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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
Star Bureau.
Metropolitan National Bank Bldg.

WASHINGTON, May ID.
Because the wife of the President
has gone Summing and seen for her.
self conditions as they exist in the
back alleys and hidden courts of the
capital city, there is a probability
that Congress viii be urged to really
do something besides talk about
cleaning up these plague spots.
Few visitors to Washington, and not
many residents, probably, see or know
much of the slums of this city. The
beautiful avenues. boulevards. parks
and residential streets of the capital,
together with the public buildings and
grounds, are the features which at
tract attention and give Washington
the deserved reputation of being the
most beautiful city in the world. I'm
less one looks for the alleys, and
knows where to find them, there is
little to suggest extreme poverty
squalor or Indebtedness in Washing
ton
Back of the marble palaces of rich
men. sandwiched in between residen-
lldl SlfGelSf nOMCNCLs hAC W
wards of $50 alleys and courts in
Washington-fo the most part dark,
dirty and squalid-where the extreme
ly poor people live, or exist. In novels
and tenements unfit for habitation.
usually owned by rich men and
rented at high prices. blacks and
whites mlngle in sordid wretchedness,
poverty and amid social and sanitary
conditions which are hardly to be
equaled, for all-around undesirable
ness. in any other city of the country.
1t is in these back alleys and courts
of the capital city that the infant
mortality rate becomes the highest in
the United States. In the alleys and
courts of Washington, twenty babies
out of every hundred that are born
die before they are year old.
Congress has been asked repeated
ly to clean them out Berger, the
Socialist Congressman, urged that
Congress build decent tenements for
the alley-dwellers. where they could
have light and air, at least.
It remained, however, for Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson. wife of the Presi-
dent, to focus attention on the alley
problem of Washington. Since NOV
ing into the White House, Mrs. Will
son has shown little interest in So
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
REV. NUSSBAUM TO BE
MADE BISHOP TOMORROW

WEST HOBOKEN. N. j., May 10
The apostolic delegation of Washing
ton, D. c., will come here tomorrow
morning to officiate in the consecra-
ton of the Rev. Paul Nussbaum at
st. Michaels Roman Catholic Church.
this town. Father Nussbaum has
been appointed bishop of Corpus
Christi, Tex.
The ceremonies of conservation will
be held in st. Michaers Church and
will be in charge of Bishop Charles
Mcdonnell. of Brooklyn, and Bishop
John j. OConnor, of Newark
Father Nussbaum has not as yet
announced when he will officially take
charge of the diocese of Corpus
Christi.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
PACIFIC ROADS SEEK
PLAN FOR A MERGER

WASHINGTON. May 19.-Repre-
sentatives of the Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific railroads are striving
to formulate q plan of dissolution of
their merger, which will be mutually
satisfactory to the two interests in
volved, according to advices received
today by Attorney General McReyn-
olds from New York
The attorney-general was in touch
with the situation over the long dis
lance telephone. Officials here were
unable to state whether there was
prospect of an agreement between
the two roads. The Thoroughbred
has advised them that, as he views
the situation at present, the Central
Pacific railroad should be divorced
from the Southern Pacific in the plan
of dissolution. His decision is ten
tative.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
NOTED NATURALIST is
STRANGELY MISSING

PHILADELPHIA. May 19.-Charles
j. Pennock, a well-known business
man, naturalist and public official of
Kennett Square, near here, was to-
day added to the long list of mysteri-
Gus disappearances which the police
of this city are trying to solve. Tween
ty-five men, several of them WELL
known business men, have been re-
ported as missing within the past two
months and in only few cases have
they been located.
Pennock. who is a brother of As
semblyman Theodore Pennock, and
an uncle Of Herbert Pennock, the
Philadelphia American League team
pitcher. has been missing since last
Thursday night, when he left some
friends in Broad street station to take
train for his home after attending
a meeting at the Academy of Natural
Sciences. He is 90 years old and is a
justice of the peace.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
CLAPP WOULD FORESTALL
WILSON CAMPAIGN PLAN

