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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-01

.'Of course, L cannot vouch for what
| am about to tell you from any per-
sonaI experience, but l got the anec-
dote from a man in whom | have per-
feet confidence" said Mr.. Cox.
"Henry NJ. Whitney, with a lew
other men of capital in Boston. got
control of six of the leading street
railway companies in that city ABOUT
the year 1890. The combination by
them of these railroad lines met with
the full approval of the Massachusetts
Railroad Commission. 1t was sue
cessful, both from the business point
of view and from that of the service
given to the people of Boston
Zone day Mr.. Whitney and his as
sociates received a communication
from a group of capitalists that had
been prominently associated with the
attempt to consolidate some of the
New York street railways, asking for
conference. The place designated
was a parlor in the Adams House, in
Washington street, in Boston.
1.-THE conference was agreed to, and
Mr.. Whitney and his associates met
the New York group of capitalists,
some of whom were in business rela-
lions with William c. Whitney.
lone of these capitalists said: 1
don't think it is worth while to waste
any time in the way of preliminaries.
We own little street railway prop
erty in South Boston, which is indie
pendent of your system. We know
all about your railway properties.
You don't need to offer us any in
formation. So we viii come right to
the point We want to know whether
you will sell your properties to us,
and, if so, what your figures will be-
Before an answer could be given
to this question another one of the
New York capitalists said: We have
been looking into your earning ca
pacity and have discovered that your
earnings justify very much larger
and a large issue of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-01

IT was at Amiens that the renowned
Saint Martin gave half of his cloak
to beggar who stood shivering by
the roadside. Other saints in that
city, though we know less of their
life histories, must have exercised
even more generosity during the Mid
die Ages to build and rebuild the old
cathedral in the face of repeated mis-
fortune. The patience and zeal with
which those men of Amiens raised up
their cathedral four times from its
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-01

From the London Daily Chronicle.
We complain of the hotel bedroom
now because. of its esthetic short
comings What shousd we say if we
were transported 200 years back, to
the time when Swift, travelling from
Moor Park to Leicester, slept at PEN
ny hedge inns and paid sixpence
extra for clean sheets. Not even the
bedroom in which we spend a third
of our lives is so unbeautiful and I'M
comfortable as the office in which
business men spend their working
days. Compare the luxury of the
study" or library" which a man
fits up at home for an hour or two a
weeks occupation with the dulness
and often positive Crime of the office
which he inhabits daily from 10 to 5.
An office with bright walls, a cozy
carpet, restful pictures and comfort
able working furniture is accounted
unto man for luxury and evidence of
unbusinesslike temperament Civil
engineers maintain the highest stand
ard in office accommodation, and,
taken all round, newspapers the low
est.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-01
Opinions and Views
from the Exchanges
Isaac V. Broka,y.

From the Brooklyn Eagle
1t has been said that the type of
the merchant prince" is passing or
has passed from New York life, since
big business came to be transacted
by corporations. Isaac v. Brokaw,
whose death was recorded yesterday,
was for years one of relatively few
survivors of the old type. He was
an individualist in business. He was
also a citizen worth having The
family name was originally Brouch-
ard, it was French Huguenot. OF
this stock and Quaker stock blended
Mr.. Brokaw was by natural tempera-
ment conservative, conscientious, de-
pendable.
For nearly half a century in trade
for himself, this man built up a repu-
tatidn that was an invaluable asset.
Never seeking office. he kept close
track of public affairs. He gave
largely to churches of his connection,
to Princeton University, to charities;
he never advertised.
New York has ten thousand more
conspicuous persons in the limelght
whom she would miss much less than
she will miss Isaac V. Brokaw.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-01
Girls Tomato Club Wins
Popularity Down South

