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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04
THE CRIME OF THE FISH TRUST.

THE NEW JERSEY of the richest fishing grounds
its peculiar situation causing great shooS "
fish the search of food and for spawning
This is important natural resource of the State and 1t
should for the benefit of the people OF the
State. Is it?
The Star today gives show how this natural resource
property of the people has been exploited for many years. anu
now exploited monoposc foreign interests No less than
mounds of fish the pound nets
that pr and sold exorbitant prices in the retail mar
ets and for this received beggary dole of S44o
for the pound nets The retail value OF the wo
at only pound would be $7628 the income OF
e mound the Fish and Game Commission
for the year being showing that more than three
fths value of the fish went to the mddlema the trust
profits per pound amounting to upwards of S2oOOOoo
All kinds almost prohbitve prices and higher
prices Eggs audnous in cost to the consumer
provided abundant store of fish on our COASTS ana
when the people despair from and to fish what
do they find?
A comorant trust squatted gathering this
GREAT sending warehouses be kept for long periods
so that the markets may controlled shipping all fish to
New York Jersey retailer buy his New Jersey
fish prices penalty of being denied supply OF hSh from
other coasts.
Because f this of the New Jersey fisheries
the prices markets have doubled in the last
ten years been of the necessities of
by of the most outrageous combinations Tor tore
sang supply that exists this And although
exploitation has for all the remedy the
Legislature attempted the imposition of small license tax
pound nets which the consumer pays
New Jersey goes and therefore
comes under jurisdiction If State legislatures be
controlled the representatives of the
Fish such extent that it has been impossible to get
bill aimed legislative committee the Interstate
be appealed for redress for the
pie OF the State.
This fragrant of the bounty of this systematic
robbery the birthght of the and children OF New
Jersey time when there is distress in tens of thou
of homes because of the excessive cost OF living cannot
any longer There must be remedy and without delay
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04
LAZY TOWN is STARVING

without pay than abandon the desk
at which ne has worked for so many
years, remained in office.
For the last two weeks all the OIL
cial letters have been accommodating
on the town clerks desk ready to be
mailed, but this is impossible, be-
cause there is no money for the post
age stamps. Banns of marriage can
not be published, as required by law,
because there Is neither mayor nor
aldermen to sign them.
The property of the little town is
the source of all its troubles. This
property is represented by the ia
guna,'' vast expanse of stagnant sea
water from which the town energies
like q rustic Venice.
The inhabitants have never had any
other trade than that of fishermen,
and the 1aguna" is supposed to TEEN
with the latest cells on the coast
The mode of life was all right until
the town began to grow. In the last
fifty years Comacchio has doubled its
population, the easy-going life of its
citizens evidently having attracted
many others from neighboring dis
tricts.
And whether it is that these people
found even fishing too strenuous an
occupation or that the fish have
grown lazy. too, and refuse to bite,
the fact remains that the 'laguna"
no longer yields a sufficient number
of cells to keep them all fat and well,
and having no other resources to
fall back upon, Comacchio is simply
starving.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04

The following interesting facts re-
garding Greek immigrants in Amer
lea are taken from a work on the
subject by Rev. Thomas Burgess.
In 1S4S there arrived in New York
91,O61 Irishmen, 51,972 Germans one
Greek. In 1891 the number of Greek
immigrants first passed three figures.
In 1907 there were 4e,2S3, including
Greeks from Turkish dominions.
Greeks are the most widely distrib-
uted of all recent immigrants, They
are in every State; hardly a large
town is without two or three. The
largest colonies are in California, H.
900: Florida, 1900: Illinois, 100000, :
900 in Chicago; Massachusetts, 10000
5000 in Lowell; Missouri, 5000; New
York. 81, 0O0-20 600 in the metropolis;
Ohio. 10,300;. Oregon. 5000; Pennsyl-
vania, 1890; Texas, Utah and WON
ing 1000 each; Washington 5000;
Wisconsin. $500.
All the Greeks are educated; many
who work in hotels are university
men. Greek lawyers are beginning
to get a foothold: fifty Greek doctors
are doing good work.
Two Greek daily newspapers IN
New York circulate all over the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEADSUS

