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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-04
THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION.

THE ONE Hundred and Thirtysevenh Legislature of New
finally adjourned early this morning and its record be
lngs history itself without outside influence and
the Legislature might have fulfilled expecta
ion of the people and kept party pledge AS was
with Democratic Senate under control of ideas belonging to
he old Republican machine this State the two mosttaked
# pledges of the Democratic PLATFORM constitutional conyen
ion jury defeated 1t due to the Senate
hat other important party pledges sacrificed The economy
efficiency bills that would have effected large saving and at
he State administration efficient sac
important of the bills prepared by the
State Tax Commission 1t again shown that the New Jersey
the citadel of corporate influences and bureaucratic
esnes and feels responsibility to the voters of the State
Assembly, close the people and responsive
the popular sentiment to that sentiment to the
stood like rock against reactOnary as
sault quarter To the credit of the Legislative
body whole the corporation laws the embarrassing law
he of which to be tested and the full law
Nothing accomplished to reform the VIGOROUSLY bad Health
administration in this State and the crowded State ins
;uons got little enough attention. The time wasted in the at
empt unpopular jury bill upon the people without
could have been poab employed in acting on
many bills that into the legislative wasebaske this
morning
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ENGLAND's sUFFRAGETTE QUANDARY.

"MILTANT" sufragette makes the threat at Glasgow
gone before would be the merest prcks
what is and will happen all the
try Another militant in London declares "human life now IN
peril resolved longer respect it, and trouble of
all be faced British criminal justice has and
problem with, the irraonaly of large
of the better class whose frenzy has
caced the point of ncendarsm the destruction of cherished
public and the taking of human life The first
which, the light of ordinary British Justice fits the crime
which administered the hafdemented Mrs. Pank
in all probability she will be freed in few days after
rle has secured additional prestige with her followers
naryr. These represent small fraction of the female
population Britain 1t would be sad for Anglo Saxon
civilization If majority of English sympathized with
their the less the conons
grave deal with it of the wise Eng
land knows II is evident that the British authorities have
the idea right along that suagette mancy only
shorved be pacfed by mild penalties but cemency
situation. for the belief has been inspired that
the feared miancy and could be coeced by
The deportation of those convicted of heinous
be the best pursue In of
the convict would have leisure to mend her ideas of
the eternal fitness of things
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THE PEOPLES ROSTRUM

Guilty in listing them. but after it had
been done as well as they could, It
was found that concrete was perhaps
cheaper, and they decided to adopt it,.
At that time Mr.. Conklin, the arehi-
tect, stated that the Concrete Steel
Company would be able To reduce
their bid SO, 500 if the basement height
was lessened.
The board decided to adopt the
alternate of concrete construction
throughout For this work the board
did not furnish the specifications in
their entirety, but to the bidder was
committed the making of full and
complete plans and specifications
showing the method of construction.
This probably involved a double test
in ascertaining the lowest bid, viz,
least money and most satisfactory
plan. But the latter was not sub
mitted to the competing bidders; it
remained with it's author, unseen, ex-
cept for exhibition to the architect,
seventy-two hours before the bids
were received, for his rejection or his
approval.
Lie idllcl ltetlhi ~ iifoy 70 10
marked, might work to smother COM
petition, il disapproval of such speci-
fications were to be made at the very
beginning of the prescribed seventy
two hours by preventing the submis-
sion of other plans. All bidders were
not made acquainted with the speci-
fications in their entirety by this
method The bids were thus not
competitive within the principle APP
piled in Van Reipen VS.. Jersey City,
SO N. j. Law, 262. because the oppor-
tunity to compete afforded by definite
specifications open to all bidders and
to which all could conform was not
given.
The contract price of the school
originally was made by the American
Concrete Steel Company at S9415O,
which was reduced, owing to change,
$780, The r. w. Waldron Company
would only reduce their figure $l,90S.
in brick.
To sum up the situation, it is inn
pressed upon me that the Board OF
Education of Kearny was actuated
solely by an honest desire to build a
fine school, and at the lowest possible
cost. 1t may not have followed the
strict construction of the statute upon
the subject, but l think Kearny would
be in better position today with the
school completed. notwithstanding
am told that each day the UNI
completed structure costs the town
the sum of 81, which reminds of the
Italian vendor selling images of the
various great men of the world. who
met an Irishman with a Crouch, the
Italian endeavoring to sell him u
statue of Garibaldi, the 1rishman
taking the statue and, throwing it to
the ground, smashed it into thou
sand pieces. saying "Garibaldi is no
good" The Italian, not to be out
done, in his anger took a statue of
st. Patrick and did likewise. Yours
truly, A. b. ARCHIBOLD."
Ga Seeley avenue, Arlington, N. J.
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CHAPTER XIV.