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The Boys
Corn Clubs" established by Secretary
Houston of the department of agri-
culture, that have done so much to
improve corn growing in the South,
have been supplemented this year by
Girls Tomato Clubs They seem
to have been equally successful.
One Georgia girl not only grew
prize tomatoes, but sold enough of
the greatest tomato pest-the to
mato worm''-to fishermen, for bait.
to pay for working and harvesting
her crop.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-01
Oddities in Today's News

lam F. Bebell, wealthy real estate
operator of Jamaica, was sentenced
Yesterday to three months in the peni-
Tertiary.
The evidence showed that Bebell
used his wifes own shoe for her cor
rection, and held it by the toe for the
purpose.
But she might have endured even
this. said her attorney, Lawrence I:
dresser, If her husband had not failed
to support her and her baby.
waItzes Mt Seventy-eight. but Fails
and Breaks His Hip.
NEW YORK, Oct. although he
is seventy-eight Michael Burke. who
lives at 977 Lorimer street, Williams
burg, insisted upon showing the
Younger folk he was visiting at 1913
Manhattan avenue, this borough, how
he used to dance in the olden days.
He said he was as young as anyone
present.
He picked his partner and started
to waltz. He soon fell and was taken
to st. GATHERINGS Hospital by DR..
Watts, suffering from fractured
hip.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-01
Senator Vardaman Says He
Will Oppose Negro Appointees

WASHINGTON, Oct. IL intend
to oppose vigorously the confirma-
ton of every coIored man nominated
for a federal office except minister
to Liberia" said Senator Vardaman.
of Mississippi
This attitude. which is that of
other Southern senators, may influ-
ence the Presidents policy in the Sc
lection of negroes to office. The pres
sure at the White House for recogni-
ton of the colored race is growing,
and the President is sounding senti-
ment in the Senate as to what he
may expect in future nominations.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-01
NO HALT IN STATE REFORMS.

READING the platforms of the three State
ventions one compelled Acting Governor Fielder
was quite opinion that the State has all the
remedial that the Legislature
legislation this kind perfect laws already
on the statute All the platforms briste with proposed
the Legislature to enact showing that there
great mpeng popular sentiment behind the convention dele
gates all in harmony with the acting Governors pro
pram.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-01
Dress She Sewed for Shroud
She Wears as Wedding Gown

BALTIMORE, Oct. 1--Aftor being
pronounced incurable by score of
physicians and operated on nine
times each time with fewer chances
of recovery, Miss Sophie NJ Koerth
was married TO jeremiah J. Rails
bach in the very dress which she four
years ago made with her own hands
for her shroud.
Z Miss Koerth kept the dress wrapped
up, ready all the tipe for her flu
neral.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-01
SECESSION IN MEXICO.

REPORT THAT four northern States in Mexico agreed at
held yesterday to secede and set
in harmony with the trend of Mexican affairs
anticipates manifest destiny Between cnstutonalsm
IN the military rule the south there
compromise the erection of buffer state between the
United States and would be greatly advantage
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-01
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
An Obstacle in the Way of Making Securities

. - who is ano William c.
both brothers
experience IN
This Charles F.
executives OF the Vanderoi
training business
D. at
I.ran frs admin
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-01
AN OLD PARTY PRECEDENT BROKEN.

IN SHOWING utter disregard of the candidates
the State chairman by ecng another
that position convention against
precedent the time that State chairman other
selection of the candidate for Governor chosen
Mr. Kinkead the defeated candidate before
convention would have had much better show if he had
merits if his opponent had the customary
Endorsement.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-01
Gov. Diapers Son Ice-Bound

ir.. a son of former Governor Draper,
whose mother dropped dead only a
few days ago, is on ship frozen in
the ice at F'laxman Island, Alaska,
and cannot get home until next sum-
mer. it has just become known.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-01

ashes remain forever in the fame of
this most perfect of French Gothic
churches.
When the Norsemen plundered the
coast of France in SS1 they sent
great fleet up the River Somme.
Amiens, taken by surprise, fell be
fore the attack of those reckless and
powerful old Vikings, and the cathe-
dral, then a flimsy wooden structure,
was burned to the ground. A new
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-01
THE JURY QUESTION DoDGED.

THE GRAND jury question avoided by the conven,
lions at yesterday The question that caused the calling
of of the Legislature last spring that brought
The into the State make speeches. question
which the acting tour of speeches and ques
lion be voted in the November election certainly
aled for some mention enunciaon policy it
Kkargaffen2
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-01
II the Hool<wOrm Gets Hold of You
Kin Him with N Dash of Red.

