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creasing interest in the personality OF
Columbus. What adventures We're his
before the great discovery? Who were
his friends? Above ALL how did he come
by germ of the idea that led him to the
new world? These main heads lead to
hundreds of other questions that have
puzzled patient investigators for years.
Is the popular conception of the man
Columbus coTrect?. When the American
citizen studies the story of his many dis
coura gements, his glorious triumph and
his ignominious death, does that citizen
set a true picture of the discoverer of
America?
A mass of conflicting testimony befogs
the history of his life. There are a
dozen cities that claim the honor of his
birthplace He has been given three
distinct nationalities, while only recently
there has been presented the argument of
a distinguished investigator, Senior Garcia
de La Riega, that Columbus was Jew.
In view OF all this conflict of evidence re-
garding his birthplace. citizenship and
creed. it is small wonder that we have a
hazy and possibly entirely false idea Of
the personality of Columbus.
What did he look like? Today, 421
years after he made his world discover
LIE
ing the great admirars personal appear
ance. OF one thing. however. We may be
assured, the discoverer bore little like
ness TO the pictured image which occu-
pies the foreground of Vanderlyn's
famous painting of the Landing of Column
bus.
1t stands to reason that after a voyage
OF two months and nine days in sixty
foot sailing ship he did not step ashore
dressed as though he were going to q
court function. Not only are the popular
representations of the daring sailor S
costume Inaccurate, but the sketch Of
his physical appearance is also all wrong.
The whole difficulty with getting a faith
fill copy of the features of Columbus lies
in the fact of the absence of any life
drawn picture.
The portraits which are so numerous
today can nearly all be traced back to an
engraving called the Paulus Joyius cut,
made from painting that has been lost.
And another factor of inaccuracy, the
lost painting was not an original work,
term ''hearsay evidence" 1t was painted
early in the sixteenth century by the
direction of Spanish nobleman. who at
that time was collecting a gallery por-
trayfng famous Spaniards.
There were men living then who had
known the great sailor. and it is pre-
sumed that the lost portrait was built
upon information they gave. In the
Paulus Jovius engraving Columbus Is
drawn without a beard, and. therefore,
present day artists nearly always repre-
sent him as clean shaver. The cut shows
him as man over fifty years of age.
wearing the peculiar Spanish tabard. the
dress still used by the sailors of Vigo.
In reality the accepted likeness of the
admiral is after the manner of being an
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honor to Christopher Columbus.
More than ever before the thought Of
the discoverer fills the popular mind. 1t is
proposed TO introduce before the present
Congress measure which contemplates
exhuming the body of Columbus and car
ryins his remains on the first ship that
passes through the Panama canal.
According 10 the proposed bill the fin
est hattleship of our navy will be or
dered to Spain. An escort of United
States marines viii bear the relics of TIE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-12
BY JOHN ELFRErH WATKINS.

