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BOOSTED UP THE PRICE
Article Was Worth the In
creased Amount.

Hot and stuffy was the auction
room. and packed. too-yes, even
packed to its utmost capacity.
Suddenly through the crowd pressed
a large, important-looking person and
held v with the auctioneer-
converse, low. deep and awe-inspir.
ing.
Then up spake the a%uctioneer to the
multitude assembled:
Gentlemen" he said. 81 am inform
ed that a pocketbook has been lost
In this hall tonight containing s200
In bank notes."
A great hush fell upon the assembly.
YES" continued the custodian Of
the hammer. land. owing to other val
liable documents It contains. the gen
tleman will offer ESQ to anyone who
returns It. while no questions win be
asked.'
Again . silsnos. dean and unbroksa.
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tracted for before the work is started,
and so they are the more willing to
cooperate with the prospective owner,
since the element of speculation in
the deal for them is very much re-
duced.
If renters who are interested in.
this proposition will go out and talk
with their local real estate men, and
decide where they want to build, they
will be surprised at how easily the
whole matter can be arranged.
The design illustrated herewith is
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house that has already been lived in,
an old house perhaps, at any rate a
secondhand house; or he may go to
suburbs where the large real estate
operators are putting up many houses
IN speculation. relying on selling them
after they are completed. Both of
these methods are at fault to the ex-
tent that such a house is not made
to meet the special requirements of
those who are to live in it.
The requirements of no two fami-
lies are exactly alike; and when a
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BOOK H..
The CareW Case.
tomb.
CHAPTER /.
The Man Of Iron.

ING wan " iiN"'
Whoever it was that dubbed Thee
dore Van Vechten the Man of Iron,"
he displayed a pretty wit. For the
phrase was descriptive Of the man,
both fguratively and literally.
His offices were in New Street, Just
off of Wall, and quite close to the
Stock Exchange; a location U%nrivaled
for his purposes, which were both
tremendous and infinitely various. He
has also been likened to a fat spider
lurking in the midst of his web, the
flaments of which radiate in all d.
rections throughout the contiguous
territory, and every one Of them
guiding a steady stream of gold into
the Van Vechten Golfers.
Theodore Van Vechten typifed
Power.
There was, first of all, the prestige
Of the ENORMOUS Van Vechten for
tune; and then the regulation and SUI
pervision of all the money, stocks and
bonds within rife shot OF his office;
which is to say, the entire country.
for even the United States sub-treas-
ury-its parent also for that mat
ter-is not excluded from this sweep
ing statement.
As head of the Consolidated Metals
Company, he was a shining target for
the United States Attorney-General-
and, it is no doubt needless to add,
an i~nvulnerable target. There was not
a metal article manufactured and
marketed, from a pin or a wire
clothesline to a locomotive, motor-car
or battleship, that did not contribute
along one or another of the webs fla
ments to the aforementioned Van
Vechten fortune. Hence, literally, he
was the Man of Iron"
He was a big man physically as
well as mentally, which was as it
should have been. His activity de-
manded prodigious physical strength
and vitality, and these two factors in
his makeup, together with an infex-
ible will, showed never so advanta-
g~eously as in his habitual reserve, his
steady, answering s~elf-assurance,
which made obstacles of no more i'm
p%ortance than so many sheets of pa
per opposed to a speeding bullet.
AS for his personal appearance. its
general effect vas n of iron gray
ness the smooth-shaven lips were a
straight, thin, uncompromising line
that scarcely moved even when he
spoke; the bare chin was square, mas,
sive. iron-like, and the closely
trimmed gray "sideboards" were we'll
nigh eclipsed by these more salient
features. His eyes, under a thatch OF
gray brows, were simply a metallic
glitter beyond whose surface no man
had ever seen. His moments of weak
ness, if he had any, would have been
another mans strength.
There was only one person who had
ever been wholly at ease In this mans
presence-his nephew, Rudolph Var
vechten. or the hundreds who came
into and went out of the New Street
offices, this young man alone seemed
wholly oblivious of the fact, or indif
ferent to it, that Theodore Van Vech
ten had but to utter the word, anC
he would be extinguished.
Rudolph paid his uncle a visit or
the Monday afternoon hat Tom Phin
ney ~as cruising around Long Island
Sound in his friends catboat. II,
entered the inner shrine, and o
course found his uncle busy. The cir
cumstance was pointed out to him.
Rudolph ignored the other two mel
present
CTo BE CoNTINUED)
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SYNOPSIS.

