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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24
ERIE OFFICIAL
RESENTS ATTACK
UPON HIS ROAD
Denies That Train Skips Blo0m-
field for Railroad Mems
Convenience.

Complaints of improper train service
given by the Erie railroad to the
Bloomfield commuters were heard be-
fore the Public Utilities Commission
at the Court House this morning and
developed into rather bitter verbal
passage between r. III. Wallace. gen.
eral passenger agent of the Erie. and
J. NJ Evans. OF 5s Hardwood road,
Bloomfield. who made the formal COM
plant of poor service.
On the witness stand Mr.. Evans said
that trains that formerly stopped at
Bloomfield now pasted without stop
ping, in order to allow certain Erie OFF,
cials who reside on the Greenwood
Lake division of the road to get home
earlier
This statement brought Mr.. Wallace
to his feet with that is not true. 1t
is vicious statement, without any
semblance of truth to back it up."
Mr.. Evans in his complaint says that
since the Hackensack "cut-of' has
been opened train which formerly
left Jersey City at 5:35 p. m. has been
taken off and that in its place a train
leaving at 5:45 p. m. has been put on.
This train makes stops at North New
ark and at Orchard street, not made by
the 5:35 train, making 1t much later
each night when Mr.. Evans reaches his
home
On behalf of a committee Of citizens
of Bloomfield Charles l. Kocher ap-
peared before the commission in sup
port of Mr.. Evans. The train service
objected to went into effect on January
20. 1911. H. A. Taylor. counsel for the
Erie railroad. appeared for the com
pany. Decision was reserved by the
commission.
Mr.. Kocher said that all the Bloom
field citizens demanded was additional
train service between the hours Of 4:45
and 5:45 p. M At present but one
train stops at Bloomfield during that
hour
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24
OVERTURNED AUTO MUTE
EVIDENCE OF JOY RIDE.

A deserted, overturned Ford run
about car, NO. 1850 n. j., on Belleville
turnpike, near Arlington Cemetery, was
the mute evidence given the Kearny
police this morning of disastrous joy
ride. The find was made by Superin-
tendent James r. Sickles, of the ceme-
terry and he told Patrolman Thomas
Heslin about the accident. The ma
chine had apparently skidded down the
incline In the smooth amicite-faced
road, and while being checked at a
sharp turn in the road l1eeled over.
The glass windshield was shattered,
the steering gear twisted and the top
on the auto Vas badly crushed. There
was no evidence Of collision or of IN
Jury to the occupants of the car.
At noon today Chief of Police Dunr,
of Hackensack. telephoned to Desk
Sergeant John Smith that the auto be-
longed to a local physician whose
chauffeur had, unknown to the doctor
taken out some friends on pleasure
trip last night He had not heard
that anybody had been injured.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24
UPPER MONTCLAIR SEEKS
THROUGH CARS TO NEWARK.

Citizens of Upper Montclair appeared
before the Public Utilities Commission
to urge that the Public Service Rail-
way Company be ordered to run cars
On the Valley road line through to
Newark without transfer during the
rush hours in the morning. At pres
ent the Upper Montclair people are
compelled to transfer at Bloomfield
avenue and Valley road. and it is
claimed takes them on an average of
Newark from Upper Montclair. dis
tance of about seven miles.
Theodore ]. Badgley appeared for the
Upper Montclair residents and placed
on the witness-stand Frank E. Taylor,
Charles Black and Raymond S. Pierce,
all Upper Montclair residents, who
have business connections in Newark.
BY these witnesses it was shown that
the street car service was not what it
should be and the claim was made that
Upper Montclair people travelling to
and from Newark are Disseminated
against in the way of service in favor
of Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern railroad commuters, in that a car
meets all the railway trains, while the
same was not true of the Valley road
line in connection with cars from
Newark.
L. d. Howard Gilmour. for the rail-
road company, contended that the
present ten-minute headway on the
Valley road line was all that could be
given with a single-track road. He
explained that the company now had
yan application before the Montclair
Council asking for the right to double
track the road and that additional
turnouts, to enable the cars to pass
each other oftener on the single track.
were also to be installed shortly.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24
AUDITOR SMITH
IS STANDING BY
DR.. WASHINGTON
Blames Secretary of Tuskegee
Head for Mix-Up Over
Appointment.