HALL human flesh
be openly bought
and sold under the
American fiag?"
These words, with
their grim reminder
OF happenings a
half century back.
appear in an off,
cial report received
the other day, In
Washington, from
p r o T. ID e an c.
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cause he rose from the lowest ranks 10
become the Admiral OF the Oceans. Al
the more honor is his award IL despite
lack of early education and opportunity
he made himself the most daring navi-
gator the world has known. An the more
beloved should be his memory TO the peo-
pie of this continent because OF the g-
nominy he suffered in his last days
That the peoples OF both North and
South America hold the discoverer i'm high
respect is attested by the many monu-
ments erected to signalize his deed. Hard
~ an important city from Boston TO
Buenos Aires but can show fitting image
of the valorous Genoese. But IL is only
in recent years that he has been SO hon
ored
The first monument TO Columbus erected
in the United States stands in Baltimore.
A French officer. Charles Francis Adrian
lie Paulmer, Cheyalier dAmour. who came
to America with Lafayette, built a Shaft
on his own estate in 1Tg2, the year of the
tricentennia of the discovery. It is
graceful shaft of English brick over for
ty-four feet high
Within the last few years there has
been an effort to recognize the 18th OF
October as a legal holiday. Columbus
day, those behind the movement MAIN
tain, certainly should be an anniversary
included in the list of American cele-
brations. IL needs only a federal procla-
nation to make it SO. The following states
already officially observe the day; Cali
fornia, Colorado Connecticut, Illinois,
Kentucky, Maryland. Mic gan, Missouri.
Montana. New Jersey. Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Other
countries Observing the date OF tie dis
covery include Brazil, Colombia, Costa
Rice, Peru and Panama.
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hunger it is comparatively easy to buy
his Oh ldren.
Under such circumstances" says Prof.
Worcester. Il have personally known
Negrito girl of marriageable age to be
purchased FOR rice worth $50 in gold.
"A comparatively short time ago., he
adds, "a Nesrito girl was brought in, as
a pony or carabao might be. and offered
for sale to the wife of an English gentle
man living in the outskirts of Manila.
He gives details of the cases OF a dozen
Negr:to slaves known to be residing right
in the city of Manila.
Another tribe which is especially vic
timiZed by the slave dealers is the
Ifugaos- They apply the name 'jimbut
to their unfortunate fellows who become
articles of commerce and who often
change owners several times before
reaching the country of the Ba-li-uon
tChristians)- Some time ago a girl of this
tribe seventeen years old was sold for
two water buffalo, some chickens and a
small amount of money, while there is
record of sales of men and boys for
amounts ranging from S75 TO $50. Lieut..
Gov. Walter +. Hale of the subprovince
of Kalinga, reports that on several oc-
casions when he has been trying cases in
his capacity of justice of the peace slaves
have been offered to him on condition
that their masters be acquitted for
crimes.
1t is still common for Fflipinos living
near TO the Tagbanuas and llongots 70
Opls-ii CfllIuTen ana ADULTS OF THESE
by capture Slave hunting and keeping
stu prevail in the forest Businesses of
the province of AuSusan in Mindanao.
the scene % many historic slave-hunting
raids.
Natives living back from the coast in
Zamboanga are reported by the district
auditor still TO practice "a certain amount
of slavery. The heads of families still
regard it their right and do sell their
daughters as wives or concubines to the
highest bidders
*
An American official who has resided in
the Philippines for fourteen years and
whose duties have brought him into every
province reports to Mr.. Phipps that al
most every person associated with the
Filipinos to any extent is aware of the
fact that slavery exists.
Reporting on the slave traffic in girls,
he says:
i personally have had a number of Of
fers OF this kind and it is a generally
known fact that large percentage of the
Chinese who have Filipino wives or 'quer-
idas' actually bought them at stipulated
price. A recent instance in which l was
offered boys and girls for the small
amount OF $40. SIS and $50 was in An
gust of last year (1912), in Cebu. While
en- route from Zamboanga to Manila l
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Al.


Columbus wrote in Jamaica in 1Jo1 TO
the soyereigns of Spain. In this he sets
forth his theory of the shape of the
world which, as matter of fact he
eoncusively proved Among other odd
Statements. however. he claims To have
definitely located the terrestrial paradise
and the situation of King Solomon 5
mines.
iEnquestionably Christonher Columbus
Was deep student of human nature
and while it may be that he was not as
learned in books as he professed there
can be no doubt that he was a thorough,
practical navigator. What remains OF
his library consists of only three books.
The margins of these are scrubbed with
annotations, clear evidences that they
were much read Their well thumbel
pages show that time after time Column
bus must have pored over their con-
tents.
The most significant of these volumes
is THE Travels o. Marco Polo. This
book spurred the great sailor to his des-
tiny. 1t IVES this story OF marvellous 'ad-
ventures by land and sea. rather than the
apocryphal conversation with the nythi-
cal pilot that melted the world-famous
voyage 1t is a well known trait of hui
man nature that the little should envy
the great.
This envy almost invariably takes the
form of an insidious endeavor TO belit-
tiel the achievements Of extraordinary
personalities Thus ii was with many
who were jealous of the fame and honor
that came TO Columbus. Those envious
minds sought to take from him much OF
his glory and they fabricated the story
of the pilot
He was supposed to have been sailor
who. having made long journey to the
westward one day passed an island in
what was then the unknown sea. He is
supposed TO have impaired this informa
ton to Columbus, and thus revealed to
him the secret of the existence of a new
world.
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He also claimed to be in correspond
ence with the scientists of his time, and
proved how he received his ideas of a
western continent from a letter and map
sent him by Toscanelli, Florentine sa-
want, and he tried in other ways to alb
sterge the fact that he was a self-made
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more one is convinced that his cotem-
poraries looked upon him as something
of crank Columbus was ready talk
er and. like all men OF the sea. he may
have spun some highly coiored yarns lie
seems to have been oppressed 10y the fear
that his record as "A sailor would some
time be brought into question.
From the point of view of imrariial
posterity this fear was absurd. Mhea a
man has accomplished the most stnpend-
Gus thing in history il is hard 90 believe
that he Is sensitive To criticism. But on
this side Columbus was very human And
perhaps there lies the whole eXpiaDoiirn
of his many Inconsistencies OF character.
We are wont to attribute 10 the great
qualities that are superhUman, and We
are disappointed when we find oar idnls
are real flesh and blood. subject t. the
same weakness. emotions aud longings as
we are
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-18
FRUIT LAXATIVE
FOR SICK CHILD.
California Syrup of Figs
can't harm tender stomach,
liver, bowels.

