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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-14
INJURED IN AUTO WRECK

NEW YORK, Sept. 14.-Edwin d.
Morgan, clubman and yachtsman.
and manager of the syndicate which
had charge of the Americas cup de-
fender in several races, was badly
hurt when his automobile turned
turtle at Elmhurst, L. l. The car
,kidded. and Mr.. Morgan was pinned
beneath the machine.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-14
CIRCUS MAN

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. Sept. 14.-W.
f. wallace, widely known as a circus
man, died here yesterday of heart
failure. Mr.. Wallace had been under
treatment for kidney trouble and was
thought to be improving.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-14
ROBBED ON HOLIDAY

When Morris Shannon. Of 269h
Springfield avenue. closed his store
for the Jewish holiday a thief took
the opportunity to break in, so Sham
non reported today, and took $1s.s5
worth Of cigars. cigarettes and candy.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-14
$40 IN PENNIES o L

HOBOKEN. Sept. 14.-Burglars
made AWAY with about $50 worth Of
Lincoln pennies, stored up by Grocer
Paul Poetzold, of Angelique street.
West Hoboken.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-12
THE THIRD TERM
Garfield's Appeal From Enthusiasm
 to Deliberate Judgment.

To the Editor.-Sir: The present apparent enthusiasm for third term candidate makes timely this quotation from Garfield's speech in the Chicago convention of 1880, in which, placing in nomination John Sherman, he over came the turbulent demand for third term for Grant, and from the effect of this address received the nomina- tion himself. HIM. P.
 l have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its gran deur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the pillows, but the calm level of the sea, from which all heights and depths are measured. When the storm has passed and the hour of calm settles on the ocean, when the sunlight bathes it's peaceful surface, then the astron- omer and surveyor take the level from which they measure all terrestrial heights and depths.
 Gentlemen of the convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this house have subsid- ed, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opin- ion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured and by which their final action will be de- termined
 Not here in this brilliant circle, where fifteen thousand men and wo- men are gathered, is the destiny of the republic to be decreed for the next four years. Not here, where II see the enthusiastic faces of seven hun dred and fifty-six delegates waiting to cast their lots into the urn and deter mine the choice of the republic; but by four millions of Republican fire sides, where the thoughtful voters, with wives and children about them, with the calm thoughts inspired by love of home and country, with the his tory of the past. the hopes of, the fu- ture and reverence for the great men who have adorned and blessed our na- tion in days gone by burning in their hearts. their God prepares the verdict which will determine the wisdom of our work tonight Not in Chicago in the heat of June. but at the bal lot boxes of the republic, in the quiet of November, after the silence of de- liberate judgment, will this question be settled
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-12
.SHAD. FISHERMEN HAD SUCCESSFUL SEASON
 PRICES WERE LOW

Windsor June 11.-Last night the shad season for 1912 ended. The sea- son has been a most unusual one and fishermen both on the Connecticut and Pennington rivers report that never before in their experience as fisher men have they had such a season. It has practically been one rise in the water, Or "one freshet after another, 2 was the way one fisherman called it. As high water is conducive to good fishing, the fishermen had had, that Is on the Pennington River, unusually good luck when the water was so they could fish.
 The tributaries of the Connecticut River below Hartford were not f1shed this year on account of an act passed by the last General Assembly, which prohibited it.
 The fishermen on the Farmington River caught upwards of 1,500 shad and that this number is twice as many as last year.
 On the whole there has been consid- erable more shad caught this season than last and correspondingly the prices have been lower. The first catches of shad brought fancy prices, five-pound buck shad selling at $1 and roe shad of the same weight sold for $1.25. However, as the season pro- gressed the prices dropped and while there was always a good market, for them, the retail price of flve-pound buck shad averaged 50 cents. while roe shad of the same weight sold on the average of 65 cents. "A year ago the prices averaged 10 cents a pound higher respectively.
 The largest shad reported caught this season was at Gilligans fish place on the Pennington River at Windsor and tipped the scales at nine pounds.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-12
CHARITIES CONFERENCE