eigh and Blake. cannot help IL.
The reign of Elizabeth is as much 2
part of the history of the United
States of America as of England. Al
fred the Great was a contender
against the heather for us as much as
for Kent or Northumberland, Addison
wrote for us Our drama struggled
for light In Marlow's mighty line, IN
Nash Peele and Greene; and it was
our drama which lowered out In the
tremendous Shakespeare.
We, may regret it, but SO long as
language is our only mode of express
ing thought, language will bind us u
fine Greater Dnglishery of which Ems
land is only a minor fraction. Those
freshmen of Portland are filled with
the patriotism which has set ireland
against England so long and SO justly
and they are right.
And the children of those German
snea<ing societies-will they feel that
aftachn1ent to the fatherland which
throbs in their protest against the
speech of Ambassador Page? newt
ably not. Most of them will not speak
German at all. To most who do speak
it ii will be foreign language. In
school. instead of Schiller, Goethe and
Heine,. they will read Shakespeare
Lowell and Edwin Markham. Wheh
liberty of the press is to be cham
pioned they will look up old John
Milton. When resistance to tyranny
is discussed, they will glow with en-.
tbusiasm, not at the deeds of any
German hero, but at the equally
splendid lives of Pym, Hampden,
Elliot and Cromwell In legend they
will read Chevy Chace and the Ballad
of sir Patrick Spens, and not the
Nibelungenlied.
Because they will have to read what
they can read.
So, in a certain sense, we are, after
all in spite of ourselves. English led
and English ruled. Not by England,
but by English. England, Canada,
New Zealand and many
other lands are ruled and led by the
same English speech that rules and
leads us. It is the aura of our civ
ilization and envelopes us who speak
this wonderful language, whether we
be white or black, blonde or brunette,
Teuton, Latin or Celt. I suspect that
this is what Page said-and, whether
we like it or not, it is true.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04

The sad plight of a town which is
too poor because 1t is too rich is now
giving food for thought and a great
amount of trouble to the Italian au-
thorities. For such, indeed, is the
fate of poor Comacchio, a sleepy
flshermen's town on the Venetian
'laguna."
Neglected by tourists because the
inhabitants seem to consider it be-
meath their dignity to undertake that
systematic exploitation of foreign
visitors for which Venice, their pros
porous neighbor, has become famous,
Comacchio is nevertheless just as
picturesque.
The ruins of days gone by are Just
as beautiful, the nights are just as
wonderful there as in the Pearl of
the Adriatic," but the good citizens
of Comacchio are starving. showing
thereby that towns, like individuals,
are often more hampered than helped
by inherited wealth.
The situation reached it's climax in
last April, when the municipality be-
came SO heavily involved in debt that
the municipality was declared a bank
rupt, and a trustee, appointed by a
royal commission from Rome, took
charge.
Two months ago, following the
exodus of the Town Council, all pay
ments of salaries were stopped for
lack of funds, and only the town clerk,
a faithful old employee, who has
spent the better part of his life in
that position, and would rather work
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04

The electric battery generates
supply of electricity by chemical ac-
ton. 1t differs from the magnetic OF
DYNAMO, which generates electricity
from the engine. When this chemical
action ceases the supply of electricity
ceases, and the battery is worn out
So far as human eyes can see the
battery is just as good as 1t ever was,
but it will not produce any current
worthy of the name.
All batteries consist of three essen
tials. the two metal plates and the
chemical solutions. The plates are
called electrodes and the chemical is
the eIectrolyte. Dry batteries are dry
in name only. II they were absolute
dry. they would not work at all. me
only difference between dry battery
and a. wet battery is that in the for
mer the electrolyte is in the form or
paste and in the latter 1t is a solu-
ton.
The action of all batteries is about
the same, regardless of kind. me
plates usually consist of zinc and
copper. or zinc and carbon. The
chemical may be diluted sulphuric
acid, blue vitriol or number of other
chemicals. This chemical solution at
tacks and destroys the zinc plate
when the circuit is complete. When
the circuit is broken the chemical &C
ton ceases, and, consequently, no
current flows. When the circuit is
completed the chemical immediately
attacks the metal plates. 1t eats up,
or burns up, the zinc plate. This ac-
ton produces energy. Some of the
energy is wasted in heat, some is
changed into electrical energy Which
flows out over the wires to ignite the
gasoline charge in the engine or to
| do other useful work for mankind,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Romantic Story of George Law.

