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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28

There will always be preserved
among the archives of both the Union
Pacific and the Northern Pacific rail-
road companies q lengthy document
in duplicate appended to which are
the signatures, also in duplicate, of
Edward H. Hartman. The particu-
lar contract which is set forth In this
document may at some time In the
future be cancelled. 1t may last for
ages, for 1t Is nominated in the bond
to have an existence of 999 years.
But even today and certainly in
years to come there does and will at
tach a sentimental interest in Mr..
Harriman's signature. 1t was writ
ten with a hand which was plainly
controlled by the will of the man who
held the pen. The strength of the
hand and fingers was not equal to
the will power. Therefore the sigma
lures are not easily to be deciphered.
The various letters in Mr.. Harriman's
name are written with faint, stray
Cling, scrawl-lilSe character as If with
a paralyzed arm or as IL the sigma
ture was the work of blind man
who felt his way with the pen. In the
DAYS of his physical strength MIR.
Harriman's strength could properly
be accepted as typifying his imperi-
Gus will and his strength of char
acter.
In the spring of the year of Mr..
Harriman's death he was much oc-
cupied with negotiations with those
who were in the executive manage
ment of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road Company. These negotiations
centred upon the possibility of en-
tering into contract by means of
which the Union Pacific and the
Northern Pacific would have rights
in common for the use of the railroad
tracks which connected Tacoma with
Portland, Oregon. Both Mr.. Harri-
man and the Northern Pacific man
agement realized that II would be
commercially inexpedient to build a
rival railroad paralyzing the road
already constructed which connected
Tacoma with Portland.
During one of the discussions Mr..
Hartman said that he was satisfied
that the standard rate of interest was
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28

The workers have named 1t the
Don't Worry Club" while 1t Is known
of1icially as State Camp No. 1. The
word Convict" and the Idea or prls-
oners are eliminated everywhere.
There are no cells, and although there
are several guards, they mingle with
the men in friendly intercourse. When
their days labor is finished they enjoy
| baseball, music or any other health
| full amusement.
The men are selected on merit from
the State prison, and there are hun
| want to be transferred to Don't
Worry Camp" Opportunity to go is
| reward for good conduct.
4 In time, it is believed, the camp
will not only be self governed, but
also self-supporting, and the mems
labor can be paid for without cost
| to the State. The success OF this ex-
pertinent will not only mean revo-
luton in penology, but be cause Tor
rejoicing to the taxpayer
Every human being who goes wrong
should have a chance to redeem him
self, to try again, and he ought to
have an opportunity that is favor
able He ought not to be put in an
environment where everything round
him suggests the crooked, the wicked,
where everything tends to arouse the
brute In him to develop the evil thing
in him, the love of revenge, bitterness,
hatred and to kill the good. He ought
to be in an environment which would
help him to forget the bad. which
would only suggest the good, the
pure, the clean, which would suggest
his divinely, not his beastly, propen-
stiles, and which would hold out hope
of another chance-a chance to make
good.
The brutal instinct lingering in
man has been graphically illustrated
in our cruel, inhuman treatment of
prisoners, and in our barbaric slaugh-
ter of human beings. upon whom the
death penalty has been pronounced.
Justice does not demand such an ex-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28

skyscraper building is changing and
progressing so rapidly that the tall
buildings of today are evidently in
transition stage. says Popular Me-
chanics. While skyscrapers not yet
thirty years old are being torn down
because they are out of date and inno-
vations are appearing in each new
building, prophecies of the future city
offlce structure, characteristic OF
American life. are coming from engi-
neera and architects. That 1t Will be
a community building is the common n
belief--and that 1t will be large. ~
will cover half or all of a city block,
perhaps $4,000 to 100000 square feet c
It's ground floor will be a network OF
corridors and arcades to accommodate
shops. and 1t will have subway anu
aerial, as we'll as street, entrances.
But the change that is most conn.,
IDENTIFY expected Is greater hghtness
and economy of construction. This IS
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Weared-LooEing Signature of E. H. Hartman

