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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
ORANGES TROLLEY ISSUE SETTLED.

The passage by the Orange Common Council of
the long-pendng ordinance for the extension of the
Central trolley line through Orange is the last
important act the council which goes out of exist
ence when the commission to be elected today shall
organize similar ordinance is expected to be passed
tonight by the West Orange Council. The extension
will give trolley service between this city and Orange
Valley.
The franchise for the extension has been bone
of contention for long time, among the opponents
being the New England Society. Among the claims
made was the injustice of the concession of valuable
right without any consideration This will however,
appear in public convenience and increased real estate
values in the territory served by the road.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
Giants Old and New

sufficient to carry conquering arms
for a nation of 100000 But if so
there is no record of it. 1t has been
stated, whether rightly or not, that
the average height of man Is greater
in Kentucky and in the Russian
province, Georgia, than anywhere else
in the world. Yet Kentuckians six
feet tall are by no means the rule.
It has been frequently asserted, and
1t Is doubtless true, that the armor
worn by Richard the Lion-Hearted
and others of his period is a tight fit
fo~ the average Englishman or Amer
lean today, and that it is by no
means hard to find young men who
cannot get into it at all. Physical
culturists in this country seem to
agree that both men and women of
the present time are, upon the ave-
rage, larger and stronger than they
were a century ago or centuries ago
At any rate, 1t is quite plain that
the British empire could never have
been builded if the work had been
cut out upon a plan that excluded
from the army all Britons less than
six feet tall.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
MAY 10 a7a-
Meba
MAY 10
Melba
Copyrighted 1914.

MARSHALL
names are familiar to lovers OF the
best music. Melba was but sixteen
wears old when she married Charies
Anderson. the younger son of an Eng
lislp baronet.
Melba's first public appearance was
in "Rigoletto." This was when sne
was twenty-five, and since that time
she has had one of the most sue
cessf11l careers ever enjoyed ny
great singer. She has trave. d as
many miles in the course OF hey ours
as any other woman singer.
1t was many years ago that Aelpa
was first heard in this country. sing
ing in the Metropolitan opera rouse
in the title role of Lucia de Lam
mermoor." Her popularity was as
sured from her first performance,
and this was due not only to her
wonderful voice, but also in part to
her charming personality. Among
her most famous roles are Nedda, In
81 Pagl acct" Juliette, in Romeo
ct Ju'iette," and Lucia, in Lucia de
Lammermoor.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
UPLIFT TALKS
ny oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN,
Author Of aPushing to the Front Etc.
Copyright 1914.
PAYING THE LAWS PRICE

, been looked up to as models of man.
hood, men of honorable achievement,
revealing great ugly stains of dis
honor which, like the blood spot On
Lady Macbeth's hands, all the oceans
of the globe cannot wash out.
A United States senator. seventy
years of age, was sentenced a few
years ago to serve a term in prison,
besides paying fine for his connec-
ton with great land frauds. Still
another senator and several represen-
| tatives were indicted for crooked
work in connection with their exalt-
ed positions. Congressman have been
convicted of land frauds and army
officers of peculation. Each has had
to pay the penalty of his misdeeds to
the State and to society.
Every man ought to feel that there
is something in him that bribery can
not touch and influence cannot buy;
| something that Is not for sale, some
| thing he would not sacrifice or tam
per with at any price, something he
/ would give his life for If necessary.
What the world demands of you,
whatever your career, whether you
make money or lose 1t, whether you
are rich or poor, is that you be man.
It is the man that gives value to
achievement. You cannot afford sue
cess with a flaw in it. You cannot
afford to have people say of you,
"Mr. Blank has made money, but
there is stain on it. 1t is smirched.
1t has cost him too much. He ex-
changed his manhood for it.
What a wonderful world this would
he to live in if we all made a siren
,,ous effort to do 1.-The right thing"
and aimed to obtain the things that
are really worth while-things that
make for an unselflsh, Joyous char
nnter, How quickly the millennium
would come If everybody was kind,
mnself1sh. and true, buoyant, clean
and honest! We would have no neeo
Of penitentiaries and courts OF JUS
lice The golden rule would every.
1,l,ara he the law of life
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19

