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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12
Abe Attell Is 2 to l
Favorite Over Kilba ne

bane men waiting for long odds.
Experts predict 10 to 7 as the fig
ures when the men enter the ring.
Kilbane has much local support,
and that, with the backing of the
Cleveland sports who follow him,
is expected to keep up his end.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12

(By United Press Leased Wire
Los ANGLES, Cal, Feb. Ia
Abe Attell, featherweignt cham
pion, is a to 1 favorite over
Johnny Kilbane, who will contest
his title February %. There has
been little early betting, the Kill
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12
Puzzle

The Puzzle Editor i'm the big
Times Baseball puzzle has nearly
completed looking over the an.
|swers received ana expects to pub
lish the names of the winners
tonight.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12
CAMBRIDGE
TEAM WINS

LONDON, Feb. 12.-Cambridge
Saturday afternoon won the an
nual football match from Oxford
by the score of 8 to 1.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12

The Queen Anne High basket
ball team of Seattle gave the Ia
coma High five a walloping Sat-
urday by a score of IL to 2. The
game was we'll played by both
teams. The visiting second team
defeated the local seconds ny a
score of 40 to 25.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12

Red Cross Ball Blue makes the
laundress happy, makes clothes
whittier than snow. If you wish
beautiful, clear white clothes, use
Red Cross Ball Blue. At all good
grocers. sss
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12
Short Sport

Falkland witnessed two games
between the first and second
Lutheran academy teams and the
alumni Saturday night. The first
team was defeated by a score of
25 to 20 and the second team
won by a score of 10 to Is.
The University of Oregon Sat
urday night defeated the Whit
worth college team by a score of
Al to %. The score at the end
of the first half stood 28 TO 8
in favor of the visitors who had
everything their own way.
Coach e. e. Perkins of the
High school football team. says
that the team this year will be
heavier by 10 pounds to the man
and that the Thanksgiving day
game will be played In the Sta
dunn, probably between Tacoma
and the Lincoln High of Seattle.
John B. Burnham, president,
and William s. Haskell, vice
president, of the American Game
Protective and Propagation as
ISOLATION, have gone to Washing
ton, d. c., to petition for federal
game laws for the protection Of
game.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-07-26

you have no assurance that you
have paid all your taxes unless
your property has been assessed
at its full cash value, which is not
done in one case In a thousand.
Thus, there is hanging over every
home, every farm and every bust
ness an unknown liability, and yon
must wait until 1915 to know
whether or not you have paid all
your 1912 taxes.
For nearly forty-five years the
question of back taxes, revenue
collectors and revenue agents has
been source Of scandal. Prior
to the advent of the present rev.
enue agents and back tax attor-
neys, we had what were known
as revenue collectors. As / I'M
stand it, among their other duties
they were to check the books of
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-07-26

question in Tennessee today is
that of taxation. Our present sys-
tenn is cumbersome, complex and
outrageously unfair. While there
are many things that are retard-
ing the growth and development
Of Tennessee, there is no one thing
that operates as greater handi-
cap than our present system Of
taxation. In its operation it
amounts to punishment of the
honest taxpayers and a reward OF
the dishonest one. The greatest
evil Of our present system arises
from the fact that even though
you may pay these taxes all for
which you have been assessed,
after the tax assessor has fixed
the value, after same has been re-
viewed by the County Equaliza-
tion Board, and both in turn re-
viewed by the State Equalization
Board, and you have your receipt,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-07-26

Of that body, aside from the reso-
buttons and list Of its members,
consists Of 168 pages. This rep
resents all that was done in the in
terest of the general welfare, and
about some of these there is a Sc
rious questions. The private acts,
calculated in the same way, con-
sists of 2,059 pages. Of these pri-
vate acts, 112 were either creating
new offices or increasing the sal
aries Of the old ones, and in not a
single instance, so far as / have
been able to discover, was there q
single act either abolishing an Of
fee or reducing salary. Over
twelve times as much space was
devoted to private business as to
the public business of a general
nature.
To nv mind the most important
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-07-26

ital and many desirable citizens
are going elsewhere that should
come to Tennessee.
These conditions have contin-
ued until the great dailies Of the
North and East are asking, "What
is the matter with TENNESSEE
just as it was asked Of Kansas
twenty years ago. Why do we not
grow and prosper as other states
Why are we outdistaneed by
them? Have we not had too many
political fightsi Have we not neg
lected the general welfare for pri-
vate gainY Have we not made out
Of our political parties here en-
ployment bureaus, while these
greater questions which concern
the welfare and happiness Of the
people have been neglectedY No
more striking example of this can
be given than in the work of our
last legislature. The public acts
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-07-26

