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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-22
ALLEGED DEFALCATI0N
DISCOVERED BY CHANCE

Sylvester S. Battin, jr., formerly of
this city, is being held by the pblice
of San Francisco in $4,000 bail on
a charge of larceny preferred against
him by the Krementz Jewelry Com
pany, of AZ Chestnut street, this city.
Battin was Pacific coast agent for the
local firm since 1900. Although the
amount alleged to have been stolen
was stated in the complaint to be
s1,764, representatives of the firm de-
clared that the deficiency would prove
to be much larger.
The defalcation of which Battin is
accused, it is said, consisted of deduc-
lions made from payments to the San
Francisco office. 1t was discovered,
it is said, by chance communication
to the Newark office by a Western
customer.
From a member of the firm it was
learned that the books of the Western
agency have been brought to the
Newark office of the firm, where they
are being carefully examined by an
expert accountant. When seen today,
members of the company refused to
give out any further information in
the matter.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-22
FORMER ACTRESS FINED
AFTER ARREST AS BEGGAR

Mrs Annie Hockenberry, of Phila-
delphia, said to be a former actress,
was fined $40 for begging by Judge
Hahn in the Third Precinct Court to-
day. Her 23-year-old son, who had
accompanied her here, could not be
found today. but Mrs. Hockenberry
expressed her belief that he would
appear and pay her fine for her.
Mendicancy Patrolman Joseph
Cornell of the Third Precinct ar
rested Mrs. Hoekenberry on Ferry
street yesterday as she was solicit
Ing aims, on the strength of paper
certifying that she was i'll. Her name
is given in the paper as Belle Long,
her stage name. She came here and
took a furnished room in Union
street. According. to the policeman
the son admitted that his mother
had been arrested in Altoona for the
same offense. She had been trying
to obtain work in New York before
she came here, she said.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-22
RAINCOAT STRIKERS ARE
FINED BY JUDGE HERR

A fine of $40 each was melted out
by Judge Herr in the Fourth Precinct
Court today to the five striking rain
coat makers who were arrested yes
terday and charged with having loi-
tered In front of the M. and s. Manu-
featuring Company, at IA Richmond
street.
The arrest of the strikers yesterday
followed a call for the reserves from
a member of the M. and s. firm.
When Plainclothesman Kass and Pa
trolmen Salter. Tuckman and Harms
reached the factory they found about
twenty-five strikers in front of the
place. The five were arrested when
they refused to move on after being
told several times.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-22
BIDDER IS
TURNED DOWN AGAIN

For the second time in a little more
than a month J. Allen Conklin, a
Newark contractor, was the lowest
bidder for work to be done in Kear-
ny Public School No. 6. The bid was
submitted, with five others, to the
Kearny Board of Education at a
meeting last night. Notwithstanding
the fact Conklin was lowest the school
board failed to award the contract to
him.
Conklin, who was before the
board in executive session, was
informed that some of the work re-
Gently done by him would be in
spected and the question as to
whether or not he would be given
meeting to be held tonight.
1t was at the meeting of June IL
that Conklin was awarded the first
contract for the work. He never
started the work, however. 1t was
said the reference given was unsatis-
factory. T. M. Mears, a Newark con-
tractor. who also figured in the mi
tial bidding. started the work in
question. When question was
raised by other contractors, including
Conklin. who threatened legal action,
members of the board declared Mears
had never been authorized to pro-
coed with the work. The board sub
sequently threw out all bids and re-
The figures submitted last night
were as follows: Conklin, 3,497; T.
M. Mears, $3.50; Schaedel Bros, $500;
James J. Dunn, 5000; James Con-
molly. $4,000; Frederick Fatzler, $4,100.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-22
OBITUARY
MRS. ANNA |. CRANE

Mrs. Anna Louise Crane. 70 years
old, widow of Bethuel Crane. died
last night at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. James L, Erskine, 121 Belle
vue avenue, Upper Montclair, after
an illness of four weeks. Mrs. Crane
had lived in Montclair about three
years, having moved there from
Brooklyn. She was a member of the
Hanson Place Methodist Church, of
that city. Besides her daughter, with
whom she lived, she is survived by
two sons, Edwin Crane, of this city,
and Burt Crane, of Jersey City.
Funeral services will be held at her
daughters home on Thursday morn
ing at 10 o'clock Interment will be
at Hoboken Cemetery.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-22
AWARDS CONTRACTS FOR
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS

