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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
Plans to End Warfare
With New Steel Product
TO Resist BOmbardment

CHICAGO, Dec. 9.-War may be
ended, skyscrayers may pierce the
clouds to heights never attempted,
and all manner of structures may be
undertaken on grander scale than
ever before by means of a new steel
of tensile strength many times
greater than those of the present
product, 1t was said here yesterday.
Professor A. A. Nicholson, winner
in 1912 of the Nobel prize for physical
research, today exhibited before the
National Academy of Sciences, IN
session here, a bar of the new steel
and subjected it to torsion tests
which, he said, proved that continual
ton of the treatment might produce
a metal of unlimited cohesion.
Fortifications built of that metal,
he said, might be made indestructi-
BILE so that 1t would be useless to
lombard them, thus achieving a long
step toward the elimination of war
fare. Peaceful projects might be car
ried far beyond the scope within
which they are held now by the limit
of the resistance of steel.
Professor Nicholson applied torsion
to the sample bar four times with
periods of rest between. Each time
the bar withstood a greater applica-
/ ton of force without reaching the
rupture point.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
American Diplomat,
Dead in Honolulu

HONOLULU, Dec. 9.-William w.
Rockhil, the distinguished American
diplomat, died here yesterday
ar. Rockhill, who was en- route to
Picking, there to take up his duties
as the newly appointed adviser to
President Yuan Shi Kai, left the liner
Chiyo Maru, on which he had booked
through passage to Japan last Friday,
because of a severe cold he had taken
since sailing from San Francisco.
At the hospital to which he was re-
nroH ed his condition failed to mend.
symptoms Of cardiac weakness de-
veloped He sank rapidly and died at
O'Clock yesterday morning
william Rockhill was a veteran OF
diplomacy He had served his coun-
try as minister TO China, minister to
Greece and as ambassador to Russia
and to Turkey. In his younger days,
disguised as a Chinese, he made a
notable expedition into the forbidden
1and of Thibet. His appointment by
Yuan Shi Kai was both a tribute and
an acknowledgement TO his remark
able knowledge and sympathy with
Chinese affairs, thought and aspira-
tons
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
Fire Alarm System Crippled
by Storm in West Orange

The fire alarm system in the out
lying sections of West Orange has
ben crippled by the storm. The
wires, weighted down by ice, have
been short-circuited by coming ia
contact with electric light wires.
Fire Chief William Sheehan expects
to have repairs made today.
Chief Sheehan declared that the fire
wires had been placed too near those
of higher tension and he suggested
asking the Public Service Corpora
ton and the telegraph company TO
allow the stringing of the fire wires
above the others.
John English petitioned council to
transfer the liquor license of the
Crystal Lake Hotel to Arthur s.
Lewis. Two other license holders
Joseph H. Davis, of 40 Washington
street, and Stephen v. Williams, OF
II White street, applied for transfers
Davis wants to locate at l LAKESIDE
avenue and Williams at 10 White
street.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
Gilbert Cooper
Special to the Evening star.


PATTERSON, Dec. 9.--Gilbert Cooper,
to recently celebrated his fttieth
wedding anniversary, died yesterday
afternoon at his home, 456 Ellison
street. The funeral will be held on
Friday.
AIR. Cooper was one OF Paterson's
Tell-known residents and business
4Gen, and a direct descendant Of Col
atGel Gilbert Cooper, another in the
Goionials and Revolutionary armies,
3 no was his great-grandfather Col
onel Cooper, who was a native Of
Kew York. is buried at Muneie, n. Y.
! Mr.. Cooper was born in Blooming
dale, November ., 1888, the son of
fonn Edward and Maria Cooper. He
came to Paterson in 1867 and entered
fi1e drygoods and carpet business.
: When Mr.. Cooper discontinued this
Fne of business he took over the
Fidelity Storage and Warehouse Com
kany, with which he was identified at
Che time of his death. On November
73, 1864. he was married to Miss Sarah
Beam, of Wanaque, by Rev. ]. N
Jansen, pastor of the Pompton Re-
formed Church. There were three
children, two of them are living
Henry p. Cooper and Mrs. A. J
lIerselis, of Passaic.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
Singer Sewing Machine Cash
Supported "Movie" Productions