then and was to continue to be 4
per cent.
But, Mr.. Hartman" was the re-
ply, nobody can tell what the stand
ard rate of interest will be within
the year. 1t may go as low as 3h or
even per cent. or 1t may prove to
be considerably greater than 4 per
cent
The great railroad constructor was
seated all curled up In his arm chair.
| He looked like q withered counterfeit
of e. H. Hartman in his prime. He
was plainly suffering great pain.
What was left of him was his will
and his great brain. He was to sail
| for Europe In day or two in the
hope that he would find there treat
ment which would master the then
mysterious internal disease from
which he suffered.
On the day before he sailed he sal
limp, apparently all Gagged in, In his
chair and said to the Northern Pa
cific representatives: "Well, / will
let 1t go at four and a hat per cent
not a farthing more"
He meant that his corporation
would agree to pay for trackage
rights over this railroad at the rate
of four and half per cent. on the
valuation of the property, although
he had stubbornly insisted for sew
eral weeks that four per cent. was
great enough.
While Mr.. Hartman was in Tu-
rope the counsels to the two railroads
prepared an elaborate and somewhat
lengthy contract. The papers were
ready for his signature upon his re-
turn. A day or two before his death
they were laid before him. He read
the contract carefully and then with
almost palsied hand signed his name
THAT" said Judge Lovatt, who sue.
ceeded Mr.. Hartman as the executive
authority over the Union Pacific, "is
the last signature E. II. Hartman
ever made, and the faint and wearieo
looking letters of his name in this last
signature were far different from
the characteristic autograph which
Mr.. Hartman had appended to docu-
ments representing hundreds of mil
lions Of dollars" T..
Copyright, 1913, by F. j. Edwards
All rights reserved).
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28

hibition Of horrors. There must be
some more human way or treating
our erring brothers.
How can we expect a criminal to
get back the self-respect which he
has lost, by cruel treatment, by half
starving him, treating him like an
animal instead of like man, putting
him in an iron cage away from God 5.
light and air?
There is good material, ability
enough, energy, resources enough in
these people we thus deprive of lib
erty and life, to perform great serv-
ices to humanity as we'll as to them
selves and their families. What right
have we to deprive them at least OF a
chance to make good? How often the.
crime we commit against our prison.
ers is far. greater than their crime to
society!
If we wish to reform prisoners we
should try to make them self-respect-
ing, healthy beings. Their environ
ment should be as attractive and as
normal as possible. Reform means
healthful, normal conditions. The
mind is in no state to improve or re-
form when suffering from mental de-
preston due to the vicious, criminal
suggestive environment, where ev-
erything reminds the prisoner OF his
fall or his inferiority, and everything
about him tends to impress upon him
the fact that he is not human being,
but an outcast.
We have all felt the restful, restor-
ling, renewing power OF beautiful
scenery, of country life. Why should
we deprive prisoner OF these helps
to health and normality? Mature Is
great restorative, and criminals
should be kept where they can get the
full benefit of the sunlight. air and
country life, in an environment which
would suggest only the good and true,
filled with possibilities Of recovering
lost manhood and starting fresh.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28
SKYSCAPER OF FUTURE

to be accomplished, first, by a change
in the steel skeleton. The use OF
harder steel-nickel, chrome nickel or
vanadium steel-will reduce the
weight of the skeleton and probably
its cost.
Added to this is the abandonment
of masonry. The modern skyscraper,
1t is claimed, needs only a screen TO
protect it from weather, water and
fire: heavy masonry Is useless. A
sheathing of from four to eight
inches of vitrified clay or concrete
will supplant the stone walls and the
resulting lightness Of the steel frame
work will reduce the weight or the
building so per cent. Foundations
will thus be relieved and become
cheaper. But new style of architec-
ture must be evolved, employing
smooth as well as thin outer walls,
for Joints in the vitrified sheathing
are as unnecessary to the skyscraper
as masonry.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28
THE DOMESDAY BOOK

But il we set ourselves In fancy to
that early task. We see at once how
the industrial conditions to be dealt
with at that time simplified the
Domesday valuation to very little
more than an enumeration. Acres
differed little except in their power
to yield crops the social increment OF
value was almost negligible. Today
we have vast aggregates of property
brought together and, devoted as a
whole to single uses. Except as an
aggregate and for the particular use
Which the property as a whole serves.
the several parts have relatively little
value.-J. Shirley Eaton in The En-
gineering Magazine for November.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28
Assaults on Judges.

From the London Chronicle.
The apples thrown at Lord Salveson
at the conclusion of the suffragettes'
trial at Glasgow remind one that an
assault upon judge gave rise to one
of the choicest extant specimens of
law French. After a prisoner had
been condemned for felony before
Chief Justice Richardson at Salisbury
summer assizes, 1851, he, according
to the black letter report, eject I'm
brickbat lie justice que narrowly
msstf' For this an Indictment was
at once drawn against the prisoner,
and his right hand was cut off and
fixed to the gibbet, upon which he
was also "immediatement hange In
the presence of the court"
That there is light side even to
such a serious subject as assaults
upon judges is seen in the indictment
of the egg thrown at the late Vice
Chancellor Malens by disappointed
litigant. The Judge cleverly avoided
the missile, and at the same time
established an undying reputation as
a humorist by remarking that the
egg must have been intended as a
present for his brother Bacon, v. c.,
who was sitting in an adjoining
court.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28

