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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-22
A NEW ERA FOR WATERWAYS.

FOR MANY years while the railroads we're getting posses
sion of canals and sangng and securing water terminals
in waterway traffic the unuspectng people were
deuded many of them Official that the waterways
could railroads because the latter we're cheaper
for freight.
This deception ending The public has learned better hey
know waterway transportation has anguhed only De-
neglect and the policy OF railroad companies
They the great of living today has for one great
cause the failure Congress develop the waterways and pro-
them terminals from their rival the railroad hey
are paving necesares of life the penalty for GRIM
neglect Washington and the subservence Of legislators 70 the
railroad interests
The great obstacle today in the of inland waterways
associations trying get Congress to provide TOT
the the bar to the building OF an
isthman Every city with water front that
wants develop it furve opposed by this selfish and alper-
vading influence American people getting enlightened
The Panama and owned controlled by the
railroads. the micronesia waterway will be built rivers VIII DC
canaized and will be restored for waterways
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NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
When Railroad SuppIanted Water Transportation

my own experience as a railroad
man has taught me that railroad con-
Struction and development in the
United States perfectly eXemplify the
law of evolution"
This remark was made to me by
the late Serene. Scranton, who was
at the time president of a railroad
company whose line connected New
Haven and New London, Conn. 1t is
now very important link in the New
Haven Railroad Company's system
which connects Boston and New York.
Mr.. Scranton and | were riding
from Boston to New Haven one June
evening in 1871. He had taken the
pupils of military school at New
Haven on an excursion to Boston.
This excursion was due to a cordial
invitation by the late General Ben
ham, who was distinguished as an
engineer in the Civil War and who
was in charge of. the Notifications In
Boston harbor for some years after
the close of the war.
Mr.. Scranton position and influ-
enee as president of the little railroad,
which then connected New Haven
and New London, was great enough
to secure free transportation for the
military pupils from New Haven TO
Boston and back
1t was ,on the return in the late
afternoon that President Scranton
chatted with me for an hour or two
reminiscently about railroad devel-
opment,
He was of a railroad family. His
brother was for some years president
of the New York and New Haven
Railroad, another brother was influ-
entail in founding the City of Scran-
ton, Pennsylvania, and one who was
near of kin, the late c. s. Bushnell,
was the man who persuaded the Sec
rotary of the navy in President Lin
coins cabinet, a Connecticut man,
Gideon Welles, to give Ericsson's
Monitor a trial test.
Il don't know what the future OF
the little road of which L am presi-
dent will be- he said. II am certain
1t is to have a very important rela-
ton to railroad development in New
England.
''As | look back l recall that the
earliest railway construction, at least
in New England and in New Jersey,
was planned simply to supplement
water transportation.
over there on Long Island they
have built railroad from Long
Island City to Greenport, at the east
ern extremity of the island. They
never would have done that if it had
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gressor. You cannot succeed without
persistent determination, continuous,
effort.
Chances occur from earliest youth
to old age Sometimes it is chance to
make a small bargain, to buy little
store, to paint a picture; sometimes.
to manipulate a great commercial
deal: sometimes to win or lose mar
tial victory; sometimes to stand as
the champion of great cause.
