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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28
HOLDING UP DOCK IMPROVEMENT.

m, S the Philadelphia Record remarks, the railroads have been
Nv allowed to get possession of waterfronts mainly through
the supineness of municipal officials and the difficulty of
getting the commercial interests to act unitedly and uniformly.
Municipal authorities are supne because of railroad influence.
Commercial bodies fail to act or act hafheartedy, because rail
road Influences are introduced into their councils. 1t is often in
tbe power of men in these bodies who act for railroad interests
TO Get control of committees and even to secure majorities in
slimIy.attended meetings of their bodies. AS for municipal boards,
bara arc various ways in which they can be controlled. The public
gives only ftful attention to the question of waterfront improve
ment. while the vigilance of the railroad interests is sleepess. The
people e their favored projects drag, and do not know, or can
only divine tbe reason. The people of Newark voted two years
ago for municipal docks, and entrusted the Board of Works with
the responsibility of carrying it out. The shifty course of the
board since shows clearly enough that powerful influence adverse
to dock improvement controls the board. The only influence that
has an interest in blocking the enterprise is the railroad. Let that
he understood. And how long will Newark permit the Board of
Works to hold up a project of paramount Importance to the city?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28
THE DAYS BEST STORIES


a GROUP of hoboes waiting for their coffee to boil in a tomato car were
~ telling of their hardluck experiences.
"Pve had worse buck than anybody said n Of them chaleng-
inglv. after hstening to tn others ahs of woe. "Onet / had to seep from
Wirkesbarre to Perth Amboy Oh top Of a hat-car loaded with hard Goa
And what do you think?" he went i. every a IN the next train
that pulled in from the sam direction as loaded with soft coal!"-Ev-
erybodys Magazine.
- HE oxen had belonged tt a old sea captain and their new owner was
unable to back the animals round in a narrow street despite all eff
i forts with voice Id ox-goad.
The old captain appeared on the scence Hard aground, ire YEP" lie
Then sdzing the ox-goad, he RAISED the old boat-steerers cry, "Starn
ALI" The huge huks slowly backed at the familiar call "Larboard al!
The beasts swayed sideways, turned to the right and the thing vas dome
Success Magazine }
r TITLE WALTER was always carefully guarded against germs The
telephone was sprayed, the drinking utensils sterfhzed, n public con
- veyances and places were forbidden him.
Father" he sad N night, in a tone OF desperation, do OF Know
wbat [ am going to do when 1 roy up%
"What% asked his father, preparing himself for the worst
"Pm going to eat q germ.-Success Magazine. sal A2k
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28
County Parks Commended.

To the Editor of the Evening star:
AS a citizen always interested in
the development of our county park
system, l am much pleased with the re-
port that the inspection just made has
found our breathing spots in such ex-
cellent condition. l suppose it means
a whole lot of work to keep them so,
but ] consider the money and time well
expended. I remember there was a
great deal of opposition to the parks
when the question of establishing the
system first came up. But they have
paid many times over. They have
made good"
There is one thing, however, that l
think the commission ought to get
busy on, and that is the mosquito prob
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28
Teddy r. for Princeton Head.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Now hat Woodrow Wilson will
probably get the big job at Trenton,
who is going to get his job at Prince
ton? Why not give Teddy r.. a crack
at it? 1t seems to me that he is just
the man. He has a sort of Princeton
give a hang "who" a mar is, but it is
what he is. That's the prevalent
spirit down there. so why not have a
man there who is this spirit incar-
nate?
A man like Teddy for Princeton
would be great and make the college
second to none in the world.
3. u, N.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28
Deaf Mute,s plea for wilson.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
I, as a deaf mute. request that all
Republicans and Democrats vote for
Woodrow. Wilson. the Democratic can
didate for Governor of New Jersey.
Or. Wilson is a good man and Trentoi,
Deaf Mute School would not be what
it is today had 1t not been for the
interest taken in it by DR.. Wilson. he
is not a man, like many, who knows
you only at election time, but he knows
you at all times. He should be helped
by the working class, as it was through
his efforts thai many workers have
been granted half holidays for enjoy
ment. If 1 could only speak could
tell lots that Democratic candidates
have done. 1t is the only way in which
we have been able to think of DR.. Will
son and show our appreciation OF what
he has done for us. | ask all who are
affiliated with organized people to sup
port DR.. Wilson on election day,
and I hope he will be the next Gov
ernor of New Jersey. The Republican
State of Maine elected all Democratic
| candidates for the first time in thirty
years. Let us do likewise. l am
against local option. I am a poor
young man, but Republican bosses
have always refused to give me WORK
in the printing office at Trenton, and
I am against all Republican candi-
dates this year. I am glad to know
labor men will vote for DR.. Wilson. as
l know he will make a fine governor
I was a Republican. but l am going tt
support DR.. Wilson this year, and
will help to effect his election. Mr.
! Katzenbach's men will vote for DR.
Wilson in Monmouth, Mercer and Es'
sex counties. My vote in Monmouth
will be one of his 1000 majority II
hat county. JOHN f. WINTER.
Eatontown, September q.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28
A FINE SCHEME.

