.
Drs. Samuel Bennett and H. Garrett
Miller, who made an examination of
Mrs. K nowles, gave discriminating
evidence. while Coroner Ralph
Charleswcrth, physician, who also
examined her. differed with them, and
testified favorably to the defendant.
Ex Sheriff Reuben Cheesman, who is
now deputy Postmaster, said Mrs.
Ashmead had called for letters ad-
dressed to DR.. H E. Hudson.
Mrs. Grace Ashmead Stanford,
daughter of the defendant who gave
the police much information. faced her
mother for the first time since the
raid, when she took the stand Mrs.
Stanford. who. it was thought, would
be the star witness, was reticent in
her testimony. She said she had seen
numerous girls come 10 the house and
that one visitor la st Friday brought a
physician with her.
Counsel for the defense made a
strong plea for acquittal, hut the
Prosecutor, after summing the evil
dence, had the defendant recommitted
under $4,000 bail to await the action of
the Grand Jury.
Stanford was held under 500 as a
witness. and Mrs. Stanford was
allowed to go to. night under her own
recognizance.
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Take hint, Iof your own mixing.
Rough on Rats. being all poison, one
15c: box will spread or make so to 100
little cakes that will kill 500 or more
rats q mice. It's the unbeatable OK.
termlnator. Don't die in the house.
Beware of limitations, substitutes and
catch-penny, ready for use devices
81 lW
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1910-05-19

Special May Sale of Pretty Tailored Suits at
S99S; worth $3.50
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1910-05-19
Perry Davis PaInliIIer

Summer complaint. bowel trouble,
cramps have no terror in the house,
hold where this dependable medicine
is kept on hand Csc, ,35c.and SOC bot
ties. 5-I1.4w.
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Resumed Her Position.

Miss Allie Woertz, of Marion street,
has resumed her position at the
Walter s. Cummings stole, after an
absence of three weeks on account of
sickness of her mother.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1910-05-19
Certain Cure for Aching Feet.

Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot :
Ease, power. 1t cures Tired, Aching,
Callous. Sweating. Swollen feet. At
Druggist, 25c. Try it 10 day. Sample
FREE. Address, Allen S, Om7ted,
Leroy. NY.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1910-05-19
Mrs. Bowen Dead

Mrs. Caroline Bowen, the mother of
Mrs. William Hainesworth. and Mrs.
W m. Riley, of this city, died at her
home in Alloway, yesterday.
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BLUE RIDGE INN is
BURNED TO THE GROUND

BLUEMONT, VA.-Special.-Sco or
more of Washingtonians, patrons OF the
Blue Ridge Inn, owned by Jules De-
monet, the caterer, near this place in
LQudoun county, were in peril when the
place was burned TO the ground early
Thursday morning. The blaze started
IN the laundry OF the large hotel and
gained rapid Roadway. In the rear of
the building the stairways were cut on
by smoke, and several of the guests
were rescued from the windows. Sew
eral women who jumped were unin-
iured The damage is estimated at
from $4,000 to $3.50 and is partly
covered by insurance.
At the height of the season the resort
is ordinarily the rendezvous of 400 or
500 patrons, but the season was not yet
in full swing, and not more than fifty
found themselves without sleeping
place this morning. Some succeeded in
saving part of their effects, but others
lost everything. The hotel will be re-
built Immediately, according to a state
ment given out by Mr.. Demonet today
Among the Washington guests at the
hotel were: Miss Helen Il. Simms, Miss
Hattie NJ. Bull, Mrs. Robert Deatyne
and family, Miss Carrie Martin, Miss
Sadie w Hannum, Miss Nellie G. Nc,
LaughIin, and Mrs. r. b. Keene and
family.
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AFRICAN BUFFALO is A
WORTHY FOE OF THE LION

Kermit also shot three buffalo balls.
1arIton neiping him TO finish them OF,
Tor they are tough animals, tenacious
'ot IRE and among the most dangerous
but was disabled by the bullets OF both
OF them before he could come on Tarl-
ton. whose experience in the hunting
neld againts dangerous game had been
lion hunting was the most dangerous
sport, because a hunted lion was far
more apt to charge than any other ami
NAL yet that when a buffalo bull did
charge ne was more dangerous than
non' because harder to kill or turn
where zebra and other game are album
dant as on the Athi plains, lion do not
NEEDLE with such formidable quarry as
buffalo; on Heatley's farm lions some
times made their lairs in the same
papyrus swamp with the buffalo, but
never moleSted them. In many places
however, the lion preys largely, and i'm
some places chiefly, on the buffalo. The
hunters of wide experience with whom
name and Horne, were a unit in stating
that swhere a single lion killed buffalo
they had always found that the buffalo
was COW or immature bull, and that
whenever they had found a full-grown
pull thus Killed, several lions had been
engaged in the job. Horne had once
found the carcass Of n big bull which
had been killed and eaten by lions, and
in her side, made by the buffalos horn
in the fight in which he succumbed
Even buffalo COW, If pitted against a
single lion, would probably stand an
never is fair, the lions aim being to
ia ke his prey unawares and get a death
grip at the outset; and then, unless his
hold is broken, he cannot be seriously
injured--From african Game Trails"
by Theodore Roosevelt, in the July
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PITCHER FOR GIANTS
LEAPS OUT OF WINDOW