A LONG day, the last of many long
~ days he told himself, was ended
and John North stood by his
window. Below in the yard into
which he was looking, but within the
black shadow cast by the jail, was
the gallows Though indistinguish-
able in the darkness, its shape was
scared on his brain, for he had lived
in close fellowship with all it en-
phasized. 1t was his gallows, it had
grown to completion under his very
eyes that 1t might destroy him in
the last hour.
There had been for him terrible
fascination In the gaunt thing that
gave out the odor of new wood;
thing men had made with their own
hands; clumsy device to inflict a
brutal death; leftover from barbar-
ism and Christianity Now, as the
moon erept up from behind the dis
tant hills, the black shadows re-
treated. and as he watched. timber
by timber the gallows stood forth dis
tinct in the soft clear light In few
hours, unless the governor interfered
he would pass through the door di-
rectly below his window. He pic
tured the group of grave-faced ner-
vous officials, he saw himself bound
and blindfolded and helpless In their
midst.
His fingers closed convulsively
about the iron bars that guarded his
window. but the feeling of horror
that suddenly seized him was remote
s,aIf nit i,,ls nf
Elizabeth. What unspeakable wretch
edness he had brought into her life,
and he was still to bequeath her
this squalid brutal DEATH II was the
browning shame and misery to the
long months cf doubt and fearful
suspense.
Up from the earth came the scent
of living growing things. The leaves
of the great naples in the courthouse
grounds rustled in the spring breeze,
there was the soft incessant hum of
insect life, and over all the white
wonderful moonlight. But he had no
part in this universal renewable was
to die his purposeless unheroic death
in the morning. For himself he could
almost believe he no longer cared; he
had fully accepted the idea. He had
even taken his farewell of the few in
Mount Hope who had held him stead
fast in their friendship. and there only
remained for him to die decently: to
meet 1he inevitable with whatever
courage there was in his soul.
He heard Brockett's familiar step
and suddenly intent and listening. he
faced the door; but the deputy came
slowly down the corridor and as he
entered the cell. paused, and shook
his head.
mo word yet. john he said re-
gretfully
rs the train in?' asked North.
Yes, Conklin went down to meet
lit. He's just back; guess they'll
come on tAA thirty"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-04
Star Bureau,
Metropolitan National Bank Bldg,

WASHINGTON, APRIL a.
President Wilson has lined up with
the low tariff advocates on the ways
and means committee, and the tarlft
bill that will be reported to the
House of Representatives next week
will represent the views of the Presi-
dent and the revenue tariff members,
to which Chairman Oscar Underwood
and the moderate revisionists on the
committee have given reluctant con-
sent.
While a Democratic House caucus
will be held on Tuesday, it Is not at
all certain that the tariff bill will be
considered in caucus at that time. In
fact, Chairman Underwood said to-
day that If the ways and means COM
lnittee, the finance committee of the
Senate and the President, were en-
tirely in agreement on the Dill py
that time. he would introduce the
committees measure when the House
meets on Monday, without waiting TO
refer it to the caucus.
Upon the Presidents insistence, the
free list will be extended to include
practically all articles of food and
ordinary clothing. Cereal FOODS,
meats, vegetables and fruits are to
go on the free list. with few excep-
lions. The President is still with
holding his mai decision on the dues-
ton of putting sugar on the free list.
The committee, however. after sew
eral weeks of internal dissension, has
agreed to his demand for taking the
tax off everything that goes into the
IL eli Of fTharp will be.
also. a deep cut in the duties on
household goods of the cheaper SORTS
most commonly used, Including wood
enware, cutlery, farm tools and uten-
sils, earthenware, glassware ana
many lines of machinery.
The entire revision. including the
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Washington LettN
by HB.MslkkteaaAA5SSaE&s22; $5za5
TARIFF BILL TO REFLECT PRES. WILSON'S VIEWS

nrovision for an income tax, viii be
included in a single BILL and the
methods to be adopted by the Presl-
dent in forcing the passage OF TINS
measi1re will be about the same az
he has used in forcing the passing
Of administration bills by part
vote in the New Jersey Legislature,
In all probability the new tarl1l
bill will be given to the puoile De-
fore even members of the HOUSE
have chance to see 1t.
The President has impressed very
strongly upon leaders in both Houses
of Congress the idea that the coun-
try looks to the new administration
and the Democratic majority IN
Congress to make immediate redue-
tions in the tariff that will be felt
nv consumers in reduced cost OF
living. The bill presented by the
ways and means committee Will
meet his views on this subject and
he will insist that the members OF
his party shall stand behind MN IN
passing this bill, with the least de-
lay possible.
In urging quick action on the
tariff, the President will carry out
the plan he announced recently OF
staying in close touch with the mem
bers of both Houses while the Dill
is under consideration. He will prob
ably go often to the Capitol during
the debate on the measure, and Will
meet members there and take up
points of disagreement with them
and urge his views as these questions
arise.
AS it stands now, and as it Will be
introduced in the House. the bill
from the ways and means committee
is almost wholly a different bill from
that which was proposed two weeks
ago. when the first conferences were
begun on the subject at the White
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CONTINUED from. Yesterday