The Eviction has been promoted
to polite society.
Time was when it was merely the
u~nsightly tool of a low-browed
landlord.
It's piled-up sidewalk results were
never in evidence outside of the
tenement district.
In n fell swoop, however, it has
invaded the most fashionable Sec
lions of one of our most fashionable
suburbs.
There are many who wish the
Eviction would remain fashionable,
and that 1t would be kept so busy
in select circles that it could find no
time to revisit the tenements.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28
Anti-spitting cru.nde-where,

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
What is the matter with the anti
splitting crusade? Have they lost inter-
est in the work or do they think their
work is done? Things seem to have
resumed the old pace and a man may
spit on the sidewalk just the same as
in days of yore.
AT the inception of the movement
against the spitters good work was
done, but conditions are very unsatis-
factory now A few more arrests might
refresh the memory of the people and
let them know that there really Is an
ordinance against expectorating on the
sidewalks. CRUSADER.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28
AN INADEQUATE POLICE FORCE.

1O ETTER police protection for Newark is necessary. The
I6 present departmental force is inadequate. The record
shows that between 1 p. m. and . p. m. there are only
ffty.seven patrolmen on duty in the entire city, exclusive OF the
traffic squad and details. For more than half the year there arc
between three and four hours darkness in that period, when
burglaries are not uncommon. Between 9 I. m. and 8 a.. m. there
are 22S men on patrol, and only thirty altogether between . q. m.
and 3 8. M. Bv reason of the smallness of the force the posts are
unduly extended. Burglars can time a patro1man on his beat and
perpetrate a robbery at their leisure. Police protection is one OF
the first essentials of a welLordered town. Security for life and
property is more necessary than anything else. A city OF 34o,0OO
nonulaHon should have at least 500 men on patrol duty alone.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28
WEDNESDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 2&, 1910.
DISRUPTED REPUBLICANS IN NEW YORK.

OOU4 ROM the nettle danger we pluck the flower safety, but
the distracted and conyulsed Republican organization
in New York gathered no flower of safety at Saratoga
yesterday. The old leadership went down and out when theodore
Roosevelt was elected temporary chairman over Vlce-Preshent
Sherman, the "old guard representative and candidate, ana ne
party leadership changed hands. But the discord was made even
greater. The student of politics has to go back for many years 10
find a parallel for the Saratoga convention, and he can find none
for the present situation of the Republican party in New YORK.
Enmities were exhibited yesterday that are unquenchable and I'M
placable. The venomous speech of Abraham Gruber III the con
vention revealed their bitterness. 1t may be said that civil war
exists in the Republican organization in New York, and 1t was only
inhamed bv the events of the convention. There is no magical
power to reconcile the warning elements before the November cleo
ton. There are vengeances to be satisfied. 1t needs no warning
message to the new party leadership to beware the ldes Oh NO
vember.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28
VARIEGATED SET OF CAMPAIGN SPEAKERS

