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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-12
How to Save
Your Eyes
Try this Free Prescription.

DO your eyes give you trouble? Dc
you already wear eyeglasses or spec
tacles? Thousands of people wear
these windows who might easily
dispense with them. You may be one
of these. and it is your duty to save
your eyes before it is too late. The
eyes are neglected more than am
other organ of the entire body. After
you finish your days work you sit
down and rest your muscles, but how
about your eyes? Do you rest them?
You know you do not. You read
or do something else that keeps
your eyes busy; you work your
eyes until you go to bed That
is why so many have strained eyes
and finally other eye troubles thai
threaten partial or total blindness.
Eyeglasses are merely crutches; they
never cure. This free prescription,
which has benefited the eyes of so
many, may work equal wonders for
YOU. Use ii a short time Would you
like your eye troubles to disappear
as if by magic? Try this prescription.
Go to the nearest wideawake drug
store and get bottle of DIPLOMA tab
let's; fill a two-ounce bottle with
warm water, drop in one tablet and
allow it 10 thoroughly dissolve. With
this liquid battle the eyes two or
four times daily. Just note how
quickly your eyes clear up and how
soon the Inflammation will disappear.
Don't be afraid to use it; it is alb
solutely harmless. Many who are
now blind might have saved their
eyes had they started TO care for
them in time. This is a simple treat
ment, but marvelously effective in
multitudes of cases. Now that you
have been warned don't delay q day.
but do what You can to save yoar
eyes and you arc likely to thank us
as long as you live for publishing
this prescription.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-12
HYDRO-ELECTRIC
PROCRESSSOUTH
One Company Carrying Out
Plans That Mean Spending
of $3Oo,ooo,ooo.

The full story of hydro-electrie de-
Yelopments, as given in the Manu-
facturers' Record, shows the amazing
rapidity of this striking phase of
electric operations in the South. For
instance, the first developments made
by one of these companies, a pioneer
in this work. were in 1906 That com
pany now has 1000 miles of trans
mission lines, the extreme length of
its service being from Raleigh n. C,
to Tallulah Falls, Ga, $50 miles; and
at Tallulah Falls the company takes
10000 horsepower from the plant of
another company, which has devel-
oped at that point over 10000 horse
power. In the eight years since 1906
when this pioneer work was under
taken on large scale. hydro electric
work has been pushed so vigorously
that many of the foremost capitalists
in this country, in England and
France and Canada have become
identified with these operations until
it is now estimated that the invest
ments already made in the purchase
and development of these properties
and in carrying out plans already ma
tured will represent an aggregate of
upwards of $500, 600
Illustrating the possibilities of this
hydro-e electric development, facts are
given of an interurban railroad now
covering a considerable portion of the
Piedmont-Carolinas, upon the build
ing of which $10,000,O0O has been eX-
pended and upon which about $4,000
900 more will be spent.
This system, built for freight and
passenger business, is said to be a
unique innovation in the railroad
world. When completed it will be
800 miles long. The portion in opera
ton is doing a large business, both
passenger and freight, and is equipped
with heavy electric engines built to
pull 1000 tons, or train of thirty to
forty loaded cars. At present 127
miles, paralleling some of the leading
steam roads of the South, are in OPP
Grafton. These lines connect many of
the most important industrial centres
in the Carolinas, and the system
when built will touch many others.
This is the only one striking outcome
OF these vast hydro electric opera
lions.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-12
SEALED PRoPosALs

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the number OF days required to finish teir
work should the above work or works be
awarded 10 them.
II the said Committee on Public Buildings
so desires bidders must submit samples OF
IN such proposals qualify as to their re-
above mentioned fixtures for comparison and
approval before the award Of the contract
All bids must be made out on blanks fur
nished for the purpose, which can be had
upon application at the office Of the city
clerk.
The said Committee Public Buildings
OF the Common Council reserve for them
selves the right to accept or reject any or
all proposals for the above work. or to waive
any defects therein as they may deem best
for the interest of the city of Newark.
BY direction Of the Committee on Public
Buildings of the Common Council Of the city
JAMES F. CONNOLLY.
City Clerk.
j. FRANCIS HANLON.
Cha irman Public Buildings Committee.
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Diagnosis Correct.

