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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
PLAN SS43,OOO FOR
WATERWAYS IN N. ].
Report for Federal River and
Harbor Work Asks Appropria-
ton of $41 ,483, 1876.

WASHINGTON, Dec. S.--More than
s9,0000O0 for the Mississippi river,
almost 100000 for the Ohio river,
more than 100000 for the Missouri
river, almost 100000 for the Column
bia river and $1.O00,0O0 for the Della
ware river are the amounts consid-
cred necessary by the chief engineers
of the army for the improvement and
maintenance of those great water
ways during the fiscal year of 1915.
For the improvement of New Jersey
waterways the engineers allow $S43,-
900. The items in the Jersey appro-
priation follow: Passaic river, $4,000;
for increasing depth of Newark bay
and Passaic river. $15O,000; twenty
ffve-foot channel Perth Amboy
to Shooters Island, 100000; Wood
bridge creek, $6,0O0 Raritan bay,
500, 900; Keyport harbor. Matawan
creek ETC., $4,000; Shrewsbury river,
$4,000; Cooper river, $4,000; Raccoon
creek, $4,000; Salem river, $4,000;
Alloway creek, $4,000: Maurice river,
$50, 900; Toms river, $1,000.
In submitting to the secretary of
war MS report, HlduS puoAiS 'Ou1s,
the chief of engineers makes esti-
mates aggregating SAL, 4ss, 1896 to be APP
piled to 261 rivers and harbor pro-
jects during the year ending June 90
1915. This is s9,634,994 less than
fiscal year of 1914.
Liberal appropriations are consid-
cred proper and desirable for snag-
ging and other work necessary to
mako natural channels available
| wherever water-borne commerce
exists or is reasonably prospective
says the chief of engineers. 1T is
believed that expenditures for such
improvements are almost always use.
full and advantageous to the general
public, especially since the introduc-
ton and rapid development of small
gasoline meteor boats for combined
freight and passenger transporta'
| tion.''
Estimates of amounts needed fol
fortifications in the United States ag.
gregate $1,035, 900 and In the insulal
possessions $922,500
Among appropriations urged fol
| New York is one for the Hudson
river Jersey City waterfront channel
amounting to $275,000
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
HOUSTON WARNS
OF WASTEFULNESS
Secretary of Agriculture Makes
Report Advising Better De-
veiopment of Resources.

WASHINGTON, Dec. SIN his first
report as head of the department OF
agriculture Secretary Houston sounds
a warning in regard to Americans
wasteful prodigality. Mr.. Houston
contends that we have plenty of re-
sources but that they have not been
properly developed.
1--WE have Enthusiastically reached the
period where we must think ana
plan" says Secretary Houston. I'VE
are suffering the penalty Of too great
ease of living and of making a living.
1t is not singular that we should find
ourselves in our present plight.
s'Recklessness and waste have been
incident to our breathless conquest of
n nation and we have had our minds
too exclusively directed to the estab-
lishment of Industrial supremacy In
the keen race for competition with
foreign nations"
The secretary says there is little
ground for the pessimistic idea that
we have Appropriated the limit OF
our output from the soil, and adds.
"As a matter of fact, we have just
begun to attack the problem; we have
not even reached the end OF the
pioneering stage and have only in a
few localities developed conditions
where reasonably full returns are Sc
cured. With population of less than
81. 0oO, 900 living onNmore than 100000
square miles, it is unreasonable to
speak as IL our territory had been
much more than pioneered
Mr.. Houston declares that intelli-
pent helm to women in matters of
home management will contribute d.
rectly to the agricultural success OF
the farm and that it Is proposed TO
ask Congress for means and au-
thority to make more complete
studies of domestic conditions on the
farm, to experiment with labor-sav-
ing devices and methods and to STUDY
completely the question of practical
sanitation and hygienic protection for
the farm family.
Secretary Houston devotes some
little space In his report to a dis
cussion of rural credits and says that
conditions vary widely in the United
States. He adds that when all nee
essary allowance has been made for
certain fundamental factors 1t is
probably clear that the rural COM
mnnities are not as efficiently served
as they should be by existing finan-
cial arrangements.
Concerning the departments
finances the report says;
ITO carry on the work or the de-
partment of agriculture during the
fiscal year ended June 80. 1913, Con-
gress appropriated $16,651, 496 for or
binary expenses, in addition to which
permanent annual appropriations,
special appropriations and balances
from prior years, amounting 10
IS, sos, ala, were available, making a
total of $24,954, 90S.
"The total funds which have been
or win be returned to the treasury
as unexpended balances of appropria-
tions and miscellaneous receipts ag-
gregate s3,1S2,30S. or this amount
there was received during the fiscal
year ended June 80, last, from the
sale of timber, for grazing, condemned
property, ETC.. $2.4492S7, which has
been deposited in the treasury as
miscellaneous receipts and cannot be
used unless re-appropriated by Con-
.gress"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
Commercial BouiIlOn Cubes
of No Food Value, Says Report