Little was said until they boarded
the train, but in the drawing-room
of the Pullman which her father had
been able to secure, Elizabeth's re-
straint forsook her, and she aban-
doned herself to despair. Her father
silently took his place at her side.
Oppressed and preoccupied, the sting
of defeat unmitigated, he was strug-
Cling with the problem of the future.
The morrow with its hideous tragedy
seemed both the end and the begin
ming. One thing was clear to him,
they must go away from Idle Hour
where North had been so much a
part of Elizabeths life. Nothing had
been added to this decision when at
length the train pulled into Mount
Hope.
I'VE are home, dear he said
gently,
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Kearny,s Concrete school.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Sir-It seems to me that the situa-
tion in the town of Kearny relative
to the unfinished school is a most
unfortunate one, and the question
naturally arises, "Who is to blame
for the situation?" The Board of
Education is being lambasted right
and left by those who feel that they
are to blame, but what is the true
situation? Let me quote to you the
language of the Court of Errors and
Appeals, speaking through Mr.. JUS
tice Voorhees,, deciding the writ OF
error:
In September, 1911, the Board of
Education of Kearny accepted the
plans and specifications of an archi-
tect for a new schoolhouse, directing
that bids be separately received for
brick and concrete construction-tha
is. partly brick and partly concrete
and they also in the alternate pro-
yided for a construction of concrete
entirely. The specifications provided
with great particularly for the brick
and concrete construction, but as to
the concrete construction the pro-
vision was as follows: Alternate bids
for the construction of the building
through out of reinforced concrete Will
be considered. Full and complete
plans and specifications showing the
method of construction must be sub
mitted to and approved of by the
architect seventy-two hours before
the opening of bids. Only such sys-
TENS as have been previously APP
proved by the architect as above will
be considered
There were nine proposals Nsubmit-
ted, two of them only for the con-
crete construction, the American Con-
crete Steel Company being the lower
of the two bids, and the contract
was awarded to it. 1t appears by the
proof that the receipts of the bids
was the first business transacted by
the board on the evening of October
2; that the board went into COM
mittee of the whole and looked over
the bids that there was some diff
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-04
THE JUST AND THE UNJUST

at is best that you should leave
this place, dearest"
Don't send me from you, John-I
can not bear that yet" she inplored.
Pityingly and tenderly' his eyes
looked deep into hers. What had she
not endured for his sakel And the
long days of effort had terminated
in this last agony of disappointment;
| but now, and almost mercifully, he
| felt the fruitless struggle was ended.
| All that remained was the acceptance
of an memorable fate. He drew for
ward his chair for her, and as she
sank YEARLY into il, he seated him
self on the edge of the cot at her side.
"McBride's murderer will be found
one of these days, and then all the
world will know that what you be-
lieve is the truth said North at
length.
Eyes, dear" replied Elizabeth sim
ply
Some whispered word of General
| Herbert's or the deputy's reached
them in the interval of silence that
ensued. Then presently in that ST
lence they had both feared to break,
the courthouse bell rang again. 1t
was u o'clock. Elizabeth rose.
Il am going now-John-" she said,
in voice SO low that he scarcely
heard her. II am going home. You
wish it-and you must sleep" She
lcaught his hands and pressed them
to her heart. 'Oh, my daring-good
night
She came closer in his arms, and
held up her lips for him to kiss. The
passion of life had given place to the
chill of death. 1t was today that he
was to diel No longer could they
think of it as thing of tomorrow,
for at last the day had come.
eyes, you must go" he said, in the
same low voice, in which she had
spoken.
81 love you, John
"As | do you, beloved he an
swered gently.
"Oh. can not leave you! My place
! is here with you to the very last
do not send me away!"
Il could not bear It," he said stead
| ily. You must leave Mount Hope
omorrow-today--"
He felt her arms tighten about his
neck
To-Day" she faltered miserably.
| To-day
! Her arms relaxed. He pressed his
| lips to her pale cold lips and to her
eyes. from which the light of con-
seriousness had fled.
General HERBERT" he called.
Instantly the general appeared in
the doorway.
"She has fainted!'' said North
| Her father turned as If with some
vague notion of asking assistance,
but North checked him.
| For Gods sake take her away
while she is still unconscious!" and
he placed her in her fathers arms.
For moment his hand fingered on
the generals shoulder. THANK you
good-byl' and he turned away alb
ruptly.
| Good by-God bless you, joint
| said the general in strained voice.
He seemed to hesitate for a mo-
ment as If he wished to say more;
then as North kept his back turned
| on him, he gathered the unconscious
girl closer in. his arms, and walked
from the room.
North remained by the window,
his hands clutching the bars with
convulsive strength, then the wind
which blew fresh and strong in his
| face brought him the sound of wheels:
but this quickly died out in the dis
lance.
Brockett tiptoed into the cell.
II am going to lie down and see
If l can get some Sleep North said,
| throwing off his coat. IF | sleep,
call me as soon as 1t is light-good
night"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-04
CHAPTER XIV.
on the High Iron Bridge