Individual certified checks for a
number of bids or one check for the
whole amount was a question that
divided the roads committee OF the
Board of Freeholders yesterday aft
ernoon and almost lost a number of
contracts for the Castone Construc-
ton Company of Montclair.
The Castone company bid on sew
eral contracts. and instead of adher-
ing to the usual custom and tender
ing a certified check as a bond on
each proposal, it made out one check
for the several bids. Director Wal
ter A. Evans and Assistant County
Engineer J. Fred Reimer thought, on
this account, that the Castone COM
pany's bids should be rejected, al
though it was found that this. COM
pany was lowest on several contracts.
Assistant County Counsel Harold A.
Miller finally decided that the check
of Pasquale Castone, who was there
in the interest of the Castone COM
pany, was in the hands of the COM
mittee for the entire amount and that
he should be recognized. Neverthe-
less, Freebooter Evans voted against
awarding any contracts to the Cas-
tone Company. He was overruled In
each case.
For work on the concrete pipe cul-
vert on the Stone Bridge road, Mont
clair, the Castone Company received
The award for 800. Other bidders
were: J. T. Boylan. Belleville, $500;
Donate Fusco, Upper Montclair,
T,700; D'Amato & Steffanelli, $1,675.
For work on the concrete steel beam
bridge on Prospect avenue, Verona,
f. w. Shrump & Son, of Pleasant
dale, received the award, bidding
$625. Other bidders were the Castone
Construction Company, 1910, and T.
H. Higgins. of Glen Ridge, 1915.
+. w. Shrump e. Son were also
successful for work on the concrete
bridge on Cumberland road, Verona,
bidding 1922. Other bidders were
Castone Construction Company, $40;
T. H. Higgins, $751;
O'Gara q Mcguire were successful
for the work of reinforcing the con-
crete bridge in Pierson road, South
Orange, bidding $2,967 Other bidders
were: D'Amato & Steffanelli, $3.50;
Castone Construction Company, 1920;
j. w. Heller, So, 1898.
The Castone Construction Company
received the award for the eighteen
inch file pipe in Mount Pleasant ave-
nue., West Orange, bidding $S60.50
Other bidders were: D'Amato & Stef-
fanelli, $372.52; Charles Kocher, West
Orange, 1891.
Frederick Spatz. jr., of Nutley, was
successful in securing the work on
the steel beam bridge in Nutley, bid
ding 81, 485. Other bidders were
D'Amato & Steffanelo, $3.50; Castone
Construction Company, $4,000, and
O'Gara &, Mcguire, 1913.
For work on the extension bridge
in Cedar Grove, the Castone Con-
struction Company were also success
full, bidding $4,000 Other bidders were
F. w. Shrump & Son, $685.; George
W. Cisco, Paterson, $3,7S4.
Permission was given the New York
Telephone Company to rebuild exist
ing subways and construct subsidiary
conduits along Bloomfield avenue
Bloomfield, prior to the permanent
paving of the street.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-22
NO BARREL FOR THIS LAD
WHEN CLOTHES ARE TAKEN

The dilemma so often cartooned
depicting the embarrassing posi-
ton the small boy is placed in when
someone steals his clothes while he
is swimming, was seen yesterday aft
ernoon. Jonn Powell, of 124 South
Seventh street, was the unfortunate
victim. The lad was swimming in
the lake at West Side Park and left
his clothes on the bank. After en-
joying himself for over an hour he
hardened to the call of the inner man
and decided to go home for dinner.
When he looked for his clothing,
however, he discovered that someone
had made away with it, and he
was forced to walk to his home at
tired in his scanty bathing suit, there
being no sign of the proverbial bar
rel in the neighborhood. The lads
father reported the theft to the po-
lice of the Fourth precinct.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-22
HIS PIPEFUL COST 500

A smoker who uses pipe had an
expensive smoke last night when a
spark from his pipe ignited a can
of gasoline in the garage of Raymond
Masker at 671 Mt. Prospect avenue
The damage amounted to $780,
A false alarm was sounded unin-
tentiously last night by John Har-
riet, new Waterman employed in a
building at 20 Franklin street. Har-
riet, who lives at "a Stirling street,
was unfamiliar with the boxes in
the building and pulled flre alarm
box which notified the American
District Telegraph Company, which
in turn notified fire headquarters.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-22
BARTENDERS AND WATERS
ARE TO CLASH TOMORROW

