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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
Dover Church, Free of Debt,
to Hold Special Services
With Its Former Pastors
Special to the Evening Star.


DOVER, Nov. 24.-To mark the
final liquidation of the church debt
the congregation of the First Metho-
dist Church will hold special services
OF Thanksgiving toni6ht and tomor-
row night with a historical, program
and addresses by former pastors.
lsac w. Soaring, president of the
board of trustees, will preside at the
services this evening, and the for r er
pastors who will take part are: Rev,
Richard Johns, retired. of Haw-
thorne; Rev. Charles S Woodruff,
pastor of Archer Memorial, Al en-
dale; Rev. Frederick S. Simmons,
pastor of the Methodist Church at
Chatham. and Rev. VII lam II. Ruth,
pastor of the Methodist Church at
Jersey City. The only living former
pastor who will not be present at
the services Is Rev. William Eakins,
of Franklin Street Church. Newark
Tomorrow night the services Will
be In charge of Rev. DIR. j. A. Cole.
of Passaic, superintendent of the
Paterson district of the Newark con-
ference. A part of the services will
include the pubic burning of the
last note given for Indebtedness on
the building. A reception will follow
in charge of the members of the
Ladies' Aid Society.
The first church in Dover was
edected by Methodists at the corner
of Mcfarland and Sussex streets in
1888 on the present site of the Grace
Methodist Church. Services were held
in the building until 1872, when a d.
vision of membership occurred and
the present site at the corner of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
REPORT VERA CRUZ
FREE OF DISORDER
Officials Named by constitu-
tlonalists Take Up Duties.
Carranza Awaited.

VERA CRUZ, Nov. 24.-The Con-
stitutionalist troops which came into
Vera Cruz yesterday on the departure
of the American forces of occupation
under General Funston continued to-
day to maintain order. There have
been no disturbances in the city.
Mexican flags are flying over all the
public buildings and the various gov
eminent officials named by the Con-
stitutionalists have begun their
labors. More troops entered the city
today, but when General Carranza
will arrive liz not yet known.
The commercial telegraph wires
connecting Vera Cruz with Mexico
City have not yet been repaired.
John r, Silliman, the personal agent
of President Wilson In Mexico City,
Is making use of the private wires
under military control for the trans
mission of messages from the capital
to Vera Cruz. Here his communion
tons are relayed TO the United States
by cable. The eompanys linemen are
at work to repair the break. but 1t
does not appear likely that ordinary
communication with Mexico City will
be re-established for some time to
come.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
Married Fifty Years

PATERSON, Nov. 24.-Mr, and Mrs.
Gilbert C. Cooper celebrates their
golden wedding last evening, sur
rounded by a wide circle of relatives
and friends, at their home, 456 Eli
son street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cooper were married
at Wanaque Nov. %. 1864 by Rev. J.
N. Jansen, pastor of the Pompton
Reformed Church. One of the peas
ant features of the evening was the
presence of five persons still living
who attended the wedding. They
were: Mrs. Ann Brown, a sister of
Mrs. Cooper; Washington Cooper,
brother of Mr.. Cooper; Mrs. A. A
Wilcox. Mrs. Martha L. Beam and
Miss G. A. Van Houten. Among the
others We're guests from Midvale,
Wanaque. Boonton, Wayne. Passalc,
North Paterson, Newark, Orange.
Brooklyn. New York, Bloomfield.
Jersey City. Clifton, Heightstown,
ssS4-ster, n. Y, and Greenfield. Mass.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
Help the Stomach
Digest the Food

When the stomach fails to digest
and distribute that which is eaten.
the bowels become clogged with a
mass of waste and refuse that fer
ments and generates poisons that
are gradually forced into the blood,
causing distress and often serious
illness.
Most people naturally object to
the drastic cathartic and purgative
agents that shock the system. A
mild. gentle laxativ-. positive in its
effect and that will quickly relieve
constipation Is DIR. Caldwells Syrup
Pepsin. sold by druggists at fifty
cents and one dollar a bottle 1t
does not gripe or cramp, bur acts
easily and pleasantly and is there
fore the most satisfactory remedy
for children, women and elderly
persons. For free trial bottle write
to DR.. W. b. Caldwell. 4bi Wash
ington ST., Monticello, Ill.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
Sussex Shrievalty Recount
Reaches Byram Township
speeial 10 the Evening star.