Men and women of all faiths-and of none-frOm all sections of the Uni- ted States and Canada are assembled in Cleveland today at the annual Conference of Charities and Correc- tions. The instinct of human helpful ness that led to the organization of this great association of humanitar- ians knows no limitation of race or creed In a way, the Cleveland meet ing is a monument to two of the most eloquent orators of modern times, both men of decidedly heretical views on re- ligion-Lord Brougham and Col. Rob- ert G. Ingersoll. It was the eminent English statesman, scientist, author and philosopher who originated the first charity commission, the initial att tempt in the worlds history to place philanthropic work on scientific ba- sis. This commission, formed in 1916. made an exhaustive investigation of the whole charitable field in Great Britain and issued reports in thirty eight volumes. It was Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, lawyer and agnostic, who first sounded a clarion call for prison reform and justice to the criminal, and his Grimes Against Criminals' has become the classic of the wldespread movement that seeks the reform, rath- CT than the punishment, of the out casts of society. When Pagan Bob" voiced his eloquent plea for the con- vict, it was generally considered but another evidence of the inherent tur- pitude of the man. To-day most of the reforms he advocated are in effect all over America.
 Although Lord Brougham's charity commission laid the foundation for fu- ture activities and growth, the first charity association along the lines now in vogue was formed in 1869 under the name of the London Society for Or
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-12
FAKE DRUMMERS
 USED TO SHOW UP
 VICE IN SCRANTON
MEN' MAKE AND KEEP DATES-EFFTCAC METHOD TO CHECK
 VICE.

Scranton. Pa., June 12-District At torney David J. Reedy's crusade against back rooms and disorderiy houses reached an interesting stage this week with the summoning of ages and types to his office in the urthouse. They came in response to messages that the prosecutor desired to, talk with them, and what they heard convinced many that they were victims of misplaced confidence.
 When Reedy launched his movement month ago he imported four dapper youths, established them in one of the best hotels and instructed them to plunge into the vortex of the city's gay life. The strangers were well supplied with money, and they had no trouble cultivating the acquaintance of young women from all parts of the city, particularly the ones with pen chant for "drummers."
 Wine parties in tenderloin cafes, clandestine meetings in out-Of-the-way houses were part of the daily pro- gram of the four bogus drummers. Names, street numbers and verbatim conversations were reported to the dis trict attorney, and within two weeks he had a complete directory of resorts and their frequenters.~ Gilded youths whom the visitors met on their out ings were included in the reports with the result that Scranton's "aristocra- cy'' was well represented in the list.
 In line with his decision to make no arrests, Reedy sent out special depu- ties to notify the giddy young folks to come in. Stenographers, salesgirls their places of employment and the young men were buttonholed on the street in order to keep their transgres- siOns from their parents The ones who responded promptly and told the truth in their talks with the prosecu- tor were shielded. but few who hes- itated were taken into custody at their homes and brought in.
 Fashionably dressed young women of naughty mien and a firm conviction that mistake had been made left the office with faltering steps, weep ing copiously. They denied every thing until confronted with copies of acQuaintances and dates of automobile trips and visits to say resorts.
 The four stoolpigeons were kept in an adjoining room during the inter views, and in a couple of instances it became necessary to confront par the MT. Jackson or the "Mr. Mead whom she had listed as free spend CT and a good fellow.
 The main purpose of the cleanup has been to check the clandestine vice that has been brought to the atten- ton of the authorities quite forcibly during the last few weeks. Cafes where young girls are served with in- toxicants and resorts where they are permitted to meet men companions are at the bottom Of the evil, the dis trict attorney declares, and unless the keepers of these places heed his warn ing to close up prosecutions will fol- low.
 The exodus of the sporting frater- nifty has continued this week, and graveyard quiet now ,pervades the ten derlofn
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-12
ABANDON MEAT BOYCOTT. Pittsburgh Butchers Talked the WD men Out of Ten-Day Abstinence.