The vicar of Monmouth tells this
story: 4 doctor had been called in to
attend man. and having done what
he could he told the patients wife
to take her husbands temperature in
the morning. When the doctor called
next day he asked if she had done as
he told her. She explained that they
hadn't a thermometer in the house.
But I put the barometer ON his
chest" she added and it went TO
very dry So | gave him pint Of
beer. and he's gone TO work,'-Lon-
don Evening Standard.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-12
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the
following proposed ordinance passed
second reading and was ordered TO a third
and final reading al meeting Of the Board
of Street and Water Commissioners held
June II, 1914.
A further supplement TO an ordinance en-
titled An ordinance to establish the names
Of certain streets in the City OF Newark.
Be II ordained by the Board OF Street and
Water Commissioners of the city OF Newark
{ as follows;
Section /. That the names OF the following
public streets and highways situated in the
City Of Newark be and the same are hereby
changed and shall hereafter be known and
designated as follows;
Seventh avenue, from BelleVlle avenue TO
clifton avenue. TO SEVENTH AVENUE
EAST.
SeVeut n avenue, from Morris Canal 10 the
CITY line 10 SEVENTH AVENUE WEST:
Sixth avenue. from Stone street 10 Parker
street to SIXTH AVENUE EAST
Sixth avenue. from Third street TO North
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-12
TOBAR PEANUTS
FROM The ZOO?
Costs New York 500 a Day to
Clean Up Litter of
Shells.

Swinging to and fro on their trapeze,
the blue-nosed inhabitants of the
simian seminaries in Central Park
and the Bronx Zoo are chattering
angrily over reports that peanuts
may be tabooed in the New York
parks this summer They are not
alone in their misery. for the park
squirrels, the elephants and even the
carnivorous animals, who have also
fallen for the great American circus
baseball eatable, have heard the
rumor and are in the dumps.
Director William 7. Hornaday of
the Bronx Zoo certainy started some
thing when he wrote to Mayor
Mitchell that it costs the city 1913 a
day to rake peanut shells out of the
gross borders and off the walks and
that the whistle of the peanut rooster
should be silenced within the confines
of the parks, and the vendors of the
'goober" not be permitted within 800
feet of any park entrance.
And now, says The World to make
matters worse for the devotees of
tho peanut, Cabot Ward, Park Com
missioner, of Manhattan and Rich
mond comes out with a fiat indorse-
ment of DR.. Hornaday's suggestion
in letter to the mayor advocating
an ordinance prohibiting the sale OF
unshelled peanuts in or near the city
parks.
DR.. Hornaday found. in making a
test, that it took a good workman
| just seven hours to rake the grass
and clear peanut shells from a walk
| 100 feet long. More than two bushels
of shells were collected from the walk
and from the grass running back
eight feet from each side of the
walk. The cost of labor, DR.. Horn
aday reports, for removing the shells
from all of the Bronx Park walks
during the thirty weeks of the sum-
mer season is $3.50
In the opinion of DR.. Hornaday
| there is no large park in the city in
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-12
The Lesser Evil.

AT the battle of Cedar Creek" said
the veteran captain of a company in
one of Virginias bravest regiments.
my company, which generally wasn't
afraid of the archfiend himself, grew
demoralized and panic-stricken. De-
spite all my efforts, they broke and
started pellmell for the rear.
AS one fellow, whom l knew as
as fearless as lion, dashed by me,
drew my revolver and cried:
Halt and return to your place,
If you don't / will shoot
Shoot and be hanged he re-
piled, never slackening his pace.
What's one bullet to a basketful?' y
Youths Companion.
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which tire peanut shell nuisance does
not require the expenditure of about
one-haH Of the whole amount of
time that is necessary for keeping
the walks clean and in good orGer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-12
WEALTHY WATER
FROM FOUNTAIN
New Yorker in Europe Saw
Champagne Drawn from
Spigots.