WASHINGTON, May 19.-Senator
Clapp introduced bill today to make
it unlawful for a senator or repre-
sentative to serve on any political
committee, club or organization, and
to prohibit congressman under PEN
atty of fine or Imprisonment from
soliciting campaign funds.
For years both the Republican and
Democratic congressional committees
have been headed by members of
Congress. Within the last few days
political advisers of President Will
son, at his request, urged the naming
of more senators upon the Democratic
congressional committee.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
NEWARK AUTO CRUSHES
GIRL PLAYING w STREET

NEW YORK, May 19.-Struck by a
motor truck of the International
Motor Company $50 Ferry street,
Newark. N. j., 7-year-old Helen Cox,
of 24s0 Eighth avenue, is in a serious
condition in the Harlem Hospital to-
day with a fractured skull.
The chauffeur of the truck, George
r. Beauregard, of Il Earl street,
Newark, reported the accident at the
Lenox avenue police station. The po-
lice, satisfied that the accident was
not his fault, paroled him.
The little girl was playing in 1880
street, near her home, when the
truck, loaded with a party of men
and women on their way to a picnic
on City Island, approached. She be-
came confused and ran in front of it.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
MRS. LONGSTREET TELLS
SENATOR'S ABOUT CUSTER
Confederate Generals Widow
Bitterly lronical at Hearing.

WASHINGTON, May 19.-Mrs.
Helen d. Longstreet, widow of the
noted Confederate general, had a
hearing before the Senate postoffice
committee today to give her version
of the circumstances leading TO her
displacement as postmistress at
Gainesville, Ga.
Mrs. Longstreet did not ask rein
statement, but sought to reply to
Postmaster General Burleson's state
ment that her office was poorly man
aged. She referred to Mr.. Burleson
as president Wilson's sixty-day post
master-general."
Mrs. Longstreet declared that she
was the victim of the Georgia Rail-
way and Power Company, which, she
said, had pursued her because she
urged legislation Ito curtail its
favors." She presented a long list of
Endorsements of her administration
and asserted that the people of her
community who knew her were more
competent to judge her than the post
master-general.
1.-THE immortal commander whose
name ] bear, who resigned commits
sion in the American army TO fol-
low the banners of the South until
the last stainless one was furled at
Appomattox and thenceforth found
himself an outcast in the land whose
battlefields had run red with his
heroic blood declared Mrs. Long
street, was not made to suffer more
than | have been made to suffer at
the hands of that branch of Democ-
tacy which is in the saddle down in
the good old Democratic State of
Georgia. in the year that has placed
a Virginia gentleman in the White
House"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
FED WIFE CHOLERA GERMS
TO COLLECT INSURANCE

FRANKFORT, Germany, May 49,
Carl Hopf has confessed to the police
that he is guilty of having attempted
to kill his third wife-a Frankfort
girl whom he married in London-by
administering to her cholera and ty-
plus germs. He concealed the germs.
he says, in mincemeat.
His first wife died soon after her
child was born. Poisoning was sus-
pected. but Hopf won. a libel suit
against his accuser and collected a
large sum of insurance on his wife's
life. His second wife fell i'll with
poison symptoms. She recovered and
divorced Hopf. Then he passed
through bankruptcy. His third wife
he insured for $40, 200. When she was
taken to hospital he was arrested.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
SULZER BEGINS ACTIVE
WAR FOR PRIMARY LAW

BUFFALO, N. Y, May 19.-Actual
political war between Governor Sui
yer and the opponents of his direct
primary law begins today in Buffalo,
where the governor will fire six tell
ing shots. in the form of addresses,
into the camp Of his enemy.
Governor Sulzer contends that the
direct primary bill is really nom
partisan. that the platforms of the
Democrats, the Progressives and the
Republicans, all pledged their repre-
sentatives to 1t. The failure of the
Legislature to pass the bill he pre-
scented for Statewide primaries he
describes as betrayal of their trust
and of the people.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
Suffragettes Hire
Women as Firebugs

