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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-09

master; A. B. Pruden, freight agent;
George v. Muchmore, now a resident
OF Summit; Moses w. Suoll; tickle
agent, who ten years later, while SUI
perintendent Of r ilroad in Texas,
was killed, together with his wife and
Two children, ia a railroad wreck In
that state.
On the track John Ovens, track
man; Dennis Sullivan, sectiorfere-
man; Barney Higgins. BRAKEMAN;
James Holly, trackman William
Holly, trackman.
Standing close to the engine pilot is
F. A. Day and on the tank of the en-
CINE is J. W. Muchmore, who COM
prised the lumber firm of Day &
Muchmore, since succeeded by @. w.
Ennis 81 Co.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-09
AIN OLD PHOTO.
Morristown LackawannaI station of
Al Forty Years Ago.

a EOEDy ears Ago.
John B. Sturgis has discovered an
old photograph of the Morristowr
station Of the Laekawanna railroad as
lit was forty years ago The photo
was found in the attic Of Mr.. Sturgis'
home on Morris street.
1t shows the station and surround
ings as they were forty years ago in.
Guiding the old wooden depot build
ing with the fagpole surmounting it,
the wooden platform, the old freight
house with the derrick on its platform
and the Newark, 4 a locomotive used
for Morristown run. The old wood
EN- station is still in existence, for
when it was decided to build new
station the old building was removed
to the property of the late Andrew
Riley on Morris street, and is still
standing being occupied by Mr..
Riley's family.
The fiagpole on the top of the sta
ton was erected at the outbreak OF
the Civil war by the late Major Henry
M. Dalrymple, who at that time was
station agent. In the days when the
picture was taken the double track
extended no further than Ford's woods
and single track ran through Norris
town to Denville, Rockaway and
Dover. Over the tops of the cars in
the picture may be seen the top of the
old water tank, which was located Just
west OF the depot, and still further
west was signal, which was set BY
hand, to warn trains going east of the
presence at the station of other trains.
The old freight house is seen to the
extreme right. On the freight house
platform was the crane used for hand
ling heavy merchandise. This rotted
away and fell down long before the
wooden freight house was demolished.
The locomotive is No. ID, the ssNew-
ark" 1t was run by BENJAMIN Day,
the veteran engineer now handling
the locomotive of the g Millionaires'
Express. The engine pulled an ac-
commodation train leaving Morris
town around 1890 in the morning.
This train is still on the schedule OF
the railroad. but It's time Of departure
is now ll.05.
Several men are in the picture in
Guiding lin the mail wagon, run by
D. S. Mckee, Harvey Paul and
Thomas Dempsey; on the station
platform, Thomas Ducey, John A..
Carr, freight clerk and afterward sta.
tion agent; William Timmons, Ed
ward White, train baggagemaster,
since retired John B. Sturgis, freight
clerk and still in the employ of the
railroad at Morristown; Edward Nc
Kee, freight clerk, whose home was in
Quebec, Canada Larry Marley, flag
man at the Morris street crossing :
James Tanker, ST.. station baggage
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-09

JACK P0eggo, nineteen years cid, an
Italian laborer in the employ of the
Hopatcong Construction Co., was
killed at Powder Mill gulch, near Mt.
Tabor, just before midnight Wednes-
day. He was at work on the construc-
tion of the Morris County Traction
Co, trolley line and was member Of
the night shift.
With other men he was on car
loaded with stone ballast which was
being pushed along the track and the
ballast thrown OFF The rails were
wet and the car ran away from the
men working it, though two men
were at the brakes. The stone was
being put on the embankment, Just
beyond which was the trestle for car
rying the tracks across the gulch.
This has not yet been completed and
as the car neared the end of the track
on the short section of trestle built all
the laoorers on it Jumped to safety.
Poeggo was slow and the car went over
the end of the trestle and as it did so
the man was thrown from the rear
end of the car through the air to the
bottom of the gulch, striking on a con-
crete foundation for the trestle.
Poeggo's skull was fractured and his
lower jaw broken in several places.
He died ten minutes after the acct
denr.
DIR. George L. Johnson, coroner,
made an investigation and is satisfied
that the construction company was
not negligent In the case and did not
hold an INQUEST. PoeRgo had a brother
Felix working on the job with him.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-09