The local bartenders' and walters
unions will clash tomorrow afternoon.
It's not going to be battle to dis
rupt the organizations, but a contest
of physical skill-namely athletic
events. There's to be a ball game,
running and jumping feats, hurdle
races, etc.
Athletic Park in the Vailsburg sec
ton is to he the scene of the meeting
of would-be gladiators.
In the ball game Messers. Green and
Ashhurst are billed to do the honors
for the bartenders, while Heffron and
Cozzolino will handle the henders and
twisters for the walters.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-22
sHoRTwEIGHT BUTCHER FINED

Abraham Farher, a butcher, of At
Peshine avenue, was fined $50 and
costs by Judge Hahn toda.' in the
First Criminal Court on charge
made by City Sealer John H. Sulli-
van that he had in his possession
q set of short weight scales. A set
of scales with two iron rings and a
piece of fat meat, which made the
weights about two ounces short
were found hanging in Farber's
shop. He testified that the scale
was not used, but it was testified
that at the time 1t was appropri-
ated it bore evidence of having re-
Gently had fresh meat on 1t.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-22
CONCERT TOMORROW NIGHT

The next free public band concert
will be given tomorrow evening in
Branch Brook Park by Suenderhaft's
Band. The program will be as fol-
lows 'Star Spangled Banner"
overture, "orpheus," Offenbach; Sc
lection. "Attila," Verdi; fantasia,
Dixie" Mollenhauer; selection, I'm
der Many Flags" Klein; gavotte,
"Softy Unawares," Lipcke; medley
selection, popular, Morse; selection,
Happened in Nordland," Herbert;
march, Thirteen Club" Nichols;
Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean,"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-22
FIRE sTARrEp I'M sHAyINGs

A small blaze which started among
some shavings in the yard of the
Peck Kugel Sash and Door Company
at 800 Eighteenth avenue today
brought the engines to the scene
when some excitable person turned in
an alarm. The blaze was extin-
guished before the apparatus arrived.
No damage was done.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-22
MRS. HERBERT's FUNERAL

The funeral of Mrs. Charlotte
Amelia Herbert, II years old, wife
of Wilbur f. Herbert, of 225 Inwood
avenue, Upper Montclair, who died
at her home Sunday night, was held
this afternoon with services from that
address. Interment was in Greenwood
Cemetery, Brooklyn. Mrs Herbert
had been i'll for several months. Be
sides her husband one daughter and
two sons survive her.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-22

The annual outing of the NJ ]. Hen
egan Association takes place next
Sunday. The organization will go to
WitzeTS %rove. Long Island, where
they will partake of shore dinner.
There will be plenty to eat and drink
going and coming on the boat and a
good time is assured all who attend
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-22
BUFFALoES TO MEET

A special meeting of Newark Herd
No. IA, Loyal Order of Buffalos, will
be held tomorrow night at Peters
Hall, $50 Court street. The meeting
will be called to order at $3.50 o'clock.
Delegates will be elected to attend
the annual convention in September
at Easton, Pa. Members are urgent
ly requested to attend.
The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1913-11-14
A PROGRESSIVE UNION.
Metal PcIishers Report Increased
Waoes and Shorter DAY.

Metal PcIishers Report Increased
Wages and Shorter Day.
T. NJ. DAILY, international president
Of the Metal polisherS, Buffers, Plat
crs. Brass and Silver Workers Union
OF North America, reports IT, the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor rs follows:
our organization in the past YEAR
has ORGANIZED eighteen new locals ana
has Increased its membership - per
cent. We have been able 10 secure
increased wages for nearly - per cent
Of our members and have reduced the
hours Of labor in several cities from
fifty-fOur hours per week Ia tIity With
out any reduction Of pay in AnN III
stance AMI with material increases i'll
several The prospect for the coming
wear for Increased membership aud
still further reduction III hours ald
the securing Of other material adyan-
lagrS for our members was never
brighter. We Shoud increase this COLI
ilw wear at least % per cent
I'VE pay death benefits up To 5000.
strike benefits Mt s. per week while
the strike continues ana are content
plating the creation of IN out Uf work
benefit and pensions Ia widows and OF
ihanS Of decreased members.
"Eightccn months ago We increased
our per capita tax from - cents per
month to 60 cents, and there Is con-
siderable sentiment III favor Of sill
greater per capita tax because Of the
increased benefits tie high per capita
has brought
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-06