Survey, It is calculated that the
profit to labor and capital on the
mining Of the known coal in this
state alone would equal in wealth
another state like Tennessee. We
have iron ore, copper and marble
in abundance-farms as rich rs
the richest Of the West, undevel-
oped water power sufficient to OPP
crate all the industries Of the
South, with power to spare. With
all these and much more, what is
her recordf
The censub figures reveal the
fact that the state is relatively de-
clining in both population and
wealth. The ten years period end
ing with 1910 showed that 38
counties, mostly rich agricultural
counties of Middle and West Ten
nessee, had actually declined in
population. Such counties as Bed
ford, Cannon, Giles, Haywood,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-07-26

the Southern state, and less than
any state in the South except
Kentucky. Her percentage of gain
was 81, which is the smallest in
all the years of her history, and
showed the least number of in
habitants in fifty years. Florida
gained five times as rapidly as
Tennessee; Texas three times |;
Arkansas and Louisiana two and
one-half times; Alabama, Georgia
and North Carolina over twice,
and SO on through the list.
In point Of wealth, Tennessee
rank among the Southern states
was fourth twenty years ago. Ten
years ago she declined to fifth
place, and in 1910 she dropped to
seventh.
In point Of manufacturing, the
government figures show that Ten
nessee has made one of the poor
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-07-26

est records in this particular Of
any of the Southern states.
But it is in agriculture that she
shows relatively her greatest de-
cline, and Tennessee is essentially
an agricultural state. Her per-
centage of increase in the value
of farm property showed gain
of 1915 against 100 per cent for
North Carolina, 155 per cent for
South Carolina, 154 per cent for
Georgia, 160 per cent for Ala
bama, 165 per cent for Florida,
and so on through the list. In
many Of her leading farm prod
ucts, this state shows an actual
decrease.
These declines in the face of our
unparalleled opportunities are
matters of the gravest concern.
Proof is abundant that much cap
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-07-26

Henderson, Lincoln, McNairy,
Marshall, Moore, Rutherford and
Wilson have been actually declin-
ing in population for thirty years
forty-nine counties barely held
their own in population in 1910,
while only nine showed, any per-
ceptible gain.
The percentage of increase in
rural population in Tennessee was
the smallest Of any state in the
South, the gain being only about
one-fourth of that of North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, George, Ala
bama, Mississippi or Arkansas.
Tennessee's rank in population
among the states of the Union in
1900 was fourteenth; i'll 1910 she
dropped to seventeenth place. Her
gain in population was less than
one-half the average gain Of al
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-11
REMARKABLE RECORD MADE
BY B. AND L. ASSOCIATION

With many of the original stock
with a record of not missing a meet
ing or defaulting In the payment of
a dollar of the earnings during the
twenty-five years Of its existence, the
Irvington Building and Loan Asso-
citation will celebrate its quarter
century mark tonight by opening the
sixtieth series at its meeting place.
1922 Springfield avenue, Irvington.
During its twenty-five years of ex-
istence it has paid out in maturing
series more than a quarter of a mill
ion dollars. 1t has transacted BUSH
ness of more than half a million dol
lars and has matured twenty-five
series without a break or loss, never
causing a delay in the payment to
stockholders. Today 1t is carrying
almost s400, 900 in bonds and mort
cages or I~rvington homes.
The officers are: President, How
ard n. Knowles; vic~e-president,
Frederick Stone; secretary, George
H. Woolley: treasurer, Thomas S.
Osborne; counsel, Newton P. Kin
sey; directors, James H. Byrne, Jo-
seph t. Castles, Isaac J. Casey, ST.,
John Coleman, David H. Greene, Ed
ward Jacob, Thomas H. Kirkbride,
Melvin R. Longfield, Joel P. Mar
tin, Ackerson ]. States, George H
Woolley- and John Wassmer. l
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-11
NEW TEACHERS NAMED
BY ELIZABETH A