Violent shrieks. closely followed by
a terrific crash and sounds of break
ing glass, awakened every patient in
the Roosevelt Hospital early Monday
morning. Doctors, nurses and order
lies, who CROPPED their way across the
roof or the hospital engine house found
William Torey, a baseball pitcher for
the New York Nationals, lying uncOn-
scious on a skylight.
Taken to the hospital on Sunday suf-
fering from typhoid fever, Torey be-
came violently delirouS and had dived
from a window of the ward, landing
Torey was not strapped to the bed,
and when he suddenly leaped for the
window, g doing orderly and a pa
tient occupying an adjoining bed made
an inenectual attempt to stay the six
tooter. Torey cast both men from him,
mounted the window sill and with a
scream jumped.
Gee, that was a DROP" he exclaimed
when he revived, as the doctors worked
over him on the roof. He again be-
came violent, and the combined strength
OF two doctors and an orderly was nee
esSarN to restrain him. Torey was
strapped on stretcher and carried to
a private room.
The physicians made a minute exam
nation, but except for scratches and
| bruises Torey appeared to be unhurt
his condition continued TO be serious
yesterday, and last night the physicians
fear he may die.
Torey, who is twenty-five years old,
was bank clerk in Chicago until he
gained prominence as a pitcher for
Jimmy Galatians Independent club. the
| by both Cincinnati and New York. but
the National Commission awarded him
secretary Knowles or the local club
| wired TO Callahan in Chicago Monday
night asking him 70 locate Toreys rel
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Where F,vervone Is IleIatcd-

The Andorrans are very proud OF
their blue blood and ancient lineage:
in their eyes a gavache (foreigner) of
any description or nationality is mere
ly an inferior being, a sort of mush-
room upstart in comparison with
themselves. During twelve hundred
years they have continually married
and intermarried to such an extent
that at present all the inhabitants are
practically cousins; yet. strange "a
say, neither their physical. mental
nor moral qualities seem to have suf-
fered. Both sexes are strong<limbed
broad shouldered bright-eyed. hardy
and long-lived. retaining their hair
and their teeth TO a green old age;
they also are keen-Witted and intelli-
gent, alert and happy sober
industrious, hospitabl" and deVout
The feminine Andorran has not a YES
tige OF coquetry about her; she is just
the female pure and simple. She is
a thrifty housewife, a helpmate to heI
husband in the most literal sense OF
the term; ready and able to trudge
off across mountain and valley beside
him with a pack of struggled goods
on her back in case of need.-Fron
"A Remarkable Republic" in the July
Wide World Magazine.
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Demand for Big Men.

Mr.. P. Harvey Middleton, in an in
teresting account of the life of James
Jerome Hill, quotes that wonderful
empire builder as saying:
The conditions in the United
States today are such that any man
who starts out with industry, intelli-
gence and honesty has a chance for
success such as was never known be-
fore. America has taken foremost
rank industrially among the nations.
The result is that any man who wants
to work can find opportunity. If he
is intelligent and keeps his wits about
him; If he has in him the right mate
rial, he can get 20 the front, no mat
ter how humble his start or how poor
his circumstances. At no time in the
worlds history were so many oppor-
tunities for advancement held out to
the workingman in the ranks. Men
who can accomplishment men. of
energy and initative-are in greater
demand than ever before. One of the
greatest problems today is the finding
of proper men TO place in posts OF
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nSaDDTEs PUNISHED ON
JOY RIDING CHARGE

4RSN ArOIdS. MD. Special. -Four
esitshz Rrnen. members of the class
4het MAS graduated from the Naval
AezdefsfS 80 . tflrer because of an au-
4esnebsle "ioy ride" In which they in
'A'zlNec on the Fourth of July, have
eeE restricted TO the limits of the
&po<e8 grounds until further orders.
9heAe midshipmen failed in their
E4a3 eznSninations and their diplomas
pTEre withheld pending re-examina-
ei.&k &k>lx 18th. Their disobedience
4eo.E not have been detected by the
8tzbp1sties but for the fact that their
kNehipe broke down in the vicinity of
4hIs4ppllH and Bay Ridge, an aban-
<.efeed sumner resort on the bay This
f<a4ee1 them TO miss supper formation
<keta The Investigations that followed
I1sfkQseo their prank
Ife Relieving additional candidates
&4f<e< Qpaiired In both mental and
41ItHA examinations were yesterday
ssnitte6 to the Naval Academy as
sship nen. Warner W. Bayiey, ol
f<4Hinetoni Edward Ellsberg, Den.
a&T f,7ls Robert A. Dyer, Sd. Of Au.
43fH. y. ~; Richard J.. Connolly, Wau.
Msss.,s. III, and Thomas 4. Brown
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trust and RESPONSIVENESS as foremen,