AT the banquet given in honor OF
Banking and Insurance Commissioner
Lewis, at Paterson. this week, Sena-
tor Prince, of Passaic county, said ;
" We have the misfortune to live at a
time of great intellectual confusion
regarding the true significance of both
the character and function of govern
ment. We are swimming to day in a
sea Of political conjectures born OF
that curious uneasiness which, oddly
enough, is one of the products of that
very prosperity which the Republican
party has brought upon the land. To
quote the ancient Deuteronomist
Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked.
When he got too prosperous he turned
upon those to whom he owed his we'll
being and struck at them in the blind
pride Of his ignorance.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-09
DIED.

Nocero.--At Morristown. on July 2Sth,
Donalo Nocero, about 40 years.
Giordano. AT All Souls Hospital, on July
28th. Josie Giordano. of Madison, aged
IS years, months.
Skellenger. Near Mendham, on July 29th,
Jennie P. Skellenger, aged Al years. 8
months, a days.
johnson. AT 20 Willow street. Morris
town, on July goth. Mary Johnson. aged
So years.
Gentillie. = Suddenly at New Vernon, on
July S0th, Mrs. Mary Gentillie. of New
York. aged "a years. II months, days.
Marley. AT Morristown, on July 3Oth.
Mrs. Ethel Gordon Marley, aged 10
years.
Webb. AT Morristown. on August list.
Roger Francis Webb. aged years. &
months, 80 days.
Williams. AT All Souls Hospital on Au-
gust End, Mrs. Annie Williams aged 4i
years.
Canfield Suddenly at Atlantic City. Au-
gust and. John Dodd Garfield, aged 65
years. Hs soy v4S e
funeral services at his late homesin Nor
mandy Park, Morrfstawn.l on Saturday,
August 9Th, at Ii y. al.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-09

GOVERNOR Fort will not return to
the State House to carry on executive
business until after Labor day. He
will remain at Sea Grit for the re-
mainder OF this month, and may pos.
sihly go off an a trip OF rest and recrea-
ton. The next few weeks promises
the first real breathing spell'' the
Governor has been able to enjoy in
over a year. He planned to take
things bit easy after cleaning up the
business left BY the Legislature, but
'one thing after another Of more than
passing Importance has served to keep
his nose down to the Official grind.
stone.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-09

The sewerage plans Of Madison and
Chatham are being perfected, and
Morristown aud numerous other places
are completing the work which was
begun under the general movement
insbigated by state authority a few
years ago. The work appears to have
been we'll planned and the construc-
tion to have been good, in nearly all
cases, and there has been a proper
state supervisors In the interior
towns it is necessary to have sewage
dispose plants, and they are usually
constructed upon an intelligent plan !;
but every community dependent upon
such methods should clearly under
stand that only by great care and Ito
eral expenditure can the very best of
disposal systems be made to operate
without offence. The hard work be-
gins after the sewerage plant has be-
gun operations. The New Jersey laws
against river pollution are now fairly
etiicient,and the state can compel local
governments to prevent nuisances,
but after all, the responsibility is on
the local community. Sunday Call.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-09

LAST year the primary election was
held on the fourth Tuesday in Sep
TENDER, but as this is gubernatorial
year the primary election will be held
on the second Tuesday in the coming
September, which will be the 18th OF
the month. Delegates to the state
and congressional conventions will be
chosen and candidates for county and
local offices will be nominated direct
by the voters at the primary. BY a
supplement- to the election law all
petitions providing for the nomination
of candidates in single borough,
ward or township, and all petitions
for delegates to the ensuing state and
congressional conventions shall be
filed with the municipal clerk not less
than fifteen days prior to the primary
election. Nominating petitions en-
dorsing candidates for a county office
must be filed with the County Clerk
at least twenty days prior to the date
fixed for the primary. 1t behooves
prospective candidates and their
friends to soon get busy for the fray
on primary day.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-09

