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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-01-28
JUDGE MILLS HEARS PLEAS.
Several of Those Indicted Arraiuned
by Prosecutor Rathbun.

Several of those indicted who were
confined In jail were arraigned before
Judge Mills by Prosecutor Rathbun
and they plead as follows:-
Charged with selling cocaine Morris
kalmanor, who has drug stores at
Morristown and Norris Plains,I plead
not guilty.
Lewis Meusser, of Dover, plead not
guilty to charge of conspiracy. He
is charged with aiding in taking a
girl out of the state for criminal
purpose.
James Barry entered plea of not
guilty to stealing two dress suit
cases from NJ Rosenberg.
William Kuhmichel plead not guilty
to selling hard cider at Mt. Tabor.
He gave his own property for a bond
for his appearance for trial and also
Went on the bail bond OF Max Florin,
who plead not guilty to the same
alleged offense as Kuhmichel.
Antonio Esposito and Lorenzo De.
Levo, charged with stealing two car,
riage cushions from Harry V. Collins,
not guilty; same, charged with break.
ing and entering barn at Netcong
and stealing horse, wagon, harness
and blankets not guilty; same
charged with stealing sheets, under
wear and pillow cases from Mrs. Mal-
vey's clothesline, not guilty; same
with Mrs. John Redd charged with
stealing thirty-one chickens from J.
Christian Jorgensen, not guilty. Will
lam N. Beach was assigned by the
court to defend them.
John Krompka, assault and battery,
not guilty.
Albert Peer, assault, not guilty; as,
sault and battery, not guilty; bail
fixed at $780,
Michael Terner, breaking and enter
ing, not guilty. James A. Collins
assigned as attorney.
Joseph Hamilton, rape, not guilty
Lyman M. Smith, of Dover, assigned
as counsel
Trials will begin before Judge Mills
on Tuesday, February 4th-
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-01-28
N. j. & P. TERMINAL
SWEPT BY FLAMES
Station, Coal TrestIes and Cars
Burned Friday Morning.

The New Jersey & Pennsylvania
railroad station at Watnong, together
with five cars, the coal trestles of
Sands & Co. and the Consumers
Coal Co. and a sawmill together with
other buildings and many tons of
coal were consumed by flames Friday
morning. No figures are obtainable
upon the property loss but it will be
in the neighborhood of $4,000 it is
estimated.
The fire is believed to have been
of incendiary origin for there were
flames in three separate portions of
the plant when residents and fire
men arrived. A box car containing
fifty bags of wheat flour and twelve
of rye flour had been broken open
and six bags were found upon the
ground and three of wheat and one
of rye were missing. There was little
or no cash in the railroad station ac-
cording to Frederic V. Pitney, the
railroad receiver.
News of the fire was telephoned to
police headquarters at five-thirty
from. Benjamin Nicoll's place and
Roundsman Rolf notified Chief Day.
The chief called up Robert Sands and
others and told them Of the fire.
Mr.. Sands went to the scene in his
automobile and then asked Chief
Day for assistance. The automobile
chemical engine with Assistant Chief
Madigan and G. Maynard Day aboard
with Driver Workman went to the
fire followed short time later by
Chief Day.
The firemen found the railroad sta,
ton In ruins, also a Sawmill owned
by the Sands company. The Sands
trestle was afire together with many
tons of COZ it contained. A car oil
beer, anot- er of general merchandise
and one o. baled hay were consumed
and also coal car on one of the
trestles.
Chief Day found the flames lick
ing at the poles of the telephone
trunk line and he notified the line
men and they protected the lines
The Consumers trestle, owned by the
ra'lroaG company, and located on the
oprosite size OF the road from the
railroad 'tation, was afire together
with the coal underneath it.
The morning train from White
house arrived as usual but the turn
table was blocked by the debris o
the burned cars and the train had tt
make its return trip running back
ward
This fire was another demonstra
tion of the effectiveness of a pumpin
engine to the outlying sections. Whil
the chemical streams are of grea
benefit in handling fires in their in
cipiency the solid streams of waite
are needed for a conflagration. A
= automobile pumping engine woul
; doubtless saved considerable of tn
property.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-01-28
AUTO PUMPING ENGINE
FOR MORRIS PLAINS
Section of Morris Township May BE
Set Off as Fire District and
APPARATUS Provided

