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store. At the present time there are
over 800 of them and the number is con-
stantly being increased
The giant structure on Broadway.
standing as a monument of the faith of
one man in the value of nickels and dimes,
is almost. II not quite. as interesting in
many particulars a. its builder For one
thing, 1t Indicates his faith in the per1na-
nent value Of New York real estate as an
investment
When finished the Woolworth building,
which stands on plot with a frontage
of 200 feet. will weigh 25O,OOO tons. 1t
rests on sixty-nine pillars Of cement,
reaching down to solid rock. These
cement columns are enclosed in steel
columns.
More than $4,000 worth of glass will
be required for the windows Of about
1900 offices. In the walls are to be over
$4,000 square feet Of hollow tiling and
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Taest Building the World Result Of Hint That There Was Profit
Cent Counter Mr. Woolwoth Clerk Waertown, NJ Y,
When He Got Ills Idea -How He Carried 1t

for those available was quickly satisfied.
Woolworth had run up against the same
snag that had bothered the merchant.
There was a difference. however. be-
tween them. Woolworth stuck. but hs
pulled up stakes and still doing business
on credit went down to Lancaster. Pa.
and started another five cent counter.
There also he began to use his brains
strenuously. He realized that he could
not be always moving and II he remained
in one place he could not go on duplicat-
ing his stock because people expecting
novelties came to look, and not finding
them went away dissatisfied.
The young man began to cudgel his
brains hard. He realized the needs of the
situation thoroughly. The solution of
the problem finally flashed upon him.
He must make wider and more varied
appeal to customers. Why not do so by
having Q ten cent counter in combination
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terra Gotta. The amount of cement
used will run to tens of thousands of bags.
On the weekly payroll is a regiment Of
men ranging from ordinary laborers to
ironworkers who seem to do feats of cir
Gus performers on slender, steel beams
100 feet up in the air. The wages run from
SIS day for the laborers to 81. so a day
and up for the skilled mechanics, and the
payroll amounts to about 5000 a day.
This has been going on for over two years.
When completed the structure will have
cost approximately Si3 800, 600, divided
as follows: 81. 500, 900 for foundation; dig
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gins, si,OOo,OOo. and construction. $780,
600.
Work was begun on this building on
November 4. 1910. The mere knowledge
that such building was to be erected
caused the tax assessment on the property
to be raised from 81, 25O. ZOO to %. 200, 900.
There will be floor space, taking all
the floors together. Of twenty three acres,
which is equal to a pretty good sized farm.
There is to be room for 1900 offices. and It
is figured that the daily population Of the
building will be 10000 and the transient
population about as many more
Down in the depths for the lighting Of
this small cityful Of people is an independ-
ent electric plant capable of lighting
3,lO0 25-watt lamps. On the other hand,
no far have systematization and modern
inventions of cleaning advanced that the
present plans for the inside force. includ-
ing elevator men, engineers, watchmen
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ing in the world II was the only avail
able large plot that could bc secured IN
close proximity to the financial centre.
Here is the heart of the money inyercsts
OF the city. Opposite is the Post Office.
in which many important interests must
centre because of the extensive business
they carry on through the mail
"A few hundred feet away is the Brook
lyn Bridge. which daily bears its hundreds
Of thousands into Manhattan. Beyond
are Brooklyn and Queens with their vast
population. Much Of their territory
Is now undevcloped and will grow i'm
measurably within the next few years
and the Brooklyn Bridge will be the ter
minus through which scores of thousands
who live in Long Island will have to come
to reach lower Manhattan.
"The city is spending millions in the
erection Of the new Municipal Building,
where will focus the interests that are
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with the five cent counter? That ten cent
counter idea was really young WOOL
worths first step toward the fortune
he has heaped up.
The prosperity Of the five and ten cent
store increased each week, Presently
a second store was started in neighbor-
ing town and Mr.. Woolworth's brother
in-law. :, II. Knox. was put in charge of
it, 1t leaped into instant success and a
third venture was made.
The popularity Of the counters has never
waned. You can see in every part OF the
Eastern States the red front Woolworth
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money. However, he did prevail upon
them to sell him a bill of goods on credit
and then among his friends he ged
to gather very small amount of real
capital sufficient to enable him to rent "a
small shop in Utica and put out big signs
announcing the existence of five cent
counter. This was in February. 1879.
At practically the first attack every
body seemed to get all the five cent articles
he wanted When the original stock was
sold out busines, Jagged sadly. The
variety Of goods il was possible to retail
at nickel was not large The demand
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13
TWO HELD WITHOUT BAIL
FOLLOWING MANS DEATH