trust and responsibility as foremen,
superintendents and the like. We
simply cannot find such men fast
enough. Why, all but the merest
fraction of the best operating off,
cials in the railroad world today are
men who have come up from the
ranks, advancing by earnest effort
aid untiring energy along the hard
straight road, and finding few short
cuts. BY reason of that manner of
advance they have brought with them
TO their high positions that practical
knowledge obtained by wrestling hand
to hand with the minor problems that
make up the great whole. which en-
ables them to contend with and solve
the ever more intricate problems that
are being created each day by the big
and growing mechanism of national
Industry"
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DIV Goods bY the Pound.

Idly Goods Store. Dry Goods Sold
by the Yard or Pound" is the sign
that appears in an italian store win
dow in Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn.
The sign is unusual, but the sale of dry
goods by the pound is not. Much of
the stock of many stores kept by for
eigners consists of remnants secured
from factories. The latter do not
take the trouble to measure pieces
under five yards, but sell it by weight.
The small stores find il convenient to
retail it on the same basis. But the
proprietor of the Van Brunt Street
store has an advertising instinct.
Hence the sign in her show window.
Many of the curious who had no in
tention of buying anything read the
sign, then drop in and make a small
purchase simply as an excuse for in
quiring how dry goods can be sold
by the pound"
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One-Legged Baseball PLAYER.

George AIbertson, Of Jamaica, who
has two legs, one Of which he bought
says he can do a stunt that perhaps
no one else on earth can equal. He
discards his tree leg and hops through
baseball game-and does il we'll
too.
In a railroad accident several years
ago he was sorely grieved. chiefly be-
cause he believed il would end his
baseball career. Last season he de-
termined to try stumping through a
game. The wooden leg he found cum
bersome. but stuck to his job never
theless-
This season." said Albertson. u
have been practicing playing center
field with only one leg. ] stood the
tree leg up in a corner and tried hop
ping through the game and found il
worked bnlly."-New York Tribune
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The value OF Spirit Phenomena.

In connection with the interest
aroused over the attempts to test the
powers of Eusapia Paladino, the fam
Gus Italian medium" it is worth not
ing that not all who believe in the pos
sibility OF such manifestations as Pala-
dino is said 10 produce attach much
Importance TO them. Thus DR.. John d.
ONackenbos, who believes in an "Over-
soul" and the possibility of reaching IL
through suggestion, writes in his 'Hyp-
motto Therapeutics" that "spiritism is a
foe to ali intellectual, moral, and ma
terial progress. 1t thrives because of
it's pretence to satisfy the most intense
longing of human nature. But we
have no evidence that the spirits of the
dead are concerned in its phenomena.
And. again, the author has never heard
a spiritistic medium say anything that
was not readily comprehensive on the
theory of thought transference. He
has never seen a medium do anything
that could not be nationally explained
as due TO the action of supersensible
psychic force which he believes 10 in
here in every human personality
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GLAD TO GET BACK 70
HIS BABY SWEETHEART

NEW YORK.-Special- glad to
get back TO Anna; she's my sweet
heart; she's only four years old, but
we're going to get married when we
grow up
That is what Joseph McAree. Jr..
said Wednesday night when he was
taken home by his father. He had
been missing since the middle of the
afternoon of July 4th. A general
alarm had been sent out by the po-
lice, and his father was almost fran
tic with grief, believing that the boy
had been kidnapped.
The boys mother, Mrs. Mary Nc
Aree, and Joseph Slater, of 446 Thir-
ty-seventh Street Brooklyn, were ar
rested last night. charged with kid
mapping young Joseph McAree. Jo-
seph McAree, Jr., is five and a half
years old. His father is an electri-
clan employed at the Circle Theater
on Columbus Circle.
About a year ago McAree and his
wife separated. No legal steps were
| taken, but it was agreed between
them that the mother should have the
boy.
When Mrs. McAree had had her son
with her month she came to the
conclusion that ne would be better of
with his father. The boy was theT
taken to live with Mrs. Kate Clark
4 McAree's aunt, with whom he lived a
468 Southern Boulevard, the Bronx.
Not long ago young Joseph disap
/ peared for month and was found. i
is said, at the home of his mother
] aunt.
On July 4th little Joseph and hi
/ sweetheart, Anna, went out for
walk. A man who asked them If the,
did not want fireworks led them a few
blocks. and then lifted Joseph in hi
arms and ran off with him. Anna RAJ
lcrying to her home, which is Joseph's
and told her story.
general police alarm was sent out
but no trace Of the clew was foun
/ until last night. when Slater and Mr..
McAree were followed from a res
taurant on Fulton Street, nea
Church, where Mrs. McAree works. I
$40 Thirty-seventh Street. Brooklyn
There detectives found young Josep