ELIZABETH, July 1.-THE Board
of Education has appointed DR..
julius M. Winslow, for the last three
years supervising principal of the
public schools of Ridgefeld Park.
principal of the Elizabeth Normal and
Training School and of the Cherry
Street Grammar School. DIR. Wins
10y succeeds DR.. William F. Robin
son, who was retired on a pension
after having taught In the public
schools of New Jersey thirty-five
years.
DR. A. w. Lamy, DR.. F. Hanrahan,
DR. w. E. Boozan and DR.. S. F. Wade
were reelected medical inspectors,
Or. ]. H. Wagner was reelected dental
inspector and Miss Julia A Sheridan
and Miss Maude La Motto have been
reelected visiting nurses.
Sherman Burns has been appointed
teacher of manual training at a sal
airy of $3.50 a year. Other appoint
ments of teachers are as follows:
Miss Rose M. Glotzbach, Miss Mildred
J. Frohock, Miss Bertha c. Battersby,
Miss Anna Fromm, Miss Charlotte A.
Havenstein. Miss Elinor r. Clement
Miss Helen G. Dowdell. Miss Edna
Hitler, Miss Marie Berry, Miss Ethel
M. Schatz, Miss Weltha M. Carley,
Miss Helen P. Sheridan, Miss Grace
Kirkman, Miss Anna R. Kenely, Miss
Katherine A. Kelly and Miss Mar
garet L. Donahoe. They will receive
$3.50 a year each.
All bids for the removal of the old
high school in South Broad street
have been rejected because they were
too low.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-11
$4,000 ADDED TO
kEARNY'S BUDGET
Council Finds $3.50, 223.s6 Will
Be Needed to Run
Town.

Kearny will need 8 1000 more than
last year to run the town for the
next twelve months, according to the
tax budget, which totals $258, 223.S6
Almost half of the increase is for
the item OF schools, which has been
raised from 2 $500 to s 6,sc7.20. The
interest on the town debt will amount
to $45. 900, as against $751; 500 for the
past fiscal year, and the sinking fund
Is increased by more than $4,000. A
few items in the budget have, how
ever undergone the pairing process.
The budget is as follows: Schools,
$50. s57. 20; street lighting. s17,0 900; po-
lice department, s26, 700; street depart
ment, $50. 900; fire department, $500;
poor, $3.50; officers salaries, s13, 500;
interest on town debt, $45, 5000; fire.
house maintenance, 81, 800; Town Hall
maintenance, s $500; sinking fund.
SIS, 1866 printing. $500; hospitals.
$3.50; library, 8 $500; shade trees,
81, 200; Fairgrounds. 81, 800; election ex-
penses. $3.50.
The Board of Health pointed out
the need of more money. The amount
stipulated was $1,000. No increase
was granted last night. Councilman
William F. Davis commented on the
alleged unsafe condition of the bridge
of the Erie Railroad at Kearny ave-
nue.. Arlington. He told of having
been able to break part of the struc-
ture with his hands. He said the
planks were rotten, but no action was
taken.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-11

the Irvington Patrolmen's Benevolent
Association officers were elected as
follows: President, John Coleman;
vice-president, Edward weingarth;
secretary. George F. Garfield; treas
urer, James j. Derbyshire; sergeant
alarms, Joseph Maser; trustee. c.
Schulze; delegate t. State conven-
ton. George F. Garfield.
Harold E. Wall, of 10 Stanley street,
will spend his vacation at Ocean Grove.
Hugo R. winckler, secretary of the
Second Ward Improvement Association,
has been instructed to communicate with
the Town Council to have the. nuisance
of the sidewalk overflow of water from
Rushing & Co., of Fabyan place, Newark,
on the Irvington boundary line, abated.
The Second Ward Improvement Asso-
citation at its regular meeting last night
decided to dispense with the August
meeting.
A meeting of the honorary members OF
the ~Irvington Veterans Association was
held last night at the Speedway Hotel
on Springfield avenue. Reports were
made by the several committees on the
progress being made for a most success
full outing. The next meeting will be
held Wednesday night, July "a, at Hosp's
Hotel, Forty-third street and Springfield
venue.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-11
INSIST ON
CONCRETE SCHOOL
Kearny Board Accepts Plans
for Building, Despite
Objections.