President. but it is snrfeited with Can
nonism. One result Of its nausea is
that four Of the six supporters from
that state upon whom the Speaker
could depend. have been defeated, in
spite-of the fact that he espoused their
cause. And, Of the -four, one was a
pet protege, as well as a member OF
the Ways and Means Committee. Mr..
Cannon may be slow to take hint,
but when Ills given with an axe, he
ought to see the force of it,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-09

The new idea republicans of Hudson
county, Nj, have selected George l..
Record as their candidate at the pri-
maEies in the ninth congress district
and Rudolph Schroeder, Of Hoboken,
in the tenth district.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-09

SENATOR GORE in bringing such
wholesale charges Of bribery against
prominent members of congress, and
even the vice president himself, may
find that he has put his foot in it.,
The democratic and insurgent papers
are referring to Senator Gore as a
man 50 upright that bis word is not
to be questioned, but already it has
come out that the senator, while a
resident of Texas, was prosecuted on
a similar charge of bribery, together
with his brother. The word of man
with such a record as that is not so
infallible after all. The whole thing
is POLITICAL Senator Gore is from Ok
lahoma. The governor of that state
is under indictment for crookedness
in connection with the same kind of
otfense, that is, with some land
deal. lie has not yet been tried a
campaign is coming on in which this
charge against the governor is ex
pected to be potent factor, and to
distract attention from that Senator
Gore, almost at the very end Of the
last session Of congress, made a SEN
sational speech. in which he insinu-
ated all kinds of grating and bribery
against men "shjgher up" The sena-
tor apparently imagined that it was
too lare in the session to take action
in regard to bis accusations, but the
senate appointed special committee
to investigate the allegations, and it
was before this committee that Gore
made his sensational charges against
the vice president and others. These
charges have already been pretty we'll
refuted aud branded as lies out of the
whole cloth, but the story is out and
that is all thai was desired. The
democratic and insurgent papers and
spellbinders are making the most Of
it, for political purposes. There seems
to be no limit to the length those peo-
Pile will go. Other mems characters
and regulations are nothing to them.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-09

DURING the past week the belief
has gained ground that the powerful
Wall street and corporation influences
with which the men who have for
years dominated the Democratic party
of New Jersey are closely allied, had
determined to force the nomination Of
DR.. Woodrow Wilson as the party's
candidate for Governor in our state.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-09

AN ordinary man can not be blamed
for making trivial mistake In giving
in his tax schedule, when the leading
scientists estimate the age of che
world at from 55.OOO,OO0 TO 10000, 900
years.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-09
NOE FARNI.

Two base hits Blatt, Lum.
Hits-Off Dawson, 6 (; off Spencer 2.
Sacrifice hits Totten, Blatt, Farm
ham 2, Fay.
Stolen bases Williamson, Denman,
Murphy 2, Fennessey 2, Dunster, Glen
non, O'Neil 2.
Double play Murphy to Fay
Left on bases -Acorns 8, Noe Farm
10.
Bases on balls-Of Ducey 3, off
Spencer l, off Dawson I.
Hit by pitcher ucey.
Struck out BY Ducey 3, by Spencer
9, by Dawson 7.
Passed bali Williamson.
Wild pitch Dawson.
Time of game 2 hrs. 20 min.
+ UmpireMr. Doyle.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-09
M0RRISTOWN A. A. AVERAGES
Athletic Association Team Has Made
a Good Record.

