Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-07

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''skunks" and Snakes" and a few
other choice appelations
The writer's accept Matthias pet
names with equanimity and simply
remark: I'VE should worry and be-
come inmates in the place Malta
tried so hard to land his friend, DR.
Markers"
At the meeting of the hospital COM
mittee of the Board Of Freeholders
last Thursday, after the committee
had voted to reject the appointment
of DR.. Markers. after giving Chair
man Ryman the power to make the
temporary appointment, a matter
came up later in the meeting and was
referred to the chairman with power
to act
Before this goes any further, l
would like to inquire said Ryman,
whether this is real power to act or
only imaginarB"
Some surprise was expressed by the
members of the finance committee OF
the Board of Freeholders the other
day at a proposition that Essex
County Park bonds be sold in small
lots to Essex county citizens. Free
holder Malta called it penny bust
ness hawking bonds of rich county
| like Essex among its citizens"
He subsidized when Informed that
New York city had sold an Issue OF
81. 500 900 bonds Of the value Of 500
each solely by giving citizens the first
chance to buy them. Freeholder sey-
mour P. Gilbert said he could see
nothing but good in the plan to give
Essex county residents an oppor-
tunity to buy bonds in which they
themselves were interested. Wnat
can be better" said Gilbert, than
to give the taxpayers Of Essex, or
any other county, chance to allow
their money to earn Al per cent. on
bonds for which they eventually have
to furnish the money TO take up?'
Gilberts argument sounded good to
the rest of the committee and the
bonds will be sold to any person who
applies, provided, of course, he has
the money.
The present week has been about
the softest the panel of petit jurors
has ever known in the Court House.
During the week just four panels
have been drawn for service, or a
total of forty-eight men out of a
nossibIe total of $50. The petit jury
panel numbers no names, all of whom
are supposed TO be available for jury
duty FIVE days of the week If needed.
This week Judge Martin had case
lasting all week and used but twelve
Jurors. Judge Adams had one case
that lasted from Monday morning
until Thursday noon and that same
afternoon tried a short case, making
twenty-four jurors used by him.
Judge Osborne, who has been sitting
In the ''junk' court, so called be-
cause 1t comprises everything except
the trial of criminal cases, found
time to hear one criminal case and
used jury for that, making the total
Jurors used forty eight for the week.
The rest of the panel spent the time
hanging around the marble corridors
of the Court House and saying I'M
kind words about a big and rich
county like Essex that compels jury
men not on actual duty to spend
their time being shooed from pillar
to post around the Court House In
stead of providing a waiting room
for them.
The hospital committee of the
Board of Freeholders had a delega-
ton of representatives of women's
clubs call on them at their meeting
this week to urge the appointment Of
a woman physician at the Overlook
Asylum. The members of the COM
mittee were considerably embar-
raised in their references to their
fourteen women visitors and ad-
dressed them as ladies" a number
of times and also in speaking of the
position the women desired created
called 1t female physician"
After the words ladies" and
female" had been used any number
of times, apparently much to the dis
gust OF the club women, Mrs. William
S. Dlsbrow, one of the leaders of the
delegation, cleared the situation by
remarking, Gentlemen, I wish you
would refer to US as women, not as
females or ladies. Women Is what
we are and women is what we want
to be called"
Freeholders Ryman, Harrison, Mat
tia and other members of the COM
mittee who had been struggling TO
find the proper word to use, all
heaved an audible sigh of relief