CHICAGO, Oct. IA remedy has
been found for laziness that has
nothing to do with hookworm des-
troyers. 1t was made public at the
annual meeting of the American as
sociation for the Study of Spondy-
lotherapy.
Red Is the answer.
If you are lazy and man, wear
red necltie The laborer who wears
a red woollen undershirt is full OF
energy. A woman who wears a red
hat can CAD about without fatigue.
Yellow has the opposite effect. 1t
Gains, enervates, not to say stupefies.
DR.. Albert Abrams. of San Fran
cisco, is sponsor for this effect OF
colors.
Used High-HeeI slipper to Spank
Wife; Is Sent to Prison.
NEW YORK, Oct. because, in
spanking his wife, he used high
heeled shoe, instead of the conyen-
tional slipper, while the victim was
clad in a tight-fitting summer gown.
John Bebell. twenty-six, son of Will
The Washington herald., 1913-05-18

copy OF the book to be found on the
shelves of the Congressional Library. II
was doubtless an ephemeral production.
whose popularity waned and expired as
the fame of John Tyler expanded ana
grew
II is in the light of after events. now
ever. that the letter becomes especially
interesting. Whatever her hopes MISS
Letitia was doomed to disappointment
ana her secret motives, II she had any.
we're more than gratified. For she mar
RED young John Tyler the following
spring. And years afterward. when tne
death of '-old Tippecanoe" Harrison,
short month after his Inauguration.
Drought Vice President Tyler TO the
Presidency, It also made Mrs. Leuua
Tyler, nee Christian. the First Lazy OF
the Land.
In a letter to his friend, Dr. henry
Curtis, dated March q, 1873, Tyler an
nounced his approaching marriage On
the 18th instant" he wrote, i lead my
Letitia to the altar" Miss Christiah
was less than a year younger than her
husband, and was described as possess
ing great beauty Of person ana cnar-
acter. Three sons and four daughters
were born Of the union. Mrs Tyler dieo
at Washington in lsZ
The Washington herald., 1913-05-18

From Popular Mechanics-
One does not fancy the human body
as an electric dynamo, but II the heat
and muscular energy expended by an
average man of sedantary habits were
converted into electrical units he would
find himself possessed OF quite valu-
able asset
II is proved that a man uses up
about two and one-half kilowatt hours
of electrical energy in a working day.
Approximately one-half of this is used
to keep the temperature of the body
constant, while the other half Is ex-
pended in muscular energy.
This amount of electricity may not
seem great, but when one considers
the things that can be done when 1t
is efficiently applied. the power of the
human body is more clearly seen. Two
and one-half kilowatt hours of cleo
trical energy is sufficient to maintain
four 25-watt tungsten lamps OF 20
candlepower each for 25 hours OF heat
an electric latiron for six hours. run a
sewing machine motor for 100 hours.
heat an electric toaster for two hours,
an electric curling iron for 100 hours
run a large fan for 80 hours, or warm
chafng dish for six hours.
The Washington herald., 1913-05-18
Plan of Capital Was Major Ellicotts Work

thereupon transmitted to the House o.
Representatives, December L. 1871, this
Incomplete" draft of his work beins
submitted to Congress in response to an
inquiry by way of Information ano
only to show how far rEnfant had gone
with the plan" The ''incompleted''
plan, thus presented, bore conclusive
evidences showing that rEnfant was IN
competent to do the necessary work.
Washington himself, as distinctly shown
by President Woodrow Wilson, In his
admirable Life OF the First President"
was not only a great soldier, but an
accomplished engineer, and was at nc
loss to determine. from the incompleted
draft, Maj. rEnfant's lack Of profes-
sional skill
The plan as devised by the French
man was found, upon examination, to
be botch. 1t wholly failed 10 meet
the needs of the occasion 1t was, there
fore, disapproved by Washington. by
Jefferson. and by Congress alike; was
promptly withdrawn from consideration
and returned to rEnfant. who, there
after. never made use of IL. He received
1t back with anger, chagrin, and indig-
nation, declaring that the public eye
should never again behold it,
AS a consequence of this failure to
meet the requirements of the plan, rEn-
FAINT got on ''tare," locked up the re-
jected paper. went around Washington
and Georgetown In high dugeon. de-
nouncing President Washington, Secre-
tary Jefferson, and the Congress wher-
ever he got an audience, until March
6, 1872, when, with the approval of the
President. Secretary Jefferson had him
dismissed from the military service on
account of official discourtesies-the Sec
rotary writing to the Commissioners as
follows:
at having been found impracticable to
employ Maj. fEnfant about the Federal
city in that degree of subordination
which was lawful and proper. he has
been notified that his services are at an
end. Maj. Ellicott is TO go and and finish
laying OFF the plan, and also surveying
and plotting the District"
EEnfant had nothing further to do
with the plan" of the city after the
action of Congress. and his dismissal
The Washington herald., 1913-05-18
WARS CRUELTIEs.
(Charles sumnsr.)