Pasquale Muchi. of Maple avenue,
and Miretti Andri. off53 Bay street,
Montclair. who were arrested last
Sunday in connection with the death
of Alfonso Lavacca, go years old, Of
81 Bay street, Montclair, were ar
raigned before Recorder Henry H.
Yost in the Montclair Police Court
today and held without bail for the
action of the grand jury, on /. a charge
of aiding and abetting and atrocious
assault and battery with intent to
kill.
The prisoners, together with an
other man not yet arrested, and La
yacca, were drinking beer in the lat
ter's home on Sunday, August b.
when a quarrel arose and Ilavacca
was stabbed on the left side under
the arm. The wound at first was MOI
thought to be dangerous and no re-
port of the affair, was made TO the
police until last Tuesday night, when
L~avacca's condition became so seri-
Gus that he was removed to the
M%ountainside Hospital.
Last Sunday Lavacca died from
pneumonia in the hospital. Yester-
day Deputy County = Physician M
Herbert Simmons. of Orange. per-
formed an autopsy on Lavacca's
body and declared that the man dleu
from pneumonia, s"uperinduced py
the stab wound The fourth man In
the party is yed at large, but II is
expected he will be arrested soon.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13
ENGINE DRIVER ON
TRIAL FOR CRASH
Flagman Testifies Danger Sig
nal Was Unheeded When
Auto Was Hit.

Andrew j. Smith. a Lackawanna
railroad engineer, was PLACED on trial
before Recorder Mott in the East Or.
ange police court today on a charge OF
running past a danger flag at the
Clinton street crossing on August ]
and hitting an automobile owned by
Thomas F. Macksey, of AZ Clinton
street south, which was stalled on
the tracks after crashing through the
gates to avoid running into a pedes-
trian The case will be continued ON
Monday.
Mr.. Macksey testified that on the
afternoon of the accident he intended
TO turn the vehicle up Mckinley ave7
nue. when he switched his car to
avoid running down an old man. The
machine went through the gates
sideways and the engine of the auto
became stalled.
The train was just leaving the
Brick Church depot, he said, when
his car went on the rails, and he
tried to push the a off but turned
to W We his hat at the engineer, try
ing to prevent the impending acct
lent while the gateman waved his
danger flag
William Burke, of 2aS Clinton street
north, testified along the same lines.
Henry Baker. gatrman at the cross
ing, said he went up the track forty
feet with a red fiag to warn the engi-
neer, but the latter did not acknowl-
edge the signal With toots of the
whistle as is customary and did NOT
shut off steam until close to the auto,
he said.
An effort to put in evidence a card
of rules failed and ii was decided to
allow the ease to goeover until Mon
day. when an officer of the company
will be summoned to produce the book
of rules.
Acting City Counsel Edward %
Stanley locked after the case for the
city. while Frederick b. Smith was
counsel for the engineer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13
ARRANGING FOR FUNERAL
OF GIRL TRAIN VICTIM

After viewing the body of 13-year-
old Harriet Reville, who died yester-
day as the result of Injuries sustained
by being run over by a Pennsylvania
railroad tram within a stones throw
of her home, Deputy County Physi-
clan Henry Alters, of Harrison. today
granted a burial permit. The body
is at the home of the girls parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Reville, of 119
Bergen street, Harrison. Up to noon
today arrangements for the funeral
had not been completed.
The child was on her way home
from the Crucible SaesrWorks, Harri-
son, where she had carried dinners
to her father and several brothers.
She was with her' brother John, IL
years old. and she tried to cross be-
tween W cars of a freight train
that was standingiat the crossing.
The train started and h was
thrown under the wheels. Both legs
were cut off.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13
PRAISES
WILSON'S SPEECH
East Orange Republican Says
1t Makes T. r. Look Like
White Mouse.