Pittsburgh, Penn., June 12-The Pittsburgh womens clubs have brok- en away from the meat boycott start ed by Mrs. Julian Heath, of the New York Housewives' League. There will be no ten days abstinence in the city, The butchers talked the women out of their plan by offering to CO., operate to reduce prices.
 Beginning next Saturday the butch CTS will donate good, cheap cuts of beef for, demonstrations at the market house, at which teachers from the Margaret Morrison Carnegie Schools of Domestic Science will preside, show ing the women how to prepare rough cuts in tasteful and palatable man. ner. This is following out the asser- ton of the butchers that the high cost of beef is caused chiefly by the women's demands for only the choice tenderloins and best lamb chops, the most expensive parts of a beef car cass.
 Mrs. J. S. F1annery, President of the Federated Marketing Clubs has com municated the plan of the clubs to Mrs Heath.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-12
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 ExtahltahrA 1H51.
SENSIBLE AND INEXPENSIVE
 HOUSE DRESSES.

As warm weather approaches, the woman who does any. the oortian of her own work looking for comfortable house and morning dresses Would you believe that very neat one-piece frock of Chambray or Percale be purchased ready to wear
 at $1.oo, $I.25, $1.5o and $2.oo.
 That is true. It is simply made, i'll fashion easy to launder, yet withal pretty and becoming Often pped with color trimmed with stitched bands with pretty buttons, low and comfortable Dutch neck, and with either long three quarter sleeves.
 The Aterless Dress fits anyone.
 For the unusual figure the "Alterless Dress" that has belt with elastic and this will fit anyone It adjusts itself to either stout thin Give inspection. $15o Suit Rooms second floor
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-12
dent is illuminative as to what the burden of the days work means to a trolleyman. He says:

| trolleyman. He says:
 In comparing the carpenter, plumber and bricklayer with the trOlleyman why did he not state that the trolley
 man had to work seven days in a week in comparison with the others five and one half
 Itsis easy to see that he has never handled a trolley car through a crowded thoroughfare, which keeps the motorman's nerves at the highest tension. One has only to compare the trolleyman's position with that of the road.
 Does the engineer have to contend with children, grown up people and teams getting in front of a train as the trolleyman has to? Does he have the hair raising experience of having to reverse because an automobile switches in front of him from cross street? Does the conductor on steam road have to travel on the running board to collect nickels, issue trans fers and help people on and off, watching the passengers as cat does a mouse, to see where they want to
 get of, or stand a 'combing' when somebody gets carried past his desti. nation?
 Succinctly and truly stated. And when the trolleyman, after being on
 duty for fifteen or sixteen hours a l day for seven days in the week, finds his nerves breaking at the "high ten sion," an accident may occur, and he | may be held for manslaughter and perhaps imprisoned. as happened Tn the case of Bridgeport motorman, | who recently languished sometime in l jail, because his car had the misfor- tune to collide with an automobile
 containing a party of joy riders. The trolleyman has indeed a res ponsible task. He is one of a linn ited number of workers whose very liberty is staked upon the sureness of his eye, the strength of his nerve and the responsiveness of his muscles, and almost equally upon the presence of
 disinterested witnesses to protect him in cases where somebody has been
 killed through no fault of his.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-12
EX-EMPRESS CARLOTTA IS
 WORLDS SADDEST WOMAN

Cheered by the populace, the cen- tral figures in spectacle of imper- Maximilian and the lovely Empress Carlotta made their triumphal en- trance into the City of Mexico forty eight years ago today. On the ruins of the republic the Austrian Archduke and the daughter of the King of the edifice that would outshine, in grand eur and magnificence that other New World empire founded by the Portu- guese in Brazil. What plans and projects. what dreams of conquest, must have filled the brains of the young monarch and his fair bride, as they passed in state before the vast crowds of their swarthy subjects. Sweet music to Emperor and Empress were the wild. enthusiastic cries of "Vive le Empereur.' Three years and week later the same people were shouting. with n2 less enthusiasm ''Le Empereur. est mort" On the twelfth of June. 1864, the triumphal entrance into Mexico; on the nineteenth of June, 1867, Maximilian was led from merciful to Carlotta. Even before the final act of the tragedy that was be- ing enacted in Mexico, the mind of Carlotta died. Hopelessly insane, she was imprisoned in the ancient castle of Laeken. Belgium, there to expiate.
 