The New York public and the world
at large were Mortified recently at the
tragic deaths of four youths, known
as gangsters, or gunner" who We're
forced to pay the laws price for the
murder of a man who himself was a
breaker of laws-a gambler
In the vigor and strength OF theIr
youth these reckless, lawless boys
bartered their souls and bodies Tor
few paltry dollars
In a message to his East Side COM
panions, a short time before his elec-
trocution, one of them said:
ANY fellow who earns Sc a week
honestly is better off than he VINO
gets a thousand a week if ne does
not get 1t straight. Tell the boys 81.
the East Side, the boys l know anu
with whom went around raising tne
devil, about the mistakes l mace
which 1 could have avoided II hau
done the right thing"
If he had only been honest anu
done the right thing!" -,
No substitute has ever yet oeeIl
discovered for honesty. Multitudes OF
! people have gone to the wall trylhe
! to find one. Our prisons are tull OF
people who have attempted to sup
stitute something else for 1t. I'M
| How many young men OF aoliley,
of fine education, and robust health
are today literally throwing away
their lives in some degrading ousl,
ness! Does it pay a young man OF
godiike powers and infinite capaplll-
ties to ostracize himself from society
to forfeit the respect of his fellow
I men, for the sake of a few paitrS
dollars which he has accumulated al
the cost of a debauched conscien &C
and the destruction of his better self
Can any amount of money or any
physical pleasure compensate for q
career on which society frowns, ano
which ones better self condemns?
Every little while the public press
throws X-rays upon the characters
of men who have long stood high ano
spot'ess In the public eye, and have
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Why Commodore Vanderbilt Sold His Isthnlian Route

years. For awhile, it was very prof
table. l did an enormous business.
l recall my own establishment when
l heard that Commodore Vanderbilt
had sold out and that he was begin
ming to give his attention to rail-
road matters.
II presume that 1 am the only
man now living who knows why
Commodore Vanderbilt abandoned
the Nicaraguan transportation busi-
ness. He did get some of his steam
ers up the rapids of the river which
flows from Nicaraguan to the sea-
coast and he did succeed in having
a kind of crude transit line built from
the western end of the lake to the
Pacific coast. Yet he suddenly sold
out his interest in this undertaking
and 1 can give you the reasons.
"Commodore Vanderbilt realized,
after a year or two of experience
with the Nicaragua route, that 1t
was vital for permanent success that
there be either a railroad line across
the Isthmus or complete canal.
Other parties had built the Panama
Railroad. There remained, there
fore, only a true ship canal If there
were to be competition. The COM
modore realized that it would cost
an enormous sum of money to con-
StruCL true snip Cdidi oCiCs'
ragua, even though for half the dis
lance the great lake furnished very
adequate transportation facilities.
He was not disposed to venture upon
the construction of the canal across
Nicaragua and, besides, his expert
Nence was beginning to show him
that the great opportunities of the
future lay in the direction OF rail-
road development. That ] have the
best reason for believing is the real
reason why Commodore Vanderbilt
sold out his interest in the Nicaragua
route between the Atlantic and the
Pacific in the early days of the Cal
ifornia gold excitement"
copyright, 1914, by DR.. E. j. Ed
wards. All rights reserved)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
Panama and the Pacific.
From the London Post,