NEW YORK. Dec. 9.-How part Of
the fortune left by William F. Proc
tor. president of the Singer Sewing
Machine Company, who died in 1902.
has been used toy back moving pic
tire company because his daughter.
Mrs. Ada Olive Van Heusen, met a
-srnovie" actor In a Brooklyn dem
lists office, was told in the Supreme
Court yesterday in a suit for an in
junction against Mrs. Van Heusen
and the actor, E. K Lincoln, who has
baen associated with the Vitagraph
Company for several years. The at
yislavits also indicate that Mrs. Van
FIeusen's daughter, Elizabeth, who
Vas married last year to Arthur
could Hamilton, and her husband
arc both opposing Mrs. Van Heusen
- the suit.
The suit was started by Hamilton
4 I'D Frank NJ. Tichenor, a moving
i lture producer, to restrain Lincoln
I'd Mrs. Van Heusen from oustins
en- as directors and officers Of the
aoto Play Production Company,
ON which they have received a sal
:sry of 1925 a week. Justice Newbur-
ger refused to issue the injunction.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
WATERWAYS BILL
CRITICS ATTACKED
AS SESSION OPENS
Rivers and Harbors Congress
Hears Strong Defense of
Recent Legislation.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-The Ma
tional Rivers and Harbors Congress
began its annual convention here to-
day with a large attendance of del
egates from throughout the country.
Many prominent speakers are on the
program for addresses during the
three days session.
The convention was opened with an
address by Secretary Bryan. A fea-
ture was the annual address of Sena-
tor Ransdeli of Louisiana, president
Of the Rivers and Harbors Congress,
in which he vigorously denounced re-
cent attacks on the river and harbor
bill passed at the last session of
Congress- and the filibuster which re-
suited in the practical defeat of the
measure.
Attacks on river and harbor leg
lslation,'' declared Senator Ransdell,
ARE unfounded, practically without
merit, and many of them devoid of
even a vestige of truth Critics of
the legislation, he added, had been
unable to suggest better system
than the one they criticize.
Denies Pork" Charge.
Senator Ransdell said that under the
present method of waterway legisla
ton the nation's waterways had been
greatly improved, commerce fostered
freight movements facilitated and
transportation rates cheapened in
competition with railways.
ITO assert that river and harbor
bills are full of pork graft and cor
rupt items he declared, us to charge
that the United States engineer corps
of the army, members of the rivers
and harbors committee of the House
and commerce committee of the Sem
ate, and a majority Of the senators
and representatives who advocated
and voted for these measures. are
guilty of fraud, corruption, graft and
plain stealing Such an accusation is
false.
Senator Ransdell denied charges
that the Rivers and Harbors Congress
was a lobby. Its activities, he said,
had been confined to an education
campaign, create an intelligent public
sentiment in favor of proper improve
ment of worthy navigable waters
Nothing akin to the work or methods
| of lobby, he added, is ever at
| tempted.
attacks Unworthy Of Authors"
| Attacks we're made on the last
river and harbor BILL" declared Sen
| ator Ransdell, ION sectional and po'
| Iitical grounds, and it was freely
| charged that faYoritism had beer
| shown to the South. These attack,
| are unworthy of their authors. Dur
| ing my sixteen years in Congress, II
| which time ! served on the rivers anC
! harbors committee of the House, anC
the commerce committee of the Sen
| ate, both under Republican and Dem
ocratic administrations, I can truth
/ fully say that I have never know
either sectionalism or politics to en-
| ter into the making up Of a river an'
harbor bill Republicans and Demo
Gratis alike joined in shaping tn
measure to get the best bill for tn
entire country, regardless of claim
of any particular section"
Senator Ransdell concluded with 81
appeal to the convention to insist tina
under no circumstances should an,
water course be improved unless
has real, genuine merit back of it,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
LAUTER co. 591-5o3 BROAD ST.