And mediocrity remains medic
Gritty, or descends to less than
this. because 1t allows the chances
to go by while it waits for GER
tainties, in which are the rarest
things in life. OF course, rashness,
unwarranted risks, and fanatical ven
lures should not be counted as.
chances, but as things to be invarf-
ably avoided. But he who waits for
certainties will ever be one who, hay-
ing little or no confidence in himself,
will inspire no confidence in others.
and therefore will never be chosen
for the responsible positions of life.
and will be passed by when the great
prizes are awarded.
who waits until the wind shall silent
keep,
Who never finds the ready hour to
SOW,
Who Watchetn CLOUDS, Will nave iu
time to reap"
l have interviewed many timid peo-
pie as to why they let opportunities
pass by them that were eagerly
seized by others with much less abili-
ty. and the answer was invariably
q confession like the following: II
have not courage" said one; Il lack
confidence in myself" said another;
"I shrink from trying for fear | shall
make a mistake and have the morti-
fication of being turned down. said
a third; "It would look so cheeky
for me to have the nerve to put my
self forward" said fourth; Oh
do not think it would be right to seek
a place so far above me- said an
other, IT think l ought to wait until
the place seeks me, or / am better
prepared" So they run through the
whole gamut of self-distrust. This
shrinking, this timidity or self-ef-
Placement often proves worse
enemy to- success than actual incom-
Detence.
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not been for the fact that it would
supplement water transportation be-
tween Boston and New York.
Boston and Connecticut capital
built two railroads stretching from
Boston to point on the Thames
river president Scranton meant AL
lyn's Point, which is now identified
as the place where the Yale and Har-
ward crews take up camp in summer
prior to their yearly boat races).
From Allyn's Point to Greenport,
Long Island, is twenty-five miles or
thereabout. James Gordon Bennett,
the owner of the New York Herald,
very earnestly recommended the con-
struction of railroad along the
north shore of Long Island to Green
port. He pointed out the great ad-
vantage to New York. He said that
excepting for short ferry of twenty
five miles there could be all-raiI COM
munication between Boston and New
York If this Long Island railroad
were built.
well, it was built and 1t. wasn't
worth a copper to the men who put
their money in it's stock, although il
did make practically all-rail commu.
nication between New York and Bos-
ton possible.
After 1t was built the reson for
Mr.. Benefits long advocacy of it be-
came apparent. He had a printing of
flee set up in a baggage car and com.
positors placed before the cases. Ir
that way European papers and dis.
patches which first reached the Uni.
ted States at Boston were instantly
transferred to the railroad, taker
across the ferry of twenty-five mile.
and at Greenport turned over to Mr.
Benefits eompositors in the baggag,
| car. He had an editor in that car
That man speedily arranged tn,
| copy and the compositors put it il
| type so that the forms were all read,
| for use in the Herald office when tn,
| trains reached New York.
81 don't think, however, that in tn,
early years of this Long Island line
it was of any special advantage t
anyone excepting Mr.. Bennett and tn,
New York Herald.
II have been told that the railroaS
across the State of New Jersey from
Camden on the Delaware river to Am,
boy, opposite Staten Island, was bull
solely for the purpose of supplement
| ing steamboat travel between New
York and Philadelphia. That wal
| the old Camden and Amboy road.
| Copyright. 1918, by e. ]. Edwards
All rights reserved).
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Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours:
NOVEMBER %
George Eliot
BY MARY MARSHALL.
George Eliot
Copyrighted. 1918.