| Leslie L. Voigtman, who is second
only to Jack johnson in becoming en-
tangled in the speed regulations o.
| Chicago. When Voigtman was ar
raigned in the ttspeeders'' court the
| charge of exceeding the speed limit
1 he pleaded guilty and was fined 500
in addition to which he had to sigr
| the following pledge: <I solemn1J
promise this honorable court not &c
touch, sit upon, ride in or manipulate
any automobile or motorcycle in the
teity of Chicago during the next
twelve months.
Rubber plantations are slowly but
surely increasing in size and yield
Exports of plantation rubber from
Java amounted to $500 tons In 1913,
as against 1850 tons in 1911, and
l143O in 1910. The figures of the
areas under cultivated also show. an
increase, but not such a great one as
appears in the production figures
showing that it is the yield per acre
that is increasing, as well as the num-
Der of acres. The area in rubber Gull
tivation during 1912 was $4,000
acres in the East, Including the Ger
man colonies, Samoa and East and
West Africa. In 1911 the acreage
was 865, 900 acres, and in 1910 1t was
100000 acres. Is is stated that Mex1-
co, Nicaragua and Honduras have
probably planted $4,000 acres, mostly
Castilloa. India is extending her
plantations, as is Burma. Some little
planting is also being done on the
tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean
islands. Plantations are also spread
ing in the Kongo, German West At
RIGA and British East Africa and
Uganda. There are about 5000 acres
under rubber cultivation in the West
Indies.
Knocks and pounding in the motor
can be accurately located by cutting a
piece of g inch round, cold-rolled
steel two feet long and soldering on
one end a small tin can so the rod
will come in contact with the end Tof
the can and act as a diaphragm to
the ear. Put the end of the rod on
the motor in the place where the
noise seems TO come from. BY NOV
Will be found where the knock is
Ioudest. 1t is here the trouble lies. 3
Powdered ros1n applied to the fan
belt prevent it from slipping.
A thick piece of blotting paper in
the top of your coli box lid will alb
sorb moisture which might get into
the coils and cause unnecessary trou-
BILE.
A dry fire extihguisher used to ex-
tinguish gasoline or oil fires can be
Iaconstructed as follows: FIJI a piece
of clean gas pipe (3xz) that is plug
ged at one end, with "a mixture of nine
lsparts sodium bi-caEbona and one
part finely powdered sand Put a
wooden plug in other end and by
means of an eye screwed in the plug
hang the extinguisher on a strong nail
In an accessible place. To extinguish
a fire pull the. extingufsher from the
nail and throw the contents at the
base of the flames. The sodium BIZ
carbonate decomposes upon being
<fF p HhnT
sdiextde, which chokes the fire. The
sand, of course, merely prevents the
sodium bi-carbonate from caking or
getting fumpy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-06

The entire cost of maintaining the
whole American navy Is less every
year than the sum spent for automo-
bile tires.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-06
Automobile News