for information of Mrs. Brock. They
have been placed in all the ferry
houses and police stations In New
York and other cities.
The Montclair Boy Scouts yesterday
picked up trail supposedly made by
a woman who was staggering up the
side of the mountains. Several of the
Burns men followed the trail last
night.
Another clue being run down by the
detective agency was furnished by
Newark employment agency, where
woman of refinement, answering the
general description of the missing
woman. applied for position as
housemaid on Friday afternoon.
Bankers in Manhattan and New
Jersey, who were well acquainted
with Mrs Breck's father, George
Meeker, who at the time OF his death
was cashier of the National City
Bank, are also doing all within their
power to locate her.
Another clue believed to indicate
the direction in which Mrs. Breck
went after she babe her husband
good-by ct the Brick Church station
at O'Clock Friday morning was
furnished yesterday by woman liv-
ing in Park avenue. a few blocks
west of the Breck home This wom-
an, who did not know Mrs. Breck,
says she saw woman. apparently
distressed. closely fitting the descrip-
ton of Mrs. Breck walking in the
direction of Llewellyn Park.
Mrs. William J. Ryder, wife of the
pastor of Brick Presbyterian Church,
where the Brecks regularly attended,
was waiting in the Scout House
when the Boy Scouts returned at
nightfsll. Told that the search had
been fruitless, Mrs. Ryder expressed
the belief that Mrs. Brock need not
be searched for in the mountains.
THAT she is alive have no doubt"
declared Mrs. Ryder. I'm her weak
ened condition she could not have
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
by KARL II. Won wIEGAND
United Press Correspondents.

ON THE FIRING LINE IN THE
ARGoNNE FOREST, Nov. 81 (By
courier via Namur. Ak -Chapelle
and Rotterdam and mail to New
York. )-Slowly, but apparently ire
sistibly, the German crown prince is
advancing his lines here In the now
famous Argonne forest-,the scene of
some of the wars most desperate
hghting. Literally. yard by yard the
Germans are trenching and mining
their way forward.
BY special permission of the Ger
man crown prince | am visiting his
lines in the Argonne. This afternoon
I reached the foremost trench south
ward of Granpre, which is as near
as l may give the location. About
100 feet ahead of me Is the French
trench.
Picture TO yourself a canebrake like
woods of fish poles ranging in size
from half an inch to saplings of two
and three inches thick. and so dense
that you can hardly see forty yards,
even now when the leaves have fall
len. Among these is a scattering of
big trees. the trunks of which are
yeritable mines of bullets. Irregular
lines of deep yellow clay trenches zig
gag for miles. Other trenches run
back from these to what looks like a
huge Kansas prairie dog town." hu-
man burrows where thousands of SOL
dlers are literally living underground.
From the lines OF trenches running
parallel to one another, comes con-
slant splitting, suffering popping of
rlfles, making the woods resound like
n Chinese New Year in San Francisco
or an old-time Fourth of July. field
adj
The cannon cracker effect. Through
the woods the high-noted "zing zing"
of bullets sounds like a swarm of
angry bees, while high overhead
shrapnel and shell go shrieking on
their way. Here and there you may
see spadesful of earth being thrown
as if by invisible hands, marking the
onward work of the German gopher
like pioneers in their subterranean
warfare. That is the Argonne forest.
Few Comforts In Trenches.
As the trench l am in was still in
the hands of the French three days
ago, and as the crown prince is adj
vancing steadily. the trenches are
temporary and contain little in the
way of comforts. In deep inches cut
in the side the soldiers rest. play
cards or even sleep on damp lodges
serve as a cemetery When the
enemy's fire is so hot that it is i'm
possible to stick your head out or to
take the dead out to bury them, the
grave is made in a niche or ledge
cut into the side of the trench.
Just in front of me there is such a
grave on a little ledge made by
widening the trench. a card fastened
to the tiny twig cross at the head
was written on it with indelible PEN
Gil, "Musketeer Christi Just above
it, outside of the trench and very
close by, lies a dead Frenchman The
firing from the enemy's trenches at
this point is so fierce that the Ger
mans have not yet been able to take
the body away. Around sharp angle
in the trench the hand and arm of a
French soldier sticks out of the dirt
where the Germans tunnelled within
ten feet of the French trench.
There they planted lightweight
pounds of explosive. blew up the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
GARDNER NOT TO
GIVE UP FIGHT FOR
POWER PROBE
Seeks Hearing Before House
Rules Committee on His
Resolution.