WASHINGTON. Dec. S.-Com-
mercial bullion cubes contain little or
no real food value, say the chemical
experts of the department of agri-
culture, who just completed an exami-
nation and report on the subject.
They declare that the homemade
product is far more valuable and less
expensive than the manufactured one.
The commercial cubes, the report
continues, are from one-half to three
quarters table salt, and, as their price
ranges from ten to twenty cents an
ounce, purchasers are buying salt at
very high price" The cubes are
said to be valuable as flavoring
agencies and that they do contain a
small quantity of muscle-building
material.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
Would Bar Photographers
Who SNAP Paris Fashions

PARIS, Dec. S.--A trade defense
committee is being formed among
Partisan dressmakers in support of
their demand that photographers
shall henceforth be banned from Paris
race courses, In order to prevent the
creation of Parish fashions from
being copied by foreign rivals.
1t Is pointed out that if foreigners
get frocks made from photographs of
the latest Paris fashions they will
cease coming on shopping excursions
to Paris. A strong protest has already
been made to the police. but without
much prospect of success, and the
dressmakers are seeking some pro-
tective measures of their own.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
STATE BUILT $50
MILES OF ROADS.
Commissioner Stevens's Report
Shows 40 Per Cent. Increase
in Improvements.

TRENTON, Dec. 8.--Colonel Edwin
A. Stevens, State road commissioners,
has submitted his annual report to
Acting Governor Leon r. Taylor.
According to the report. in part, the
mileage of roads built during the
fiscal year of 1918, which closed Oc-
tober 81 last, was 15O.949, nearly ISL
miles, which is more than 40 per cent.
more than was built in the previous
year, almost double for the year be-
fore that, and only equaled in the
banner road-building years of 1902,
when 154, and 1908, when 1852 miles
were built, although those roads were
of infinitely inferior grade to the 1918
roads New Jersey has 1.S35.023 miles
of improved roads. The COST last year
was 81, 48S 141.66. of which the State of
New Jersey paid $521, BLESS.
The report has a table showing that
81, 470, 03599 was spent on repairs of
roads from county funds and receipts
from automobile registration. There
fore the roads of New Jersey cost last
year, to keep in condition and add to,
the huge sum of $685. 177.61, nearly
three million dollars, showing the
neeu TOT COMPROMISING system OIL
repair as suggested by Colonel
Stevens ever since has been boss
The chapter on convict labor is In
teresting. The commissioner details
how the convicts must be fed and
housed by the road department,
guarded by the forces of prison re-
straint, and suggests that it would
simplify things if the custody of the
men was turned over entirely to the
road department and hold it response
BILE for the safe keeping of the men.
| Colonel Stevens next takes up
motor vehicle traffic" and says, in
part: 1.-THE county road mileage of
| the State, outside of city streets, is
at present estimated at $4,000 miles.
| The motor vehicle registration is
about 40, 500 cars. Motor vehicle reg
istration of other States runs much
lower New Jersey is 3.3 per miles OF
road. while the nearest of the nearby
| States is Massachusetts, with 81. In
France it is 3 per mile of road.
1.-THE fund derived from motor We
hicle fees Is now devoted to repair OF
roads The amounts charged for these
| licenses are hardly defensibe as mere
! license fees. Considering these
amounts and the use to which the
fund Is put, it is apparent that the
former are justifiable as commute.
tons of a toll charge. On such 9
theory all road traffic should be taxed
1.-THE most reasonable basis is thai
of horsepower, and this can be ap.
piled to horse-drawn as well as
motor driven vehicles
Colonel Stevens then attaches a
table showing how this can bt
worked out on the basis of average
charge and 81 per horsepower. The
fees would go from S626.4Sz to f1,561,-
900
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
Predicts Ministers Will
Be Baseball Umpires When
Sunday Playing Is Approved