Rudolph Var Vechten. n young man Of
leisure, is astonished to see a man enter
No. 1913. "A house across the street from
che Powhatan club, long unoCCupied and
epOken OF as the House OF Mystery. Sew
eral persons at regular intervals enter
NO. 1913. Van Vechten expresses concern
TO his friend, Tom Phinney. regarding the
whereabouts of his cousin and fancee.
Paige Carew. A f~ashionably attired wo-
man Is seen 10 enter the House of Mys-
terry. A man is forcibly elected from the
house. Van Vechten and Tom follow the
Pan and find him dead In the street.
Var Vechten Is attracted by the face OF
a girl in the crowd Of onlookers sur
rounding the body. Later he discovers
the girl gazing at him with a look OF
scorn from the windows OF the mystert-
GUS house. Detective Flint calls on Van
Nechtcn 10 get his version Of the trag-
adv.
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matter so vitality important as the re-
curing Of a home, a dwelling that has
to be occupied throughout life, It
seems that the house ought to be
built especially to meet the needs Of
the owner.
So. there Is the third way Of ac-
curing a home. and it Is probably the
best. 1t is not to buy a ready-made
house. either new or secondhand. but
to have a new hcuse built In just the
location and Of tuss the size and char
acter desired.
And with homsr huilding conditions
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featured face bore a number of marks
and a~brasions, as II he had quite re-
Gently met with an accident. Toms
own good-humored psystognomy
moro than once had acquired similar
high lights and shadows, resultant on
tumbles from sundry rolo-ponies.
The man proceeded upon his wsy.
booking neither to the left nor the
right. He carried q large laden bas-
ket-which he bore lightly-and in a
second or two had passed into the
darkness again.
The night. though. wal 10Y 90 pune
mated By lightning flashes. that Tom
found no difficulty In marking his
progrsss along IL road that led In
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Then a fellow at the e a of the
hall spoke up:
Il bid e51," no said.-Answers.
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Had One Failing.

"David's a nice boy. isn't her" asked
mother OF little Frances. mentioning
6 true and devoted young comrade.
Yes. but he's very notionous." Wa
the little lady's reDly.
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The Why Of Il

Why does lightning turn milk sour !!
Because It dOssn't know how to con.
duct itself.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-24
GAS |
OR BAD STOMACH
Time it! Pape's Diapepsin ends
all stomach misery in five
minutes.

Do some foods you eat hit back
taste good, but work badly; ferment
into stubborn Jumps and cause sick,
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Mrs. Dyspeptic, jot this down: Pape's
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nothing to sour and upset you. There
never was anything so safely quick
SO certainly effective. No difference
how badly your stomach is disordered
you viii get happy relief in five
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is that it strengthens and. regulates
your stomach SO you can eat your
favorite foods without fear.
Most remedies give you relief some
times-they are slow, but not sure.
"Pape's Diapepsfn' is quick, positive
and puts your stomach in healthy
condition so the misery won't come
back.
You feel different as soon as "Papes-
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stomach-distress just vanishes-your
stomach gets sweet, no gases, no
belching, no quotations of undigested
food, your head clears and you feel
fine
Go now, make the best investment
you ever made, by getting a large
fifty-cent case of Pape's Diapepsin
from any drug store. You realize in
five minutes how needless it is to
suffer from indigestion, dyspepsia or
any stomach disorder.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-24
Newark CaledOnian Club
Celebrates Anniversary
of Birth of Robert Burns