n ". Fridy--a bunch of feiiers
wa. setting around at the friers' cruz
the uther mite, when In walked
guy they hadent seen for aoou. o
hello. sam. they said. where have
va,, been and what has happened
70 YOU. you look as II you had peen
drug through q nothole
bv golly, sam says. nave hao
the unrest luck that ever human
r. sumboddy will buy me a drink,
will promise not to commit suasloe
for is minutes. and Will ten you
'i, 40 q Teller that was working that
week brought him a drink, and toio
him to shoot the hard luck yarn
we'll. says som, bought unke,
+om,s cabin show that was for san
pretty cheap, and we went on inc
road -.o+o-. for
treasurer. @ darn smart guy, always
right on the Job, and evrything went
tine. l.
when we had been out weeks
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28
NEW YORK AS A FREE GIvER.

NEW YORK city is the only city in the world in which
volunteer subscription fund of the size Of four millions
object like that Of the Young Mems and Young Womens
Christian associations could be raised in weeks perhaps
two years great world metropolis filled with
population equal than that of New
York and London found be impossible raise
million dollars for patriotic objects that appealed far
more powerfully sentiment and the pocket than that which
proved potent its appeal the generosity of Gotham And
the immense subscription fund spenddy completed is
emneny characteristic of the American metropolis In all the
emergencies called for financial aid New York has been
foremost giving Martinique and Messina gratefully acknow
edged bounty San Francisco Galveston and other
cities visited calamity sections overwhelmed by flood dis
the great Of the metropolis them Let
the forget criticisms of New York city for its moral
shortcomings in philanthropy In giving worthy objects in
unfortunate stands preeminent among the cities of
the world.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28

CONSIDERING THE fact that the city of Newark main
vocational schools all of which, probably with
changes within description of the class of schools that
aid the special appropriation by the Legislature
education is unjust limit Newark amount
single school, equal only that given small
lated school district.
The appropriation for all the State $4,000 II the
object of the law is generally districts
appropriation absurdy small Newark claim seveneghths
schools. Restricted to the amount only for
single school, the city strangely against The law
applies districts and under the of the law
the right make claim for each vocational school
establishes.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28

The famous Domesday Book o, Oh
William the Conqueror, whlch no
ordered when he had conquered Ehs %
land. was not only an inventory Oh
the estates but a very careful valu ,,a
tion. This ancient survey was strlK-
inely like the valuation OF tooay,
the differences arising OUT Oh 'he
different Industrial conditions 70 pe
nIa sa,f,ed AS wood. pasture and mead
ow land of mills, fish-ponds and FISH,
cries; of ploughs, hides, cattle ana
slaves. The land was valued as
at the time of Edward, again as
wban granted by the Conqueror, and
again as at the time of the survey.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
NOVEMBER %
AngeIique ArnauId
Copyrighted. 1913.

women relatives were nuns and abs
Bosses.
When Angelique was six years old
she was put in the monastery OF
Port Royal, under the care of her
aunts, the Mother Agnes and
Jacqueline Marie, or Marie Angelo
que de Saint Madeleine, the abbess
of Port Royal. Under the tutelage
of these two good women and sew
eral other aunts who were nuns
there, the little Jacoueline became a
veritable prodigy of learning and
piety. She was made mistress of the.
novices as soon as she was OF a suit
able age and for twenty years she
held this position. Then she became
abbess and in 1884 she died, iamented
for her goodness
Madame de Sevigne once quoted
Angelique's father as saying Of his
daughter: "All my brothers, all my
children and myself-we are sots an
comparison with Angelique."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28
AUTO SLAUGHTER IN OUR CITIES.

THERE is suggestive in the records of killings by
automobiles year New York city London In New York
the mortality 1884, 81 This
more than of killings in Newark The London police
commissioner explains that subways under
gerous nterseng in London such have Newark
Then effective ordinances and strictly enfores them
and every man. who he held fully accountable
he kills" needless say these rules do obtain in Amer
lean cities and hence the long record Of slaughter
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28
EconomIo Loss of strikes.