LONDON. May REORGANIZATION OF
the hint that the militant suffragettes
are hiring women of a lower class as
members of their larson squads was
received this morning when Nellie
Robinson was arrested outside the
famous New College Chapel at
Hampstead The woman described
herself as a servant and said she was
awaiting the arrival of two. snffra-
gettes under whose direction she was
going to fire the church.
The police magistrate before whom
the woman was charged remarked
that she seemed TO be In course OF
training as professional petroleum
incendiary under miscreants worse
than herself"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
WOULD PUT ALL TRUST
GOODS ON FREE LIST

WASHINGTON. May 19.-An
amendment to the tariff bill intro
duced today by Senator Kenyon pro-
posed that when any corporation or
concern was adjudged monopoly its
products should automatically go on
the free list.
Mr.. Kenyon has hopes that the
finance committee may favorably
consider the amendment, but IL not
he will press 1t on the floor. The pro-
posal has almost unlimited possible
ties of overturning schedules.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
Names Government Prober
for Railroad Trust" Fight

NEW YORK, May 19.-Attorney-
General McReynolds today an
nounced the appointment of Thomas
w. Gregory, of Augustin, Tex, as a
special assistant to prosecute the
Federal governments proposed ex-
tensive investigation of the railroad
situation in New England, particu-
larly relating to the New York, New
Haven and Hartford to determine
whether the Sherman antitrust law
is being violated.
The investigation will begin with
in a few days, when Mr.. Gregory
will arrive in Washington for a con-
sultation with the attorney general.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
PASTOR WON'T MARRY
WITHOUT DOCTORS o. K.

NEWBURGH, N. Y. May 19.-If
you and your girl can't produce a
doctors certificate to show that you
are in good health there's no use of
applying to the Rev. J. Woodward
Rabbit, of the Presby terian Church
here.
At the inception of his pastorate
of Calvary Presbyterian Church yes
terday, the Rev. Mr.. Rabbit made
an announcement to such effect from
his pulpit. Needless to say it caused
of a sensation in his con-
gregation. The Rev. Mr.. Rabbit but
recently finished at Princeton.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
AMERICAN SEES POPE

ROME. May 19.--An American pill
grimage of fifty persons conducted by
the Rev. John Grimes. bishop of
Syracuse. N. Y. was received here
this morning by Cardinal Merry Del
Val, papal secretary of state. Bishop
Grimes was afterward received in
private audience by the Pope. He is
the first American prelate to be re-
ceived since the pontiffs illness. He
reported that he found the Pope look
ing we'll. in cheerful spirits and alert
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
Pastor Bars Inez Milholland
from Speaking in Church

BOSTON. May 1e.-Barred from
Arlington Street Church in the Back
Bay, of which the Rev. Paul Revere
Frothingham,. brother of ex-Lieuten-
Governor Louis A. rockingham,
is minister, Miss Inez Milholland, the
New York suffragist, and Mrs. Rose
Pastor Stokes, the Socialist settle
ment worker, addressed an immense
gathering in Ford Hall last night.
Their speeches were part of the pro-
gram of. the opening meeting of the
anniversary week of the Unitarian
Fellowship of Social Justice. which
for three years had been held In
Arlington Street Church.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
DIR. MARKENS INFERNO IN
ESSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL

Despite the opposition of some
members of the Board Of Freehold
ers. DR.. Edward w. Markens is now
acting as inferno at the Essex Coun-
ty Hospital at Overlook. He was
appointed temporarily by Freebooter
Ernest e. Ryman. chairman of the
hospital committee.
The protest against Markers is
based on q notorious dinner in 1900.
For his part in the affair he was in
dicted and fined $500 and costs. He
was once before named inferno in
1907, but the action was rescinded
when the committee learned of his
record
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
Wilson Says He Favors
Campaign Consolidation

WASHINGTON. May 19.-President
Wilson today told Chairman Lloyd
and Secretary Page. of the Demo-
cratic congressional committee, he
was in hearty accord with plans they
outlined to him, for cooperation of the
congressional committee and the
Democratic national committee in the
campaigns of 1914 and 1916.
Messrs. Lloyd and Page, after a
conference with Democratic senator's,
probably will recommend to the con-
gressional committee an expansion OF
it's membership so as to embrace 80
representatives and 81 senators.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
JOHN A. scUDDER DIES