LAKEWOOD, Dec. 8.-R. Myron r.
Scudder, of New York city, at the
final session of the annual meeting of
the New Jersey Sanitary Association
at Mountaineering somewhat
shocked the more orthodox of the $50
members present Saturday by pro-
mitigating the belief that in a decade
or so ministers of the gospel will,
after their Sunday-sermons, lay aside
their vestments and be found umpir-
ing game of Sunday baseball
He said that he was absolutely
convinced that orderly out-of doors
sports on Sunday were proper, and
expressed the opinion that the church
and other religious institutions would,
in the near future, not only sanction
but promote them.
Professor Calvin N. Kendall, com.
missioner of education, made a stir
ring plea in his lecture on 1.-THE Pro-
motion of Health and Sanitation by
Means OF Public Schools" for higher
salaries for teachers in this State and
other States, that more efficient
teachers may be acquired who will
be competent to undertake the work.
of hygiene instruction in the schools.
DR.. Charles V. Chaplin, of Provi-
dence, r. l., in his treatment of the
subject, "Disinfection, closed tho
session, after which the following
officers for the ensuing year were
elected: President, DIR. J. Brognard
Belts, of Plainfield; first vice-presi-
dent, Clyde Potts. C. E., of Norris
town; second vice-president, George
e. Mclaughlin, of Jersey City; third
vice-president, Professor Calvin n.
Kendall, of Trenton; treasurer.
George p. Olcott, of East Orange:
secretary, DIR. Edward Guion, of At
lantic City.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
Water Undermines Pavement
and Stalls Cars in HObOken

HOBOKEN, Dec. ga section of
newly finished asphalt pavement on
a concrete foundation, so by so feet,
dropped at the intersection of Wash
ington and Third streets, Hoboken,
yesterday afternoon, leaving a hole
eight or ten feet deep. A northbound
trolley car had just passed.
The collapse of the new pavement,
which was finished on Saturday, was
due to a break in the water main.
The flood washed away tons of earth
and the most expert of the Hoboken
detectives were not able to determine
where it went. Persons living in
Washington street, between Second
and Fifth streets. were without water
and gas last night.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
"CASCAREtS" THE
BEST LAXATIVE
If constipated, bilious, head
achy, Stomach sour--Clean
up tonight!
f;et q. 10-cent box now.

Get q 10-cent box now.
You men and women who can't get
feeling right-who have headache,
coated tongue, foul taste and foul
breath, dizziness, can't sleep, are
bilious, nervous and upset, bothered
with a. sick. gassy. disordered stom-
ach. or have backache and feel worn
out
Are you keeping your bowels clean
with Cascarets. or merely forcing a
passageway every few days with
salts. cathartic pills or castor oil?
Cascarets work while you sleep;
cleanse the stomach, remove the sour.
undigested, fermenting food and foul
gases; take the excess bile from the
liver and carry out of the system all
the constipated waste matter and
poison in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will straighten
YOU out by mornings 10-cent box
from any drug store will keep your
stomach sweet; liver and bowels reg
ular. and head clear for months.
Don't forget the children. They love
Cascarets because they taste good
mover eTipe or sicken
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
N. j. Society of Pa. Elects;
to Hear Secretary OF War

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. S.-The
New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania
held it's annual meeting Saturday
night at the Bellevue Stratford and
elected these officers for the following
year:
President, Walter Wood; vice-presi-
dent, c. V. d. .Joline; secretary, Will
lam ]. Conlen; treasurer, C. Stanley
French; directors, Robert c. Lippin-
colt, John Atkinson, Charles e. Hires,
E. c. Stokes, j. B. Van Solver, Jo-
seph w. Cooper. Joseph III. Gaskill,
Joseph r. Grundy and william J.
Browning.
The society will hold its annual
banquet at the hotel on December IS,
the anniversary of the adoption of the
Federal constitution by New Jersey.
c. v. d. Joline will act as toastmas-
ter, and among the speakers will be
Secretary of War Garrison, Job
Hedges, who ran for Governor of
New York against William Sulzer:
Governor-elect Fielder, of New Jer-
sey, and Lemuel Paget, chairman of
the naval committee of the House of
Representatives.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
Rich Woman Adopts Wait,
Jersey City's Prize Baby