dustrious, energetic and of good
habits and who had the faculty of
looking into the future.
yet while George Law was gaining
in prosperity he was constantly in
touch with the old folks upon the
farm in the country near Troy. He
had accumulated a considerable sum
upon which he was relying as finan-
cial basis for certain contracts which
he hoped to secure. But just at that
time he heard indirectly that his old
father was staggering under load of
Indebtedness. His farm had been
mortgaged and the interest upon the
mortgage was eating up the farm.
young Law did not hesitate an in
slant. He went to his father and
asked for a statement which would
show what his indebtedness was
When the statement was procured
the young man took out of his small
accumulation enough to liquidate
every mortgage so that he was able
TO turn over to his father quit
was relieved of all membranes.
After he had saved the farm and
put his father upon his feet George
Law started in to make good what
he had spent for his father and it
seemed as though he was TO be well
rewarded for the personal sacrifices
he had made. Everything he took
hold of was SUCCESSFUL and before he
was forty years of age his name was
known from one end of the country
to the other and in Great Britain as
well, for it was he who built the won
derful High Bridge over the Harlem
river at New York and the almost
equally wonderful Croton reservoir
II never heard man talk with
such enthusiasm of the glorious OPP
/ portunities which the United States
| offered to the poor and friendless as
George Law always did when the SUBJ
ject was alluded to. And it was this
firm spirit of Americanism which LED
so many members of the American
| party in 1856 to fix upon George Law
as the candidate of that party for the
! presidency"
| Copyright, 1913 by e. j. Edwards
All rights reserved.)
Tomorrow Mr.. Edwards will tell O
MIR. Jerome's Lost Shirt Cuff"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04

"I do not think that the history of
any American who began with moth
ing and who accumulated by his own
energy and thrift a great fortune is
more romantic or instructive than the
story of the career of George Law.
Captain Frederick G. Wagner MADE
mis- statement to me recently. He
smoke as one having some authority.
He has been personally familiar with
the careers OF many of the success
full Americans who began with moth
ing. He knew the} earliest genera
tion of the Nanderbilts intimately.
He had vivid recollections of the time
when T.. H. Hartmann worked In
brokers' office. He was provost mar
shall of New York in 1858 and did much
to ouell the mob which for two days
had complete possession OF the city
George Law was the son OF an
Irish immigrant, who settled upon
little farm not far from Troy, New
York, in the earliest days of our re-
public" went on Mr.. Wagner. Upon
that farm George Law was born IN
1906 and he worked as hard as ever
farmers boy did, partly because he
was a perfect bundle OF energetic
nerves and partly because he WIS an
yious to help his father. His birth
Mace was not far from the boyhood
home of Leland STANFORD, VINO niaue
a great and very successful career in
California.
George Law was still in his teens
when he started out for himself. He
had but little schooling, but he made
the most of what he did have. He
read a great deal and he was fasci-
mated by the biography of an engl-
neer whose name have forgotten
which came into his hands. | sup
pose that biography furnished the
| first inspiration which George Law
had to make the most of himself,
"He got some mental employment
as a laborer when he left home and
out of his scant wages he always
managed to save something with
which to help his father
perhaps ten or twelve years afteI
he had left home he had by thrift
accumulated several thousand dol
lars. He was then beginning to see
his way clear toward his career. He
realized as well as any young Ameri-
can ever did how great were the OPP
portunities which the United States
opened to a young man who was in
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04
RESPONSIBILITY FOR A GREAT TRAGEDY.