need mt dwell now on the waste
ana cruelty of war. These stare US
wildly In the face, like lurtd meteor
lights. as we travel the page OF MIS-
tory. We see the desolation ana death
that pursue its demoniec footsteps we
look upon sacked towns, upon ravageo
territories. upon violated homes; we
behold ali the sweet charities OF life
changed to wormwood and gall our
soul is penetrated by the sharp moan
of mothers, sisters. and daughters-ot
fathers, brothers, and sons VINO, IN
bitterness of their bereavement, reIuse
TO be comforted. Our eyes rest al last
upon one of these fair fields, where
nature, in her abundance, spreads her
cloth of gold, spacious and apt for the
entertainment Of mighty multitudes-
or, perhaps, from the curious suotlety
Of its position, like the carpet in the
Arabian tale seeming to contract SO as
to be covered by a few. or to dilate
SO as to receive an innumerable host
Here, under a bright sun, such as
shone at Austerlitz or Buena vista
amid the peaceful harmonies of ma
ture-on the Sabbath of peace-we be-
hold hands of brothers, children OF
common father. heirs TO common
struggling together In the
deadly fight, with the madness OF iaiien
spirits. seeking with murderous weap-
ons the lives of brothers who nave
never injured them or their kindred.
The havoc RACES. The ground is soaked
with their commingling blood. The air
is rent with their commingling cries.
Horse and rider are stretched together
on the earth. More revolving than the
mangled victims, than the gashed
limbs, are the lawless passions which
sweep. tempest-like. through the fend-
lsh tumult.
The Washington herald., 1913-05-18
LOVE LETTERS OF PRESIDENT TYLER

words have been worn away at the
folds. The letter is now in the posses
sion Of ]. L. Cornwell. Washington.
d. c.
Considered as an epistle of the heart,
Tyler's love letter is much like the ma
jority of its kind, even to the inco-
hereDcy that attaches to his impas-
stoned cutlery against the imaginary
base and sordid wretch who would
willingly relinquish his fair one for
wealth: all lovers will agree that such
mercenary creature merits all that
the undetermined Tyler pictures as his
future reward. So also will they under
stand the tendencies of self-torture in
which lovers are prone 10 indulge. as
did Tyler, when picturing the eternal
sufferings that would have been his had
his sweetheart been led to accept him
through prudential considerations"
Nor can Mere be any manner of doubt
that he craftily held back the last two
volumes of the forest of Montabano"
to serve as an excuse for the trip to her
fathers on next Wednesday" and that
the desire not to 'fncommode" Col
Christian was the fiimsiest sort of an
excuse.
But what was "the forest OF Montal-
bano"-as 1t should have been spelled
and what the fate of the unfortunate
Angelina? The following entry is found
in the catalogue OF the British Museum:
The Forest OF MontalbanO.' a novel
by the author of 'Santo Sebastiano,'
London, G. Robinson, 1910 four VOL
umes, Emo" The work was evidently
published anonymously. It is entered
anonymously in the English Catalogue
of Books. in which reference is made to
an edition of ls47. The title does not
appear in any OF the ordinary sources
covering the history of fiction, nor is a
The Washington herald., 1913-05-18

