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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-01
Old DAYS Down Neck"

Few persons could tell such inter-
esting stories of Newark fifty or sixty
years ago as Andrew H. Burkhardt.
who died last Sunday. Mr.. Burk-
hardt was In the grocery business in
the Ironbound district for nearly
half century. and three of his sons
follow in the same line of business.
81 remember Ferry street when it
was a country road" he used to say
in his characteristic fashion. ST re-
member seeing people catching sun
fish, catfish and cells in a pond on
Polk street, just north of Ferry
street.
THE ground was very low in those
days." he would continue, "and the
high tide would overflow the land in
that section bounded by Adam, Ferry
and Polk streets.
I'm those days the boys used to 90
down to the Brill farm. They would
pick cherries, swallowing stones and
all.
After eating the cherries. we boys
used to go home and drink our fill
of buttermilk. With all that, 1 never
heard of one of them being stricken
with appendicitis"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-01
Suffragist Honored

Miss Zelma Lagerloff, who won the
Nobel prize for literature. has been
elected the first woman member of
the Swedish Academy. Miss Lager
loft is a suffragist and made one of
the leading addresses at the conven-
ton of the International Suffrage AL
lance at Stockholm, an address which
has since been used by suffragists all
over the world as propaganda. Ma
dame Curie and the late Baroness
Won Suttner, the other. two women
who have received the Nobel prizes,
were suffragists.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-01

is the author of this bulletin, points
out that life insurance policyholders
pay more than 81, 0O0, 900 of taxes, be-
sides taxes upon the real estate and
the capital of the companies-where
they have capitalize which no obJec-
ton is offered. In contrast with this,
Germany compels her industrial popu-
lation to insure, and the government
contributes $4,000, 900 toward it, which
Is about what America penalties
those who insure voluntarily"
It's an interesting contrast-Ger-
many subsidizing and America heay-
lily taxing the provision made for the
maintenance of widows and orphans.
Auto Fees Based on Horsepower.
From Engineering News.
1t is the high-power racing cars
tearing along at forty or fifty-mile-
an-hour pace which destroy the sur
face of a roadway and send the bind
ing material flying into the bitches.
This has been so amply demonstrated
in the experience of road engineers
that no argument is needed to
prove 1t.
1t seems a fair and equitable propo-
sition to base the fee for an auto
mobile license upon either the horse
power Of the machine or it's weight.
The horsepower, however, is prefer
able to the weight as a basis, for
the wear and tear upon roadway
depends very much more upon the
power of a machine than upon its
weight.
In Great Britainsand in the State OF
Massachusetts,, laws have been in
force for years under which an auto
mobile license fee is based upon the
horsepower rating of the machine,
In both Great Britain and Massa-
chusetts the revenue derived from
these fees is devoted to road main
tenance. We cite these only as
typical cases. In numerous other
countries and States laws are in force
baaing the fee for q motor license
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-01
Go a Mosquito

Gaunt Paganini of the air,
Fiddling harmonics on hair,
You think clapped for you? Take care!
! did-but missed.
Also Though doubtless you don't care)
hurt my wrist
So to your devils rigadoon
You mean to make me dance? But soon
You'll fiddle, friend another tune
When | get at you.
You're slenced, eh? Well that's boon.
You-got me-drat you'll
Well, buzzl Maybe it's in your code,
Even as od-time knights O. the road
Were wont to pay the scores they owed
With jocund dittes.
thank you for the grace bestowed,
But-nune dimittis!
What! Bite again. o wing'd Omar,
Suck on! Drain the dream-laden jar,
Till, gorged, inert, you-tapped so-are
A red splash merely!
Tis oft the one last step too far
That costs us dearly.
j. B. Fletcher, in The Youths Companio
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-01
CHIT CHAT
By MEMBERS OF EVENING STAR
STAFF
Sinnplified Spelling

An Adirondack guide had motor
boat that he wanted to sell. So, he
took his pen in hand, and laboriously
proceeded to word an advertisement.
1t ran thusly:
"Steem yot for sale cheap. Address
-"
~ don't mind the two Els in steam,
said friend" but what does 'yot'
mean?"
well, if y-o-t doesn't spell yacht,
what in hell does it spell?" asked the
guide.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-01
Respectable People