With words of sympathy for Roose-
welt. whom he declares has been made
to look. more like a white nous than
a bull moose, Thomas r. Creole, one
of the most prominent Republicans
of East Orange, has sen a telegram
of congratulation to Governor Will
son upon his speech of acceptance.
Mr.. Creole. who was the Republican
candidate for Mayor of East Orange,
but who withdrew from the contest
so that he might support the candl-
dacy of Governor Wilson for the
Presidency, is at present travelling
in the South. 9
His telegram to the Governor read
as follows: LAS a New Jersey Repub-
lican from East Orange ] c%ongratu-
late you OF YOU acceptance speech
and greet you as the only real exro-
nent of practical progressive politics.
You certainly have made Terrible
Teddy look more like a white mouse
than a bull moose. and ] am with
you to the finish"
Mr.. Creole is perhaps one of the
best known residents of East Or
ange. and it was mainly through his
efforts that the Fairgrounds for the
children. admitted to be one of the
most complete in the country, was es-
tablished in that city. At the urgent
request of his many friends, Mr..
Creole consented to stand as a capdi-
date for the Republican mayoralty
nomination this fall. Following the
Baltimore convention, however, he
withdrew from the race 81 that he
could give his support to Governor
Wilson.
1t was Mr.. Creole also who sent a
set of knitting needles to the board of
governors of the East Orange Repub-
lican Club last fall, so that the!
might better occupy their time al
the club. 1t is now thought that eff
forts will be made to have Mr.. Creole
read out of the Republican party.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13
NO ARRESTS YET MADE
IN ALLEGED ROBBERY

Though the Kearny police are said
to know the identity of the boys who
are alleged to have robbed James
Glynn, an old soldier. of s17 last Sat
urday night, 40 arrests have yet
been made. 1t was reported today
that Detective Sergeant Walter Oil
yer yesterday followed one of the
accused youths to the Kearny turn
pike. The lad, it is said, boarded a
trolley car and escaped.
At the Kearny police station today
the sergeant declared he knew alb,
solutely nothing about the theft. H,
further stated he did not know an,
of the police were working on thu
case. All day yesterday members %
the department searched in tn,
vicinity of Johnston and Grant ave
nues for the lads, but failed to fine
them.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13
NEW COURT EIGHT
FOR WATERSHED
East Orange Board and Owner
of Land Cannot Agree
on Price.

Altar having settled two ,aa~
ans,t oontested casa.
So. a. ~ 60.
preme ~ eo,' 70 get
more land IN tne watershed at White
Oak Ridge to supply a suf1eient sup
ply for the city. the East Orange
Water Board Yesterday set out IL
ohtain a tract of thirty-eight acras
=, T,.,.a.ton rownsh,8 rdn.rs9o
a .a.,na o,t, eoannss
~ - ch,oe I,a4u
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13
MUNICIPAL BARNS
TO COST $4,000
Bids Received by East Orange
Council Referred to
Committee.

Bids received by the East Orange
City Council last night indicate the
cost of. the municipal stables ana
storage house at Midland avenue and
the Erie Railroad will be more than
4 $50, 900. The bids We're referred to
the building committee. The Es-
sex Construction Company had the
lowest bid. $50. $3.50.
Councilman Marsh presented a no
tice that will be sent to the East
Orange Contracting Company, with
which former City Engineer Fred
erick A. Reimeu and Michael Lo-
prete are connected, taking from the
concern "a paving contract awarded
on October 26. 1t is declared that
work on the contract called for has
not been started, and the city in
tends to take over the contract.
The first complaint against the con
templated erection of a joint incin-
Grating plant in Midland avenue near
the sand pits arrived last night from
the First Ward Local Interest Club.
Hamilton s. Gordon, chairman of the
complaint committee. said IL would
be a shame to spoil the avenue. a
EditNd u MOilltidiA Il piSh us
and other places. for automobiles and
the odor from the foul-smelling gar
bage wagons would not be enjoyed
by residents
Mayor Gregory's veto of the resolu-
ton for the payment of bills at the
last meeting because of the Public
Service Corporation bill for light was
sustained. and a new resolution ad-
3usting the case passed. the corpora
tion having agreed to withdraw the
bill.
The council will send wor to the
Public Utilities Commission that bells
are unsatisfactory at the Lake and
Kearny street crossings of the Erie
Railroad and will request that flag
men be stationed at both points. II
this is not done suit willsbe instituted
against the company. Councilman
Greer presented the resolution after
observing conditions at the crossings.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13
Can't Find Who
Summoned Boys