special TO the Evening star.
NEWTON, Nov 34-The Sussex
County Board of Election, today con-
tinued the re-counting in alphabetical
order of the various voting districts
throughout the county in the Sussex
county shrievalty contest, which &C
eording to the returns received at
the County Clerks office, gives the
Democratic candidate, William d.
Wilson a majority of sixteen votes
over his Republican opponent. James
E. Baldwin, Mr.. Wilson polling 2,50l
votes against ? 1855 for Mr.. Baldwin.
The board yesterday counted the
votes found in the ballot box from
Andover township. They found that
122 votes had been deposited in the
box. or this number the board allows
Wilson forty two and Baldwin sixty
one. They rejected three and referred
fourteen to Supreme Court Justice
Minturn for his opinion. There was
also found two ballots which con-
tained no vote for the shrievalty nom
inees. OF the fourteen ballots re-
ferreG to Justice Minturn the con-
testants each received seven. Ac-
cording to the returns as sent in by
the Andover Township Election
Board. Baldwin received sixty-eight
and Wilson forty eight, giving Bald
win in the township a majority of
twenty. On the recount his majority
now stands nineteen, losing one vote
to Wilson.
Today the county board is recount
ing the votes in Andover borough and
Bryan township. The county board
Is composed of the following: Robert
T. Smith. of Andoyer; Raymond case.
Of Ogdensburg; Marshall Hunt Of
Sussex, and S. P. Ingersoll. OF Lafay-
ntfp
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24

Essex and Blackwell streets was
purchased. The price paid for tho
site was 5000. The first pastor was
the late Rev. DR.. Charles S. Colt.
during whose pastorate the chapel
was erected. The chapel was used
for religious worship until June I.
1908, when the new edifice was
erected and dedicated by Bishop
Henry Spellmeyer.
At the time of the dedication Rev.
DR.. A. b. Richardson, of Paterson.
was the pastor. He will give the ad-
dress of the evening tonight. Several
futile attempts to arouse enthusiasm
for the erection of new building had
been made by former pastors, but 1t
remained for DR.. Richardson to carry
out the plan. The ground was broken
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
HEAVY VOTE IS
POLLED At NOON
IN BELLEVILLE
Spirited Fight Today at Com
mission Government Election
in Suburban Town.

Belleville is today in the throes Of
The most spirited battle OF ballots in
The history of the town. Citizens are
selecting by ballot from the thirty
six candidates for commissionerships
The three men who are to first govern
The municipality under the recently
adopted commission form of govern
1nent, and merry fight Is on.
Prior 10 noon 5S7 voters had made
their choice. This is more than %
per cent. of the total registration,
whieh is 1,940. Though the town has
been heavy Republican in the past
It is expected that the Democrats
seeking seats in the governing board,
because of the non-partisan election,
viii win their way to e ection. The
three dozen candidates for places in
the commission are working ardently
about the polls. They are assisted by
their respective friends.
The vote by districts up to noon
was. First ward, First district, SO;
Second district, 81; TSird district, 81,
second ward. First district. %; Sec
and district. "A. and Third district, 40.
Third ward, First district, 1o2, and
second district. IS.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
Wise. Turns Down Plan to
Have ,. =. Run Colorado Mines

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-President
Wilson will not adopt the suggestion
of the Am erican Federation of Labor
that steps be taken TO have receiver
appointed for the Colorado coal mines
involved in the strike, with the pur-
pose of having them operated by the
Federal government.
He told callers today he had been
informed by Secretary Wilson, of the
department of labor. that the solicitor
of that department has given an opin-
ion that there would be no legal war
rant for the operation of the mines by
the government The President added
that so far he had received no sugges-
lions from Governor Ammons that the
Federal troops be withdrawn.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24

September "a. 1905, and the corner
stone was laid by Bishop e. G. An
drews. April ID, 1907. The complete
cost of the edifice, including furnish
ings. was t32.647.32.
The Indebtedness at the time of
the dedication was 5000. which was
decreased by subscriptions of the
congregation, and when the present
pastor, Rev. Christopher H. Won
Gluhn. took charge last spring the
debt was 81, 600 A plan to liquidate
the debt was inaugurated and re-
duced the amount to $500. The bal.
ance WAS raised by special eubscrip-
ton, and today the note was taken
up. Among the subscribers not con
nected with the church was John H.
Buckley, who gave $1,000.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
German Newspapers Deny
Kaiser Is Seeking Peace
By the Associated Press.