In a party of New York hotel men
just back from a seven-week trip to
Europe was Copeland Townsend, of
the Imperial. Mr. Townsend, whose
first European trip it was, describes
the tour as one of continual feasting
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-12
Light, Cool Summer Suits
From $3.50 to SIS

Cool Summer suits in
the featherweight class
are here in great variety.
Beautiful pin checks, pen
Gil stripes, breezy home
spuns, dressy S e r G e S,
tropic worsteds and wool
crashes. Many in new
patch-pocket models for
young men; many con-
servatively cut. So to
SIS.
Real tropical suits of Palm
Beach cloth, that you could
wear through the Panama
Canal in comfort. $3.50 to
SIS.
Dark blue and gray mohsir
suits, light and breezy and yet
dressy in appearance. Ideal
Businessmen suits, S12 to SIS.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-12
Summer Trousers
Flannel, Linen, Crash

This store is headauar-
tiers for white flannel
trousers of high grade.
Our size range runs full,
and we are able to fit al
most any man in a hurry
from our lines at S..
We are selling a special
grade of white and striped
white serge trousers this week,
never before sold as low as
S3.75. Made in the latest
straight-cut model "a real
special value.
Wool crash trousers in a
great variety of dark and light
gray shades; extra good values
at So and 81.
Linen and linen crash trou-
sers are here at S1.50 to $3.50.
White duck trousers also.
S1.50 TO $3.50.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-12
Our Stock Of Old HGk0r FuInitu!e

big roomY. comfortable Pullman Of the
latest model, body of hand woven Hong
Kong cord. in brown shellac finish. Sanitary,
loose corduroy cushions. hood lined with
same material. Adjustable hood aud back
springs and gear of finest tempered steel.
Large steel wheels with heavy rubber tires.
This is one of the handsomeSt and best made
PullmanS the market
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-05-05
ASKS PUBLIC To
JULY 4 MEETING
Mayor Sets Plan and Scope of
Session for Tomorrow
Night at City Hall.
TO SEE WHAT PEOPLE WANT
When Interested Parties Agree
on Sort of Celebration,
Work Will Start.
TO SEE WHAT PEOPLE WANT

Sentiments for and against various
methods of publicly celebrating the
Fourth of July will be heard at a
meeting Of public spirited citizens to
be held In city hall tomorrow night,
commencing at o'clock. The meet
ing, which has been designed as q
plan and scope session, has been Of
ficially called by Mayor Ferd Garrett
son and he urges as many as posi-
Bile to attend, SO that opinions and
ideas of large number of public
representatives may be heard.
While Mayor Garretson states il
will be up to the public to decide
what 1T wants in the way of a cele-
bration on July 4, the prevailing be-
lief is that there will be another
safe and sane celebration similar, but
in all probability larger, than the
one which was conducted last year
1t is believed that the same general
plan and scope will be followed, in
that there will be land and water
events for the amusement of young
and old and that pyrotechnics will
form feature at night.
When 1t has been decided by the
public as to what Is wanted and
what is most popular, committees OF
residents named by the mayor will
proceed with detail work. In event
there Is to be a safe and sane cele.
bration as last year, there will doubt.
less be committees to make detail
plans for land and water sports. per.
haps for circus and other theatrical
events for children, for band con
certs and the like. The idea will be
to furnish amusement for every min.
ute of the day and conclude with
brilliant displays of fireworks in the
evening, SO that there can be no de-
|sire to meddle with dangerous explo
sives as in years past. The safe ant
sane idea of celebrating has given
success the past few years, officials
declare, and there is no reason to be-
lieve that it will not be carried oui
this year in better and more brilliant
style than heretofore.
John Dunbar, popular sporting
enthusiast of 652 Elizabeth street, is
the first contributor to the safe anC
sane celebration fund for 1914. Hav
ing noted that Mayor Garretson was
starting preliminary plans, he hand
ed the executive S. as a donation
There is about $500 left over from
last years collections.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-05-05
VICTORY GAINED
BY H0D CARRIERS
Strike for $500 a Day Won by
Union After Meeting
Last Night.
MOST CONTRACTORS AGREE

