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Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-25
HONOR SYSTEM IN
ILLINOIS PRISON

Jollet, ILL.,, req. Z0-AS reward
for good conduct at Camp Hope, near
Dixon, ILL.,, where they worked on =
state highway without being guard
cd, % convicts today enjoyed the free
dom of the grounds about the state
penitentiary here, where some of them
we're busily engaged in beautifying
the grounds. A number of the honor
men, under the direction of Superin-
tendent Thomas F. keegan, who was
in charge of Camp Hope, were at
work today at the 1000 acre state
farm near Joliet. All of the % men
we're garbed in ordinary laboring
clothing, they worked unguarded and
beyond a quiet reserve, there was
little to distinguish them from ordi-
nary citizens.
The experiment Of placing convicts
at work on the honor system, first
tried out in Illinois by Warden E. M.
Allen of the Joliet penitentiary, marks
the beginning of a new creed in the
treatment of eri1inals. The expert
nlent has proved SO. successful, after
a five months thorough test, that
Warden Allen intends to follow the
system on a more extensive scale dur
ing next summer.
On September 3 As convicts who
had made commendable records with
in the prison walls, were taken by
superintendent Keegan to Camp Hope,
There the men, unguarded lived Ill
tents. did their own cooking, washing,
etc, and put in over 100 days work
at improving highway. The road
work consisted in cutting down an al
most impossible clay hill and macad =
amizing the road.
The men worked with will, al
though their compensation was only
in knowing that they were being
trusted, even though under sentence
in the state penitentiary. AS dem
onstration of their enthusiasm to
make good, they often requested that
they be permitted to work on Satur.
day afternoons, a practice forbidden
at the penitentiary. Religious services
were conducted at the camp every
Sunday afternoon by the Rev. A. D..
Whitcombe of the st. Luke's Episco-
pal church Of Dixon.
Not one of the convicts attempted
to escape, although frequent oppor
tunity presented One night barn
located two miles away took fire. The
entire camp rushed to the scene, help
ed to extinguish the fire, saved sew
eral adjoining buildings. Every man
returned to quarters.
Eighteen Of the convicts were dis
charged, after the camp was estab-
/ Ished, either by pardon, parole or By
termination Of scntcnce. Each of the
18 men started life with q firmer de
termination to make good, instiled
with confidence aud courage by their
experience at Camp Hope. Records
kept Of those released show that all
] have sccCrcd honest employment and
several have begun rapid ascent up
ward in business life.
Most Of the 28 men who have re-
turned to prison will be released com
/ paratiyely soon, their sentences to be
shortened because of good conduct rec
Srds. .sa..
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-25
Engine Troubles.

The Standard Garage specializes on
engine work radiator leaks and ig-
nition troubles. Open day and night
to the auto public. Corner Seventh
and Main streets, Ell Centre. Phone
23O. Auto for hire.-Adv. If
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
.JERSEYMAN HURT IN
AUTO SPILL DYING
Former Newark Merchant Has
Fractured SkuII-TWo Com
panions Injured.

NEW YORK. Dec. 17.-An auto
mobile took fire after 1t turned up
side down at 16lst street and Grant
avenue, the Bronx, last night. The
occupants, two men and a woman,
were pinned under the car. All three
were badly hurt. One of the men
suffered a fractured skull 1t Is be-
lieved he will die.
Both men were residents OF New
Jersey. The more seriously injured
lis Charles Antoni, of Paterson, who
was formerly in the retail shoe busi-
ness in that city. The other victims
are: Charles M. Campbell, an auto
mobile salesman, of German place.
Weehawken, and Miss Jessie Havens,
of 2S Columbia street, Meriden, Conn.
Campbell is a son of DR.. Charles M.
Campbell, of Paterson.
All three are in the Lebanon Hos
pital. Miss Havens and Campbell
suffer from cuts and bruises about
the face, head and body. Besides a
fractured skull, Antoni also suffers
from internal injuries.
At the time of the accident Camp
bell was driving the car. Witnesses
saw he attempted to turn into Grant
avenue. He made sharp turn4 The
car skidded and turned turtle.
Inc crew OF tloley car III 'oiS'
street and several other men were
trying to lift the heavy automobile
off the three persons, when the gaso-
line tank caught fire. The rescuers
stood back, and in a few seconds
the tank exploded, setting fire to the
wrecked automobile.
A fire alarm was sent in, and when
the firemen arrived they squelched
the flames with a few extinguishers
and then lifted the automobile.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
Striking Miners in
Eastern Ohio Zone at
Point of Starvation

CLEVELAND. Dec. 17.--Unless re-
lief on a large scale comes to the
devastated strike region of eastern
Ohio within seven days thousands of
striking coal miners and their fami-
lies will face Christmas Day in a
starving condition. They are all but
starving now-and freezing.
! This word from Barton, Ohio, the
relief supply station of the mine
strike zone, today sent relief societies
in a score of Ohio cities into the
gospel preaching tnat charity be-
gins at home"
Practically every city in the State
donated for Belgiuu's destitute To-
day they We're asked to give for the
wounded industry's warfare in Ohio.
Starvation is the weapon of this war
in which, unlike Colorado and West
Virginia. there has been no gun play.
The freezing chill of genuine VIM
ter was today over the mining dis
trict. Four-fffths Of the homes made
penniless by the strike nine months
ago wereA tasting starvation. There
are twenty thousand little children
victims. Nineteen thousand at least
are without proper nourishment and
clothing. Half this number are bare
foot
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
HOBOKEN MAN ONE
OF QUARTET HELD
IN BAFF MURDER
Poultry Handlers Arrested and
Given Third Degree" by
Detectives.