 and misery. the crime of ambition that had urged her lord to deetruc- tfon. She does not realize that Maxi milan is dead, and, as the weary years drag by on leaden feet, she waits, and begs. and screams, for just attendants ask each other will she never die?''
 It was Eugenie, the French Empress who fired the ambition of Carlotta,, and it was Carlotta who pushed and pulled the reluctant Maximilian to his doom. Then came the desertion of France, consequent upon threats from the United States, and Maximi- Han realized that the dream was over and the hour for awakening-and ab- dication-at hand. The Austrian was willing and more. to give up his But the daughter of Leopold stayed the imperial hand that was eager to sign the abdication. The ink was on the pen, and the pen poised above the paper, when the imperiops young beauty rushed into the room.
 You must not. shall not, signw sne cried. Shall we return to Flu rope in defeat and dishonor, and be- come laughing stocks because we yielded up rich empire at the mere to Napoleon and to the Pope, and they will help us.''
 Maximilian knew-he must have known-that the European quest was hopeless, that the Yankee pig" had sharp tusks, that even the great Ma poleon dared not risk combat with the North American republic, that the Pope could offer only the consolations of religion Knowing all this, Maxi milan chose to stay, so great was the influence of his wife.
 Carlotta appealed to the French 11 indeed, he was consumed with sorrow but, ,ahem, the United States-and then Carlotta realized. Mighty France was afraid of those Yankee Pigs" she had held in contempt. Then what chance had Maximilian against them? What chance?-and it was she who had urged him to stay.
 A few days later madwoman ap- peared before Pope Plus Tx in the Vatican. She did not ask for troops, for money, to bolster up topping throne. She prayed and shrieked for dissolution from her sin of ambition.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-12
A HARD JOB

The Springfield Union, under the heading Wages of a trolleyman," prints a communication, which, un- fortunately does not bear the sigma ture of the writer, but which plainly is from the pen of a man familiar with the duties and responsibilities that fall upon the man who stands on the front platform of a trolley car.
 The communication is written by way of reply to one, Burlingame, who had compared the work performed by a trolleyman with the work perform ed by workers in some other occupa- nons. to the disadvantage of the for mer.
 The reply by the Unions correspon-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-12
TAX EQUALIZATION

The tax commissioner has issued his annual report showing the result of the labors of the Board of Equali- zation. The duties of the board are :o increase the grand list of the towns and cities as they are returned by the local authorities to make them stand in fair relationship to each other.
 This necessity grows out of very general disobedience to the laws, which require the taxable property of market value.
 Some towns have been assessed at arthird of such value, some at half and some at more than half. It is safe to say there is not a town in Connecticut to-day in which property of all classes actually is assessed at it's fair market value.
 The kinds of property which come nearest to being assessed at full val- ue are dwellings, house lots and farm lands.
 To an enormous extent manufactur- ing property throughout Connecticut, investments in commercial enterpris- es and the more productive forms of property are undervalued.
 Thus two inequalities exist > One is between the cities and towns with respect to unequal payment for coun- fv oP sfska fawor
 The other inequality. and far the more serious difference, is within the cities and towns. The methods of taxation that have been almost uni- versally pursued have laid the bur- den of local expenses heavily upon homes, which are the least produc- tive property.
 Bridgeport was among the first cit ies in Connecticut to begin an effort to conform to the state law requiring the taxation of all property at It's fair market value. After some 15 years of effort a good beginning has been made, and approximate equality between different kinds of property may be hoped for here within five years if equalization is carried on at thAspace it has been during the three yeaD just pass s5F.,ss.gs914
 Hartford is one of the worst offend CTS among the cities. The Equaliza- ton Board indicates its opinion upon the situation in the capital city by adding $1s.ooo,0oo to the grand list as prepared by the assessors of Hart ford.
 That is to say the judgment of the state tax authorities is that Hartford, ip-order to be on a tax equality with the other towns and cities. should have a property valuation almost a score of millions larger than it's own tax authorities give it. But to the grand list as prepared by the tax au- thorities of Bridgeport but $2.5O0. 900. is added. This is relatively a fine showing for Bridgeport, although a great deal remains to be done to make the condition fair to taxpayers of all classes here.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-12
FIRST THINGS