JERSEY CITY. Dec. 8.-Edward
Dean, the fourteen -months-old found
ling who won the gold medal award
ed as the first prize in the recent bet
ter babies contest in this city, was
taken from the Jersey City Hospital
here yesterday by a wealthy woman
who has agreed to adopt him as her
own son.
The child was ward of the New
Jersey Board of Children's Guardians
and the Jersey City representatives
of the board win not divulge the iden-
tity of the woman who has adopted
the baby. The child was pronounced
physically perfect by the doctors who
presided at the contest.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
Shank Has Stage Fright

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 8.--''What dye
think of a man who has never had a
tremor while addressing a political
audience of 10000 and yet could throw
o case of stage fright like this" ex-
claimed ex-Mayor Samuel Lewis
Shank, of Indianapolis, mopping his
brow as he stood in the wings of the
Empress Theatre yesterday. Just f1f-
teen minutes before he had stood be-
fore an enthusiastic audience making
his bow in vaudeville and had gone
up In his lines" He houndered around
for some painful moments and then
pulled himself together on the sub
ject of the high cost of living. When
he got down to pointed remarks on
his dealings with produce questions
the audience forgave him and ap-
plauded and howled.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
Road Builders Convene

PHILADELPHIA, Dec 8.-Demcn-
STATIONS of various machines and ma
teriais used in road-buildiny and NOV
ing pictures showing diiferen. condi-
lions of streets and roads were fea-
lures of the tenth annual convention
of the American Road Builders A.
sociation, where began here today.
Road experts from all sections of the
are in attendance at the ses-
sions, where were presided over by
Samuel Hill, of Seattle. president Of
the association
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
Bookkeeper of Bank Arrested

NEW ROCHELLE. N. ", Dec. g.
William d. Newman, bookkeaper in
the National City Bank of New
Rochelle, was arrested today charged
with forgery ON complaint of officers
OF the bank. 1t is alleged that q dis
crepancy of about $1,000 was found ON
Newman's books. Newman's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. George ID. Newman,
were found dead from revolver
wounds in their home here on Mo-
vember II. and the case was believed
by the authorities to be one Of muir
der and suicide. Young Newman was
married shortly after the tragedy. He
denies that there was any shortage
in his accounts
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
Burglar Fells Woman When
She Keeps Silent About Gems

HACKENSACK, Dec. S.-Two
armed burglars entered the home of
Charles Ward, in Passaic street, Ro-
chelle Park, near here, last night. a
few minutes after Mr.. Ward had gone
out. Mrs. Ward had just retired
when the burglars entered her room.
They threatened her with revolvers
when she refused to tell where valu-
able articles were.
Her persistence SO amazed the
burglar that he knocked her uncon-
scious with a blow on the head. The
men escaped.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
Duel OF Italian Deputies
Ends After % Rapier Bouts

ROME, Dec. S.-Deputy Gambarot-
ia, q Liberal, was disabled today by
a wound in the forearm inflicted by
Deputy Giuseppe de Felice- Giuffrida,
a Socialist, after the two had fought
twenty-three bouts in rapied duel.
The quarrel arose out of an Incl
dent in the chamber of deputies.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
New Dance Records for the Victrola

Miss Caprice Do You Love Me Best If You Were Mne Take
Tm Look in Her Eyes, Marriage Market Peg My Heart
Saney Tango Dreams of Childhood
Apple Time in Normandy, Thinking Tango
Long Married Ragtme in the Air and
The Girl in the Bingham Gown.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
The New Music Rolls

selection of music rolls produced is Always 10
be found the second MOOT me
includes the latest popular musical someoy MS a.
as the standard excerpts from all tne
Among rolls the Hesitation Walz Isle Bus
Because Then, You've Got Your Mothe os Das
Eyes, the Marriage Market and others.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
No Extras

Hundreds of these instruments will be found Jersey homes
able fact back of all sales that instrument has been
fects and not has been complained of detail This
PayerPiano thoroughly reliable tested and Safe to Buy
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-01
i|Loony