November % seems to be popular
birthday among notables, for it in
cludes the names of several promi-
nent women of history. Foremost of
these is George Eliot, who was be-
fore her marriage Mary Ann Evans
and afterward Mrs. Cross. She was
born ninety-four years ago today in
Warwickshire, England, and is gem
orally granted the distinction of be-
ing the greatest woman English nov
elist of the nineteenth century.
The most celebrated American
woman whose birthday falls on No
vember % was Abigail Smith, wife of
John Adams, the second President of
the United States. She is probably
the most gifted woman who has ever
been raised to the rank of first lady
of the land and is said in many ways
to have contributed to her husbands
celebrity. Though she lived before
suffrage, it is clear from her letters
that she and her husband, too, be-
lieved that women should have a
share in the administration of the
government.
There are two queens of history
who were born on November Prone,
Elizabeth or Isabella of Spain, and
the other, Mary of Guise. Isabella
was the daughter of Henry w., of
France, and was married to Philip
H., of Spain. Mary of Guise was
born three hundred and ninety EIGHT
years ago today, the daughter of the
| Duke of Guise. She was early mar
ried to the Duke of Orleans and with
him went to the wedding of King
James ", of Scotland, and the daugh-
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American Goods in the Netherlands

1t would vastly increase the sale
and use of American products in this
country II importations from the
United States were generally direct,
instead of being generally indirect, as
now, through other European coun-
tries. says Frank W. Mahin, United
States consul at Amsterdam.
Ii is true that wheat, petroleum
and certain other articles are directly
imported in large cargoes, but a null
titude of different kinds of American
goods sold in retail stores are not inn
ported direct from the United States.
Many American articles sold here are
bought by the sellers from import
ers in London. They enter England
free of duty, but the repacking. addi-
tional transportation, Importers profit
and import duty on entering Holland
all combined nearly double, and some
times do double the retail price in
England.
The case is still worse where Ameri-
can products are bought from import
ers in France, Belgium and Germany,
as they often are, for then they pay
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ia double duty-one to the country of
importation and another to Holland.
The prices of American products inn
ported direct are not materially higher
here than in the United States. Some
are free of duty like -four and raw
materials generally. Whatever addi-
tion there is to the price consists of
freight cost, which is infinitesimal--
for instance, ON each pair of shoes in
a cargo, with the duty, which, at 5
per cent. ad valorem (the general rate
on manufactured products), might be
20 cents on each pair. It is the double
importation which makes the price of
so many American products prohibit
tive to the general public, within
whose means direct importation would
bring them.
The establishment of direct import
ing agencies I'm this country, either
specializing in particular lines or deal
ing in all kinds of goods would multi
ply many times the quantities of
American goods now sold here by put
ting them on the market at prices
which are not limited to the purses of
the wealthy alone.
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ter of the king of France. Apparent-
ly James, the canny Scotch king, had
eyes for the comedy duchess, even on
his wedding day, for after the death
of his wife and Mary's husband the
king set on foot negotiations to make
Mary his queen, though he had never
seen her except at his own wedding
festivities. But Henry VIII. of Eng
land had also seen and admired the
duchess and as he happened to be
on the lookout for a queen--Jane
Seymour had died a few months be-
fore-he offered Mary the honor of
becoming the fourth. Even after he
knew that Mary had accepted his
Scotch rival he sent persistent pro-
posals to her which she very wisely
refused So Mary set out from her
home in France to go to her Scotch
bridegroom, but, alas! when she
reached England the rejected King
Henry VIII. refused to let her pass
through his realm to Scotland Mary
sent to King James, who was forced
through his neighbors' spiteful inhos-
pitality, to send fleet to carry his
bride by water.
After that Mary played an impor.
tant part in Scotch politics, acting as
regent for her son after her hus-
bands death. Her daughter who
was born twelve days before the
death of James was the ill-starred
Mary Queen of Scots. She derived
her good looks as we'll as her name
from her mother, who was consid-
cred very handsome The chronicler
who described her adds as If to lend
further proof of her beauty-"she
was of the largest stature. of women
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-22
OMNIBUS LINES IN BERLIN

The public omnibus service of Ber-
lin is in the hands of one company,
the Allgeme ne Berliner Omnibus
Aktien- Gesellschaft, Krausenstrasse
10, Berlin w. 8. At the end of 1872
it was operating twenty-four horse
lines, with AGO buses and 5000 horses
and ten autobus lines with 200
buses. The system is an extended
one, covering large portion of
Greater Berlin.
During 1912, 1676OO,0OO persons were
transported, of which 4S,0G0,0 900 rode
in the power busses. During the
same year the street cars carried
about 50O,000,00O the electric ele-
waited and underground system about
&C, 5000 and the State-owned city
steam railway lines (StadtbaAn)
about 172000,o00 The populationbf
Greater Berlin is somewhat more
than 100000.
The total traffic receipts of the
omnibus company were $2,S12,OO0 in
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1912. Its capital is 5000, 900. Until
recently 1t was an Independent com
pany. At the beginning Of August.
however, a deal was put through by
which the Crosse Berliner Strassen-
balm Owner of most of the street
railway lines) and the Hoch-und
Untergrundbahn- Gesellschaft (owner
OF the electric elevated and under
ground SYSTEM each purchased stock
to the value of about $950,000 in the
omn bus company, while one of the
chief stockholders in the latter com
pany acquired an important interest
in the Crosse Berliner Strassenbahn.
This union of interests is aaid to be
the outsrowth of rather Improbable
competition which has occurred from
time to time in the past. 1t is exa
pected to lead not to a curtailment
OF omnibus traffic facilities. but
rather to better coordination of the
whole transportation system and a
mutual adjustment of fares, sched-
ules, etc
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-22
OUR POOR STATE FORESTRY SYSTEM.