ca HE Republican campaign in this State, with all the party
leaders on the stump, will be almost as varegated as the
Republican campaign in New York. Governor Fort Will be
one of the spellbinders, and it is possible that he will appear on
the same platform with Franklin Murphy. Former Governor Stokes
will he a frequent speaker and will be cheek by jowl with Senator
John Kean. Congressman Fowler, having accepted the situation,
will share platform attentions with Kean and voorhees,. George
L. Record will speak from the same platform with John w. Grggs,
and William Parmenter Martin will fraternize on the platform with
Lewis and Parker. The Progressive Republican platform has been
laid away in lavender. and Progressive Republican principles go
into cold storage for the year, while their principal opponents col
laborate with the enemies of those principles to elect a duplicate
of this years reachonary Legislature. But what a strangely mixed
collection of party spellbinders, and how strangely inconsistent 1t
all isl
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28
Republican Chooses wilson.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
At the present time it looks as though
Woodrow Wilson'S election was only a
question of his majority, for as a life
long Republican was heard to remark
the other day, MIR. Wilson will carry
the State by $4,000 majority"
When asked if he was going to vote
for Mr.. Lewis he replied. mo, not
this year for while he is a good man,
Mr.. Wilson is better, and the latter
receives my ballot" Fl.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28
THE RAILROAD AS ExpRESSMAM.

I'M REPORT comes from the West that the railroads are con.
sidering the question of doing their own express business
and cutting out the voracious express companies, their side
partners. The railroads do all the hauling of express matter and
the companies IRE merely local collecting and distributing agencies
That they have been permitted to fasten themselves upon the rail
roads as leeches on the public is not much of a mystery. Railroad
officials hold stock in the express companies and derive large per-
sonal profits out of the partnerships. With the express company
eliminated the railroad would earn larger dividends for it's stock
holders and could do the business at much cheaper rates for
shippers. 4~
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28

m FTER refusing to commit himself on the subject of Cannon
IN ism until the certainty of defeat was forced upon his mind
Mr.. McClave, the nominee of the Republican convention in
the Sixth district, yesterday finally, in reply to insistent convention
delegates. expressed his admiration for Cannon, and said: 81 can
not. if elected, support him for speaker That change of front was
not the result of conviction. Mr.. McClave is of the same bias still.
But in saving what he did he pronounced Judgment on all the other
Republican candidates for Congress in this State for their course in
adhering to the fortunes of an execrated national legislator and
Marty leader.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28

The People: 5 Rostrum


lem. Of what use are all these fin
parks if these pests are so active that
they almost drive those away who
would enjoy them? Branch Brook
Park is one of the most highly devel-
oped of the whole system, and yet
mosquitoes are so thick in it at times
that there is no rest for the weary or
the CHEEKY, either.
BRANCH BROOK.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28
Star reader condemn. Roosevelt.

To the Editor of the Evening Star;
1t was predicted in the Rostrum up
ward of two weeks ago that if Roose-
welt should be elected temporary chair
man of the New York Republican
NState convention and make the plat
form and name the candidate for
governor the elections in November
would be a repetition of the elections
when Grover Cleveland was elected
governor of New York State by nearly
200, 900 plurality against the Republican
candidate.
Roosevelt won at Saratoga yesterday
because a large majority of the dele
gates are federal o~ficeholders, and
because President Taft, a veal man,
went back on Vice-President Sherman
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28
MAY THEY DO IT GOOD.

Begins to look since the battle
of Saratoga as though 1t was going
TO be war to the knife in the Re-
publican party in New York"
Eyes, and the Old Guard is get
ting ready to do the knitting"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28
A HINT.

One evening at tea little Tommy said
to his grandmother: Grandma, do
your glasses make things look bigger"
YES, dear" said grandma. "Why?'
"Oh,' said Tommy, II only thought
if they did, maybe you'd take EN- off
when you're cutting my piece of cake
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28
2 EVENING STARS TWO-PAGE MAGAZINE X
WMsTN
PERFECTLY NATURAL.