ST. LOUIS. Mo-, May 19.-John A.
scudder, a retired capitalist, died
suddenly at his home here today of
apoplexy. He was SO years old. In
the golden days of river traffic on the
Mississippi Mr.. Scudder was steam
boat captain. He was an organizer of
the Memphis and st. Louis aine.
known as the Anchor line. and at
various times had been a director in
ST. Louis financial institutions.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
SAY CHARGES AGAINST
ENVOY LACKED PROOF

WASHINGTON. May 1s-White
House officials today when informed
that dispatches from Mexico City in
terupted Secretary Bryan's statement
of last Saturday as an Endorsement
of Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson,
expressed the opinion that there never
had been any proof to substantiate
the charges recently made against
the ambassador.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
DUKE OF LEINSTER TO
VISIT UNITED STATES

NEW YORK, May 19.-The Duke of
Leinster, or, as he is affectionately
called by his tenants in Ireland, THE
Little Duke" is coming to America
on visit. He is the youngest duke
of the realm, possesses a large estate
and an income of eight or ten million
dollars to keep it up, so will escape
the imputation that he seeks an
American heiress.
His friends in America intimate
that romance is not impossible, as
result of his voyage. He and the
Duke of st. Adams are the only bach
elors among the twenty-seven dukes
of Great Britain and ireland.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
RED PEPPER AND EGGS
PUT DANCERS TO FLIGHT

SoLoMON'S ISLAND. Nd, May 10.
"A dance given here by Hulburt
Footner. a magazine writer. was
broken up by residents of the island,
who by the liberal use of red pepper
and rotten eggs put the dancers TO
flight. The guests included several
officers of the battleship Illinois,
which Is lying at anchor here.
When the women left the hall they
were compelled to turn their opera
cloaks wrong side out to prevent
them from being ruined. There has
been no action taken by the authors
ties of the island.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
JERSEY SLAYER CAUGHT
BY POLICE IN VERMONT

RUTLAND, VT. May 19.-Biazzi
Horino. charged with the murder of
an Italian named Shebbell at Asbury
Park, N. J., April 6. was arrested at
Arlington yesterday and brought here
to await officers from New Jersey to-
day The prisoner claims the killing
of Shebbell was in self-defense.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
BISHOP LINES oRDAINS

NEW YORK, May 19.--Bishop Ed
win s. Lines. of Newark, held his
Trinity ordinations in New York yes
terday, in Calvary Church, in Fourth
avenue, at Twenty-first street. The
Rev. Raymond s. Brown, Methodist
minister of the New Jersey Confer
ence, whose going out of Methodism
provoked considerable discussion; Ed
win r. Noel and Francis II. ]. Coffin
were ordained deaccns. The Rev.
Mr.. Brown has been acting assistant
In Calvary Church.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
PARIS NO LONGER SAFE
FOR MISS PANKHURST

LONDON. May 19.-Miss Christabel
Pankhurst. who fed to Paris to avoid
arrest with her mother, the leader of
the militants. and hasssince been con-
Quoting the suffragettes. campaign of
terror from~her hiding place there. Is
now about. to fee to Belgium or Ger
many lest she should be arrested by
the French government. message
from Paris says.
Suffragettes here are much alarmed
for her safety. 1t is believed she has
charge of the hidden fund, amount
ing to more than half a million dol
lars, of which the police are anxious
to deprive the cause"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
JOHNSON HEARING OFF

CHICAGO, May 19.-Federal Judge
Carpenter today postponed hearing
OF a motion for new trial for Jack
johnson. the negro pugilist recently
convicted of violation of the Mann
white slave act. Postponemsnt was
due to absence Of Assistant United
states District Attorney Harry A.
Parkin, who prosecuted the case.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
5000 our ON STRIKE

BUFFALO, N. Y, May 19.-About
5000 machinists went on strike here
today for increased wages and
shorter working hours. The men de-
mand minimum wage of 371z cents
an hour. a nine-hour day and five
hours on Saturday. They have been
working ten hours at a varying scale
Police guards have been placed at all
the shops.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
TAX BOARD SECRETARY'S
JOB LASTS ONLY A YEAR
tE,om a STAR Correspondent.J