David Starr Jordan, president of the
Stanford University, who was elected
president of the National Educational
Association a few weeks ago. has for
many years been one of the best
friends of the suffrage movement in
the country. Suffragists, both men
and women, seem to stand well among
their colleagues.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-01
PLENTY OF NEW JERSEY APPLES

The prediction of a plentiful yield of apples is
always good for the community. 1t
money for the farmer and health for the consumer.
The announcement from the Federal Bureau of Agri-
culture that New Jerseys apple this will be
bumper" exceeding by II per cent the average of
the past decade, is noteworthy item of prosperity
and good cheer. IAN apple day keeps the doctor
away"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-01
At Last

william ]. Bryan's Endorsement of
suffrage is the most salient mark of
the Increasing political Importance
of the movement. Suffragists have
believed for years that Mr.. Bryan
was a suffragist at heart. HIS mar
ried daughter was a voter Tor years
in Colorado and his progressive views
on other questions were such that 1t
was hard to see how he could deny
the Justice of political equality. But
the solid South was too violently OPP
posed to equal suffrage to permit any
going Democratic statesman to take
a stand for it. Now, however, the
Democracy of the North and West
is becoming so permeated with SUI
frage sentiment that Mr.. Bryan finds
| 1t expedient to declare himself, while
| Mr.. Wilson still continues to repre-
sent the Southern Democracy. Pos
sibly the very active and prosperous
suffrage campaign in Nebraska may
have assisted the great Commoner
in arriving at his decision. 1t is quite
within the possibilities that the wom-
en- of Mr.. Bryan's own State may vote
after next November. Their amend
ment is before the voters, and Mr..
Bryan's declaration Is an eloquent
testimony to its chances for passing.
All this Is nothing against Mr..
Bryan's sincerity. 1t means simply
that the actions of men in public life
are governed by policy, and the
virulent anti-suffrage sentiment OF
the South has hampered Democratic
statesmen in the past.
In Montana, where equal suffrage
will be decided by the voters next
November the Christian Endeavoi
societies emphatically Endorsed tht
amendment at their annual State con.
vention a few weeks ago. The pres.
ent writer was invited to address tn,
annual State Christian Endeavor con
vention in Washington during thu
successful campaign in that State IL
!: 1910. Churches in the West are no
afraid of the suffrage question; pos
sibly because they have observed it,
effects at close range.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-01
bitten by Copperhead, He Runs Past -Four
Miles of Snake Bite Cure

Bitten by Copperhead, He Runs Past Four
Miles of Snake Bite Cure,
NEW YORK, Aug. FRANK Con-
roy was working in Greenfield Gene
terry, near Hampstead, yesterday aft
ernoon, when a copperhead snake bit
him on the lip. ~
Without delay Conroy started for
Nassau Hospital, in Mineola, four
miles away. Fences were no him
drance to Conroy, and he passed TWEEN
ty saloons, breaking all records for
cross country runs. Reaching the
hospital, he fell exhausted at the
door. The doctors began to work on
him, and after a time one asked:
Don't you know the best antidote
for snake bites?"
Conroy allowed he knew. Then he
began counting the swinging doors
he had passed on the run, and looked
sad. The treatment the doctors gave
him for snake bite was most success
full However he might have OBJ
tained the same kind of treatment
at any Of the saloons he had passed.
Woman of Ninety Proves Good Detective
In Catching Chicken Thieves.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Aug. Ri
diculing the efforts of the police to
assist her, Mrs. Mary Mcdonald,
ninety years old. living on a farm
near this city. set out in search for
thieves who had stolen 200 of her
chickens.
Mrs. Mcdonald found the tracks Of
crooked wagon wheel and a horse S
shoe, broken in a peculiar manner,
and followed the marks for nearly
ten miles to point on the outskirts
of Niles, Mich. There she found -four
men with her chickens. She preferred
| charges against them in local court
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-01
SUFFRAGE SNAPSHOTS
BY MINNIE j. REYNOLDS

lation of any State in the Union. On
the principle proclaimed by many per-
sons that equal suffrage was the
cause of the labor troubles in Colo
rado, we now ought to claim that the
lack or 1t produces the star insanity
record of Massachusetts.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-01
A WAR NEWS CENSORSHIP.

Europe has drawn the veil over the great theatre
of war as we'll as all events and conditions the
continent that any relation to the operations Of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-01
Starts Natives Up Poles.