INVESTIGATION OF the heartrending fire tragedy in Bos
which twenyeght lost their lives and fortyfve
injured cheap lodging hotel shows criminal cupabi the
of the of the building The interior had been danger
ousy make space for the unhappy dodgers who
traps The fire escapes opened from small
rooms, rented by dodgers and locked at night
Buddensek earned the reprobaon of mankind by erecting
dwellings msy that they fell and crushed their inmates but he
did the wholesale butchy of human beings caused by
the soues greed of the Boston hotel Why such death
trap permitted exist in city like Boston would under
standing if there had been Triangle factory holocaust
New York and similar tragedy in own city.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04
GREEKS IN AMERICA

country; fourteen weeklies are scat
tered from Boston to San Francisco.
There are Greek schools, societies,
militia companies.
The Greek church needs an Ameri-
can bishop. 1t is under the rule of
the metropolitan in Athens, the pa
triarch in Constantinople having re-
linquished in his favor charge over
Greeks from Turkish parts. There
are sixteen new churches in the
Greek architectural form, of which
one in Lowell cost $4,000, or $40 for
each Greek Sin the town; twelve
churches bought from other bodies,
of which the one in New York cost
$50, 900, and services in hired halls.
Greek candymen are familiar ev-
erywhere. Greeks themselves do not
like candy, though Turks do. In the
west Greeks work as railroad hands
and on farms. In Massachusetts they
have gone into the mills in great
numbers, in towns where they are
miserably housed.
The Greeks who came first were
young men. They are beginning to
bring their wives or to marry here.
Between 30, 900 and $4,000 Greek vet
Grams and reservists went from AM
erica to fight in the Balkan war.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04
Johns Ambition.

/ amt a-goin' to be a soldier-no.
Not even general, though it's great
to go
To war an kill a hundred men or so.
An ] amt goin' to go away out West,
Where they is Injuns, cowboys an
the rest.
Though l. ulster think that that 'ud
be the best fi
Nor j shan't be the clown in the
circus when
They all cant ride the mule but him,
an then
They all try to, an get bucked off
again
No. sir. I'm going to run a picture
SHOW
The very SWEETEST kind they is, yo'
= know
SOS, whenever. they feel like it. my
kids can. SO,
Virginia cleaver Bacon IN Judge.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04
HANDY LITTLE BATTERY

such as ringing the door bell sending
a telegram or carrying speech over
the telephone wires.
When either of these metal plates
is destroyed, or the chemical has so
changed itself by combination with
the metals that it will no longer at
tack the plates, the chemical action
ceases. Therefore, the electricity
ceases to flow out over the wires.
Ordinary battery cells soon polar
ize and cease to work. This means
that the metal plates become covered
with a film of insulation material,
such as hydrogen gas, so the chemi-
cal action cannot take place. This
also stops the electrical current.
Numerous chemicals are put into bat
teries to offset this polarization. When
these polariZing agencies cease to
perform their duties, from becoming
exhausted or otherwise, the battery
will not work. even though the plates
remain intact and seemingly as good
as ever they were.
But there is no remedy for a worn
out battery. Dry batteries are so in
cased and covered with insulation
that it would absolutely destroy one
to try to remove the plates. The job
would not be worth the trouble. 1t is
easier and cheaper to buy new bat
teries.-From the Electrical News.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04
BY HERBERT QUICK
Copyrighted, 1913, by the Newspa-
per Enterprise AssOciatiOn.)