In commemoration of the 155th an
niversary of the birth of Robert
Burns, the Scotch poet, embers of
the Newark Caledonian Club held a
concert and ball in the New Audi
torium, Orange street.
Rev. It. Arid Moffat, pastor of the
First Congregational Church, was the
principal speaker. The program of
the concert was as follows:
Overture, orchestra; Star Span
gled Banner, entire company; Scotch
reel, Davidson Troupe; baritone solo,
"Scots VIVA Haze" John B. Hamilton
soprano solo, Eye Banks and Braes
o. Bonnie Doom" Miss Margaret r.
Mackenzie; Highland dancing exhibit
ton, Davidson Troupe; tenor solo;
Mary of Argyle" Howard " Pascal;
"a Wee Bit of Scotch Mcleod and
Laird; soprano solo, Comm Thro'
the Rye" Miss Mackenzie; baritone
solo, "A Mans a Man, for a. That"
Mr.. Hamilton; Scottish and other
dances, the Davidson Troupe; tenor
solo, MY Love Is Like a Red, Red
Rose" Mr.. Pascal; Scotch comedians,
Mcleod and Laird, and "Auld Lang
Syne," by all the artists.
Dancing followed. The committee of
arrangements consisted of John Barr.
Harry Stewart, Edward Currie, Alex
ander Andrew, Harry Nicol. John
Barr, James Hutchinson, William
Gray, Peter McKeith and Robert
Dunbar
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-24
Appeals to the Police to
Find His Missing Wife

Becoming separated from his wife
when they lost their positions on the
farm of John Truesdale, at 1902 Ma
pie avenue, Lyons Farms, January r.
Hiram H. Fowler last night requested
the police to help him locate his wife,
Catherine. Fowler is now stopping
at the Mills Hotel, Halsey and Will
lam streets.
Fowler told Lieutenant Tracy that,
owing to a dispute, he and his wife
were discharged and ordered out by
Truesdale the first day of the coolest
spell of the winter. He came to this
city in search of a place to stop and
said his wife walked to Elizabeth.
On the way he claims she froze her
feet and spent four days in a hospital
in that city. When discharged from
there she returned to the Truesdales,
but left the day before he arrived in
search of her. Since then he has been
unable to locate her, he said.
The woman is twenty-eight years
old, is ht-complexioned and was
wearing brown suit, black and gray
coat and q black hat.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-24
Suit for $500 Damages
Brought After Auto Crash
Decided for Defendant

In a suit for $500 damages brought
in the name of Meyer & Bush, whole
sale meat dealers, at 80 Ward street,
against Lawshe & Co., of 273 East
Kinney street, before Judge Lintott,
of the Second District Court, decided
for the defendant yesterday. The
suit was for damages to an auto
mobile in which Jacob Bush and his
son were driving on Market street,
near Lawrence street, on June IA,
1912. 1t ran into a three-horse
hitch" and truck of Lawshe & Co.
The auto was running alongside of
a trolley car when the driver of the
express wagon crossed at Lawrence
street 1t was a narrow squeak for
trolley car and wagon, the car being
pulled up short by the motorman.
The younger Mr.. Bush, who was driv-
ing the auto, could not see the team
until he was directly upon it, and
crashed into it. One of the horses
was injured. but the express driver
and the occupants of the auto were
unhurt.
An interesting point in the case was
that the Commercial Casualty Com
pany, which wrote the insurance on
the auto and paid, furnished the coun-
sci for the case. The car, a five
passenger Cadillac, had the rear axle
broken and was otherwise damaged.
Attorney Louis J. Beers appeared for
Lawshe & Co.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-24
Suspicious Actions Lead
to Arrest of Three Youths

Three youths who led the police a
lively chase were arraigned today
in the First, Criminal Court and
turned over to Probation officer Gas
coyne The boys gave their names
and addresses as Maurice Goodman.
sixteen years old, of 229 East Eighth
street; John Fulton. sixteen, 1923 East
Fifteenth street, and Samuel Cohen,
seventeen, of 400 Bowery, all of New
York city.
Lieutenant Farrell, of the detec-
tive bureau, had been watching the
lads in a Market street department
store for some time yesterday after
noon and regarded their actions as
suspicious. Aided by the store de-
tectives he placed two OF the lads
under arrest. Cohen and another
member of the party made a break for
the street and Farrell chased them.
The detective secured an automobile
ard ran down Cohen after chase
from Halsey to plane street on Mar
ket street. The records of the youthS
will be investigated.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-24
Kisses Horse When Court
Orders Man to Make Good
a Check Given for 5000