A petition is being signed by resi-
dents of that section of Morris town.
ship in Morris Plains asking the
township committee to set aside that
section as fire district and ap-
propriate sum of money for the
purchase of apparatus. The law pro-
vides that the township committee
may fix the boundaries of fire dis
tricts and assess the district for the
cost of maintaining the department
in that district.
The committee that is organizing
the company, as told in this paper
several weeks ago, is soliciting con-
tributions from township residents
for the purchase of an automobile
combination pumping and chemical
engine, hose wagon and hook and lad
der truck. This apparatus will cost,
it is estimated, about 100000 The
township committee will be asked to
include in the tax levy for this year
and next year sum sufficient to pay
for the apparatus. AS it will be impos-
sible to secure the e<machine for about
six months it is planned to install a
temporary apparatus until the auto
arrives.
A barn fronting on Speedwell avenu
on William H. Thompson's place. 1t
is planned, will be converted into a
fire house and club room for the
company members. A concrete floor
will be put down in the carriage room
and plaster walls and ceiling put in
and other rooms adjacent finished off
for the firemen. A company of sixty
or seventy men will be recruited from
the township residents to man the
apparatus
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-01-28
STRUCK BY RAILROAD TRAIN
WHILE WALKING TRACKS
L. L. DeForest Run Down and His
Body Horribly MangIed by
Train Monday Niuht

A man, believed to be Lloyd Liv-
ingston DeForest, of Beaufort, was
struck by the train arriving at Nor
ristown at. nine-thirty Monday even
ing while he was walking along the
tracks near the Ford house. The
body was terribly mangled and the
head was crushed into unrecognizable
pieces. From letters and papers found
in the pockets the mans identity was
found but the body has not been posi-
lively identified.
After running down the man the
engineer stopped his train but later
came on to Morristown without bring
ing the body. Coroner Welsh was
summoned and in turn summoned
Smith & Holly, undertakers, and the
body was taken to the undertakers'
rooms on Park place.
DeForest, was engaged in the pro-
motion of a company to raise a drug
called hydrastus. Just where he had
been in Morristown on Monday night
is not known. The engineer of the
locomotive that struck him says that
the man was walking along the side
of the tracks. The whistle was
blown and as the train reached him
the man fell across the track. The
entire train passed over him. Be
sides the letters and papers a tobac-
co box, mashed flat, broken cork
screw and two pennies were found
also a return ticket to Beaufort.
DeForest lives with his step-falher
Mr.. Goldy, at Beaufort.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-01-28
TAX APPEAL JUDGMENTS.
County Board Decides Several Gases
Submitted to 1t.

The Morris county board of taxation
has decided these tax appeals:-
Estate A. l.. Revere, Morristown,
personal, $4,000, refused.
Altamont Realty Co., realty, Nor
ristown, $18,700 to $4,000.
Estate w. v. Lidgerwood, Morris
township, realty ON R. r. avenue,
$685. to $3.50.
John D. Collins, house and lot, Mil.
ler street, Morristown, $1,1O0 to $780,
Mrs. A. NJ Bates, Convent, house
and lot, Passaic township. $1,000 to
800.
A. E. Pierson. chattels, Passaic
township, $500, .remitted
Seth E. Thomas, ir., Morristown
personal, $4,000, remitted
Miller Estate association, land and
buildings, Morristown, $S8,O00 tt
$S5 900.
Elisha Walker, New York, personal
Morristown, $3.50, remitted.
Albert Oxley, house and lot, Frank
lin place, Morris Plains, $1.SOO tt
81 900.
Henry F. Ogden, Hoboken, For,
property, Morristown, $4,000 to ST.,
500.
Frances F. Lakeland, Ridgewood
vacant lot Ford avenue, $4,000, re
| fused,
Estate Rosa B. Romsne, Morristowl
chattels, $4,000 remitted.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-01-28
NEW TOWNSHIP SCHOOL.
Favorable Vote on Morris Plains
Bonding Proposition.

Morris township voted heavily
Wednesday evening in favor of Sc
curing the Presbyterian church prop
erty at Morris Plains and building a
new school house upon it, a bond
issue of $2l 900 being authorized fol
the purpose. The vote was 1877 for
to twenty-three against, several OF
those voting against being from
Washington Valley where the school
board, it is said, plans to close the
little one-teacher school and trans
port the pupils to the new school at
Morris Plains.
William H. Thompson was elected
chairman of the school meeting which
was held in the school house at Nor
ris Plains. Mr. Thompson appointed
Township Clerk j. Paul Jameson
as secretary and David Cronshey and
Farquhar Fraser as tellers.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-01-28
HEPTAsoPHs' INSTALLATION.
William Peters Now the Archon OF
Morristown ConcIave.