IT is only necessary look at what New Jersey has done in
the way value of State conservation
few indifferent forest land acquired in about
eight years. city of Newark the Pequan
mock watershed The State appropriation last year $2244
lands $685. In short the State
makes no than a pretense of forest conservation
New made large purchases of forest lands but there
graft scandaous maladmnstraton and
the constantly being despoled In Pennsylvania the
maadministraon graft and neglect In all the
States protection responsible for immense losses by
of forests belonging to the
we'll protected and they made yield
good 1t would be we'll indeed If could the
provident for the woodlands of our State
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AN0N6A aims CttCll tIldil Will 6OCl
faculties as enable him to do some
feat impossible to any other says
Emerson.
NO one can hope to succeed who Is
timid who lacks faith in himself,
who has not the courage of his con-
Victfons, and who always seeks for
certainty before he ventures
Mcclellan was a much greater en-
gineer, a far more skilful organizer
than Grant, but Grant dared to fight
even when there was as much, some
times probably greater chance for de-
feat than for victory. while McClel-
Ian waited for almost absolute GER
ta'pty of victory before meeting the
enemy
1t was a man who took his chance,
chance of life or death, with the
preponderance in favor of DEATH who
sailed into Manila harbor; another
man who dared-with mcBt stupen-
dous daring-who blocked the en-
trance to Santiago.
George Stephenson's success with
his safety lamp for miners grew out
of his daring. Infested, it was of no
practical use. Descending into a
mine he inquired for the most danger
Gus passage. Standing within that
passage he stretched out the hand
most explosive gas. and proved that
there had been discovered a safe way
of lighting mines, and thus saving
thousands of lives. Armour and
Wanamaker are men who take
chances in business. who dare to try
the effect of making the probability
of victory greater than that of defeat
by adding to it their own foresight,
sagacity, watchfulness and energy.
ITO dare, and again to dare, and
without end to dare was Danton's
noble defiance to the enemies of
France.
Fearlessness, holiness, has ever
been characteristic of great achievers.
Men who have no dare" in their ma
lures, who are afraid to take chances,
must be contents with small achieve
ment.
1t is the courageous man, the de-
termined pusher, the man with nerve
and grit, who seizes the prize for
which you are waiting. Fortune
never comes to you. You must meet
her half way. She will never move
until you do You must be the ag-
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TOWN TO COPYRIGHT NAME

In order that the name TULSA"
cannot be used as trademark out
side the city, and cannot be taken
as name by another town in or
outside of this country. the City Com
mission will copyright the name, talk
ing out both national and interna-
tional patent.
There is now but one Tulsa in all
the world. The only other place in
the world which comes anywhere
near resembling Tulsa in name is
Tula, village in Russia. As Tulsa is
now the recognized International oil
centre, and with the International
Dry Farming Congress to be held
here on October 6, in the eyes of the
agricultural interests the world over,
friends of Tulsa believe the name
should be reserved intact. The city
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ODDITIES IN TODAY'S~NEWS

Cronje in the Boer war. He is twen-
weight years of age and has spent
most of his life roaming about the
world accommodating languages.
department Store Clerk Questions
John DIS Credit
CLEVELAND, Nov. 22.-"Please
nave these charged to John d. Rookie
Teller, of Forest HILL" said the
wealthiest man in the world, yester1
DAY to young woman clerk in a.
downtown department store, from
whom he had made some purchases
The saleswoman. confessing thar
she did not know Mr.. Rockefeller. of
Forest HILL telephoned the head of
the credit department.
or course Mr.. Rockefeller was ae-
commodated, and the young woman
clerk who had questioned his credit
blushed in confusion. Mr. Rockefeller
smiingiy reassured her, however
and said that her caution deserved
approval by her EMPLOYERS.
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Dog Mistakes Hunters Hand In Log
For Rabbit.