Following the refusal of the Hod
Carriers and Building Laborers' I'm
ion to accepa a compromise of $3.50
per day at their meeting last night,
the master masons' arbitration COM
mittee this morning in conference
with the laborers' arbitration COM
mittee at Jefferson hall. decided to
allow the union its original demand
of 50 per day of eight hours.
The master masons were notified
several months ago that the union
men would demand an advance of
twenty cents day. or from $3.50 to
IS, beginning May 1. The contract
ors would not agree to the increase.
and strike was called last Friday,
when doens of jobs were tied up be-
cause they were deserted by union
employees in sympathy with the lab
orers. Several contractors paid the
increased wage scale because it was
quickly. Most the master masons re-
fused to grant the increase.
The arbitration committee of the
abOrers and hodcarriers met with the
arbitration committee Of the master
masons in Dana hall yesterday after
noon and a compromise was Offered!
the laborers by the masons, who were
willing to make the scale $3.50 per
day. The union committee reported
back to the union last night at a
meeting, the compromise was reject
ed and the committee instructed to
accept no terms except the increase to
SO per day. This the committee re-
ported to the master masons this
morning, and the latter in an effort
to avert adverse results of continu-
ed strike at this season agreed to pay
So per day, and the men will begin
work on that scale again tomorrow.
A number of the master masons
desired to continue to reject the in
creased scale. but few agreed with
union men to pay SO per day, and II
the strike had continued this would
have divided the masons. Some OF
the contractors had Jobs In the course
of completion, to finish which they
were willing to pay the wages de-
manded.
Those contractors who desired to
refuse the demand of the men de-
clare that they do not object to pay
ing SO, but that such a demand is
only injuring the union men. One
said that the unions did not cotrol
more than sixty per cent Of the brick
layers and building laborers. leaving
a sufficient number OF non union men
to work for "open-shop" contractors.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-05-05
DORYEA KILLED
BY HAND Of SON
Wealthy Starch Manufacturer
Shot; Son SurrenderS.

New York, May 5:-General Hiram
Duryea, civil war veteran, and veal
thy starch manufacturer, was shot to
death early today as he slept In his
home, S5th street. Brooklyn, by his
son, Chester d. Duryear. Seven shots
were fired into the aged mans body.
from an automatic revolver, and 9TH
ers from a high powered rife. ANY
one of the wounds inflicted would
have caused death.
After several hours investigation
the police have been unable to learn
any motive for the shooting and are
inclined to believe that young Dur
yea may nave become suddenly in
sane.
General Duryear was eighty-one
year old. His son is forty-three
years old.
The shooting occurred at 2 a. m.
today. Young Duryea was seen at the
house for several hours during yes
terday according to servants. General
Duryea rtird about midnight. The
son remained In the library. After
the shooting he sumoned the police
and gave himself up. He is now a
prisoner in the Fort Hamilton police
station. The ambulance surgeon of
the Norwegian hospital declare he is
undoubtedly insane.
Chester Duryea's marriage to Nina
Laurie Smith, daughter of Franklin
Waldo Smith, of Boston, in 1898.
and their divorce in 1902 attracted
wide attention. Mrs. Duryea
charged domestic trouble started on
their honeymoon when her husband
displayed violent bursts of temper.
General Duryea appeared as a wit
ness and denied other allegations f
his daughter-in-law but she won her
suit.
General Duryea was of distin-
guished family and became famed as
a soldier. He organized the Fifth
New York Volunteers. His regiment
in the Union army was known as
Duryea's Zouayes."
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-05-05
ALDERMENPASS
ON DEAL To BUY
GREGORY TRACT
City Fathers Adopt RecOnInen-
datiOn Of Harb0r Board to
Acquire Property.
ORDER MAYOR SIGN CONTRACT
City May Acquire Land West of
Gregory Tract to Con-
troll Water Frontage.
NOW TO DRAW WARRANTS
10 Per Cent. of Purchase Price
Also Ordered Borrowed
From Sinking Fund.
NOW TO DRAW WARRANTS