FfOm the EleCLTlC halfway JOuTndi.
We have no doubt that II the cost
to the country Of the strikes which
have occurred during the past twelve
months should be calculated. the total
would show that such conflicts are
national calamity equal in loss to that
caused by fire. There Is the direct
loss in wages to employees on strike
or thrown out of work by the strike.
There is the direct loss to employers,
made up in part by loss of profits, In
part by interest on idle or partly idle
equipment, and in part, perhaps, by
the cost of protecting property from
assault. Finally, there is that large
indirect expense to which many out
siders are subjected because of de-
creased business efficiency or other
causes brought about by the strike.
Any effort made to remove the cause
of this drain upon the resources Of
the country is laudable.
Those in favor of the method of
settling Industrial disputes by requir-
ing the disputants to accept the de-
cision of a board of arbitration often
refer to the alleged success of the
plan in New Zealand, but the latest
reports from that country indicate
that it is regarded as a failure there
The fact is that compulsion as re-
CARDS the findings of an arbitration
board means a compulsion upon en-
ployers only. Theoretically, penalties
can be assessed against employees
only, but in practise 1t has been found
in both Australia and New Zealand
that jail sentences against man, and
especially against a large body of
men who are not working, are out of
the question.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28
From Johnny, the Office Boy

we had about hundred bucks to
the good.
was feeling pretty happy till
woke up one morning, and found
peters had ducked out with all the
cash.
gol ding him, ! says to myself,
bet iii catch him, and ! set the
bloodhounds we had in the show on
his trail
and did they run him down, asked
one of the friers
sure they did, says sam
and when they had run him down.
he puts ropes around their necks
and started anuther unkel toms
cabin show johnny.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28
ODDITIES IN TODAYS NEWS

him. Rev. A. r. Robinson, pastor Of
tho Shiloh Baptist Church, performed
the ceremony.
AT 81 He Hikes 10 Miles for Thanks
giving Dinner.
GREENWICH, Conn.,, Nov. 2S.@
William Banks, a Civil War veteran.
who is only eighty-seven years OF
age, and resides at Mount Kisco, N.
Y, with his married daughter, Mrs.
Cronk, decided that he wanted to eat
turkey with his brother Norman and
his sister. Mrs. Jerome Reynolds, who
reside at Banksville, in this town.
Fearing his daughter might object he
arose at o'clock yesterday morning
and started to walk to Banksville.
fifteen miles away. He took cir
cuitous route to avoid meeting any
ono who might tell on him. At half
past 10 he reached his destination
In the meantime an alarm had been
sent broadcast by Mrs. Cronk, who
was immensely relieved when q tele-
phone message advised her that her
father was safe.
Death May Follow Attempt to Eat
Enough for Twelve.
BOULDER, Col, Nov. 2S-As re-
suit of attempting to win a $40 wager
by devouring a pre-Thanksgiving
dinner sufficiently large to feed
family of twelve, ]. T. Harris lies at
his home In semi-conscious con-
dition. His physicians declare It will
take twenty-four hours to determine
the outcome of Harris's illness. With
L. N. Ferguson, Harris last Monday
made a $40 wager that he could eat
at sitting of two and a half hours
one fifteen-pound turkey with oyster
dressing; three loaves of bread, six
large sweet potatoes, two punches of
celery, four dishes of cranberry sauce.
one glass of mint jelly, six bananas
with cream, one pound of butter, one
order of squash, two mince pies and
two dishes Of plum pudding with
brandy sauce and drink six cups OF
coffee.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28
SIGNS POINT TO HUERTA's FALL.

ALL DISPATCHES from Mexico tell of disaster Huertas
troops There much exaggeaon and lying in the
from Mexco>but they all of tenor is evident that they
describe general conditions presagng early advance
CAPITAL All signs point the end of the Huer dictator
shin a the beginning of new for the distracted country
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28
FIowers Of the Dark

The last bright landmark dwindled strange and far,
After the last high cloud is ashen cold,
The last bright landmark dwinded strange and far,
They bloom across the dusk in broken gold
Beneath the first faint star
Some by the river, some upon the height
One in little cleft 'twixt hill and hill
Luminous, lovely, while the brooding night
Shelters them warm and still.
Homes, blessed homesl here clustered, here apart,
On the gray gloom unfurling, rose by rose;
Each with crimson hearth-hre at its heart
They >tenderly uncose.
Till all the lands garden fair and still,
And far, a tolling pilgrim, mark
One in little cleft twixt hill and hill
My Flower of the Dark
Nancy Byrd Turner in December Ansees.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28
FINDS HIMSELF DEAD.

FINDS HIMSELF DEAD.
Getting no response knock when he to
his boader Otto Kese early yesterday morning.
Samuel P Coez baker, of AZ Nineteenth street NORTH East
Orange opened ae door and discovered him dead from gas
asphyxiation."ssA
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-28
Merit in Consular Service.

From the Springfield Republican.
While criticism of the Presidents
diplomatic appointments Is somewhat
fierce and, in certain cases, is justi-
fled, his consular appointments seem
to command the respect Of everybody.
The latest batch of these appoint
ments contain many shifts that really
represent promotions for efficient men
In the consular service. 1t is noted
that two meritorious under-offic