BERLIN, via London, Nov. "a
The Cologne Gazette declares that
the reports of German desire for
peace, which 1t says are probably in
sprired by the British, belong to the
region of higher political idiocy.'
1.-The position of the Germans,
neither In the east nor the west" 1t
continues, lis critical The German
military undertakings on all the bat
tlefields are progressing favorably
Neither the military nor the political
situation contain any reason whicls
might make Germany DESTROYS to
conclude peace"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
Whitman Denies Rnm0rs
of Conspiracy Are Behind
Probe of Patrick Pardon

NEW YORK, Nov. 24-Governor-
elect Whitman today denied rumors
that a conspiracy" was behind the
investigation / nto charges made
against Ex-Governor John A. Dix il
connection with his pardon of A. T.
Patrick, convicted of the murder of
Will am Marsh Rice.
Whitman found that the investiga-
ton to.lowed as a matter of course
the fling of an affidavit by George j.
Goodrich alleging that a financier
closely allied with Dix had told him
Patricks pardon would follow the
contamination of a merger of Colo
RADIO mines. The statute of limita-
lions in the case expires next Satur-
day.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
Harvard Man Dies in Battle

LONDON, Nov. 24.-The first grad
uate of an American college to be
victim of the war Is Lieutenant
George Williamson, who belongs to
the Duke of Wellingtons regiment.
Mr.. WI liamson's name appears in
today's casualty list as among those
dying from the result of wounds. He
was graduated from Harvard in the
class of 1905.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
Passaic Republicans Spent
$4,000, Democrats $500

PATERSON, Nov. 24-The Repub-
lean and Democratic County COM
mittees yesterday filed their accounts
and several individual candidates
also placed their on file. The Repub-
lican County Committee expended
over $1,000. which is about twice the
amount expended by the Democratic
County Committee.
The Republican committee spent
50, $40 for canvassers and cha lengers
and the remainder for incidentals,
such as hall hire, music, transporta-
ton and printing
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
NEW ZEPPELIN REPORTED HIT
BY BOMB nv RAID BY AIRMEN

only three aeroplanes, all manned
by Englishmen, took part in the raid.
Mr.. Churchill announced that one of
the aeroplanes was brought down by
the German gun fire and that the
aviator. Commander E. F. Briggs. of
the naval air service, was wounded
and was taken to a hospital a pris-
oner The other machines, with their
avlators. returned safely to French
territory. he said.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
Wilson Praises Herrick
for Work as Ambassador

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-Presi-
dent Wilson paid a tribute today to
Myron T. Herrick who is retiring as
ambassador to France, to be sue
ceeded on December 1 by William G..
Sharp. Mr.. Wilson said he had been
much pleased with Mr.. Herrick's
work, and that his conduct during
the trying days of war in the French
capital had been so admirable he
had been left in charge as long as
possible.
The President added, however, he
felt he should not keep two ambas-
sailors in France any longer than
was necessary. Mr.. Herrick Is re-
firing from the diplomatic service
and returning to the United States
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
Foster Must Stand Trial

MOBILE. Ala, Nov. 24.-Joel M.
Foster, wealthy Browns Mill. n. j.,
resident. must face trial here Decem-
Der . on charges of violating the
white 2 ave" act, Judge Toulin today
decided. Fosters alleged crime. ti.e
transportation of Delilah NJ. Bradley,
seventeen-year-old stenographer, t.
Mobile last January, attracted ma
tional attention.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
Farmland Frozen to Death

MIDDLETOWN, N. Y. Nov. "a
Frederick Balcom, forty-fve, farm
hand, is the first victim of the cold
wave In New York. Balloon was
overcome on his way home last night
when the temperature was five above
zero. His body was found by the
roadside today.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
By Associated Press.