TRENTON, N. j., May 19.-Holding
that the office of secretary of the At
lantic County Board of Taxation is
for a fixed term of one year, the Su-
preme Court today decided in the
fight for the place between John A.
Burgan and Franklin f. Smith, that
Smith was the incumbent from 1906
to 1911.
Burgan was appointed in 1912.
Smith claimed protection from re-
moval under the civil service law.
The court, however, said the statute
prescribed a one-year incumbency.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
RECEIVES SUPPLY BIDS

TFrOm q STAN COrFtsDOndent.J
TRENTON, N. j., May 19.--State
Road Commissioner Stevens today re-
ceived bids for road materials and
machinery to be used by State prison
ers in road building. The successful
competitors will be announced this
afternoon. There we're sixty eight
bidders in all.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
KAISER HONORS COUSIN,
GEORGE ", BY PARDONS

BERLIN, May 1s.-Emperor Will
lam, as an act of grace in connection
with the visit of Prince George of
England to Berlin for the marriage
of Princess Victoria Luise, today
granted a pardon to three English
spies undergoing long sentences in
German jails.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
JAIL HARVARD MAN AS SPY

Z CAMBRIDGE. May 19,--Walter
Franzen, of st. Paul, a Harvard
iunior. who left college a few months
ago for Europe, has recently been re-
leased from Imprisonment in italy,
after being accused of being a no
torious German spy. He was arrest
ed in Milan in mistake for Franz
8 Walther, German secret agent,
whose home is in st. Paul, Hesse
1 Cassel.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1913-12-27

return to her own humble home. Sh'
remained on at Graystone Hall. nov
rarely visited by her husband Shf
found herself calmly accepted. yet
calmly neglected as well. Very natu
rally she hated the new Mrs Rawn
with all her soul; a hatred which that
lady repaid with nothing better than
a straight look into Graee's eyes, =
look innocent. calm. and wholly fear
less. Grace must now see the very
jewels her own mother should have
worn, blazing at the neck and hands OF
her stepmother; must see that lady
taking assu7edly and as Of right. what
Grace could now never ask or expect
for herself. With an unapproachable
and wholly hateful air of distinction
and good breeding which ranked most
of all in crude Mrs. Halseys heart.
Virginia Rawn sat high on the car OF
Juggernaut; and the ear of Juggernaut
passed on. In pride and delight over
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1913-12-27

his young wife John Rawn really for
got his daughter. The young new wife
did the same, or appeared to do so
John Rawn had told the truth to his
wife when first he had declared his
sentiments toward her--he never be.
fore that time really had known love.
or at least had not known infatuated
love such as that he felt for her. He
exulted in the vistas Of delight which
he saw before them, fancying them
endless The very sight OF his wife,
cool, faultless. self possessed, naughty.
filed him with a sense of his own i'm
portance. making him feel that he was
one of Gods chosen. She was his, he
had found her, discovered her, col
lected her. She was his to put upon
a pedestal, to admire, to display, to
worship, to load down with jewels, He
had something now which other men
coveted and envied. He Haunted his
ownership of such woman In their
faces. What more can rich man do
than that same? Is that not the dream
and test of power-to secure what 9th
ers may not have, to secure special
privileges in this life? And is not the
quest OF beauty the first business OF
him who has attained power? OF all
these special privileges which had
come to John Rawn so swiftly in these
late rapid years, none so delicately
and warmly filled his heart as that OF
being able to call Virginia Rawn his
own. Why blame him? The sultans
OF thirty or forty generations have de.
vlsed nothing better than this test OF
power.
John Rawn, with all properly arts
tocratic leanings toward sultanry.
lacked certain elements of sultanhood
in strength, but had others in weak
ness He did not know that In reality
he was In the hands OF a stronger ma
ture than his own. She's got him
jumping through hoops" was the COM
ment OF one young man. He'll sit up
and bark whenever she gives the
word" But Rawn did not know that
he was barking and jumping, his
tongue hanging out excitedly. In all
his mental pictures Of himself he fan.
cied himself to be a figure OF dignity,
of strength. indeed OF majesty.
GRO BE CONTINUED