Additional mystery and an additional
explanation are added to the case of
DR.. Booker Il. Washington. the negro
educator, assailed the other night in
New York, by the statement made by
the auditor of his Tuskegee Institution.
Daniel c. Smith, who got back to his
home in Montclair today, with the
declaration that he had no appoint
ment to meet Washington that night
nor any night before or since for
weeks.
Smith says the fault for the alleged
faux pas and scrimmage all lies with
Washington's secretary, who wrote him
the letter making the appointment.
Il did not have an appointment with
DR.. Washington at 111a West Sixty
third street Sunday night" said the
auditor. at his Washington street home
in Montclair. 81 had some private con-
versation with DIR. Washington's Sec
retary about meeting the doctor in
New York, but the blunder came evil
IDENTIFY from his belief that 1 would be
in New York when 1 never gave him
reason to think 1 was going there"
Asked If he had met the educator in
the New York address for conference
before Smith said:
Never.
MANY times DR.. Washington and
have metAin New York to talk over
school matters, and on these occasions
I always put myself at his disposal.
We meet at whatever place happens to
be most convenient. Usually it is one
of my offices, for l am concerned with
some twenty corporations in various
parts of the city.
ITO my mind 1t is simply a blund4r
on the part of the secretary in sending
the wrong address, or on DR.. Wash
ington's part in memorizing 1t. You
may think it strange for DR.. Washing
ton to destroy the letter. but to me,
who is acquainted with his ways, that
action was natural.
When / saw the story in the paper
Monday morning l went to see Scott.
1t seems that he had written the let
ter in question to Washington some
ten days ago. and never took the
trouble to correct the error that l
would be in New York last Sunday.
Monday night I started North ana
arrived in New York on Wednesday
morning. That same afternoon / had
talk with DR.. Washington in the Of
flee of the Oakley Chemical Company,
at 116 Liberty street, of which concern
1 am the vice-president.
The arrest of a man alleged to have
Joined in the attack on Booker 7.
Washington at 111a Sixty-first street
Sunday night is expected today, accord
ing to Wilford H. Smith. Washington's S
lawyer.
Smith says he has found two wit
nesses who saw Henry Albert Ulrich
attack DIR. Washington with a club,
and also saw the other man, whose
name is known to the police. Smith
says DIR. Washington Is determined to
push the case to finish, and that such
a course is on his advice, and in ac-
cordance with the wish of the Tuskegee
presidents friends throughout the coun-
try.
"Ulrich," said Smith. 'is a dangerous
man and should not be at large.
From the evidence we have indict-
ments for felonious assault, no doubt.
will be handed down. IL necessary DR..
Washington will cancel all lecture en-
gagements to prosecute him"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24
LOOKS LIKE CONFEDERATION;
PROVES TO BE OIL CAR FIRE.

What appeared from the windows OF
skyscraper offices. house tops and up
per tall apartment house fats to be
large confiagration. unexplained by any
fire alarm, in the neighborhood Of
South broad streets terminal de-
veloped into an oil car blaze on the
Pennsylvania railroad near Waverly.
A tall column of black smoke was
espied on the southern horizon Loout
noon, and speculation, IN its we'll
known way. became rife Fire head
quarters was besiege1 with where's
the fire. inquiries, which. to the ever
lasting credit of the Woodworking
operaJ tor, were answered with uniform
courtesy. The blaz'as car was beyond
the city fire limits. hence the absence
of a call for the services Of the loacI'
fire fighters.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24
RESCUES TWELVE AT
BLAZE IN BROOKLYN.

8 NEW YORK, March PA policeman
and a sergeant had a blistering time
&etting a family of twelve out of the
TOD floor of a three-story tenement at
1910 Prospect place, Brooklyn, this
morning.
n'he flames, which started on the
&round floor, welled up so rapidly
Through the building that Hermann
HCohen found himself, his wife and their
ten children trapped in their apart
ment The stairways were on fire ana
the fire-escape was enveloped by
flames Patrolman Traybert and Ser
gent Bill Plant, of the Liberty avenue
police station. got out on the third
floor fret escape of the tenement next
door. Plant swung himself across into
q window of the Cohen flat and then
passed the dozen persons over to Tray
bert.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24
CITY COUNSEL
SEES MALICE IN
PAPERS At TACK
Mr.. Nugent Refuses to Stand
for Reflections Upon
His Honesty.