New York City was first granted a charter and incorporated by Governos Nichols PAT years ago today.
 The magnetic needle telegraph. the English system, was patented by Wil- liam F. Cooke and Charles Wheat stone, whose joint invention it was, seventy-five years ago today.
 The first railroad in Japan was open- ed to travel forty years ago today. The empire of the Mikado now has 4,444 miles of road in operation, with other lines under construction and projected. The average cost per mile of the railways of Nippon was s42,800 as compared with $59,259 in the United States and $64,74O in Canada.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-12
DANCING EARL GETS ESTATE. Alice Thaw's Former Husband In.
 herits $495,OOO and Realty.

London, June 12-By the death of his father, the Marquis of Hertford, last March, the Earl of Yarmouth, who succeeds to the title, inherits a personal estate valued according to the probate at S495, ,00O, and many val uable heirlooms, including silver mounted claret jugs presented to his father by the Prince of Wales in 1868, a hunting whip given to his ancestor by George w. and number of let ters from the royal family. in addi- tion to much real estate in Great Bri- tain as we'll as tea plantations in Cey- lon. Yarmouth, who is known as the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-12
FINED $e2, 1000 FOR REBATING. Hooking Valley R. R. and Sunday Creek Coal Co., Both Penalized.

Toledo, Ohio, June 12-Federal Judge Killits in the United States District court here has fined the Hooking Valley Railroad company $42.000 and the Sunday Creek Coal company of Columbus $20,00O for relating.
 Both companies pleaded nolle con- tendere. They asked immunity on the ground that the practice had ceased and that at the time it was not thought to be in violation of the law. There were ten counts against the Hooking Valley and eight against the Sunday Creek company.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-12
A BENEFICIENT PLAN

The International Silver Company has announced a voluntary pension plan for the benefit of employees of twenty years continuous service. The details of the scheme as they have been worked out and publicly present ed indicate that the plan is honestly designed to benefit veteran servants of the industry. in which it is com mendably different from pension schemes that have been announced by some other corporations we'll known in the country. ta
 These plans are interesting more for the light they throw upon the changing attitude of employers to- ward the workers, than for the direct benefits they confer. Every such scheme is an admission that work CT who has devoted the best years If his life to building up an enterprise. has, or ought to have, an interest In that enterprise sufficient to protect him from abject poverty in disabil- ity or old age.
 The natural consequence of such a public sentiment will be in this coun- try as it has been abroad, the crea- ton of laws for the protection of the workmen as right. Private schemes though they are the ack- nowledgment of a right, are conduct ed as a bounty and have the further objection that the protection of the workers is not uniform. as it would be under public enactments. providing workmen's compensation and old age pensforfs- --a s-si
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-12
NEW MAINE CENTRAL STOCK. 5O,OOO Shares to Be Issued According to Presidents Mellen's Circular.

In a circular to the stockholders of the Main Central road, President Mel len says:
 ''At a meeting of the stockholders on May 24 capital stock was fixed at $15,O00,O00, thus providing for an additional issue of 50,00O shares to se- cure means for additions to equipment, for permanent improvements. Each stockholder of record June 15 will be given the privilege of subscribing on Or before September 16 for one new share at $100 for each two shares held''