WAsHTNGTON, Dec. 9-Despiae the
-sf1sal of the majority members OF the
l4ahse rules committee to grant ms
geanest for a hearing on his resoiu-
lian "a direct a special inquiry INTO
me military preparedness OF the
ITnFted states, Representative 5ttrd-
ppr of Massachusetts,, was ueIeI-
mined today to continue his hghI AoI
such an investigation: 2a,,-
IA a letter which he sent to KEEP
4asbn4ative Henry, chairman OF the
,,n-anaiftee. Mr.. Gardner declared thdt
IL h1ould accept a refusal to grant
lbearino only from meeting OF the
am committee. His letter was IA an
s,veri TO one from Chirnan Henfy ad-
a isins him that his proper form IoI
= hearing was before the regularly
constituted committees OF the f1ouse'
which were in daily session cohslo s,.
faas matters pertaining to the mill
aarS and naval strength OF the eoun-
aff Won desire to pigeon-hole my
reaolution without a hearing MI
fafdner wrote Mr. Henry, you un-
aoabtedlv have the votes to do 50,
INA Won must first call meeting OF
z-,1,r committee, and at that meeting
fsabpressnan Lenroot, OF WISCONSIN,
zpi5 require you all TO go on record.
Measures dealing with the army
not pending in CONGRESS include the
5tif nassed by the Senate at the last
session authorizing the President 70
recrlht the army to fun war strength
whenever in his judgment eomphca-
ions with foreign countries warrant
4 nbther Senate bill awaiting action
IN she House is that revising the ar
5icfes of war. In the Senate the
militia pay bill, providing compensa-
4ioh for national guardsmen VINO par
4ie5nate in maneuvers still is pend
5na and Senator Chamberlain, chair
man Of the military affairs commit
Ted said today he contemplated
1,ressing that measure as OF utmost
5nlportanee in the building up OF an
army reserve. He also has in mlnd
proposal requiring military training
in all colleges and schools receiving
government or State aid, and possibly
extending to high school cadet corps
as a method OF training civilians for
commissions as junior officers IN case
of war -,
The Senate military committee viii
meet Friday TO take up matters pend
ing before it. Several bills, including
the Chamberlain national derense
council measure, have been referred
70 this committee.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
Married Fifty Years

BRANCHVILLE. Dec. Sur
rounded by seven of the guests who
attended their wedding half cen
tury ago and by f1fty-three relatives
and friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Isreal j..
McDanalds, of Newton avenue, cele-
brated yesterday at their home the
fiftieth anniversary of thei" mar
riage.
They have been members of the
local Methodist church for the past
forty-seven years and they figure
that they have walked not less than
Al 900 miles to and from church
twice in the week and twice on
Sunday.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
HUNT FOR BODY OF
MISSING WOMAN
CONTINUED from First Paseo

squads, and each group searched a
certain area 1t had been agreed that
If the body of Mrs Brock was found
the finders should IRE three shots,
which. in turn. should be fired by the
adjoining squad, and 50 on all along
the line.
The woman had been melancholy,
following a nervous breakdown, and,
as she was fond of the scenery in the
Eagle Rock Reservation, on top of
the First mountain. In West Orange,
this territory was secured the most
thoroughly.
w. H. Truesdale. president of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
railroad, has taken such personal
interest in tho search that he has in
structed that every railroad trainman
be furnished with. photographs and
descriptions of the woman.
In thousands of circulars distributed
yesterday by the Burns Detective
Agency. a reward of $3.50 is offered
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
Prince Gains Seventy Votes
in One Fairview District
speeiaI to One EvenInE star.

FAIRVIEW, Dec. 9.-Former Sena-
tor John d. Prince. who was defeated
by Representative Archibald C. Hart
in the recent congressional contest in
the Sixth district, gained about
seventy votes on the recount in the
First district here yesterday.
The official returns from this dts
trict as certified by the election Of
ficials gave Hart 26S votes and Prince
40 votes. At the conclusion of the re-
count yesterday the result was that
Hart was given 205 votes and Prince
46 votes. OF the remaining ballots
twenty-three were rejected for the
reason that there was an "x' marked
In the squares provided for both Hart
and Prince, thus invalidating the bal
lots. The election officials had ap-
parently counted all such ballots for
Hart. In addition to this, fourteen
other ballots were referred for fur
Their judgment because Of various i'm
projections.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
ART TREASURES
ARE DESTROYED
STUDIO FIRE
Artist Perrett Loses Many Val
liable Paintings-Garage
Also Burned.

Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the studio of Galen j. Perrett, at 53S
Summer avenue, last night, and
quilted the garage of Henry A. Dan
iels. which was on the ground floor
of the building. Many paintings,
sketches. as well as considerable
antique furniture, was destroyed.
These are a total loss, not being
covered by insurance.
When the firemen arrived it was
burning in two places and had suCh
Roadway that the members of the
department were unable to check it
before the entire contents Of the
studio were destroyed and the garage
Quilted The damage to the building
Is estimated at $4,000, and that to
Mr.. Perrett's possessions at $4,000.
The fires broke out in the roof
and on the floor of the studio. APP
parently and both worked downward.
The roof fire greedily licking up the
works of art, that 1t had taken years
for Mr.. Perrett to collect, and tire
fire from the floor of the studio eat
ing it's way down into the garage.
Mr.. Perrett is an artist of note,
who has had an exhibit hung in the
Paris Salon, and until recently was
connected with the Fawcett Drawing
School.
1t was only last week that Mr..
Perrett completed the task of arrang-
ing his studio and held there a house,
warming party. He had been in the
studio yesterday but about ten min
utes before the fire broke out. At
that time there was no odor of smoke
or any indication whatever that all
was not right.
Among the treasures lost are a
number OF old pieces of mahogany
furniture which Mr.. and Mrs. Per-
rett collected in their extended
travels through Europe and also
many photographs which Mrs. Per-
rett took of spots which she and her
husband visited in foreign lands.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
No Need of Revenue Stamp
on Marriage Licenses

TRENTON, Dec. 9.-David S.
South. State registrar Of vital sta
tistics, has rescinded the order he
issued on December l to the effect
that he would require a ten-cent
revenue stamp on all marriage
licenses issued in this State.
Second Assistant Attorney-G
Backes has given Mr.. South a verbal
opinion to the effect that the stamp
will not be required upon marriage
licenses, birth or death certificates,
inasmuch as they are State papers.
But II the Bureau of Vital Statistics
should issued a certified copy of a
record of birth, death or marriage
to any person upon request the
stamp will be required, and 1t must
be supplied by the applicant.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
Swedes Angered at
Germans for Planting
Mines Off Finland

STOCKHOLM, via London, Dec. Q.
The Swedish press is indignant
about the planting of floating mines
along the coast of Finland. which has
resulted so far in the, loss of three
large Swedish steamers and the
drowning of upward of forty men.
Navigation of Finnish waters hith-
erto has been unimpeded, and no
warning of the laying of mines has
been given. Captains of Swedish
steamers reaching here declare they
saw German warships near the FIN
nish coast Saturday and Sunday, con-
sequently the strewing of mines in
these waters is credited to the Ger
mans.
Traffic in Finnish waters is to be
discontinued until they have been
swept for mines.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
Six Hurt in P. r. r. Crash

PHILADELPHIA Dec. 9.--Six per-
sons were injured early today when a
freight train on the Philadelphia and
Reading railroad backed into q south
bound suburban passenger train at
Huntingdon street station in this city.
One of the passenger coaches was
completely te'escoped. Most of the
injured are Philadelphians and none
is believed to be seriously hurt.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09

walked very far into the mountains.
think she may have gone to New
York city to take UP charity work,
in which she was greatly interested
Recently she had expressed the
desire to get away from people who
knew her. We all loved her, and
when she became i'll we did what we
could to cheer her. l feel certain
she will be found alive
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
BIueiacket SIays Girl

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 9--Jesse
Adams, a petty officer on the battle
ship Illinois, stationed at the Phila-
llelphia Navy Yard, shot and killed
woman named Anne Conway
hf her home here early today and
then committed suicide. According
10 the police. Adams shot the girl
because she refused to marry him.
MAINS, whose home address was
given as Oakland, Ill, was thirty
eiHe years old. The girl was twenty
-four
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
Poined Criticism

Theodore Dresser, the novelist, was
talking of criticism.
~ like pointed criticism such as !
heard in the lobby of a theatre the
other night at the end of the play.
THE critic was an old gentleman.
His criticism, which was for his
wifess ears alone, consisted of these
words:
!" Well. yout would comet ''-Ex-
change. ~
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
A Great Gift.

"They say she Is splendid In anna
teur theatricals."
"She's a wonder. She can make
the most painful tragedy a source Of
genuine amusement."-Life.