Samuel Schram, a driver for Roth
bard &c Brothman, commission mer-
chants, at 40 Commerce street, was so
delighted over a decision given by
Judge Herr, in the Fourth Precinct
Police Court today that he rushed
from the court room out the door, to
where his wagon was standing, and
throwing his arms around the horses
neck gave him a hearty kiss.
Sehram had delivered some vege-
tables to Louis Kessler, of 220 Charl-
ton street, and against his employers
orders had accepted a check for $3.50
from Kessler. The check was sent to
the bank and was returned IN. G."
Saturday night Schram found the
check in his envelope. He told his
troubles to the court, who sent for
Kessler Kessler said that he had
given out checks before and had al
ways made them good. He was or
.dered to pay Schram the money due
him by Monday or take the conse-
quences.
AS he was leaving the court room
he remarked in Yiddish that he would
bet $1,000 that he was never there
before. The judge, who understands
that language told him to put up the
money. Kessler said that he did not
have it with him He had been in
court before in an assault and battery
case.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-24
Vicious D0g-0wners
Are Summoned to Court

On complaint of the Board of Health
Judge Herr in the Fourth Precinct
Police Court issued a summons for
the appearance of Andrew Nicoll, of
306 Springfield avenue, and John Cox,
of 1853 Charlton street, in court Tues
aay morning.
1t is alleged that both men are the
owners of vicious dogs that have a
habit of biting all the little children
in their respective neighborhoods.
Nicoll's dog, a fox terrier, is said to
have bitten three-year-old Max Els
enberg, of 305 Springfield avenue, jan
uary %. The little fellow was taken
to the City Hospital, where the wound
was cauteriZed.
The dog belonging to Cox is said to
have bitten several children in the
last two weeks.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-24
JURORS ARE AROUSED BY
TREATMENT ACCORDED THEM
Against Lack of Quarters Compelling Them to Stand
While Awaiting Call TO Serve in Trial. Will Be Made.
Trade Board Likely to Act.

that could be given him was ten
years in State prison and a fine of
$1,000 The reason that person who
actually kills another, but who is
convicted of manslaughter, can es-
cape with lighter penalty than one
who assaults another, but fails TO
kill him, lies In this fact.
Manslaughter. under the law, is a
killing, in which the slayer had no
intent to kill. In Coffey's case it
was shown that the intent to kill was
present, according to the verdict rem
dered by the jury, and the only rea-
son a killing was not committed was
due to the fact that the bullet fired
at Packwood did not happen to hit
a fatal spot.
OF course, the verdict of man
slaughter in the Drum case was
complete miscarriage of justice, as
the staying of Mcdonald by him
could not by any manner of means
be rightfully construed to come under
the head of manslaughter or acciden-
tai killing. 1t was one of those
freak verdicts that fhries frequently
bring in, the kind that try the pa
thence of the Judges to the limit, but
they are powerless to prevent them.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-24
CAR CRASH MAKES
HUNDREDS WALK.
Trolley Wrecks Wagon, Killing
Horse-Traffic Blocked
Half Hour.

Trolley traffic in both directions on
Market street was tied up for half
an hour before noon today, when a
Springfield line car, going east on
Market street, crashed into a four
horse truck crossing the tracks at
Lawrence street.
One horse was injured so badly
that it had to be shot. William Fitz-
gibbons, of 20 Bergen street, and
William Wallard, of 81 Hartford
street, were thrown from their seat
on the truck, but were only slightly
shaken up. Witnesses say that the
car dragged the truck and horses
about fifty feet.
Several persons who witnessed me
accident ran out and helped the drlv-
ers get the animals under control.
One of the horses could not rise and
Charles Sickles an agent II the S. p.
C. A., was summoned. He said the
animal had a broken, foreIeg and he
shot the animal. The other horses
were uninjured.
The truck and horses are owned
by John s. Geiger & Sons, truckers
and riggers. of 8S Hartford street.
The driver stated that he had just
loaded the truck with radiators at
the Central railroad IreiRnL depot
and was going east on Lawrence
street on his way to the Fourteenth
street car barns. AS he was crossing
Market street the trolley ear struck
the pole horse and side of the wagon.
The motorman, P. H. Keller, said
that the driver had steered the team
down Market street and he put on
speed when he thought he had clear
way, but the car struck the wagon,
he claims, when the driver of the
truck swung the horses onto the
track.
A wagon owned by c. H. Bowden,
an expressman, OF 2S9 Market street
which was standing near Lawrence
and Market streets. was struck by the
Geiger truck as 1t was showed along
by the car. The light wagon was
hurled against the curb, breaking the
rear axle.
The line of trolley cars reached
from Lawrence street to Washing
ton on the eastbound track and down
to the Pennsylvania railroad station
in Market street on the westbound
track Hundreds of passengers were
forced to get out and walk to their
destinations in the rain.
The front of the steel car, except
for the fender, was not damaged. The
front part of the wagon was slightly
damaged.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-24
Huckster Accuses Cart
Driver of MaliCiOusly
Ripping Wheel Off Wagon