Following the publication in the
Evening News yesterday afternoon of
an article which sought to create the
impression that City Counsel James Il.
Nugent is interested in the Franz
Realty Company, which has business
dealings with the city. Mr.. Nugent
quickly issued a complete denial. The
motives of the frequent attacks upon
him in the columns of the same news
paper are sharply impugned.
81 have no interest, directly or indi-
rectly, In the Franz Realty Company"
said MIR. Nugent, when further ques-
toned about the charge today, "As a
lawyer performed the legal service of
Incorporating the Franz Realty Com
pany, but never retained dollar S
worth Of interest in that corporation.
This attack by the News, worded SO
that 1t might disclaim any intention to
injure me, coveYtly conveyed an insinu-
alton that I was engaged in some
wrongdoing. This wa5 unwarranted
and most unfair Criticism of my po-
litical acts OF attacks upon my policy
as chairman of the State committee
have never paid any attention to; 1t Is
within anyone's right to assail my
course over matters of policy. but I do
not propose to stand for reflections up
on my honesty 1t has recently been
the studied policy of the newspaper re-
ferred to to cast aspersions on me upon
every occasion possible.
1.-THE News Is itself the fountain OF
many rumors it processes to hear. A
reporter of that paper came to see me
when the Mechanic street widening
proposal was up to ask me II l was
not the owner of property in Mechanic
street, had not recently purchased
property there, or secured an option
on property there.
''I want to make It clear that I am
not the owner of any property in Me-
chanic street, nor have 1 an option on
a single parcel of property in Mechanic
street. Yet 1t had come from the office
of that paper. and the report has been
given some circulation, that have ac-
quired property there. The inference.
of course, is that l would be bene-
fciary by selling such property to the
city, If the project to widen Mechanic
street were carried out. 1 have never
been in that sort Of business. AS long
as i have been city counsel of Newark
1t has been my earnest effort to see
that the taxpayer always came into his
own -
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24
ROBIN, COMING
HERE To NEST,
FINDS A CRAVE
Lured by Springs Promise, 1t
Falls Frozen Into Grace
Chnrchyard.

Spring came again to Newark today
with such fine reverse English that a
good many of our best-known citizens
who arose in the morning hours to put
up the window against an 18-degree
thermometer scuttled back to bed shiv-
ering with the wish that their pajamas,
instead of being fancy. were fur-lined.
But that's not the pity of this spring
day gone wrong The pity is that a
man hurrying to work up Broad street
found robin lying dying just inside
the fence of Grace churchyard.
1t was probably the first robin that
had come to Newark this year, and,
battered by the arctic half gale that
swept the street and frozen by the
raw cold of the night, it had given up
its struggle for life on a tree limb and
had fallen, chilled and almost lfeless.
to the ground.
The workingman put the robin inside
his coat against his left side and stood
perplexed. Then he thought of the
police station in the City Hall. and WAS
hurrying there with the little mis-
guided "harbinger' when half dozen
shop girls saw him.
Girls Try to Save Its Life.
They took the robin to the City Hall
steps, and one made a bed of her fur
stole for 1t there and another covered
1t with woolen scarf that she took
from about her neck. They were very
eager to save the robins life and they
sent, one of their number to a restau-
rant across the street to buy some hot
broth, because they thought that
might help bring back its waning life.
But the robin died while they were
still waiting for the broth to come. and
the girl OF the scarf wrapped the scarf
about 1t and took its body along The
girls said that they were going to bury
the robin in a place that will be green
when spring really comes, in a yard
just back of the factory. Not one of
them would give her name.
Professor Wiener's statistics show
that this is the second coolest day in
March, and that the cold blast from
the West dragged down the thermom-
eter to IS at a. M, and never let it
creep above "a all day. At 1 o'clock ii
was 81 and the promise was for warmer
weather tomorrow; but. though fair. 1t
will not be spring yet for several days
to come.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24
OPPOSING
SEWER PLAN ARE
DEv|S|NG NE W ONE
Councilman Pierson Says Com
missions Scheme Would Cost
East Orange Treble Outlay.