Just who is responsible for he APP
pearance in the South Orange VII
lage Police Court today of half a
dozen young men, some of whom
are members of respectable fam
lilies in the village, is a quandary to
the court. The youths lined up be-
fore the bar, and Police Justice Ed
ward McDonough said he had not
summoned them.
well, we were summoned by uni
formed policemen, who came to u
homes and requested us to be here at
$50 o'clock today" they said in
chorus.
Sergeant Frank H. Kenny was in
charge of police headquarters. but
when questioned by the judge could
not explain why the young men had
been summoned. He. however. found
an entry in the police blotter which
showed hat Lewis f. Feindt, a phar-
macist. South Orange and Vose ave-
ues. had complained about several
youths loiterings about his place of
business.
An investigation is to be conducted
in order to ascertain the name of the
policeman who summoned the youths
to court.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13
USE EXPLOSIVES TO
BRIGHTEN BIRDS AWAY

Communication was received by the
Glen Ridge Borough Council from
George B. Wheaton. of Midland ave-
nue.. complaining of the nuisance of
birds in the trees along hat thor
oughfare. Clerk John A. Brown was
instructed to have the game war
dens use explosives, the same as in
Montclair, to brighten the birds away.
The request of Fire Chief Thomas
Keigher for al appropriation of $3.50
to defray his expenses to the nve
ton of national fire chiefs in Denver
next month was refused. 1t was
suggested by Councilman Ames that
Chief Keigher visit the display of fire
apparatus, etc, to be held in Madi-
son Square Garden.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13

The Easts Orange police have the
biggest mystery that has troubled
that city in many years or their
hands just at present, and a special
SQUAD of officers will be assigned to
its solution tonight.
Frequently. since the early spring,
word has come to the police station
that trees have disappeared from the
old Willard estate, Central avenue
and Harrison street. This property
has a frontageNof 200 feet and is 100
feet deep. and Isl filled-or used to be
.flled-with trees.
Early in April the police heard hat
two saplings had been dug up by he
roots one night. This they though
nothing strange, forithe trees weren't
much bigger than ~yard-sticks, and
such thefts are frequent. Later came
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13
MOVING PICTURES
ALLOWED AT LAST
MontcIair Gives in After De-
batting Matter More Than
Two Years.

After debating the subject for NOR,
than two years, the Montclair Towr
Council has at last decided to gram
a license for a moving picture show
in Montclair. The applicant will
spend 500, 900 on his building ant
plant and will pay a fee of $1,000 q
year. No vaudeville performance
will be allowed under the license.
The Town Council last night grant,
ed the license to the United Realty
and Amusement Company of wesI
Hoboken. The building will be erect.
ed on the site of the old Mansion
House. at Bloomfield avenue and Val.
ley road. and will cost s8S, 900. Nc
films can be shown without the ap-
prevail of the police committee of the
council. The license also provides
hat no children under the age of II
be admitted.
Before considering the amusement
company's proposition the Town
Council investigated the company's
record and found it above reproach
while the concerns financial stand
Ing is of the hc-'
were made to the city authorized
where the compai.. Ia 49, D.s..~J4,
1t Is also understood no Sunda5
shows are to be given.
The contract for the mason and
carpenter work on the new Mont
clair Town Hall was awarded to E
M. Waldron & Co., of this city. whose
bid for this work was SIS, 1892. The
plumbing and heating bids were
ordered cancelled and the town clerk
was instructed to advertise for new
bids for this work.
The Town Council authorized the
payment of 81 per cent. of the total
cost OF the new administration build
ing to Architect Otto e. Semsch for
inspecting the work of construction.
Permission was given the Woodrow
Wilson Club. of Montclair, to erect a
banner at Bloomfield and Glen Ridge
and the Upper Montclair Re-
publican Club to erect a Taft and
Sherman Republican Club at Valley
road and Bellevue e
The finance committee of the coun-
ell was requested to consider the In
of salaries of the town coun-
cilmen. A law was passed at the last
session of the Legislature placing the
maximum salaries of the councilmen
81 900 per year, but the Montclair
aldermen receive only $3.50, while the
Mayor receives 81, 900. THE committee
also was authorized to consider rails
ing the salary of the town recorder,
who now receives 5000. The law per-
mits a salary of 5000.
The council appointed S. w. Fuller
member of the sinking fund COM
to succeed Starr ]. Murphy,
resigned. This position carries
no salary.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13
APPOINTS SUCCESSOR TO
REV. FATHER PURCELL