Still they come pouring in till
We editors head is almost gray
worrying which is the best one.
Don't despair IL you have not yet
written One-there is lots of time
yet. Set your brain to work and
evolve a scintillating gem and
Wen gladly publish it.
Enter today the "Brains Dept"
of the county treasurer's office
with the following effusion:
You might Kid Kurfess but you
can't ConcannOn.
whats this, Evangeline-an
echo of the battle of Bull Dur
ham?)
R. H. Brown, 205 Tacoma,
building, sent in long list that
lack of space prevents us from
printing complete, but here are
few:
When the team gets on the
road, can a line drive?
(Get away from that horses
head-quic1.)
If the laundry girls all go out,
with Pearl Casey strike two?
(He'd better not-the nasty,
horrid thing.)
When a fanette wanders on the
field will a twObagger?
(Unhand her villyun or I will
kill you like a dawg.)
IL Mike Lynch gets hold of a
lady bug, will his double squeeze?
(Breax away there = break
away
IL lady tries to umpire the
game will any breast protector?
(I should worry.)
II Bert Hall buries his knife
will his fork ball?
ooh, boo hoo! This is pathetic
enough to bring tears to the eyes
Of an onion.)
Well now turn to the contribu-
ton of J. Ernest Murphy, 3138
North Ferdinand, who says it
sprung from the diseased and dis
ordered imagination of a rabid
fan:
If Bennett could sand a Frfsk,
could Kfppert Hester?
(That Imagination is certainly
guilty of everything ascribed to
1t and then some.)
A. M. Jackson, 1912 Sixth ave-
nue., has sent in some stuff that Is
evidently loony lines, but 1t must
be too loony for even the loony
editor for he can't get it. Mr..
Jackson will Kindly furnish an
illustrated chart, copy of the
dictionary and can-opener, and
maybe we will make some head
way with 1t. Until such a time
we are up a tree.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-01
MAY STAGE
SMOKERS

Although the coming smoker
of the Eagles Athletic club. MAY
8, will be the last one of the sea-
son, Tacoma boxing fans may not
be deprived of fistic sport, IL the
plans of Tacoma chauffeurs are
carried out.
The auto drivers are organic
ing for the purpose OF instituting
a series OF four round bouts.
which will probably be held in
Moose hall. II present plans do
not fall through, they will stage
a smoker between the goth and
29th of May.
Young Phillips, well known In
local boxing circles, Is now pilot
of a taxi, and will act as the
matchmaker for the club. The
chauffeurs will try to get Dannie
OBrfen of Portland, and Frenchv
Vaise, the Seattle whirlwind. for
the headliner of the first smoker.
From the way people have turned
out to bouts held this spring the
chauffeurs believe that the limo
walton would be profitable IL MADE
permanent, and will endeayor to
establish high clans boxing ON 4
firm basis here.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-01

Tacoma fans who have been
waiting with more or less inn
patience to see If Jimmy Concan-
non was going to live up to the
form displayed in training season
were gratified yesterday, for JIM
my was pretty nearly the whole
show ont at the ball park. He
shut out Portland by score of
4 to o, and allowed but three hits,
q couple of which were scratchy.
And he also pitched Tacoma into
fourth place.
The Bengal southpaw had aid
and allotment, of course. His
support-to use a hacxneyed term
might be described as gilt
edged. And Mr.. Clyde Keller
and Pinky Grindle, who secured
four of the five hits off Mays, who
pitched some himself, were prom
inent factors in the victory.
The Tigers started the pyro-
technics in the fourth when Sta
ollie was given a free ticket to
the first station. Attempting the
hit-and-run play Keller showed a
bingle past Nick Williams, and
Saddle made for the third angle.
Fries hurled the globule at Gulgni
who carelessly let 1t bound mer-
rily past him, Saddle counting.
In the sixth Concannon arrived at
first through the courtesy of Mr..
Guigni, and later came home on
a swat by Mr.. Keller, who was
right on deck again.
In the lucky seventh Nordy1e
drew a pass. Kennedy popped out
but Ruell made his first hit of the
week, a single to right. McMul-
lin was the burn offering and the
runners moved up a peg. Grindle
thumped one over Guigni's dome
and Lou came in. Foot also
footed" it for the platter, but
Murray missed him coming in.
Two runs.
Mays was derricked in the sew
enth to let Speas bat. Bill did
not get anything to fatten his
average, however. "Toots" Ag-
new, who would not pitch for Ia
coma last year. worked the eighth
for the Colts.
Yesterdays game was the third
consecutive win for the Tigers
this week.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-01

Men who know Frank Chance the American $4,000
manager who pressageny dubbed the Peerless Leader by
W. before their
imagine what Chance shouting
ure Chance not believe handling
gloves He rules them with
doesn't hesitate to language that
imagine Chance raising the skin
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-01
Yesterdays Results
Standing of the Clubs.

Where They Play Today.
Portland at Tacoma
Seattle at Spokane.
Vancouver at Victoria.