Success in the mechanical cam
paign for silent automobiles has re
suited, among other things, in 6
boom for the motor hearse in Euro
pean countries.
| Noisy automobilists, motorcyc1ists
! and irresponsible chauffeurs are be-
ing raked over the Goals by the Sa-
Vannah (Ga.) Automobile Club. Au-
tono biles with open muffIers are the
greatest nuisance.
Austria has initiated Germany in
imp osing a tax on. motor tourists. For
owner is to pay 40 cents per day. The
e automobile can stay for three months
before it becomes subject to the ordi-
nary annual taxation, but the motor
cycle only one month.
The bill introduced in the Ohio
General Assembly to compel motor
men Of interurban cars, while pass
ing motorists, to screen their glar-
ing headlights. has been defeated. The
Columbus Automobile Club fathered
the measure, and the members are
much disappointed.
Don't throw old spark plugs or .ex-
ira ones in the tool box or locker with
wooden box, first having creased the
threads to prevent rust and then Sc
eurely wrap each one in cloth. Porce-
Iains are easily cracked and cleo
trodes: bent by rough handling.
That automobile tires are not parts
subject to the duties levied upon the
latter, is the decision of the Board OF
United States General Appraisers Col
Iector Loeb, of the port. of New York,
held that as the tires and wheels were
assembled articles they were properly
dutiabIe at As per cent. ad valorem
under the provision in the law Tor
parts of autom obiles.
There is considerable prospect that
Bar Harbor, Me, will be opened to
automobiles at last, in time for the
summer society folk A special town
meeting was held recently, when the
townspeople by a vote of sos to 251,
decided to ask for the repeal of spe-
cial automobile legislation as far as
it affects the town of Eden. The mat
ter is thus put up to the Legislature,
which is likely to accede to the wish
IS of the town.
The next Vanderbilt race will be
run under rules limiting the piston
displacement of competitors $50
cubic inches. In making this ruling,
the Savannah Automobile Club. un-
der the auspices of. which the race
. will be run, has followed the ruling
made by the sIndfanapoi S1speedway
made by the Indianapolis Speedway
mana cement, which has limited the
piston displacement of cars taking
part sfn the 50o-mile sweepstakes on
Decoration Day -tes745o cubic inches.
There remains but one race in which
bigger cars may eompete-the Grand
Prize of America. All other Aneri-
can and European races will be con-
tested by the medium and small car
class e@@f- 81 $50!
Chicago magistrates are trying out
a new cure for fncorriglble scorchers,
the first recipient of the cure being
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-11
Sunday School Convention.

AsBURY PARK, N. j., Nov. IL
With delegates present from every
section of the state, and speakers
from many other states, the annual
Asbury Park Sunday school conven-
ton opened here today. The sessions
will continue tomorrow and Thurs
day. Rev. DR.. Floyd w. T. Tompkins,
rector of Holy Trinity church of Phil
adeiphia, will have charge of the de-
votional services during the conven-
ton. Rev. DR.. Cornelius Wolfkin.
pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presby-
terrain church of New York City, de-
livered the convention sermon this
morning. William A. Brown, superln-
tendent OF the missionary department.
of the United States, will make one
OF the principal addresses of the con.
vention as the representative of the
International Sunday School Associa-
ton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-11

nsunity that much the poorer, for he
has made nobody the better and
every drinker worse. Then out of
the hundred dollars he takes less than
one dollar. That's pretty big com
mission to pay isn't it? And yet you
say that we need the money. And as
well as making his thousands, he is
making diseased members of the COM
munity, degenerate members of So
ciety, causing more deaths than any
known agency, and that's what we let
him give the city a thousand year
to do.
1t causes dishonor Men who drink
10 not stay in the list OF honorable
men. They are Scrowded out of the
upper positions. Mem have gone down
and down, and none seemed to care.
The saloon keeper and the brewer
least OF all. II Keokuk was wise, it
would not harbor such an agency with
in its city limits. And II Keokuk
wanted to do so, it could close them
out.
The speaker concluded his remarks
by saying that he hoped the time
would come when the federal govern
nent would pass national prohibition
law, and put the protecting arm Of the
federal government around the boys.
Ten boys then came to the platform.
and the speaker said that four out of
every ten boys became drunkards, and
wanted to know which four it should
be. As he spoke he wrapped the
American flag around them, and said
that was what the flag ought to do.
protect our boys. and it would pro-
tect our men.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-11
FARMERS TO REVIVE
THE MACOMB LINE
Men Who Contributed $4,000 Are Try.
ing to Prevent the Wreckins Of
the Railroad.

MACoMB. ILL.,, Nov. 11.--Farmers
and business men along the line of the
defunct Macomb and Western traction
line have completed an organization
with George Runkle of Industry town.
ship as chairman to investigate the
possibilities of securing possession of
the road or OF constructing a new line.
The sum of $1,000 was voted to be used
in litigation in the hope of retaining
ownership of the old right of way and
which is claimed by the farmers who
donated 1t.
The right of way has been fenced in
with mo trespass' signs and the
wreckers who purchased the road for
junk will not be permitted to remove
the ties or rails.
The sangamon Loan and Trust com.
pany has been appointed receiver of
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-11
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