Morristown conclave, No. S54, l. o.
Heptasophs, held its annual installa-
tion of officers and enjoyed a supper
at Viedt's on Thursday evening.
These officers were installed by Dis
trict Deputy Supreme Archon Fred
o. Hays, of this town:-Past archon,
George R. Gordon; archon, William
Peters; provost, Sidney A. Baldwin;
prelate, w. j. Townley; secretary,
Walter M. Berry; treasurer, William
Schweikhardt, jr.; financier, Walter
V. Meslar; inspector, William G. Mes
lar; warder, Erlan r. Ball; sentinel,
A. L. Collins; trustees, Frank ID.
Baldwin, Lawrence M. Christensen
and George r. Gordon. Among those
present We're Supreme Provost Emil
Schneider, Supreme Committeeman
DR.. Frank Hopkins and Chairman
New Jersey Visitation Committee job II
Manning, all of Newark. The supper
at Viedt's was given by the lodge in
recognition of the efforts made in
the recent campaign for new men,
bers which was won by the "blues,"
An increase of twenty per cent. was
made to the lodges membership. A
gold past archons jewel was pre-
sented to Past Archon Albert V. r.
Wulff.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-01-28
MORRISTOWN \. S.
BEATS BERNARDS
Wins Basket Ball Game by Big
Score on Friday.

The local high school basketball
players collided with the Bernardsville
aggregation last Friday evening, for
the first time this season. The re-
suit of the collision was So to Is
with Morristown claiming the as
Ecendancy.
The game Friday could hardly be
lcalled exciting though Bernardsville
played enough on the offensive to
keep the contest from being an en-
tirely one-sided affair The visitors
introduced an innovation in tactics,
new at least to the Morristown man.
agement, by starting their game with
i, their light lineup. Whether they un-
derstood the ability of the maroon
and white or whether they believed
in strong second period, is a ques-
tion but they nevertheless soon saw
their mistake and placed their best
combination on the court.
| Manager Denman was back in the
game once more and proved to be the
chief ringer of the evening. He
rang up ten field goals and one foul
throw thus making twenty-one out of
his teams fifty-two points, Captain
Mcintyre was back in the game again
also and though a little stale
in the scoring work he still kept
his reputation from dying by ring
ing up six field and one foul goals.
Heavy Harry" Mitchell and "Bull
Dog Barkalow are to be commended
for their playing. Mitchell seemed to
have magnetic attraction for the
| ball. 1t landed into his hands when
it was expected to land in no place
in particular and once there, it was
there to stay until Heavy Harry
decreed otherwise. Five clean shots
We're added to his record. Barkalow
is to be commended for keeping him.
self placed. He received more of his
opponents passes than they them
| selves.
| Butera replaced Gunther in the sec
ond half and played strong game
securing one goal before the time
of play ended. West replaced Nit
chel but failed to score.
Hill led the visitors shooting with
five baskets. Meany came second
with two and was by far the most
active member of his team. He
alone of the Bernardsville players
was in a class with eur own. Hill
sustained severe knock on the head
but was able to return to the fray
After the game dancing was en-
jcyed until 1OI5.
The next home game will be will
the Summit team which is considered
TO be the most formidable in the
league and will be played an Wyanols
hall, Friday, January 31st, at eigh
p. na-
H. rrli~
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-01-28
APPRAfSE PARK SITE.
Committee Places Value on Fort Non.
sense Tract Wasted by Town.

An appraisement has been made of
the Fort Nonsense park site by a
committee of citizens, Philander B.
Pierson. Judge Alfred Elmer Mills,
Eugene S. Burke, George H. Ross
and Willis * Howell, aided by Ed
ward Howell, civil engineer; also
Henry C. Pitney, jr., and William H.
Thompson on the part of the Fort
Nonsense Park association
Upon consideration of a map en-
titled MAP of Lands of G.. j. Lux
tom and that portion of said lands
situate upon Fort Nonsense hill with
a view to a site for public park,
this committee forms the following
0pinions:-
II. In our opinion, the tract of
land included in red lines upon Lux
toms map, comprising lots 7-37 and
43-72 and lis of that map, and Fort
avenue and four approaches by right
of way via Terrace place, Summit av-
enue, Court street and Ann street
last shall be forty feet wide, are
worth for park site for Morristown
the sum of $4,000.
III. In our opinion, the tract of
land including the portion marked in
lots 1877 and 1872 and lot 115 and
Fort avenue and its branches. as
shown on Luxton's map, and four ap-
proaches by right-ofway via Terrace
place, Summit avenue, Court street
and Ann street near Western avenue,
of which the last shall be forty feet
wide, are worth for park site for
Morristown the sum of $10,500.
1T should be stipulated that Fort
avenue shall be located in extension
of the approaches from Ann street
and Terrace place and on the easiest
grade and shall pass not through the
old Fort but near it on the south
east.
"PHILANDER B. PERSON.
"ALFRED ELMER MILLS,
GEORGE H. ROSS,
EUGENE S. BURKE
(W. K. Howell, having been absent
from Morristown, has not yet signed
the appraisal.)
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-01-28
YALE ACTORS IN
7OLSTOpS SATIRE
Present " Fruit Of Culture in
LyCeum Theatre.