HVHI5tIC 1AssucIatIou Team Has Made
Good Record.
Michael Doyle, captain Of the Nor
ristown A. A. baseball team, stands
at the head Of the list of the batting
averages. Doyle is a favorite Of the
Morristown fans, and thus far in the
season has played excellent ball.
bob" Hillock is also in the front
rank, graduating from the Field club
team. He is second baseman. and as
a semi-professional is making a good
record. The averages of the team for
the twenty games played are as fol-
lows -
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-09
NATHALIE LICENSE.

On August 4th, marriage license issued to
Raffaello Fiarillo and Mary Spina. both
of Morristown.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-09

James J. Lyons has purchased a
FLANDERS touring car.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-09

James Nugent, chairman of the
New Jersey Democratic State Com
mittee, announced Monday that the
Democratic State Convention would
be held at the Taylor Opera House, at
Trenton, OH September Is. Each cleo
tion district will be given at least one
delegate, who will have full vote, so
that the total number of delegates at
the convention will be something like
twelve hundred.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-09

Hon. John /. Blair Kelley, of War
rem county, is being pushed by his
friends as a Congressional candidate
from the Fifth districttosucceed Hon.
Charles N. Fowler. Mr.. Kelley is the
County Prosecutor and is welEknown
throughout the state.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-09

The news that Mayor Charles J.
Fisk, of Plainield, is in a receptive
mood, so far as the Republican nomi-
nation for Governor lis concerned, has
been received with much interest
throughout the state. According to
Mr.. FisK's friends, he is now looking
over the ground, and if he feels that
conditions are suitable, he may 90 in
to a contest for the capture of the
Union coanty delegates.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-27

that shine IN ..hill,,34 and this cast
from real life even contains the familiar type
of the rich American mother, fat and forty-hve,
ready and anxious to sell her daughter and buy
her own way into titled realms to satisfy an
overweening social ambition!
1t seems that Miss Marthilde was herself IN
cined TO look with favor on the Due ID Alba $
suit The name has come down through the cen
turtles proud and bloody and august The
thought of, il was calculated to dazzle the mag
ination aud pervert the judgment of a simple
American girl. however rich and whatever her
social standing on 'this side. To slow music
the piece played itself along until the scene
when Miss Townsend discovered that her own
person was not, as she had fondly imagined, the
only consideration of the match Mamma Town
send had, in fact agreed to pay the noble Due
$3.50 900 q year as salary for being her son-in-
law
1t was when she discovered this that Miss
Townsend began to cause things to happen. The
Due D'Alba was fguratvely speaking thrown
on the ash heap like the bouquet of the night be-
fore Doubtless Miss Townsend was in fine
American rage Doubtless Mamma Townsend
was copious with her tears. Doubtless the Due
made desperate effort at explanation. Nothing
doing Tabeaux of faintmg mamma, raging
Due, haughtT specimen of Femina Americana
with rigid index finger scoring bulls eye
on the door knob Exit Due!
And then. tender business of young lady writ
ing Palma volet-scented- note
And then, foot of automobile breaking speed
limit, Strenuous entry of fresh and vigorous
young in advertisement clothes Music by
the band. Bones solo by the Due Wedding
m with bells variation
Curtain!
Who says Romance is dead'
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-27
A Illuminating Failure of Good Taste