Every mother realizes. after giving
ner children California Syrup of
Figs" that this is their ideal laxa-
tive, because they love its pleasant
taste and it thoroughly cleanses the
tender little stomach, liver and
bowels without gripping.
When cross, irritable, feverish or
breath is bad, stomach sour, look at
the tongue, mother II coated, give
a teaspoonful of this harmless fruit
laxative and in a. few hours all the
foul. constipated waste, sour bile and
undigested food passes out of the
bowels, and you have a well, playful
child again. When its little system
is full of cold, throat sore, has
stomach-ache. diarrhoea, indigestion,
colic-remember good inside
cleaning" should always be the first
treatment given.
Millions of mothers keep Cali
fornia Syrup of Figs" handy: they
know a teaspoonful today saves a
sick child tomorrow. Ask your drug
gist for 5O-cent bottle of California
Syrup of l1gs," which has directions
for babies, children of all ages and
grown-ups printed on the bottle. Be-
ware of counterfeits sold here, SO
don't be fooled. Get the genuine.
made by California Fig Syrup Com
pany."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-18
ASK RECEIVER FOR
MOTHERS ESTATE
Heirs of Mrs. j. L. Love Claim
Father Is NegIecting Prop
erty and Their interests.

The six children of the late Mrs.
Jennie L. Love, of Caldwell. who died
intestate, leaving valuable property
in this city and Caldwell. have filed
a bill with Chancellor Walker asking
that the court direct their father,
William W.>Love, to administer the
estate properly or that a receiver be
appointed by the court.
The bill is filed by the heirs through
Hunt & Anderson, their attorneys.
The petitions claim that a valuable
tract of land at Halsey and Cedar
streets was lost to them and the
estate because their father did not
pay the interes on mortgage. The
deed to this property was lost in this
manner about fifteen years ago. Five
other tracts left to the father by the
death of Mrs. Love are located at
Bank and Wickliffe streets, Howard
street near South Orange avenue, and
three tracts in Caldwell. All of the
property is mortgaged.
1t is alleged by the petitioners that
their father has failed to keep the
buildings on these various tracts in
repair and has also failed to pay the
interest due on the mortgages and is
in arrears to the city of Newark for
the taxes for 1912. 1t is related that
William w. Love married again three
years after the death of his first wife,
the mother of the petitioners. Since
the death of Mrs. Jennie L. Love, her
husband has lived on the Love home
stead in Caldwell.
The petitioners claim that they have
frequently demonstrated with their
father and pleaded with him to keep
the property in repair and to pay the
taxes for which he is in arrears. They
claim that his lack of proper supervi-
sion has allowed the buildings at
Bank and Wickliffe streets to go into
such a state of decay that the local
Board of Health will not allow it to
be rented to tenants. The elder Love
is said to have $4,000 in various banks
to his credit, as the result of rents
secured from the property left by the
mother and the proceeds of timber
and sand on the estate.
The children state that their father
has announced that he will do as he
pleases'' about the property, and
would see to it tina they secured no
benefits from the property left by
their mother
The petitioners are: Mrs. Grace NJ.
Leonard of Roseland; Mrs Jennie V.
Thorward, of Caldwell; Alfred j.
Love, of Waldwick; Mrs, Agnes M.
Wambough, of Suffern, N. Y; Percy
Z. Love, of Roseland, and Mrs. Belle
E. Leonard, of Bloomfield.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-18
BURTON ATTACKS
CURRENCY BILL
Tells American Institute oil
Bankers Politics Would En-
danger Country's Credit.