Before a large and brilliant audience
the Yale University Dramatic asso-
citation Friday evening presented
Count Leo Tolstois social satire
"Fruits of Culture" in an English
adaptation by Jack R. Crawford.
. While the costuming and scenery wer
effective the play was not amusing
enough to be very entertaining and
in consequence when the wordy pro-
fessor in the last act tried to explain
his psychic phenomena many people
began to put on their wraps and did
not wait for him to finish.
The play is directed against the
fakery of spiritualism. Leonid ives
dintsey. a wealthy Russian landowner
has fallen prey to the preaching OF
an alleged savant who processes to
believe in spiritualism. Three peas
ants from his estate implore him to
sell some land to them, but, as they
are able to make only part payment,
he refuses. Semen, son OF one or
the peasants, is servant IN the
house of the landowner and he Is IN
love with Tanya, a maid, also en-
ployed there.
Tanya sets about to win her mas
ter's consent to sell the land the
peasants covet, and she does this by
lowering about the spirit cabinet
while the seance is on, humping the
inevitable tambourine, making the
table answer by knocking" and fin
ally slipping the deed of the land sale
on the table with a pen for signature.
The table then knocks and advises
the landowner to sell the land. At
ter the contract is signed Tanya's de-
ception is revealed, and the company
goes from the room, leaving the pro-
fessor to address his explanations
to the empty air.
The play afforded many Aopportunl-
ties for the "boys" to show their
histrionic ability. BY far the best was
Rufus F. King, who played Tanya with
no little skill. He caused gasp OF
astonishment when he-she-sat with
..her" back to the audience and re-
moved "her' stockings, which were
slipped over "her'' hands as gloves
so that "she'' could operate the i'm
plements of deception in the spirit
cabinet
The Yale thespians were brought
to Morristown through the efforts OF
some of the local graduates including
Kinsley Twining, sol; DR.. Granville
M. White. III; oliver C. Billings
'92; George e. Victor, jr.. '04; Ed
ward B. Han, 'O6; Frederick H.
Thomas, '07; Paul Moore. '08; VIII
fred Wood, IL.
Mrs. Mason T. Adams, Mrs. Oliver
C. Billings, Mrs. Wilson S. Bissell
Mrs. John W. Castles, Mrs. Samuel
S. Dennis, Mrs. Charles F. Fleisch.
mann, Mrs. Samuel Freeman, Mrs
John T. Gillespie, Mrs. James b
Griswold, Mrs. Edward ]. Hall, Mrs
Charles w. Hardness, Mrs. George
G. Henry, Mrs. Harrie T. Hull, Mrs
James G. Lidgerwood, Mrs. John
Mayer, jr-; Mrs. Paul Moore, Mrs
Morgan x. Smith, Mrs. Frederic w
Stevens, Mrs. Philemon F. Sturges
Mrs. Albert S. Swords, Mrs. Henry
) f. Taylor, Mrs. Ransom H. Thomas,
Mrs. Seth il. Thomas, Mrs. w. V. S.
Thorne, Mrs. Kinsley Twining, Mrs
Barret P. Tyler. Mrs. George f.
Victor, jr; Mrs. George H. Watson
jr.; Mrs. Granville M. White, Mrs
H. Leroy Whitney, Mrs. Frederic
Wood we're the patromesses.
After the play there was a dance
for the college men at the Morris
County Golf club.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-01-28
ELECTED NEW PRESIDENT.
Rev. David A. Craig Named as Head
of County Branch.