From the Washington Star.
The kind OF whisky they have in
Alaska was described with great at
tention to its effect upon the natives
OF the subarctic region by Represen-
tative Falconer of Washington, who
entered upon a brief temperance cru
sade in the House at recent night
session. According to the Washing
ton progressive the chief brand of fire
water which plays havoc among the
natives Of Alaska is the squirrel
brand, which makes them Chamber up
telegraph poles. Representative Fall
coner said that three drinks of the
bootlegged rum that is in private cir
culation, among the kodiak bears and
Eskimos is known also as "forty-rod
whisky" from it's ability to put a
leaping power OF forty rods into the
legs of any man who imbibes 1t long
enough.
Representative Falconer was en-
deavoring to change an item in the
sundry civil bill from a provision for
$4,000 to suppress the bootlegging
whisky business in Alaska to total
prohibition In the peninsula
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-01
Sauce for the Gander

Massachusetts has the largest pro-
portion Of insane persons to its popu-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-01

upon the power of the machine. II
is, therefore, a matter of surprise to
learn that the Supreme Court of
Michigan has just declared uncon-
stitutional law enacted in that State
last year fixing the registration fee
for automobiles at the rate of so cents
per horsepower
1t seems probable that the court
decision is based on the technical
ground that the purpose of the law
was not properly stated in it's title.
1t is, however, a notable coincidence
that Michigan, which leads all ether
States in motor vehicle manufacture,
should be the State where the courts
find a way to nullify law which the
makers Of motor vehicles doubtless
deem to be contrary to their interest.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-01
UnanswerabIe

Women vote in California, oregon,
Washington, Colorado, Utah, Idaho,
wyoming, Arizona, Kansas and llli-
nois. Who not in New Jersey?
suffragists failed to carry their
amendment once in Washington be-
fore it carried; once in Colorado, once
in California, twice in Kansas, four
times in Oregon. They went back
again and again until they carried 1t.
They will dosthe same in New Jersey.
why prolong the agony? Let's end 1t
in 1915.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-07
SHE KNEW OF TOO MANY MoLES.
Painter, Revealing Neck. Proves lie
Isn't Wife Desertcr.

Mrs Sabine Holig of 222 Fast ThIr-
teenth street who was deserted by her
husband year ago, went up to Patrolman
Winner last evening and said that iolg
was working as painter In the apart
ment house at 265 Central Park West
She showed the copy II warrant for his
arrest, which she had obtained from the
Domestic Relations Court. and n photo
graph. Winner TOOK both and went
into the building.
There he found a man who looked like
the photograph and had n mole on his
cheek, which Mrs. Holig had described
The man said he was Thomas Mauro OF
1851 Pleasant avenue and that he had a
wife and four children and had never
heard Of Mrs. Holly, Winner took him
to the street. and when Mrs liollg saw
him she exclaimed, mats my husband"
So the trio. much against Mauros
wishes, went to the West Tooth street
station, where Mrs. Holig renewed her
assertions and her efforts to embrace
Mauro. AS n final proof that she knew
her own husband Mrs Holg described II
second mole on the mans neck. lie re-
moved his collar and there was no mole
there.
"Well. | guess I'm wrong" she said,
and Mauro went home to his wife and four
children.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-07
/. W. W. TRIALS POSTPONED.
Death of Arthur Cnron aud Com.
panions Hats Tarrytovn Cases