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 1s.-Mem-
bers of the American Institute of
Bankers, in annual session here, to-
day heard Senator Theodore E. Bur-
ton attack the Democratic currency
bill pending in Congress. The SEN
ator condemned the regional reserve
bank plan proposed In the bill but
his criticism was aimed chiefly at
the provision authorizing the Fed
ecal reserve board to control the is
suance Of currency.
1T is based on an erroneous idea,
he said, namely, that a government
or political organization may proper
ly assume the providing of a supply
of paper currency, directly or indi-
rectly. 1t Is proposed that the gov
eminent shall assume in the first in
stance the redemption of all circu-
lating notes This should be left to
the banks exclusively. 1t might be
necessary for the treasury itself to
maintain a gold reserve such as is
now held for the redemption of green
lacks.
THE proposed plan would cause no
arrangement in times of fair weather,
but in times of panic or crises the
obligation Of the government to re-
deem circulating notes would be most
burdensome and might seriously i'm
pair it's credit. The right to tix the
amount and time of issue is equally
objectionabl The transactions of
borrower and lender, and the rela-
tions between banks and their GUS
toners, will settle the question II left
alone. This, however. does not mean
10 IF
for government supervision and reg
ulation."
Discussing the plan to put the re-
serve bank system under the con-
troll of a Federal reserve board, COM
posed Of the secretaries of the treas
ury and agriculture, the comptroller
of the currency and four others
named by the President, Senator Bur-
ton said:
Such an organization might at
first seem an ideal solution, securing
a proper balance between the people
and the banks in the all important
field of the management of our
finances; but it is the bane of our
national life that politics enters all
administrative duties. The competi-
ton between opposing parties is so
keen that those engaged in enter
prises do not feel sure that the au-
thority of political board will not
be used for partisan advantage"
Senator Burton said the Idea OF
Capitalization had been adopted by
foreign countries widely remote and
different in policies, but added that
there is no doubt a prevalent opin-
ion which must be respected which
opposes a central bank and our geo
graphical area is so much greater
than that of other countries that q
central bank is believed by many to
be out of the question"
The senator strongly commended
the provisions granting authority to
national banks to accept certain
classes of paper, the proposed estab-
lishment of branches in foreign coun-
tries and the recently inserted clause
to require reserve banks receiving the
circulating notes of other banks to
take immediate steps for their re-
demption.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-18
WOOD BLOCK AGAIN
VETOED BY MAYOR.
For Fifth Time City Executive
Refuses to Sign Broad ST.
Repaving Resolution.

For the fifth time since the move
ment to repave Broad street was
started some months ago Mayor
Jacob Haussling today returned to the
Board of Works without his sigma
ture resolution empowering the chief
engineer to prepare specifications for
a wood block pavement.
In his veto message the mayor sets
forth that his objections to wood
block pavement have been given so
recently that he did not deem it neces-
sary to restate them. He concludes
by saying that wood block, in his
Judgment is utterly unsnited to such
thoroughfare.
The mayors other vetoes were re-
turned on March 6, on the resolution
to prepare specifications and prepare
preliminary estimates; April "a, ad-
vertisement for bids May 20, tenta-
tive award of the contracts, and Sep
TENDER 4, on the final awards. With
the exception of the latter the vetoes
were all overridden. On the final
award Commissioner Charles P. Gillen
voted to sustain the veto with Com
missioner Patrick ]. Ryan because it
was not possible to exclude the sec
ton below Camp street from consid-
GRAFTON. He had promised the prop
erty-owners in that section that he
would not vote for requirement. there.
The resolution which the mayor
vetoed today changes the boundary
lines. Instead of from Belleville ave-
nue. to Pointer street the requirement.
viii be carried from the former point
to South street.
The veto follows:
81 return herewith without my APP
proval, a resolution adopted by your
honorable body on September 4 last,
directing the chief engineer to pre-
pare specifications for the repaving of
Broad street, from Belleville avenue
to South street with wood-block
pavement.
"My objections to wood block have
been set forth so recently that | do
not deem it necessary at this time to
restate them at great length. 1t is
sufficient, in my opinion, to say that
believe wood block, even of the best
quality, is utterly unsuited to such
a thoroughfare as, Broad street, and
that the interests of the city require
the repaving with other material"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-18
c. A. R. AND SONS
OF VETS TO ELECT
Spirited Contests On for Sue
cessors to Heads in Both
Organizations.