Plans drawn by H. King Conklin
for the completion of the concrete
school at Belgrove drive and Wood
land avenue. Kearny, have been ac-
cepted by the Kearny Board of Edu-
cation. This means that the Citizens
and Taxpayers Association of the
First and Second wards of the town
has lost its fight to have a brick and
stone school erected. Members of
the school board who favor concrete
are being roundly condemned by
members of the association.
The school building, upon which no
work has been done for two weeks,
is more than half finished. Opera
tons were stopped Don after the as
ISOLATION managed to rave the Court
of Errors and Appeals of this State
declare null the contract with the
American Concrete Construction
Company, on the ground hat 1t was
illegally entered into by the school
board.
Following the action of the court
the civic. association had hoped that
the part of the building already con-
structed would be torn down and a
brick n stone structure substituted
Members of the school board never
considered such plans. AS soon as
they learned they would have to en-
ter into another contract the board
voted to have Mr.. Conklin prepare
new plans. At its meeting next
Wednesday night the school board
will likely receiev bids for the COM
pletion of the work.
1t is not likely hat the concern
which has advanced the job to the
present stage will be underbid. In
any event the board contends that
the town can lose nothing as pay
ments have already been made for
the largest part of the work done.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-11
HALL COLLEGE
WOULD Be EXEMPT
Claim Made That Under Old
Law It Need Not Pay
Taxes.

That Seton Hall College, in South
Orange, is exempt from assessment
and taxation. under an i~rrepealable
contract with the State, was the con-
tention of counsel in briefs filed on
the question of merits of the case be-
fore the State Board of Equalization
of Taxes at a meeting in the City
Hall this morning. The charter
granted the college by the Legislature
in 1861 is held to be the contract re-
ferred to.
The States Board nullifed the tax
and assessment by an order filed
April IS. 1912, and on the application
of Prosecutor Wilbur A. Mott, counsel
for the village of South Orange, the
board refused TO open the judgment
on June l last, but set down today
for the further hearing of the whole
question of Seton Halrs exemption,
and upon the statements of counsel
a decision will be reached later as
to whether or not the contest will be
reopened.
William ]. Kearns, of this city, and
John ]. Griffen, of Jersey City, ex-
pressed willingness to have the whole
case heard on the merits, providing
the order was left In force. The two
lawyers, accordingly. appeared this
morning, but former Judge Jay Ten
Eyck represented the village instead
of Mr.. Mott.
In his brief upholding the exemp-
tion contention Mr.. Kearns cited the
famous yarmouth College case, which
was pleaded by Daniel Webster. In
deciding the CASE in favor of OAR
mouth Justices Washington and Mar
shall held that the charter of a o r
roration for a valid consideration
was irrepealable and that no legis-
lature could pass an act Affecting the
contract.
Counsel also argued that the deci-
Sou of the late Chief Justice Beas-
ley on the appeal of the tax on Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery by the city of
Newark applies.
Right Rev. DIR. James. F. Mooney,
president of Seton Hall, filed an affi-
da Wit to show that the property and
buildings have always been used and
are still being used for college pur-
poses only. The lands as pasture
lands and the buildings for general
farming purposes. The products are
used exclusively in the college, which
is conducted for the education of the
young and therefore is a benefit to tn
State, since its receipts are used for
nc purpose other than education.
The stipulation of facts agreed to
by counsel on both sides included
the granting of the charter and that
from the grant in 1861 to 1911 the
college operated under it without be-
ing tayed or assessed.
Judge Ten Eyck in his brief con-
tended that exemption contained in
the supplement to Seton Halls char
ter was repealed by the amendment
to the State Constitution in 1875. He
declares the charter Is not an ire
pealable contract as affecting the
college lands at the north side OF
Orange avenue, inasmuch as the land
was purchased after the charter was
granted.
The college tax fight dates from
1911 when the Essex County Board OF
Taxation directed Assessor Joseph
Arnold, OF South Orange, and a mem
Der of the Seton Hall faculty to as
sess the college farm lands on the
north side of South Orange venue
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-11
Society Of
the Oranges