That the Oranges, Montclair and Glen
Ridge will NOT be swayed from their
determination not to enter into the
scheme of the Passaic Valley Sewerage
Commission even though Macarthur
Bros, of New York, have presented
figures showing the cost can be re-
duced $4,000 from what the commits
sion first figured is now predicted.
Councilman Edward S. PIerson, of
East Orange, one of the first 10 enter
vigorous objec ion to the apportion-
ment of cost set by the commission for
the Oranges and Montclair and Glen
Ridge to pay for use of the giant sewer
proposed. says he believes the munic-
ipalities will not oe influenced by the
new figures announced.
What we particularly object to-"
said Mr.. Pierson, lis the apportion-
ment of cost set by the commission.
We believe 1t should be based on use
and not on ratables East Orange
would be compelled to pay three times
the cost of the sewer, the use of the
sewer for the city being two and one
half per cent, while the figure set by
the commission for the city to pay is
seven and one-half per cent. of the
cost.
scheme Regarded as Unjust.
THE scheme is looked upon as an
unjust one by the municipalities, who
have banded together to devise a plan
different from that of the commission.
and We have made, accordingly, serious
objection to 1t. We have doubts that
the bill introduced for mJre equitable
figures will be passed. and we are GO
ing ahead on the task we set out to
perform"
Each of the municipalities which
have voiced objection to the figures set
by the commission have appointed COM
mittees who have been hard at work
on plans for saving money to the citl-
zens, and already they have made re-
port, and since then kept working
ahead, despite efforts of the commits
sion to have them jojE in the plan.
the committees have devised some
thing new. it is understood, but moth
ing has been made public on the propo-
sition, though members of the commit
tee have been more enthusiastic of late
and seem confident they will be able to
handle the situation eventually with
marked success.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24
FIRE HUNDRED SHOTS
AT PASSENGER TRAIN

SOMERSET. KY, March PA guard
who was on the tender of the Cincin-
natl, New Orleans and Texas Pacific
railroad freight train was shot and
wounded in the leg near Elmwood
Tenn, last night, according to dis
patch received here today The con-
ductor of a north bound passenger
train reported that between Danville
and Erlanger fully a hundred shots
were fired at his train. but that they
did no particular damage.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24
NOW SEEKING
To FACILITATE
TROLLEY TRAFF FIG
Board of Works President
Would Relieve Conditions
Which Will Soon Arise.

William Mungle. president of the
Board of Works, acting as an individ-
ual, has prepared a bill that will be
introduced in the Legislature, empow-
ering the board to compel the Public
Service Company to make connections
and detours OF existing tracks so as
to facilitate street car traffic. The
missioners, whose sanction to all pro-
posed changes is made necessary by
the BILL the mayor. members of the
Board of Works. the engineers of the
board and officials from the operating
department of the Public service will
this afternoon make an inspection of
the points where these connections
would be advantageously made.
This bill is similar to the Lee meas
ure introduced last year, and which
was defeated Although Mr.. Mungle
acted as an individual in drawing up
the present bill he will be backed by
the board This was agreed upon at
the meeting yesterday City Counsel
Nugent also favors the bill.
May Loop Military Park.
One of the most important things
that will be done if this bill becomes
a law will be to loop Military Park.
When the Pennsylvania short line Is
completed and the station at Saybrook
place is in use the patrons of the road
will be confronted by a peculiar diff
ficulty There is no trolley line nearer
the station than Broad street, which is
more than 500 feet away. and by going
by way of the Centre Market passen-
gers will be forced to walk more than
1000 feet Mr.. Mungles idea is to in
some way aid these passengers in
reaching their destination without hav-
ing to walk around the park to do so.
He is of the belief, ard in this he is
suprorted by the board. that the park
ought to be looped
But the looping of Military Park Is
not the only thing considered by the
supporters of the bill. 1t is their in
tention to connect other lines. such as
the Kinney street line from Washington
and Kinney street cars with the Clinton
avenue cars Other sir,ilar connections
In various parts of the city can be
made. All these, says Mr.. Mungle. will
be for the benefit of the city.
In order to be perfectly fair with the
public the bill provides that the utility
commission must sanction the changes
to be made. The people can also ap-
leal to the Board of Works and the
mayor.
The franchises to be given the COM
pany for these connections will be linn
tied to fifty years. The purpose of the
inspection today is to give the utility
commissioners and all interested in the
project an opportunity to familiarize
themselves with the situation.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24
KILLS WOMAN, WOUNDS
ANOTHER, ENDS OWN LIFE.