CHATTANOOGA Tenn. Sept. 49,
Election of officers by the Grand
Army of the Republic in forty
seventh annual encampment here and
by the Sons of Veterans probably will
take place today. Caucuses were
held late into the night by both or
CARNATIONS.
While several candidates will APP
pear on the first ballot in the G. A.
*. election, indications are that the
selection of a commander-in-chi to
succeed Alfred B. Beers will be
mainly between Colonel C. e. Adams,
of Superior, Neb., and Washington
Gardner, of Michigan.
New jerseys candidate for the
honor is Colonel Ralph D. Cole,
popular Grand Army man. who has
creditable war record. He has the
Endorsement of the New Jersey de-
partment Of the G. A. r., and is re-
garded as the candidate Of the East
ern section, though sectionalism
plays but little part in the selection
of the commander in-chief.
The Department of Indiana has
Endorsed Comrade O. A. Somers,
private In the ranks.
south DakOTcI>~ mas 1nOOTseu Zap
tain N. II. Kingm6n, of Selby, and
will come to Chattanooga determined
to land him.
An equally spirited contest is being
waged by members of the Sons of
Veterans. John E. Sauter, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, and G. S. Scott, of Sah
Francisco, will be the principal can
didates for commander-in-chi ac-
cording to pledged votes announced IN
caucuses last night.
A steady downpour of rain, which
continued throughout the night, was
still in evidence today. For this rea-
son the foot race, in which Union vet
Grams from six States and a Confed-
crate veteran will participate will be
held in big tent erected In the
heart of the city. The entries for the
two races on the program, one a dis
lance of 100 yards and the other three
miles, follow:
Colonel H. Smith, Detroit; z. W..
Howe, Port Huron, Mich; William
A. Heinschon, Cleveland, o.; j. }.
Russer, Indiana; Jere M. Clayton.
Georgia; T. w. Brainard Ohio; S. c.
Barnes, Pittsburgh, Pa; w. G. Allen.
Kentucky, and Meredith Wolfe, Chat
tanooga, the latter Confederate vet
eran. The youngest contestant is
sixty-eight years old.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-18
W. c. T. u. of Essex County
in Session at Vailsburg

The thirty-sixth annual convention
of the Essex County Women's Chris
tan Temperance Union was held to-
day at the Vailsburg NJ. E. Church,
Richelieu terrace Mrs. Mary e. Per-
rine, president of the county union,
presided. The morning session was
opened with a prayer by the Rev.
Smith Ordway.
After routine business an election
of officers was held A luncheon was
served, and the afternoon session was
devoted to committee reports on the
work of the union in the past year,
and in plans for the coming term
Several musical selections were rem
dered.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-18
Long Illness Ends Life
of Veteran City Employee

After an illness of little over a
year, Frederick e. Miller, forty years
of age, an employee of the Board OF
Education, died yesterday at his
home. at 81 Alyea street. Death was
due to hemorrhage. The decedent
was born at the Alyea street address
end lived there all his life He was
q carpenter and had been in the en-
ploy of the construction depaI tment
of the Board of Education for the
past ten years He had been In poor
health for some time and had gone
to Belmar to recuperate. He re-
turned after a stay of about three
weeks. - - p. ~
Mr.. Miller was a member OF Cen
eral Custer Council No. 1870, Junior
Order of United Mechanics. and Car
penters' Local Union No. 306. He is
survived by wife and one daughter.
His brother, "Bobbie" Miller, was a
famous baseball pitcher with the old
Newark team, known as the Little
Giants
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow from the Miller home and
will be attended by the members of
the construction department of the
Board of Education. Interment will
follow at Paramount Cemetery.