GENEVA, via Paris, Nov. 24.-De-
tails of the aeroplane raid on Fried
richshafen have been received here
from Romanshorn, q Swiss town
eleven miles from Constance. From
this account it appears that two
French and two English aviators
the former in monoplanes and the
latter In biplanes, arrived above
Friedrichshafen at O'Clock Satur-
day afternoon, flying at great speed
and at a great height.
Suddenly two OF the machines
planed down to about four hundred
yards above the city and, amidst a
hall of shells and bullets from six
quick firars worked by the men of
the Bavarian regiment. circled about
for half an hour, during which they
threw about ten bombs in the vicin-
ity of the Zeppelin shed. One of
these bombs struck home, destroy
ing part of the shed and some ma
chinery therein. 1t is reported that
one of the latest Zeppelins, which
was ready to be launched, was badly
damaged, but the Germans deny
this.
The thousand or more workmen
employed about the place were at
dinner when the raid occurred or the
loss of life would have been greater
than ii was. One house was de-
stroyed by the bombs and several
per sons were killed, including two
soldiers.
The gunfire of the German sol
diers brought one of the aviators to
earth with his machine. He proved
to be British naval officer. The
three other machines disappeared.
but one of them. supposed to be
manned by the other Englishman,
IL reported to have fallen into the
lake, the aviator being drowned. An
other report says the second machine
was forced to land in Wurtemberg.
In any event only two machines were
seen latter flying toward Beifort.
which is 125 miles In a direct line
from the Zeppelin establishment.
Tho raid is said TO have caused
much anxiety in Friedrichshafen.
The number of quick firers has been
doubled and all foreigners, 1t is said,
have been expelled as II is believed
that spies gave the information that
another Zeppelin had been CON-
pleted. The lake is being searched
| for the aviator who has not been
accounted for.
LONDON. Nov. 24.-The British
off1cial report on the air raid at
Friedrichshafen. as announced IN the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24

LONDON. Nov. 24.-The British
off1cial report on the air raid at
Friedrlchshafen. as announced IN the
House of Commons yesterday by
Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord
Of the admiralty. declared that
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
SIEGEL TO ESCAPE
TERM IN PRISON
CONTINUED from First Pase.)

losses of depositors in this bank. Is
there any reason why you cannot
make an extended payment within
the next two months3"
..-lII L.. u Pas. Hall.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25

physical No torture? was trussed up, face
to wall with arms outstretched, for ten hours.
When loosed | just dropped to the floor from
exhaustion, and did not rise till the next morn
ing That was during the present admins
tration. When visitors and newspaper re-
porters go through the prison there isn't any
hole;' but the prisoner who thoughtlessly in
tracts rule knows that there is one,
I'm the Isolation Building there are a num-
Der of threecornered cells where men are
chained to the doors; they have little cots;
these cells are shown. But down beneath there
Is the real hole. These underground cells have
no cots; when a man drops, he drops on the
cement floor. II they wish severely to dlsclp-
line man, they can make these cells prac-
tically alright and then turn on the steam
through the pipes"
Let us have more testimony as to the dark
hole 1.-THE hole" writes another inmate, is
not hole in the wall or in the ground but It
is place to turn a mans cheeks white and
to make his knees shake and his lips tremble,
when, for some nfraction of very strict rules,
he is ordered to the hole It Is row Of holes
far down In the bottom of the big bastile is a
of little cells, six feet wide, nine feet long,
and perhaps ten feet high. Solid concrete with
iron grating In the narrow door. Absolutely
dark. Furniture, one iron rod, one blanket.
The man is handcufed between the rod and
the wall hands apart as far as he can hold
them; at night the wall fastening Is loosed and
he can lie down, sliding the ring of his hand
cuff down the rod No mattress or bed--just
HoOTs FOOu, Three OuncBS vi DTedu anu d SldhS
of water at noon. The rules are said to be
less severe than formerly; but two half-breed
Indians, former friends recognizing each other
in Sunday School ventured to whisper greet
ing; they we're put in the hole two days and
nights, and one Of them, stout, hardy boy
came out trembling and shaking as with NOR
tai Illness"
man who served as guard in the prison
under the present warden, but left in 1907
affirIns that barbarities were not the exception
at that time, but the horrible custom, the dark
hole Is reality; men were kept there weeks
at time, to my certain knowledge, within
sitting walls, chained standing for intolerable
periods with great suffering. The public I'M
derstands solitary confinement to mean a cell
by ones self; but this cell is a dark dungeon
below earth level. One convict had TO be
brought out on a litter, his legs swollen to
frightfu size; he could not stand erect. / was
reprimanded for entering his cell and helping
him 10 sit up. A man named L., who had
drawn back his hammer threateningly when
a guard advanced upon him armed with a
square, but who ceased 10 resist when the
guard drew his revolver sentenced 10 145
days In the dungeon, with three slices of bread,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25