The first trouble at the new Cen
ire Market place arose yesterday and
as a result Thomas Frankey, Of 245
Camden street. will be hailed to the
First Criminal Court Monday to an
swer to complaint of malicious mis-
chief, made by Clarence Longstreet,
a huckster. of IL Howard street Irv-
ington Frankey is a driver of team
used in excavating for the new mar
ket.
Longstreet was loading his wagon
at a produce dealers store, opposite
the site of the new market when
Frankey. it is alleged. returning with
an empty dump wagon ran into
Longstreet. The hubs of the front
wheels of both wagons locked, and,
according to Longstreet's complaint,
Frankey maliciously kept his team
going, ripping off wheel and part of
an axle on the hucksters cart,
The peddler appeared before Justice
of the Peace Henry B. Tower. of 272
Park avenue, and swore out the COM
plant. Frankey was paroled in Gus
tody of his employer, Alexander Mil
moe.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-24
PRINCETON HEAD
GUEST OF LOCAL
YALE GRADUATES
Association Holds Thirty-first
Annual Banquet at Es-
sex Club.

Members of the Yale Alumni Asso-
citation of Essex County held their
thirty-flrst annual dinner last night.
The affair was held in the Essex Club.
Park place. and was the greatest in
she history of the association.
President John G. Bibben, Of
Princeton--they called him Jack-was
one of the guests and responded to
the toast, princeton" Arson Phelps
Stokes, secretary of Yale College. and
Rev William ]. Dawson, of the First
Presbyterian Church, were also
guests. They responded to the toasts
"The University" and Literature,
respectively.
The banquet was presided over by
Ellis Adams. president of the asso-
citation. acting as POSTMASTER. Others
at the guest table were James A.
Bathgate. president of the Princeton
Club; John R. Hardin. and Bishop
Edwin S. Lines, of the Episcopal do
cese of Newark.
Yale college yells and songs were
feature of the evening. In honor Of
the Princeton guests present the
banqueters sang "Old Nassau"
ut warns the cookies of my heart
to be here" was the way President
Hibbe nhegan. He expressed pleasure
that the relations between Princeton
and Yale were such that he could be
invited by Yale Alumni and given
such a heart welcome.
In speaking of the things student
carries away from college with him,
President Hibben said he learns the
use of liberty, $50 that it does not go
70 our heads and make fools of us.
He spoke of the secret of obedience,
and declared the theory that the
young man must follow the path of
least resistance is no longer in vogue.
He said man must take an interest
in his work. and must acquire the
habit of hard work, regardless of
whether it is pleasant.
Continuing, he added:
! I'm our college years we learn the
art of companionship, which is valu- |
1&ble in after life. as 1t gives us the
power of getting along with men. |
Much in this world depends upon the |
ability to get along with other men, /
and that lesson at the university that |
You learned, of knowing how to treat |
Others as men, Is one of the great /
secrets of success. In athletics you /
have learned the great lesson of 10y
atty The loyalty to your university |
has been something that unconscious
'ly has been an increment in your life.
When he learns this lesson the stu
dent can transfer it when he comes
into other relations of life"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-24
Fleming P. O'Reilly Dies
Returning from Church

Fleming p. O'Reilly, sixty-four
years old, of 81 Littleton avenue, was
seized with an attack of heart failure
while on his way home from st. Rose
of Lima's Church today, and died on
the way to the hospital
Mr.. O'Reilly had attended mass. At
Central avenue and South Sixth street
he was seized with the attack Arthur
butcher, of 216 Bank street, and John
Regain, of A Paramount avenue, who
were passing in an automobile, placed
the man in the machine and rushed
him to the City Hospital He died
before the hospital was reached.
County Physician Mckenzie was noti-
fed and performed an autopsy at the
hospital