BURLINGTON, Vt.,- March A.-Dur-
ing a quarrel in lodging g-house main
tanned by Mrs. Anna Chandler, In this
city, Reuben r. Trice, a discharged SOL
der of the Tenth u. S. Cavalry, shot
and killed his sweetheart, Esther Wood.
probably fatally shot Mrs. Chandler
and then shot himself, dying instantly.
Margery Johnson, to escape-the flying
bullets, jumped from second-story
window. but was not injured except for
sprained ankle. All concerned We're
negroes.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24
STONINGTON SINKS;
CREWS FATE UNKNOWN.
Old Steamer, Converted Into
Railroad Barge, Goes Down.

VINEYARD HAVEN. Mass, March
24--Tne Erie railroad barge Stonington,
formerly the steamer Stonington of The
Stonington line. sank in twelve fathoms
of water near Pollock Rip early today.
Previous to the sinking of the barge
her crew of four men left her ana
nothing is known of their fate.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24
FORMER MAYOR JOHNSON
FEELING FINE TODAY.

CLEVELAND. March 24.-Former
Mayor Tom L. Johnson who is suffer
ing from relapse after an illness OF
several months duration. passed an,
other restful night and was reported
to be feeling fine" this morning.
Mr.. Johnson's physician will not
make any statement regarding his con-
dition, and today his closest friend.
City Solicitor Newton d. Baker. said
that he had mo idea as to the OUT
come"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24
PRESIDENT THINKS HE
HAS PINK EYE ATTACK.

WASHINGTON, March 24.-Callers
at the White House today found Presi-
dent Taft wearing a pair of smoked
eyeglasses
His right eye is badly inflamed, and
the President thinks it Is an attack of
pink eye.
He remained at his desk, however,
and disposed of a vast amount of ac-
cumulated work.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24
LONE BANDIT LOOTS
CAR AND ESCAPES.

DENISON, Ia, March ga masked
man who climbed aboard the rear OF
train No. on the Northwestern last
night forced the flagman, at the point
of a revolver, to go ahead into
sleeper. The stranger held up A. G.
Hanson, of Olympia, Wash, for S14 and
a diamond ring, and relieved j. w.
Hendell, of Wichita, Kan. of $35 and
a gold watch He then jumped off the
train and escaped.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24
DOUBLE RATES
ON WAR RISKS
IN THE FAR EAST
Private Cables Forecast Real
Trouble Between Russia
and China.

LONDON. March 24.-Private cables
received by London business houses
from representatives in the Far East
today are disquieting. They assert that
1t is expected that Russia will soon de-
clare war against China. The rate at
Lloyds to cover risks on the outbreak
of hostilities within four weeks jumped
this afternoon from five to ten guineas
per cent.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24
TOES CRUSHED BY RAIL.

While laying tracks at Bank and
Boston streets. today, Joseph Dadderio.
of 119 South Canal street. was injured
by a rail falling on his foot His right
toes were crushed and one or more
toes may have to be amputated.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24
ALABAMA TOWN is
WIPED OUT BY FIRE.

4 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. March A.-Tne
entire business section of Fayette, Ala,
30 miles west of Birmingham in the
natural gas fields, was destroyed by fire
today Twenty stores, the court house.
Jail, bank and other buildings are gone.
Los. 100000.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24
NO QUORUM AT ALBANY.

s ALBANY, N. Y. March 24.-Only is
votes were LAST today on the fifty
seventh joint ballot for United States
senator No quorum.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-24

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