We do not think that anything was gained,
and certainly much was lost--by the debate
in the House on the question of permitting Pres
ident Taft to draw next years appropriation of
$25 900 for travelling expenses ahead of the
date it becomes due. July 1st
Mr.. Tafts swing through the West and South
was an extraordinary event. calling for extra
ordinary expense. AS affording the opportunity
for large part of the country to come into a
=snrt of personal contact and sympathy with the
Chief Executive, it undoubtedly worth the
money to the Nation. While the widest imagi-
nation-in view Of the succession of zone
night stands endured by sedentary President
Of 800 pouuds-~could not conclude that the
tcrprise in any pleasure jaunt for
the star performer. The President worked hard
during period when he might have been taking
his ease on vacation Tie came in response to
widespread invitations. And he preserved his
temper and hnmour and exhibited breath Of
patriotism which has not been in evidence since
bis return to his duties in Washington.
Under these circumstances it would seem that
the filibuster by which he was refused what was
scarcely more than ordinary courtesy was
the smallest sort of peanut politics on the part
of those who indulged il.
Much-mnre- however was-tAe-dis-
closure Of the want Of tact-want of the evidence
Of good breeding in fact,-in the action Of
the White House in furnishing to Congressman
Towney, in charge of The bill. list of Demo
gratis entertained by the President during the
progress Of his trip This is not in line with
the HnwFitten code which gentlemen instnc-
lively follow The relationships of hospitality de
pend much upon the freedom of the guest
from obligation by reason Of the entertainment
as upon the immunity Of the host from criticism
growing out Of the contact between himself and
his guests. To say in effect, as the President
through his official secretary has said, that be-
cause of dinner invitation. because of a pure
" social meeting on private there is raised
the obligation to help pay the expenses incident
10 such amenities is to strike blow at the entire
social system and reduce host and guest alike
to the gross positions Of bargainor and barganee.
1t is because the President permitted himself
tn be placed in such light as this that the en-
tire incident is full Of humiliation to all who hold
their country in pride and honor.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-27

With patient persistence the Southwest Virginia
Times has been calling aloud for the record of Mi.
Bascomb Slemp member OF the Congress Its
plalntive mutations have been answered with pro-
found vast, deep. solemn silence by its republican
contemporaries, supposed have charge of MIR.
Slemps record To be familiar with its corruscations,
its flashes. its dazzling brancies, It's far perFading
Examinations Not even echo has responded TO
the desperate and despairing whoops of The Times.
An explanation OF this is furnished to-day. People
in Washington do not know Mr. Slemp is there. They
know on general principles that Virginia has
ten seats somebody must be in that assigned To the
Ninth district But they think it Is Col Campbell!
Slemp, who there to the time of his death
never heard OF Bascomb. although he is the one
Virginia member OF the maturity Of the Heuse.=
Roanoke Times
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-27

Governor Crothers, of Maryland In humble
Judgment hits the nail on the head with reference
to party platforms when he says II who
fuses TO abide by the party mandates contained
In the party-ffafern mas right Gait himself
a democrat TO oppose the party platform is my
estimation. far serious ofense against the
party than 10 oppose the party candidates"
We agree with the governor that 1t serious
party breach to oppose the party platform than
party candidates. yet have claiming t. be
democrats who do roth with tmpuntty when il suits
them to do When party adopts platform
through its representatives chosen hy the people
it becomes sacred pledge and ought, not to be
violated
The trouble with the democratic party Virginia
under ts system of party policy II has become
largely party of only certain clique organiza-
ton OF men and not OF platforms pledges.
candidates make their platforms under pres
ent system. We believe that representatives chosen
by the people should meet in convention sid formu-
late platforms and then party abide by their
platform suffolk
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-27
Virginia Comment
To Have Its Power Plant.

Mr. w. e Whftner, president of the F'rederfcks-
burg Power Company, In the city Tuesday, and
upon being asked 10 prospects of work being re-
sumed the power house and ffume near the
silk MILL stated that he felt reasonably certain that
since the owners had succeeded in eliminating Mr.
Van Dorm from the situation that they We're inclined
to resume work possible provided that
tho city council would be willing extend the time
for completion of the plants.
Mr. Whitner stated that much valuable time had
necessarily been lost in getting rid OF Van Dorm,
who made unreasonable demands the company
1t would be impossible to complete the plant Mr.
Whitner says, without extension of the time
which, II granted, he felt satisfied would result In
a larger expenditure on the work being made this
surveys OF the new electric line into Washington
and would not be available for a weeks. and
it is desired to put him in charge Of this work.
1t could hardly be resumed actively until the com
pleton Of the surveys early In NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Star.