A S the weeks. had passed Marshall
~ Langham had felt his fears lift
somewhat but the days and
nights still remained endless cycles of
torment Wherever he turned and
with whomsoever he talked the North
case was certain sooner or later to
be mentioned. There were hideous
rumors afioat, too. concerning Cen
eral Herbert's activity in behalf of
the condemned man. and in spite of
his knowledge of the law he was pro-
foundry affected by this wild gossip,
this ignorant conjecture, which rea-
son and experience alike told him
misstated every fact that bore on the
situation. He was learning just how
dependent he had been on Gilmore;
no strange imaginipgs no foolish
vagaries had ever beset the gambler.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-04
THE STATE APPROPRIATIONS.

ALTHOUGH THE Legislative appropriations $37S21S in
the appropriations last they far below figure
would the necessities of the State
The insane hospitals greatly overcrowded that
their condition is dangerous The Palisades Park appropriation
of 100000 No additional facilities given to
the seaer of weights and for his highly mpor
work and inadequate equipment No provision made
for State prison The years budget the greatest ever
by the Legislature and large State needs off
another Legislature which probably will have less income to
expend.
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SYNOPSIS OF rREoEDrNG CHAPTERS
copyright 1a12. The BODIES Merrill. company

SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS
Andrew Mcbride II shopkeeper, Of
Mount Hope. is murdered and suspicion
Is unjustly directed toward John North.
who had returned from McBride's shop
to his Office. where he found Evelyn
Lungham, Il former sweetheart and now
wife of Marshall Langham. She tells
him of her unhappiness In marriage and
begs him to renew his attentions to her,
but he refuses. Andrew Gilmore. II gam
bier. forces Marshall Langhlm. while
drunk, to take up bis notes. Langham
Is seen by Joe Montgomery. n village der.
elict, fleeing from McBride's shop. but
the latter Is persuaded TO direct the at
tention of the officials toward North, who
had hidden goodby to Elizabeth Herbert,
daughter of General Herbert and gone
to Chicago North returns mt the cOro-
ner's request testities mt the inquest. is
arrested for the crime. large amount
of damaging cireumStantial evidence Is
presented at the trial. after which the
ease goes to the jury North Is found
guilty and sentenced to be hanged, APP
peals are denied and u futile effort to
secure clemency Is made.
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A SPECIAL SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE.

SPECIAL session will afford opportunity for the six
Democratic redeem the party pledge of
popular the Constitution which they cyni
violated while Enthusiastically processing devotion to mag
mary pledge for iudgemade grand jury which they did not
submit Of the people AS far the jury ques
ton concerned special session will not alter the situation
io The Democratic majority in the House will again pre-
proposition for dual bill the people their choice
jury the renegade
governor accept reject but there will be refer
the September primaries in the
November election results will be Illuminating.
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A BAD CHANGE FOR TERMINAL INTERESTS.

NOT ONLY for New York city but for the whole metropo
district including northern New Jersey the loss of the
Calvin Tomkns dock
illuminated the problems of harbor development
freight distribution with much study and practical counsel
if necessary rid of Mr. Tomkns Mayor Gaynor
selected to succeed him from
vae transportation Influences The selects Mr. Tom
knss president of steamship company
director Interborough Metropolitan Company both
great corporations have selfish interest the terminal
,a.nha
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said the handyman with a short
laugh.
mo, he's gone for good
well, | amt sorry. ] hope to God
| never see him again-he beat me up
awful | was as good a friend as
he'll ever have; | was perfect yell
low dog TO him; he whistled and.
jumped. but I'll be damned il ! ever
jump againl Say, | got about eigh-
teen inches of old gas-pipe slid down
my pants leg now for Mr. Andy; one
good slug with that, and he won't
have no remarks to make about my
goin' home to my old woman!"
You won't have to use it,"
I'm almost sorry" said Montgom
cry.
II suppose that thirst of yours is
unimpaired?" inquired Langham
(To Be Continued Tomorrow
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FRENCH HONORs TO MORGAN.

the Legion of Honor wearing the grand
the order Morgan receives military honors in
Paris French government otherwise the honors paid
his capital would be private There will
official when the body reaches New York, Mr..
connection with the government and officially
flan other private citizen
Valdez daily prospector., 1913-12-03

We have cigars in Christmas pack ages. Valdez Drug Store.