From the London Post.
Among the many problems, biologi-
cal and tectonic, as wen as mechani-
cal, which the Panama canal has
raised or solved, there is not yet sol
uble, and it is whether intercourse
through the canal will spread dis
ease. Colonel Gorgas, as all know,
has performed miracles in eliminat
ing yellow fever and malaria from
the canal zone, but neither there nor
anywhere else where these infec-
tious diseases exist is there reason
for supposing that the active germ
of malaria, or the plasmodium OF
yellow fever, has been eliminated.
What sanitary science has done has
been to lnhibit the distribution of it
by it's two carriers, the anopheles
mosquito and the stegomyia fasci-
alta Though these are the distribu-
ters they would be pathologically
harmless If there were no germ to
distribute, as is shown by the fact
that, though the stegomyia is well
known in Hawaii and Samoa, yellow
fever is not.
Presumably, any germs which
might exist on a West Indian shlr
are killed or attenuated on the Voy-
age around the Horn. But would
they be destroyed in a ship which
voyaged through the canal in tropi-
cal ATTITUDES throughout it's voyage
1t Isl permissible to hope that thu
stegomyia of the Pacific, unused Il
acting as host for yellow fever para
sites, would succumb to them. IL
any case the processes of yellow
fever infection are not yet certain
and the baleful prospect may have al
little foundation as the idea that an!
signal alteration would take plac
in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans b.
making a keyhole in the barrier be
tween them. The Atlantic is saltie
than the Pacific; the difference
comparatively slight in the Souther
hemisphere, but considerable in tn
Northern.
Professor Woekoff has explaine
the increased sallnity of the Atlanti
by the constant loss of water whic
this ocean suffers from the westerl
winds which constantly sweep acors
IL. These pick up its water, anC
passing over Europe, Asia and Al
rica, distribute much of 1t there owe
watersheds and to rivers, which d
not return to the parent ocean. som
Of the Atlantic's water is, indeed
borne by the wind to the Asiat
watersheds, and thence carried not
the Atlantic. but as fresh river watt
20 the Pacific. But the Pacific lose
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
THE COST OF ESSEX HIGHWAYS.

During the year ending May Ia, the county of
Essex expended for improving and repairing high
ways and bridges the sum of S644,282.24. This
large expenditure shows the devoted to the
roads within the county The amount apportioned
to Essex county by the State road commissioner
out of the motor vehicle license fund for repair of
roads was only $4,000 that State money made
small figure in the total of s25000O for repairs
while about S21 900 was paid by the State under the
State aid law out of total of 1924 expended
for improvements in 1918.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19

The late General Charles Serrell
was, when he was we'll past eighty
years of age. occupied with en-
thusiasm and industry upon propo-
sition involving the cutting of canal
from the Atlantic to the Pacific
across the narrowest part of the
Isthmus of Panama and within the
boundaries of the Republic of Co.
lombia.
General Serrell was persuaded that
a tidewater canal was the best
method of canal construction by
which the Atlantic and the Pacific
could be united. The route in which
he was interested would have made
that possible, but would have in
volved the cutting of tunnel
through a mountain which stood half
way between the Pacific and the At
lantic.
l frequently spent an hour or two
with General Serrell at his offices In
New York city. He was a short,
thick-set man, whose eyes flashed
with all the brilliancy of youth and
whose mass of gray hair was about
the only indication that he was a
man of years. 1 asked him one day
| if he were familiar with the Mica
raguan route, which Commodore
Vanderbilt established in 1851, where
! by passengers and commodities to
and from California were trans
ported.
IT certainly was familiar with that
route" General Serrell replied. Il
had abundant opportunity to learn
all about it. I was one of the engi-
neers who surveyed the route for the
Panama Canal railroad. My work
there made 1t necessary to become
familiar with geographical conditions
| in Central America and in Panama.
There was always a great deal of
establishment expressed that Commo-
dore Vanderbilt. who established the
Nicaragua route to California, should
have been disposed to give it up after
! nnara ting II for only two or three
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
Want Women Magazine Writers

am incapable of differentiating my
self from the human race.
THE requirements of a magazine
writer are a real interest in things, a
great avidity for things and a desire
to write on those things. There is no
use in trying to write unless there is
something about which you really
wish to write
1.-The magazine writer must know
| how to see must have trained powers
of observation, must know how to
get at facts and must have a real pas
sion for things as they are, whether
she is going after fiction or some other
| class of writing.
1.-THE more the magazine writer
knows the better. She must get an
education, but it doesn't matter how
she gets it. She may get 1t in college
or in schools. She may get 1t by
reading"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
Latin-AmerIcan Progress.