| from the public service In his stead
there had been Immediately designated
| Mai Andrew Ellicott, whose own plan.
then starting from the beginning withou,
even the aid Of rEnfant's rejected draft,
was made complete, accepted by Goa
OF President Washington, engraved
without change" N
Mai. Ellicott was a devoted friend of
President Washington, He was likewise
a gentleman Of culture, a soldier Of I'M
blemished record, a patriot and an ell
gineer. who. with the APPRECIATION of
Washington and Jefferson, dedicated his
genius to the preparation of the only
plan of the Capital ever completed, ap-
put into execution L'Enfant, in fact.
had no real status OF merit in the case.
He had really little. to do with promot-
ing either the taste" or the thar
monious grandeur of the complete plan >.
The honor of this Service is due to
Andrew Ellicott- the sober-minded pa
triot of the Revolution-whose modesty
eaualed his learning,
Monument should he Erected.
Recalling the facts associated with this
historic event, II Is a source of hap
piness to numerous washingtonians that
the only two grandchildren of the illus
trlous englneer-tne late MrS. thompson
II, Alexander and Mrs. A. z. Bidwell
formerly Of this city. but now of Cali
fornia. survived his demise, to be es.
teemed with genuine fervor by the people
of the city-the most beautiful Capital of
modern centuries, the artistic product OF
their great ancestor. who received from
Washington two golden loving cups as
a token of the appreciation with which
he regarded the remarkable triumph OF
the engineer in devising and completing
the only acceptable plan of the Capital.
The late Mrs. Alexander was a charter
member Of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, and, in her name, her
husband. Mr.. Thomas II. Alexander. re-
Gently presented one OF these cups to
the Daughters, as an appropriate me-
mento of Maj. Ellicott.
Let us build a monument to the we'll
nigh forgotten Ellicott,
GEORGE BABER.
The Farragut, Washington, ID. C.
The Washington herald., 1913-05-18
From Philsdelphis Inquirer.

From the statement upon the subject
made by Secretary Knox. It appears
that Colombia obstinately refuses to
make up. Every proposition suggested
by the State Department at Washing
ton has been contemptuously rejected
The government at Bogota demands
that the legitimacy OF the sovereignty
of the Republic Of Panama be submit
ted TO arbitration, and IL will be satis-
fed with nothing else.
In that case II will have To- IN
satisfied, as II Is not imaginable that
the present administration will be
any more willing to assent TO this i'm
possible concession than the admin
stration which went out. II the SOW
ereignty of the Republic Of Panama
were to be declared invalid the title
Of the United States to the Canal Zone
would be Initiated and the canal itself
in the contemplation OF the law would
become the property of the Colombian
government.
II is understood that the people of
Bogota have been uncompromising and
unconciliatory because they count upon
carrying their point when the impend-
ing change of control at Washington
shall have been effected. They think
that they will be able to obtain from
doctrinaire and academic president
what his predecessors have refused so
much as to discuss. They will prob
ably find themselves to have been mis-
taken Mr.. Wilson may be an idealist.
but he has too much sense for that.
The Washington herald., 1913-05-18
WARMING TO PARENTS.

It is risky to feed raw milk and
cream to children or invalids I'M
less you are sure that at the farm
which produces thes milk the ut
most cleanliness Is observed at all
times, particularly during milk
ing; that the employees are thor
oughly healthy and cleanIy per-
sons; that the cows are free from
diseases; that the water used for
rinsing is OF undoubted purity, and
that the milk is quickly cooled
and kept cold and covered until
delivered TO you.
Raw milk often produces Tuber-
culosis, Scarlet Fever, also Ty-
phoid and other intestinal dis
eases.
We can guard against infection
by properly pasteurizing milk or
by home pasteurization.
Properly pasteurizing milk (and
cream) by keeping 1t at 40 deg. F.
for twenty to thirty minutes does
not affect its nutritive value nor
its digestibility.
The best system is to pasteur-
lie the milk after it has been
bottled.
You can home pasteurize raw
milk by heating it to near boiling,
then cool, and keep cold and COW
cred until used. .
Most indigestion in babiess IL
caused by milk too rich in cream.
Society for Prevention Of Sickness,
E BeRllheR. Secretary.
The Washington herald., 1913-05-18
Same Principle.


From Judge
My grandfather" said the old-timer,
used TO put all his money in his stock
ing"
''wa-al. things hain't changed much"
said his old friend MY grandson,
who's takin' a course in modern deport-
ment at one o. them Eastern colleges,
puts most all his money into sncka.s
The Washington herald., 1913-05-18

Magdeburg, Geremany. Is to have
school for the special training Of women
and girls as shop clerks. The city of
Berlin has already provided such train
ing by means of a special course for
Salssgirls In the new continuation school
The Washington herald., 1913-05-18
Plan sent Congress

Plan Sent Congress-.
In accordance with instructions con-
veyed to him by the President fEnfant
proceeded, and, in time, answering a call
from Congress, submitted to the Presi-
dent and to Secretary Jefferson an incom-
plete plan of the city, which the President