The Rev. David Anderson Craig,
pastor of the Parsippany Presbyterian
church, has been elected president of
the Morris county branch of the State
Charities Aid and Prison Reform as
soeiation, succeeding the Rev. Thomas
B. Ironside, who declined reelection.
The local branch, in session on
Wednesday, heard reports from the
condition of the aims house, chill
dren's home and the county jail.
The provident savings committee
collected $66911 within the last two
months making the total of collections
since the beginning of the work $751;
1880. The proposition providing
mothers pensions was approved and
the branch officers will communicate
with this county's representatives in
the Legislature asking for the pass
age of the bill soon to be presented
in the legislature.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-01-28
WARE THE DOG KILLER.
Morris Township Committee Author
ICES Death to Stray CANNES.
Death to Stray CANNES.

Fearing an epidemic of hydrophobia
in the Mendham road and Brookside
section of Morris township, the Nor
ris township committee met Saturday
afternoon and authorized Township
Clerk j. Pau Jameson to issue a
proclamation to the effect that all
dogs found running at large in the
township unmuzzled are to be shot.
There have been several hydrophobia
cases at Mendham lately and this
week a dog ran through Mendham
road biting many other dogs. The
residents of that section did not take
steps to care for their dogs to see
if hydrophobia developed.
1t has been reported to the commit
tee that a dog belonging to Manning
Connect at Brookside has been suf
fering with hydrophobia for several
days and that Mr.. Connects family
has been doctoring it. The dog, il
is said, has been unable to bite be
cause of its jaws being locked by
the disease. Charles Brant has beer
officially designated as the dog killer
for Morris township,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-01-28
ARRESTED FOR THiEvERx.
Police Nab Three Men Camping ii
Woods Near Burnham Park,

After some clever detective work by
Sergeant John J. Morrison, that Of
ficer and Doorman Joseph Vorholz
tracked three men to their camp in
the woods back of BurTham park
and arrested them for the robbery
of the Quality Tea store. The men,
Matthew Maroony. Patrick Welch and
James Dixon, are the same ones who
We're already out on bail for the rob-
bing of the Acker, Merrall & Condit
and the Moglia Brothers stores.
The officers found them sitting
around a campfire. Nearby cached in
a stone wall were found groceries
and canned goods identified by the
proprietors of the tea store as their
property. The men were committed
TO Jail to await the action of the
grand jury.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-01-28
OBITUARY.
Mrs. William R. Donaehe.

Friends of Mrs. William R. Donaghe
We're shocked to hear of her death in
London, England, on Thursday of
last week. She steamed for England
with her daughter on January 4th
and was taken suddenly i'll on her ar
rival. Mrs. Susan Boylston Donaghe
was the widow of DR., William Rice
Donaghe, of New York, and the daugh.
ter OF the late William and Harriet
Hallam Richardson, of Boston and
Richmond, Va. She was prominent
in Morristown's social circles and was
a member of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, the Colonial
Danes, the Mayflower society and
other patriotic orders With her
daughter she lived at No. So Maple
avenue. Funeral services will be hi Ii
from her late residence on Friday,
February 7th, at three o'clock In
terment will be private.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-01-28
Mr.. HAVEN ORDAINED.
Formal introduction Into the Presby-
terian Ministry on Tuesday.

The ordination to the gospel min
istry of William Leroy Haven, jr.,
on Tuesday evening, was an occasion
of unusual interest as was mani
tested by the large numbers of friends
present at the South Street church.
The Rev. William Adams Brown,
ID. D., of Union Theological seminary,
New York, preached the sermon, the
Rev. Merle III. Anderson, d. D., pas
tor of the church, presided and of
fered the ordaining prayer. The
charge to the candidate was given
by the Rev. Alexander MacColl, of
Philadelphia Special music was
rendered by the choir.
Tile Rev. Mr.. Haven is graduate
of Morristown high school, Princeton
college and Union Theological semi
nary. He is already engaged in pas
toral work in Dorset, VT, where he
will soon be installed as pastor
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-01-28
CHASED CONSTABLE AWAY.
Max Schiesinger Had a Lively Time
at Whippany Sunday Morning.

Constable Max Schlesinger and
Charles Scherzer attempted to serve
warrant issued by Justice Howard
on three Hungarians at Whippany
Sunday morning and was chased ava,
by the guests at a wedding celebra-
tlon. Some of the Hungarians were
armed with axes. The constable re-
ported to Sheriff Gillen that he had
been pummelled by the Hungarians.
Sheriff Gillen organized a posse
with County Detective Brennan in
command and the party went to
Whippany. They found the three men
wanted still at the wedding feast and
arrested them without trouble. They
told the officers they had chased
Schlesinger away because they did
not like him. The men were wanted
on a charge of assault and battery
resulting from quarrel at the we'd
ding which took place Saturday night.