per Enterprise AssOciatiOnsI
| Perhaps Ambassador Walter II.
Page made an error when he spoke
recently in London on the relations
between this country and England
Certainly he put his foot in it II, as
reported he spoke of this country
as English led and English ruled
II he said that. the protests of the
confederated speaking. socl-
cites and the Irishmen of the ROBERT
Emmett Society, of Portland, Oregon,
are well grounded.
The best men in Canada and Aus
tralia, the masses of the people IN
South Africa and New Zealand Woutd
protest against the suggestion that
they are English led and English
ruled"-and they live under the Brit
ish flag. 70 say that we of the
greatest English speaking nation on
earth, the pedestined leaders of the
Notwithstanding world, are English
led or "English ruled" is something
I shall not believe Ambassador Page
has said until l read his very and ad-
mitted words. We are led by our
own public opinion: and, as for our
ruling. we are making very prolnis-
ing effort to rule ourselves.
But. in spite of all we can do-and
we need not regret tour destiny is
Influenced by the origin, not OF our IN
dividual blood but of our institutions
Our language is English. Save for the
single exception of Louisiana, our
state laws are English. Our jury sys-
tenn is English. Our federal laws are
based on English precedent. Our fed
eral constitution is more nearly the
British constitution of 1877 than Is the
present constitution of Great Britain;
This will always give to our lie ana
thought a background and an atmos-
phere not of the England of today,
but of the life out of which the Eng
land of today came. l am a. Dutch
man by fifteen-sixteenths of my an
cestry: but my attitude toward things
is historically determined, not by tne
deeds of William the Silent Maurice
of Nassau, John of Barneveld and Ad-
miral Won Tromp but by Magma
Carta. the Petition of Right, the de-
feat of the Armada, the deeds of Raj
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
nECEMRER4
DECEMBER q
Madame Recanier
Copyrighted. 1913.

BY MARY
Jeanne Recamier. who was born on
December 4, 1777, was taught by her
French mother from the time she
could first lisp that woman's most i'm
portant characteristic is beauty, and
that woman's greatest achievement
could be accomplished through the
exercise of personal charm. Surely
little Jeanne profited by this wise
teaching But, to quote her biograph-
err. "a prudent reserve attended both
mother and daughter, even in their
moments of weakness, which never
reached the point of folly" And it is
for this reason-that the adorable
Madame Recamier in the midst of all
the corruption and folly she saw
about her never stopped to it herself
that she still is remembered as one OF
the most remarkable women OF the
Napoleonic era.
Jeanne was educated in convent
school, where her mother sister was
a nun, and here she was taught TO
make the most of her natural gifts.
She was trained to speak with a
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04
OUTLOOK FOR A GOOD LEGISLATIVE SESSION

THE ORGANIZATION of the Legislature agreed upon
in Democratic Tuesday with singular freedom from
-feeng this sentiment shall prevail through
record will be made. Coincdentaly the Re-
publican minority announced to be of cooperation
obstruction in legislation the looking get
Republican bills through and possible amending Democratic
that call for amendment
In general the minority promises help reform egis
lation If this program is carried the Legislature should
truly deberatve and its work will be performed without
much of the political partanshp that characterized former
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04
efficiency Expert

The devil opened the furnace door
And heaved in shovel of COAL
When out there popped on the scorching floor
A truculent, half-naked soul.
Look here, good devil, it said, Il pray
You will pardon my seeming haste
Il am--you must listen to what say
Appalled, at your awful waste!
"Two-thirds. of your heat goes up the flue,
Your coal is but half consumed;
If modern plant should compete with you
This business were surely doomed.
Your times and motions I've studied well
AS you hustle the sinners in,
And find you have here but third-rate hell,
For the way it is run is sin"
The devil grabbed up that critic then,
With an angry shake and flirt
And said: Go back to the world of men,
You efficiency expert
If you stay down here you will get my job :
Here he uttered dismal groan)
But if you go" there he gave sob
you will start up hell of your own"
From the Chicago New!
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04
rHE GAUNT DOCTRINE or STATE GoyERNMENT

THE GLOUCESTER who is also master of the State
Grange probably satisfies Jersey granger audience with
why people of the State should be denied the right
TO hold adopt constitution remodel the
old one for constitutional REFORM he said meant
senatorial representation would be changed
that reeourths majority of the and not oneouh
should The would then be control of en-
tire unfamiliar with agricultural needs Agricultural districts
deprived of their rghtfu representation the Senate
knows, but does mention the
the greater agricultural interests in the ten
counties represented the minority in the Senate and
agricultural population represented by
Senator Gaunt ignorant
while he petends speak for the farmers he really
special that powerful the politics
of that they make them pocket boroughs What
Senator attempts uphold government by small and
distinct class.