Latin-American Progress.
From the New York World
Francisco j. Yanes, of the Pan
American Union, recalls in the Jour
nal of Race Development that the
first university in the New World
was that of Santo Tomas de Aquino,
at santo Domingo, in 1888, no longer
in existence. That of San Marcos, at
Lima, Peru, was founded in 1851;
the University of Mexico, established
in 1868 and refunded in 1910; Cor
doba, Argentina, 1913; Sucre, Bolivia,
1923; Cuzco, Peru, 1892; Caracas,
Venezuela, 1921; Havana, Cuba, 1928;
Santiago, Chile, 1743, and Quito,
Ecuador, 1877. Humboldt found the
scientific equipment of Mexico Uni
versity the finest in the New World.
In the United States Harvard was
founded in 1885, the sixth on this con-
tinent and the fifth of those now
existing; Yale in 17O1; Columbia in
1854
| All the tin-American countries
maintain scholarships for study
abroad. Such scholarships in the
/ United States number more than
/ 1855
Latin-American theatres are unsur-
passed. Opera is given in most of
| the capitals in excellent style The
press is brilliant and in the larger
cities enterprising. La Prensa, of
Buenos Ayres, has a model news
paper plant Latin America led the
continent in the installation of print
ing-in Mexico, 1536-and the first
hook printed was one by Father Las
Casas Cartagena, Colombia, Is said
to have been the second city of Amer
lea to have a printing press, In 1861
or 1862, but Peru seems to hold the
record for the first book printed In
South America, about 1884. La Paz
Polivia, had a printing establishment
about 1910. The first work in Bogots
was printed about 1879, Ecuador II
1850, Venezuela in 1854, Chile in 1875
Railroad building in Latin America
is held back by sparse population
by the impossibility of cropping tn,
Andean wall at most points and by
the cheapness of river freighting
However, there are $4,000 miles o.
Latin-American railways, agains'
207, 432 in Europe and PAL ,199 in tn,
United States. Argentina has 1000
miles and Mexico 10000 miles, agains
24,725 miles in Canada and 37,495 II
Germany.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19

little water in this way on account
of the high mountains which form
an almost unbroken barrier along its
eastern shores
Safeguarding the Army's Health.
Surgeon General Gorgas, in Engineering
Record
In such an army as might be
modified for service abroad we would
expect some 10000 regulars and twice
as many volunteers. OF the regulars
all but the recruits will average one
to three years of experience that has
taught them how to take care of
themselves in the field and camp.
Among the volunteers some consid-
cradle experience exists as a result
Of maneuver camps and the Spanish
War-many veterans of that war be-
, ing in the militia. The proportion of
recruits will. however, be Sc to rs per
cent of the total strength as far as
experience in the field is concerned
There will be, therefore, a consider
able proportion of green men to be
/ taught camp sanitation as well as
given military instructions.
Much of this will be given in con-
centration camps. Fortunately most
of the officers of the volunteers will
be men who are impressed with the
value of sanitation in the field. They
and the regular officers and older
soldiers will quickly instruct the new
men in the habits so essential to
health in camp.
There exists then, yeast to leaven
the whole that was absent in 1898.
Sine that eventful year the officers
of the medical department of the
army have been studying and prac-
tisinr military hygiene and santa
ton with brilliant results, as demon
strated in the two large camps in
Texas. Here 10000 men lived for q
year at a time with a sick rate lower
than that at the average post.
| Better yet, the officers of the line
: impressed with the value of the les
sons in camp sanitation, have beer
enthusiastic supporters of these ad
vances and are hardly second II
| medical officers in their knowledge
: and experience in such matters. The
army, then, is in an entirely differen
, position than at the outbreak of thu
: Spanish War. The 20 900 cases o
r typhoid that then puzzled and dis
D tressed the people of this country vii
e not reappear as spectres in oul
, camps as a sign of sanitary incom
C petence.
0 Anti-typhoid incubation, which ha
r been in vogue in the army since 1908
S and which so efficiently protected /
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
AMERICANS IN THE MEXICAN CAPITAL.