Dog Mistakes Hunters Hand In Log
For Rabbit.
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, Nov. 22
Professor o. L. Holl, high school
teacher and athletic coach, reached
into a hollow log yesterday while out
shooting and CROPPED around for a
rabbit he thought might be hiding
there. His dog Pete also scented game
in the log and crawled into one end
of the fallen tree.
Inside Pete saw the professors
hand, mstook IL for a rabbit in the
dark and gnawed at it until the hunt
er freed himself. Holl, followed by
Pete, hurried to doctors office. Holl
was advised to shoot Pete. He de-
clined.
"Pete was entirely honest in his
desire to chew up my hand" said Mr..
Holl. He'd have made the attack
even If it had been a bear"
He Talks Chinese. But Can't Inter-
pref 1t.
NEW YORK. Nov. 22.-Lucien Ca
male, a Rumanian, who arrived here
by the North German Lloyd liner
Barbarossa from Naples, was held by
the immigration boarding officer be-
cause he admitted he had no relatives
or friends in America and could not
talk English.
He has, according to his own dec
laration, mastered seventeen other
languages of the world, including Chi
nese. But they will do him no good
here as an Interpreter and he cannot
translate any into English.
The boarding officer was sceptica
about Canale's ability as talker OF
Chinese, but the polyglot made good
when q Chinaman was found and in.
| troduced to him. Canale said he haC
been an interpreter for Genera
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what Europe's Rulers smoke.


From the London Standard.
Some amusing details of the par
ticular smoking tastes of popular
Frenchmen and European soVerelgns
have been gathered.
M. BRAND smokes nothing but Gig
arettes. of all sorts; nj. Pelletan half
penny cigars and M. Lepine, ex-
project. of police and now deputy for
Montbrisson, clay pipes, which he
breaks as soon as he has finished
using once.
The late King Edward smoked the
longest and thickest cigars ever
known, they being exactly eight and
one-half inches long and two and
one-half inches in diameter. These
were made expressly for his majesty
in Havana and cost five shillings
each, while the workmen received
ten pence a cigar for the making.
The kaiser patronizes the same man
ufacturer, but his cigars are of
smaller ,calibre and more modest in
price, being only six and one-half
inches long and costing f6 hundred.
The Emperor Francis Joseph has
never smoked but one sort of cigar,
which is a favorite with the working
classes in Austria and Hungary,
namely, the long, thin black article,
tapering at both ends and traversed
by a straw. His majesty can get
through more, of these than most
men, and it must be distinctly edu-
Gated taste to enjoy these "puros,"
which burn the tongue like coal.
The .czar has a special cigarette
made for him of choice Turkish to-
bacco, grown and selected exclusively
for his own consumption. King AL
fonso scarcely smokes anything but
cigarettes, but is such slave to the
habit that he is miserable when court
etiquette prevents him for more than
an hour from indulging. m
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VOICE FROM SOUTH JERSEY TO GERMANY

THE TRANSMISSION of wireless telephone communica-
the wireless station Hanover in South Jersey,
high station Neusad Ruebenberge Germany
nearly thousand miles reported yesterday
German Shipbuiding Society Berlin, incredible
South Jersey station, desolate tract
an building
visitors of whom OWNED might day
the human ocean
plainly perhaps speech be heard from farmhouse
to farmhouse
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4 DECEPTIVE AND DISHONEST LABEL.

AN ARRANT cheat imposed the American public the
food law when the deceptive label Guaranteed under
pure food authorized be packages of prepared
food sold the The gives guarantee
millions of have nnocenty believed and the effect of
the and swell the profits of
manufacturers of adulterated decayed foods
Every form of fraud has been pactised the people under
government label If Congress its coming session
strengthen the pure food and outlaw this label will
groc-y collision with thu food prisoners.