Recommendation of the Board of
Harbor Commissioners to purchase a
portion of the Gregory property at
the foot of Madison and Brighton
avenues was adopted and resolu-
tioa was passed, directing Mayor
Ferd Garretson to enter into a con-
tract for the purchase of the proper
ty at meeting OF the Board of
Aldermen last night. This action
will end the negotiations which have
teen going on most strenuously for
the past several weeks and the city
will take TIE property over at once,
The required ten per cent, amount
Ing to $2,875 of the purchase price,
was ordered borrowed from the sink
Ing fund and warrant for that
amount payable to the property own
ers was ordered drawn for imme-
date execution of contract
The next move by the city may be
to acquire waterfront property lying
west of the Gregory tract, to take In
the foot of First and Second streets,
which would produce controlled
frontage extending from Brighton
avenue westward to the New York &
Long Branch railroad line. Under
the present transaction the city pro-
cures from John H. Gregory and the
Gregory Wrecking & Contracting
Company narrow strip of upland
exreruing from point fifty feet east
of First street to Brighton avenue.
The northerly lines of the property
are straight and extend $50 feet be-
tween First street and Madison ave-
nue. and 279.17 feet between Madi-
son and Brighton avenues. The
easterly and westerly lines extend
straight and parallel to the Raritan
river.
City officials have in mind the
contemplated purchase of land be-
tween the Gregory property and rail-
road line, starting from the present
northerly line of the tract being ac-
quired, and going westerly in a
straight line to the railroad tracks.
Under the terms of the present
purchase, the city acquires all of the
Gregory property about Madison and
Brighton avenues except approXi-
NSately five lots situated east and
narth of the johnson property, locat-
ed in Brighton avenue. The land is
leased by the city to Mr. Gregory and
his company for a period of five
years at the nominal charge of 81 a
year, in which time they must clear
the property of boats, hulks and
debris as provided for In a schedule
accompanying the recommendation
of the harbor board and made part
of the purchasing contract. Mr.
Gregory reserves the right to vary
from the schedule of removal as cir
cumstances may seem to require, but
the harbor commissioners declare he
must remove the vessels, hulks, ETC.,
as provided or its equivalent each
year.
1t is the hope of city officials that
the government authorities can be
prevailed upon to allow the city to
fill in solid to the pierhead line. In
that event no extra expense would be
incurred in removing old hulks
which Mr.. Gregory and his company
have agreed to move inside of the
pierhead line and much more land
would become available.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-05-05
ARCUMENTSFOR
SEWERAGE PLANT 7
Why Writ Should Not be Issued
Against PlainfieId.
Special to the EVENING NEWS.


Trenton, May Arguments on
the rule to show cause why a writ of
certiorari should not issue against
Plainfield to have the action re-
viewed by the supreme court, which
action was the entering into of a
contract by Plainfeld, North Plain
field and Dunellen for the construc-
tion of a joint sewage disposal
plant in Middlesex borough, are be-
ing heard before Justice Bergen to-
day. George s. Silzer and w. A.
Coddington, representing the petit
TONERS, declared that insufficient no.
tice of intention on the part of Plain
field had been given by the council
OF that place and also attacked the
validity of action under the sewer
act of 1910, asking the supreme
court for an Interpretation They
presented an affidavit signed by c. c..
Vermiele, showing proposed sewage
beds In Darling farm, Piscataway,
would pollute the water supply of
Watching Water Company, which
furnishes New Market, Dunellen
and South Plainfield, Middlesex bor-
ough and other towns. Lindaburg,
Depew and Faulks represented
Plainfield and asked for the dismis-
sal of application for the rule to
show cause. The court asked for
briefs and agreed to render deci-
sion within three days.