Mrs. N. S. LeComte and her son,
William G. LeComte, of William
street, East Orange, will leave shortly
for Baltimore, Nd, where they will
visit relatives. From there Mr. Lee
Comte will join a party of college
friends, E. A. Pennington, Hubert H.
Wright, of Cambridge, Md; DR.. Clar-
ence Dieffendoffer and j.. X. e. DEF
fendoffer, of Baltimore, for an ex-
tended yachting trip. Mrs. LeComte
will spend some time in Atlantic
City before her return.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pemberton Leggett, OF
East Orange, will leave August 8 for
Woodland, in the Catskills, N. Y,
where they will visit Mr. Leggett's
relatives for a fortnight.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. Haywood Trippe.
of 6 South Arlington avenue, will go
to Baltimore the last of the month
to visit friends and relatives.
Mrs. JOnn . SOden, OF William
street. East Orange, will leave the
last of the week for Asbury Park,
where she will remain for the rest
of the summer. Mr.. Soden will go
dow for the week-ends. n
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward D. McKown,
of Burnet street, left today for AS
ury Park, and expect to remain at
that resort until fall.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Winthrop Lee
Comte will not close their home for
the season, ut are taking short trips
to the country during the hot
weather.
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Carson, of
William street, will spend several
weeks at Bedford Springs. Conn,
leaving the latter part of the month.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-11
n r-vxTc HARRISON EAST
I'll MI NM n NV ~ NEWARK EARNY
VYLO w - AND ARLINGTON

| for a two weeks stay at New Bed
ford, Mass.
John o. Benson, with his son Cliff
ford and daughter Miss Dorothy, has
gone to Bridgeport, Conn, for a fort
night.
Mrs. Samuel Shaw and family, OF
Hoyt street, Kearny, are at Rock
away for the summer.
During June there was used in
Kearny Al, 1874, $50 gallons of water, at
a cost of $3.39775.
The Kearny Town Council last
night decided to advertise for bids
for the resurfacing of Belgrove drive
and Chestnut street. 1t was also de-
cided to place in repair several other
streets in the town.
The following were last night ap-
pointed special policemen at a meet
ing of the Kearny Town Council:
Thomas Forrest, Joseph Keakem,
Thomas ]. Garry, Daniel j. Kelly.
Harry c. Goodman and Frederick
Clement.
Mrs. William Tolen. of ss Brighton
avenue. Kearny, wife of Chief OF
Police Tolen, slipped from a trolley
car at Broad and Bridge Streets
Newark, yesterday afternoon and was
slightly bruised. She was taken home
In a taxicab.
The application of Alonzo r. Mich
olas for a moving picture snow u
cense on Devon street near Mloiaho
avenu Arlington, was last night de-
lied by the Kearny Town unc
The present license on Midland ave
nue., near Elm street, was renewed
Complaint regarding noises maze
by Hackensack trolley cars was ade
a, a meeting of the council last night.
Steps will he taken to have the al
legged nuisance abated.
The Kearny Board of Health VIII
meet tonight.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-11
RvINGTON


Arrangements have been completed for
the annual outing of the Riverside Rod
and Gun Club, which viii be held Sun
day, August IL, at Gillette, Morris
county.
Samuel W. Stewart, of 5Sw Forty-frst
street, is spending his vacation at Bar
negat.
Rev. Uriah McClinchie, of the First
Reformed Church, left yesterday for Fen
elon Falls, Canada, where he will spend
his vacation with Mrs. McClinchie and
his sons, Malcolm and Kenneth, who
reached that place last week.
The Normandy Park Improvement Asso-
citation will hold Its monthly business
meeting tonight in Normandy Hall, 2d
Normandy place.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Curtis, of Twenty
first street, are spending the week in
Atlantic City.
Theodore Eyrick, of Rodwell avenue,
will leave Saturday for a months stay in
Stroudsburg, Pa.
At the annual election last night of
A.A y