The Right Rev. John j. O'Connor,
bishop of the Catholic Diocese of
Newark, today announced that the
Rev. DR.. Conrad M. Schotthoeser, who
has been rector of Our Lady of Mt.
Carmel Church, Boonton. has beer
appointed rector of st. Teresa's
Church. Summit, as uccesso to the
late Father Walter A. Purcell. The
Boonton parish will be in charge of
the Rev. James P. Delahanty, who
has been rector of st. Andrews
Church at Westwood. The changes
will become effective in about a week,
Bishop O'Connor announced.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13

have returned from a visit to Niagara
Falls and Toronto.
Miss Rose Dylla, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Gustave A.. Dylla, of ST5
~Stuyvesant avenue, has returned
from Brooklyn, where she "a the.
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. George Croft
tyohann.
Shade Tree Commissioner and Mrs.
| John Nj. Lackner, of lis Twenty-sec-
ond street, are entertaining Miss
Frieda GRADER, of Mt. Vernon, n. Y
A meeting of the Republican CEN
trail committee has been called by
the chairman, George F. DRESSER,
| for Thursday night at the Offices of
States Woolley Company, 1896 Clin-
ton avenue.
Andrew Doyle. an aged man, who
is an inmate of the Aimshouse in
! Elizabeth, was found wandering on
/ Cummings street yesterday. He was
taken to the police station and placed
in the hands of Overseer of the Poor
John B. Casey. The overseer of the
poor of Elizabeth was notified, who.
sent his assistant. Henry Eckerson.
to take him back to Elizabeth.
At the meeting of Clinton Lodge
No: 118. + o. o. F., in Glorieux'ss Hall,
last night arrangements were COM
pleted for the outing to be held at
Harry c., Herbert's farm at Patten-
! burg next Sunday. =
George De Bassie, of 10 Argyle
| terrace, complained TO Chief of Po-
lice Green last night that his neigh
boris cat was killing his chickens
and pigeons.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13
SHOWED DOG
SUFFERED FROM RABIES

An examination of the head of the
dog that bit Raymond Thompson, 4
years old, of 1853 Washington street,
Orange, on Wednesday has revea ed
the fact that the dog had been suf-
fering from rabies for some time.
The Thompson boy is in the Orange
Memorial Hospital, but his condition
is not thought to be serious.
Orders have been issued by the
Board of Health for the police to
strictly enforce the ordinance regard
ing unmuzzled dogs.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13
BOLD THIEVES WALK OFF
WITH BIG MAPLE TREES

a complaint hal a large tree. a good
sized one. old enough to a apples
and things, if it were only hat kind
of a tree, had been stolen. One or
two more Of approximately the same
size have. disappeared since then. but
no trace of the thieves could be
found.
Today, however, a real maple tree
is missing. The hole from which It's
roots were dug is as big as a newly
opened grave, and persons who have
inspected the scene say that the job
could not have been don without a
steam shovel, a derrick and strong
blocks and tackle.
This last theft has spurDed the ] o.
lice to real activity, and a tree squad
which will be exclusively concerned
in guarding the Willard estate Will
start work tonight.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13
ACQUITTED ON CHARGE
OF CRUELTY TO HORSE

Charles Prizes. of Wilson place, lrv-
ington. who was charged by the So
eiety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals with having played a hose
upon a horse belonging to Frederick
Scribe. of Springfield and Stuyvesant
avenues, that town, was acquitted
when arraigned before Recorder w
Eugene Turton last night in the Irv-
ington police court.
The horse. it was testified, was
treated to a liberal a...lication of
water from a hose by Prizes while
in its stall. The accused, who was
represented by Michael j. Tansey.
pleaded not guilty and after the tes-
timony of several witnesses, was ac-
Quilted for want OF sufficient evil
dence.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13
MAY BE CANDIDATE

Richard L. Tobin. a mason con-
tractor of East Orange, says he may
become Democratic candidate for the
City Council from the Second Ward.
Councilman Edward S. Pierson. the
Republican member, has decided to
retire and owing to his long residence
in the section. Mr.. Tobin believes
the Republicans will find 1t a hard
task to defeat him.