TARRYrowN. July 6.--The trials of
Becky Edelsohn and nine other auarch-
lists for speaking without permit in
Tarrytown on May 81 were again post
poncd to-day, this time until II A. VI.
July 20. Bail was continued at 5000 eacn.
except that the bail of Arthur Caron and
Charles Berg. killed IN the bomb explo-
sion in New York on Saturday, was re-
leased
Justus Sheffield. counsel for the anarch-
lists; District Attorney Frederick n Weeks,
an Assistant District Attorney and Justice
of the Peace Moorhouse were the only
persons In the Justices Court at II
oSock this morning when the cases were
called. Chief of Police Bowles locked the
court room door.
Then Mr.. Sheffield asked for an adj
1ournment because the deaths of Caron
and Berg would make it necessary for
him To obtain from other sources the evil
dence they were 10 have given, In addi-
tion Helen Harris. called Helen OF Troy.
was absent and Mr.. Sheffield wanted her
testimony. District Attorney Weeks was
willing, so Judge Moorhouse named July
20 for the trials
1t was about an hour later when Alex
ander Berkman. Leonard Abbott, head of
the Free Speech League; Becky Edelsohn
ana the nine men on bail with her reached
Tarrytown. They had come by subway
anu loIl"N 10 hastings and there had
taken New York Central train.
some OF the fifty extra policemen sworn
in Tor duty for the day met the anarchists
and their friends at the railroad station
Ihey were escorted TO the police station,
lust under the Justices Court searched
Tor weapons and then let go. Learning
or the postponemeDt OF their cases, they
at once returned TO New York
Although four deputies wero taken off
y. u. Rockefeler's estate at pocautico
HIS last week because Il was believed
! that the J. ". W. trouble WAS sunSiding,
the guard was reinforced again to-day
after the ag!tators were brought here for
| trial.
Mr. Rockefeller had representatives nj
the U-ial and they watched the prisoners
and Berkman and Becky Edelson closely
| II was said that the deputies were sent
to the trial so az to become acquainted
with the agitators and to he In "A better
! position To protect the estate should any
or them appear there,
The Rockefeller estate IL closely uarded
and II Will he until the trouble In over
Mr. Rockefeller will be rs years old on
"Wednesday, but owing TO the |. w w.
trouble Il is believed he will celebrate
this day quietly playing golf In the morn
ing with few friends and possibly in
viting in some nelghbors to an organ
| recital in the evening.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-07

Alexander Berkgnan said he didn't know
whero Murphy Nas. but had an idea the
young man was hiding because he was
afraid the police might frame him up"
He refused to explain that theory. Mrs,
Caron told the police that her son, who
was in the navy for a while and later an
electrician and machinist was stationed
at the Newport torpedo station for a time.
There he must have had some acquaint-
ance with explosives.
Alderman Charles Delaney OF the
Twenty-ifth Assembly district said yes
terday that at the meeting of tho Board
to-day no would Introduce "A resolution
corbldd'n, the anarchist funeral on Sat
urday on the ground that II might tend
to cause disorder
Mayor Mitchers opinion of the bomb
explosion Is that anarchy seems to have
got its desserts and 1t also seems to dem
onstratc that the police have been justi-
fed in taking precautionary measures as
they have" The Mayor also referred
to IL az 'lamcntabe accident"
do you think that the police have
gone far enough was asked.
II do not know what other measures
the police could have taken. They are
watching all the time"
ibid you know Murphy had called to
see YOU"
mo" said the Mayor. who added that
no didn't think Murphy ever thought OF
any Violence against him,
| II was learned yesterday that the no
lice knew caron and some other anar-
Ichists were living at 1924 Lexington ave-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-07
Describes Alleged scheme.

The alleged smuggling scheme. as de-
scribcd 10y Mr. Wood provided for the
purchase OF the diamonds from Gruenz-
weg a thinner of Antwerp. Holland, and
thc.r shipment 10 the firm of Aaronson
a Gutenberg. The gems were brought In
openly on this leg of the journey as Cam
ada has no tariff. From Montreal how
ever, the diamonds were carried across
TN border 50 the story runs, in a rubber
tube. Sometimes. II Is alleged. the gems
were entrusted to an agent who got from
$40 to 500 for delivering them to Dletz
IN TINS city. In the case OF extra heavy
consgnmcnts. however. Dietz or his son
went to- Montreal for the purpose OF
bringing the diamonds across the border.
During the years 1911 and 1912. the
Federal authorities believe that an aver
age OF two trips month were made for
this purpose The alleged smuggling
transactions for these two years alone
the Federal authorities say, totalled from
$500, O0O to $500, 900.
The largest specific instance OF snug
Cling charged In the Indictment Is $50, 900
worth or unset gems. said to have been
brought across the border by Herman ].
Dietz and his son on March 25, 1911.
Neither Herman Dietz nor his son has
been seen I'm this part OF the country
sine" the criminal proceedings were begun
against Jacques Samuels and the others.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-07
BANKRUPTCY FRAUD CHARGED
Man Indicted for Sending Alleged
False Statements by Mail.