There once was a maiden named 10,
whose tears were quite ready to
flow
At things she thought sad,
So no wonder she had
To weep through each musical
show!
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28
O P!EELEi

A Progressive Republican leader
in this State announced yesterday
that right after election he and his
followers would get busy and rid
the party of piff1ing politicians.
Naturally it was quite easy to
sun that a pifhing politician is
a politician who piffles. The latest
edition of the late Mr.. Webster's
unexpurgated dictionary throws the
following ~fashlight on this inter-
esting subject:
"Pif1e, n. To be ~squeaInish or
delicate; hence to talk or act
trifingly or ineffectively; to
twaddle; piddle."
"Pif1er, n. One Who pif1es."
So far as their dealings with the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28
WOULD SEEM so.

Now, shouldn't you think that sum-
mer would be
The saddest season of all,
Since with beautiful regularity
1t comes just before the fall?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28

The STAR extends the privilege
of these columns to the public ana
invites signed COMMUNICATIONS o.
moi more than one hundred words
treating of topics of the hour.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28
JUST THE THING.

81 think we'd better have this sum-
novel bound in watered silk
what a neat peekaboo effect, eh?"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28

President Taft has evidently passed
successfully that crucial period in his
career which demonstrated whether or
not his fame was to be lasting. A
cigar has been named after him. 1t is
a ten-cent cigar, at that. Impartial
investigators say the Taft cigar is a
How many statesmen of the last half
century could truthfully have said that
a good ten-cent cigar had been named
after them?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28

What an anti-climax to a remark
able situation would be presented If
Sheriff Bob Chanler were forced into
bankruptcy by his tailor. A judgment
for the amount due the man who pre-
pared Mr.. Chambers wardrobe before
married has been obtained. 1t Is said
that if this judgment remains unsatis-
fed an application may be made for
the appointment OF a receiver for Mr..
Chanler. Such a move would greatly
complicate what is already a very
complicated situation for Mrs. Chanler
(nee Cavalieri).
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28

Now, who says South American revo-
lutions are opera bouffe affairs? 1t Is
estimated thai the recent misunder-
standing in Nicaragua over the eligl-
bility of Zelaya's successor to the
presidential chair resulted in the loss
of 1000 lives. Anyone who is able to
squeeze n humor out of a situation
which results as-er-fatally is well
come to it. Evidently our brother re-
publics are beginning to TAKE their
revolutions more seriously than they
did in the days when such periods of
unpleasantness were decided by a sin
gle battle.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28

Conditions IN Naples just now
parallel those which depopulated cities
in the Middle Ages, when the plague
threatened the populace and science
had not yet arisen to fight it. Because
of the cholera epidemic 100, 900 persons
are said to have fled from Naples. That
there is ground for the all but unrea-
soning fear which forced this hegira is
evidenced by the fact that the cpl
demic has reached such proportions
that many have been stricken and died
in the streets.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28

Mr.. Edison's storage battery street
car is meeting with so much success
after it's successful demonstration that
the general desire that the wizard"
hurry along his storage battery auto
mobile is put on edge. Mr.. Edison has
declared, it will be remembered, that
his battery when completed will put
the bubble within the reach of every
enc. Um-but there's the rub. If
the number of machines on the streets
are multiplied the odds against the
pedestrian. already nearly p%rohibitive,
may go up to 100 to /.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28

Progressives in this State are con-
cerned the Regular Republicans
certainly cannot be said to have
been ''squeamish or delicate'' or to
have talked "trifingly or ineffect-
lively"
Hence it must be that are ac-
cused of "twaddling'' or pudding"
This is a very serious charge.
If it can be proved the Progress
ives will do we'll to drive all
pifflers or piddlers out of the party
into the high grais or the tall tim
Der.
There are, perhaps, no more un-
slightly blots on our national
'~scutcheon, no more d~isfigurinR
blemishes on the body polite, than
a "twaddling" or ''piddling" poli-
tician.
Mr.. Osborne is right, and we hope
he succeeds in his crusade.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-28

