Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-25
BY DUKE WELLINGTON


The war fever has hit the Court
House and already there is in process
of formation a company that, II it
ever should get to the front. would
speedily scare the dayights out of
Mr. Huerta and the rest of the Mesi-
cans, even the man whose name
sounds like a curse word when you
pronounce it-CarranZa.
Patrick j. Cream, the guardian OF
the inner door of Prosecutor Louis
Hoods private office. he of the mas
sive bald dome, who aways de Tres
to know whether there is anyth ng
new, material or paradoxical in the
days news, lis the pr me mover In
the organization of the new company,
and heads the muster roll as CAPITA n
of the company.
And it is certainly some com any
of recruits that Captain Pat his
rounded up, according to the muster
roll that lies on his desk. and VIII ch
he Is having signed by all Corners
Up to date, a half-dozen nationalties
are represented on it. CAPITA PIT
says all nationalitles arc welcomed in
fhe company, but that the main fight
sng force will be picked from those
names already on the muster roll
JusL take q look over the names
and you viii agree that it VIII be
some force of fighters. Here they
are Patrick J. Cream, captain and
this the list of privates: Thomas
cooney, Jimmy Reid, Jimmy Mason
Peter Kearney, Joe Ellis, Simon Cas-
coyne, Peter ]. O'Toole the junior;
Flaberty, Phil McManus, j mmy
Cowen. Joe Thorne, Harry Henria-
ger not to mention Mike Newman
and Barney Ford, who have signed
the roll but claim exemption under
the veterans act.
Captain Pat, who is a veteran oil
the Spanish American War, and VINO
can whistle all the army bugle calls
backwards as we'll as forwards mas
allowed the list to lie on his desk so
much that some one has got busy
with It and tackled titles to many Oh
the names that adorn It,
For instance, First Assistant Pros
ecutor WILDER A. Mott is known as
.chief cannon Second Assistant
Prosecutor Andrew Van BlarcOn is
.-apid-nre gun" Big PhiI NC
Manus has been christened Daugh-
ter of the Regiment" while Peter );
O'Toole, ir., and Joe Reilly are listed
Gray. the artist elevator man, has
been made chef cartoonist OF the
company. while Charles Pfeiifer Is
tho civil service expert.
There will be no danger of much
sickness in the company, as County
Physician William II. Mckenzie mas
signed on the roll as physician, win
Abe Lehrich, Louis Rommel and sam
Pirn as members of the hospital
fer uhn lSaanG the
drinking water bottles in the Court
House supplied with that beverage,
has been enlisted as chief water
boy" and although Ju ius is vet
eran of the War of the Rebellion, he
insists he is going to the front with
the company.
Captain Pat is in a quandary as to
what to do with one recruit, Frank
NJ. McDermit. That Is, he was In a
ouandary until someone helped him
out by suggesting that he make tne
''Rose of Roseville" the General Shat
ter of the company. General Shafter,
YOU may remember, was in command
a. San Juan Hill and was so bulky
IN avoirdupois that he could not get
q saddle horse to stand the strain or
CARRYING him and was transported
over the field of battle in wide
seated carriage.
others besides the list of fighters
such as McManus, Gascoyne, Flah-
srty, etc, named above, who Will go
wherever the company goes-Which
will probably be to work in the
Court House every morning while
the war is on--are Louis SlutZky,
Fred Weimer Antonio DeRogatis,
Joseph Federico, Abraham Cohen, the
ministerial looking Bill iced, Walter
Godfrey. o National Guard veteran
of a quarter of a century experiences;
Joseph Quicker and George Howard.
Surely that is some cosmopolitan
bunch to be rounded together in one
company Captain Pat has been try
ing. to corral Wung, the Chinese
Nicholas Panapoulas, the Greek, and
Ilahe Abydos, the Armenian inter
prefers, who sometime visit the Court
House. to enlist them as members,
but so far has been unsuccessful
The biggest surprise of the week
around the Court House was the fact
that leaked out at the meeting of the
finance committee of the Board OF
Irreeholders last Wednesday that the
court attendants in the bill passed
by the last Legislature had their
salaries increased to a minimum of
St,250 a year. Ii was generally sup
posed that the figure was $1,000. In TACT,
that was the figure asked for by the
court attendants in the original bill,
but in the numerous changes made
in II in the Senate and House the
extra $50 sneaked in somehow and
remained there until the bill became
law
The freeholders were sore over the
proposition, but that did not help
them out any, as the law made the
increase mandatory, and all the free
holders could do was to provide the