David Nizmor. silk manufa cturer
with offices In 10 West Twenty-sixth street
was indicted yesterday by Fedora
Grand Jury on the charge Of using the
mails to defraud. The indictment marked
a new move on the part OF United States
Attorney III. Snowden Marshall to ge,
after alleged fraudulent bankrupts.
IL Is charged that prior to the time
That Nizmor went into bankruptcy he
sent out statement saying his net as.
sets were 100000. short time after
ward when bankruptcy proceedings were
started. his assets were found to be
100000 II Is charged, and his liabilities
10000. Hitherto only alleged get rich
quick schemers have been indicted for
using the mails to dcfraud
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-07

KENNY, WILLIAM j. K.-Pursuant to an
order OF HON, JOHN, J. GRAHAM, Surro.
gate OF tho County Of Nassau, notice Is
hereby given. TO all persons having claims
against WlLihAM .. r. kENNfs late OF
deceased, 10 present the same with tho
vouchers thereof. to the subscriber the
said deceased, al his place Of trnnsac ting
business at the once OF Charles L.. Kelley,
the 18th day Of November next
Dated, Mineoia, y y, April -, i"1
NEAL n, PECKER. Executor,
CHARLES q. KELLEY, Attorney for E1.
ecutor. 60 Wall Street New York City.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-07
MAY END EQUITABLE STRIKE.
Teamstcrs' Union Offers to Arbitra Il
with Transfer COMPANY.

Col. Michael J. Reagan OF the State
Board Of Mediation and Arbitration will
take TO the Meade Transfer Company
to-day an offer from Frank O'Brien, agent
for the Building Material Teamsters
Union, to end the strike which lu,s tied
up work on the new Equitable Life and
Yale Club buildings.
The offer is that tho men return TO
work under the old conditions. provided
all the strikers are taken back, and that
the matters in dispute then he arhltrated
the question or wages has not entered
into the controversy. II is expected that
a settlement OF some kind will be reached
to-day
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-07
SAYS GIFFoRD's NERVE IS GONE.
sheriff Takes Precautions Because
of His Changed Demesnor.

ALBANY, July s.--Malcolm clifford. Jr..
Is under constant guard at the Albany
county jail. Sheriff Peaseley announced
Tonight This precsution Is taken be-
cause OF the changed demeanor OF the
prisoner. The Sheriff says he has lost
his nerve and Is cheerful only after visits
from his relatives. nail file which
young Clifford had In his possession was
tnken from him to-day. Tho Sheriff
said he Thought II best 10 search clifford
and finding the file took II from him as a
matter OF precaution.
He acts as though he was thinking
hard" said tho Sheriff. "and Is very
serious. which contrasts with the air OF
confidence he displayed until the close OF
his trial"
District Attorney Alexander declared
to-day that he would try clifford again in
seven of the turymen for conviction Of
second degree murder at the first trial
leaves no other course open TO him.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-07
Mother Gives Up Claim 10 Body.

At the office of Mother Earth, in East
ll3th street. where Mrs. Caron went 70
see Bcrknan, they met Louise Berger
who lived in the flat with the three men
She told them that She did not believe
carou was making bomb and said She
was sure that he and the others had
been killed by enemies or 10y the careless
ness 81 some one else. Mrs. Caron agreed
with her and told reporters she was sure
he son had no explosive in his rooms
"0l that he WAS of a peaceable DISPOSE
ton.
..,rs. Caron told the police that she
had given up her claim to her sons body
as soon as she learned that he could not
he buried In the consecrated ground CT
the Roman Catholic Church because lie
was an anarchist.
II became known yesterday that missing
Michael Murphy called At the city Hall
few days after Michael Nahoncy had
made an attempt on the Mayors life. to
find out why he hadn't been allowed to
speak ~ his will in the public streets.
Lieut.. Billy Kennel and Sergt. Lobdel.
who guard the outer portals. had been sent
away at that time on business and Muir
ply walked right into Secretary Theodore
Rousseau's office. lie went away after
telling his grievance, but returned a day
or SO later to get the Mayors opinion
on the way city Magistrates We're re-
fusng to let the ! W. W. and UNI
employed do IS they liked.
According 10 Sergt. Lobdell. who ism I
a small man, Murphy is about his size
and dark OF mien and hair, with the
appearance of an Italian. This con-
tradCted the description given by police
men in the East l04th street station.
1t became known last night that more
than 100 Invitations have been sent to
Murphy, through as many channels, ask
ing him to call on the police and nave u
chat with them but Murphy has paid no
attention to the Invitations.