Some idea may be gained of just how
lars waged against certain residential
sections in this city when 1t is under
stood that the police are of the opinion
that in at least two of the looted
houses two separate and distinct rob-
berries had occurred. Thieves under
arrest admit robbing the two houses,
but deny e~mphatically that they took
paintings and certain other missing ar
ticles. 1t would seem to be about time
to increase the size of the police force
the protection of temporarily aban-
doned houses when thieves can rob the
same place twice before anything of
their visits is known.
Chicago, usually among the first
cities of the land to enjoy novelties,
saw the aeroplane in action for the
first time yesterday. Perhaps it was
the reputation of the city by the lake
as epitomized in the more descriptive
IA"h CioSoHI dNJeN'iNS "ihoS' "NiNAi
caused aviators to fly clear of it. Be
that as it may. it was not until yester-
day that a bird-man ventured to
demonstrate the possibilities of the new
art of flying IN the vicinity of Parkers-
town. 1t is said that 100000 persons
watched Brookins circle about over
Great Park and rise to an altitude of
1000 feet. 1t vas as though a Wild
west show were hitting London for the
first time.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-22
Tho Starlina's Tongue.

1t is extraordinary how many per
sons are under the impression that, In
order to enable bird to talk, it Is ab.
solutely necessary to cut or slit its
tongue. I have heard that this fal
lacy had its origin In the following
story: 4 man had number Of star
lings in a large cage marked Fine
Young Starlings = Only Shilling
Each" and as each would be pur
chaser arrived the mar would say.
"There's fine bird thelE sir" point;
ing out one Of them. but I want bali
a crown for him, because he's the only
one with a cut tongue, so be is bound
to be talker." He would then pro-
coed to catch the bird and show the
cut tongue and invariably succeeded
In effecting q sale. This dodge would
be repeated as each new customer ar
rived and departed rejoicing at his
good bargain. The reader perhaps Is
not aware that all starlings have q
very peculiar formation at the ex'
tremity Of the tongue, which gives the
appearance Of a little piece having
been shipped out Of it-London Strand
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-22
Floral EtymoIouy.

primrose" is one of those words
that have shown popular association
to be stronger than etymology. 1t has
no real connection with the rose, but
Is the old French 'primerole" and.
anyhow, means only the prime" or
first flower (more or less, Of the year.
Our language has insisted upon max
Ing "roses" Of ell sorts OF flowers.
We have the tuberose, which Is only
''tuberosa," tuberous. and che rose
mary, which is "rosmarinus." dew OF
the sea. On the other hand the rose
has been dropped readily enough in
cases where popular fancy could not
see the flower. The alchemists called
green vitriol "rose of copper" 'cupri'
rosa" In French this became coupe
rose," but English wore 1t down to the
pointless "copperas."-London Chron'
icle,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-22
-AIEXANDRIA GAzETTE- AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER
SAVING Time or Time Tables.

To most people, especially when they
are on the road, time is money, but
time tables are not convertible into
cash. In the pages of Through Say
age Europe" Harry De Windt gives a
curious and amusing experience on a
Russian railway some years ago. The
patience of the Russians is In marked
contrast with the Impotence Of Amer
lean travellers. All Russians have a
rooted antpathy to fast railway travel,
II one may judge from an incident
which occurred some years ago when
| was travelling across the Caucasus
from Batoum to Baku. We had
reached a tunnel. at the entrance OF
which the train waited for at least
twenty minutes.
"There is something wrong" I re-
marked to fellow passenger.
ooh. no." he replied: I'VE are only
making up the time. This tunnel was
recently made to avoid long bend
round q range Of hills. and as 1t now
cuts of several miles short delay Is
necessary so as to fit In with the sched-
uled time"
"But surely we should save time by
going on" urged.
perhaps So" said my friend. But
then, you see. they would have to alter
all the time tables"