killed by neglect and cruelties, were to size up
fairly we'll against what Russia has to show.
considering the restrictions put upon him our
prison autocrats certainly do well.
Some doubt has been created in the public
mind as to whether there really are dark cells
in the Atlanta Penitentiary, or II there be,
whether their use has not been long discontin-
ued. / never heard any categorical statement
in denial of it from any OF the officials though
| have read something to that effect in local
newspapers. Visitors never see them and
know of no prison inspectors who have done
so; they are shown instead the light cells ON
an upper floor, which are habitable enough,
with windows admitting daylight, and cot
bed. But the dark cells another story al
together and their existence can no more be
denied successfully than that of the prison it.
self.
man named II, p. Rich was employed in
the prison for nine years as foreman of the
blacllsmiths shop; he says that he helped build
two dark cells In the basement, and often riv
eted chains convicts there. They were
chained to the door" he goes on, Hanging by
their hands, sometimes for "a hours. Often
they we're thus chained up during the day, but
at night the chain attached to the frame Of
the door was loosened; the other chain was
attached to a vertical rod, the ring sliding up
and down, that the man was able to lie
the bare cement floor There were no cots.
The food was generally one slice OF bread and
a cup of water a day, sometimes two or three.
Men were often kept thus for weeks at time,
and would come out so paid and weak that
they could scarcely walk, and blinded from
long confinement in darkness. convict
named s. was kept in the dark hole two weeks;
/ was often called to chain him, as he was a
powerful man; but when he would come out,
he was so weakened that he could scarcely
move"
I may add here that have often talked with
the convict here mentioned, and he told me
details Of his experiences I would print his
name and story, but he is still in confinement
he has lived two and twenty continuous
years In prison-and he might be made to suf-
b Ger for his revelations Among other things
he said that he had been in the punishment
cells, In the aggregate eight years! II he
were not a lion of strength and courage, he
would have been dead long since. The Atlanta
penitentiary claims to be the most humane in
the world But eight years in chains and
darkness seems a long time, even taken in In
stallmenls.
man lately released has this 10 say: "rhe
administration of the penitentiary is q sham
and pretense. Reform Is show, for the ben
eft of government inspectors and visitors,
with, underneath, callous and brutal disre-
gard for the welfare OF the convicts moral and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25
Behind Prison Walls

torrid heat of a summer day when one of
them, young man named Ed Richmond, asked
the guard on duty for leave to retire for few
moments. Such requests must of course often
De made. But Richmond was man who had
not been lucky enough to win the favor of the
higher officials in the prison, and this was
known to the guards, who felt that they might
with impunity treat him harshly. Richmond
had been good deal abused, and his mind
had become somewhat unbalanced; he would
sometimes talk incoherently and act oddly. 1t
had been noticed that the stone shed guard
had 1t in for Ed as the prisoners say; but
nothing very serious was looked for
Be that as 1t may, something serious was
about to occur Five or six years after this
day, was walking under the convoy of the
Deputy Warden, in the prison grounds that lie
outside the walls, when we stumbled upon the
prison graveyard 1t lay at the crest of some
rising ground, partly overshadowed by second
growth timber, and was merely an uninclosed
clearing in the rough underground with rows
of headstones standing one behind another,
each with name and date on it. But under
all of them lay all that remained on earth Of
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25

"The guard stood
looking coolly at him.
One of the prisoners, a
negro, ran up and took
the dying mans head
on his knee. "