A large number of Americans prefer to remain in
Mexico City their chances rather than leave
and abandon their property This shows foolhardi-
ness These Americans are long resident in the city
and they belong to the class of American nationals
that has been in active sympathy with Huerta and
sent a delegation to Washington to urge President
Taft to recognize him They rely on their Mexican
friends to protect them. But these Americans have
not read much history they would know that in a
passionate uprising in the Mexican capital at the ad
vance of our armies they would be the first victims
of the mob.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
TAMpICo BLOCKADE LIFTED.

In possession of Tampico the second largest sea-
port of Mexico and free to it naval base as
we'll as a means of getting supplies from abroad and
also customs revenue, the Constitutionaists
vide themselves with something of navy.
Two three of the smaller warships stricken from
our navy list as obsolete would make quite re-
spectacle navy to far outcass the Huerta gunboats
driven from Tampico and at last accounts somewhere
on the ocean hunting for haven of refuge.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
Roadside FLOWERS

We are the roadside flowers,
Straying from garden grounds;
Lovers of idle hours,
Breakers of ordered bounds.
If only the earth will feed US,
If only the wind be kind
We blossom for those who need us,
The stragglers left behind.
And 10, the Lord of the Garden,
He makes His sun to rise,
And His rain to fall like pardon
On our dusty paradise.
On us He has laid the duty
The task of the wandering breed
To better the world with beauty,
Wherever the way may lead.
Who shall inquire of the season,
Or question the wind where it blows?
We blossom and ask no reason,
The Lord of the Garden knows.
Bliss Carman, in Ladies Home Journ
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
II Looked That Nav,

Small Tommy-The teacher wanted
to box my ears this morning
Small Tommy-'Cause he wouldn't
have boxed 'em If he hadn't wanted
to.-Exchange.
Grandma-How do you know he
did?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
Signs of a Winner.

"Does your wife win at bridge?"
81 don't know for sure" replied
Mr.. Meekton, but I think SO. The
women all look as If they disliked her
very much, but they keep on inviting
her to play. '-Philadelphia Ledger.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
None Whatever.

PA, doesn't precipitation mean the
same as settling?'
TT does In chemistry, my son; but
in business you'll find that many
persons in settling don't show any
precipitation at all. "-Exchange.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
Satisfaction.

"Why do you feed every tramp who
comes along? They never do any
work for you"
No" said his wife, but it is quite
a satisfaction to me to see man eat
a meal without finding fault with the
cooking. Exchange.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
Terpsichorean Address.

First Golfer-Ever notice Stances
action when he drives off from the
tee?
Second Ditto-Yes; one feels uncer-
tain whether he's playing golf or
dancing the tango.-Exchange
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
New Variety of Canned Goods; Farmer
Cans Potatoes.

ABBEVILLE, La, May 19-The
first car of sweet potatoes ever
shipped from Abbeville was billed out
by John Anderson from his local can
ming factory last week to a Houston
jobbing concern. 1t consisted of $50
cases of two pound cans Vermillion
grown potatoes.
Captain Anderson built a small can
ming factory here last summer to take
care of the local grown vegetables.
Potatoes were about all offered to his
plant, and he bought literally. When
we'll into the canning season he found
that his plant was too small and i'm
mediately took steps to enlarge it.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES

in 1913 that there was but one case
among the inoculated in the army of
$4,000, is to be trusted to keep our
camps free of this disease so fatal to
armies of the past.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19

COLORADO RULED BY PRIVATE MILITARY.
The special session of the Colorado Legislature
had lame and impotent conclusion. The very thing
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19

Twelve Hundred Children are Found
Living in One Block.
CHICAGO, May 19.-Twelve hun
bred children in one block were found
this week by school census enumera-
tors. This is believed to be the prize
baby block of Chicago, if not of the
world.
The block is bounded by Division,
Blackhawk, Holt and Dickson streets.
The population is almost exclusively
Polish. Louis Link, with seventeen
children, is the largest contributor to
the imposing total.