NEW YORK. Dec. 17.-Inspeetor
Faurot announced today, at police
headquarters. that four men were
locked up in connection with the
murder, on November a. of Barnet
Baff, the wealthy poultry dealer of
West Washington Market, and that
other arrests were expected at any
minute.
The prisoners are James Moore. Of
3S Monroe street Hoboken, chicken
handler; Moe Rosenstein, Of 3007 West
Third street, Coney Island, better
known as Chicken Moe" David
Rubin kolodny, 1886 Forty third
street, Brooklyn, known as Kolodine
and as big Dave" Klondyke; and
Isadore Switzsky, 165 Penn street.
Brooklyn, also poultry handlers. All
are under thirty years of age.
Six other men who have been given
the third degree" at headquarters
were allowed to go at an early hour
this morning. Moore was arrested
yesterday on bench warrant charg-
ing assault; Chicken Moe" Rosen-
stein was picked up on a charge OF
obtaining from Mrs. James Beggs,
owner of a Coney Island grocery
store, $40 on a forged check.
The other two men, Kolodny and
Switzsky, We're taken to headquarters
early last night until 2:30 a. m. today
were on the grill. At that hour In
spector Faurot announced that they
were under arrest on suspicion of be-
| ing implicat ID in the Baff murder
! MY men are out the inspector
said, land I expect other arrests will
/ follow
He refused to admit that the other
/ arrests were looked for on informa-
! ton furnished by any Of the prison
ers On the contrary. the prisoners
deny knowing anything about the
Baff murder. Inspector Faurot said
Kolodny and Switzslsy told conflicting
stories, but did not implicate each
other or any one else In any crime.
! He said they had prison records, Ko-
| lodny. having been charged with
shooting and Switzsky with felonous
assault, and that they had worked in
! West Washington Market as poultry
handlers since their release from
prison.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17

became an affidavit The Indictment
bore that Lawshe committed perjury
in the deposition, and, as no depo-
sition was taken in the case of Law
she, the indictment was quashed.
The chief witnesses in the case
against Lawshe We're Judge Blair and
Brooks Bowen, twenty years old, of
Brooklyn. According to the docu-
ments in the case, Elmer E. Alexan-
der, of Red Bank; Charles c. Alexan-
der, of Rldgewood, and Willard c..
Read, of New York, contracted with
the tile company in 1898 to allow the
company the use of a process for
making a circular tile, the patent on
which they owned. The contract was
to run for ten years and a royalty OF
10 per cent. OF the sales of the tile
was to be paid to the owners of the
patent Shortly after the contract
expired the owners of the patent sus-
pected they had not been paid all that
was due them, and they began TO
investigate.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
ACQUITTED
OF PERJURY CHARGE
Former Deputy Clerk of Su'
preme Court Is Freed on
a Technically.

JERSEY CITY, Dec T.--Arthur
Lawshe, treasurer of the Trenton Tile
Company and a former deputy Su-
preme Court clerk, was acquitted in
Judge Mark A. Sullivan's court in
Jersey CITY last night on the charge
of perjury preferred against him.
After hearing the evidence, Judge
Sullivan directed the jury to bring in
such a verdict on technical point.
1t was alleged in the Indictment
against Mr.. Lawshe that at the
taking of his deposition before Judge
John A. Blair in Jersey City on Sep
tember "A, 1913, he swore falsely that
books of the Trenton Tile Company,
ofzwhich ne Is the treasurer, for the
year 1905 and other years were de-
stroyed in his presence. and that.
therefore, they could not be produced
In court In an action then pending
for the recovery from the company
of royalties on a patent process in
the manufacture of tile owned by
Davis. Read & Alexander. members
of which firm live in this State.
During the hearing it was brought
out that when the dispositions of
Lawshe were being taken before
JuuSe Jonn n. Oiali, the latter was
at. the beginning a Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas Before the
deposition was concluded he passed
out of that office and became judge
of the Second District Court in Jersey
City.
Judge Blair did not, apparently, re-
swear Lawshe when he continued
taking the deposition in his new
capacity as Judge of the District
Court, and the deposition, therefore,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
Miss Mccoy Loses Suit to
Recover for investments

SoMBRVILLE, Dec IA verdict
for the defendant was ordered yester-
day by Judge Luther A. Campbell in
the Somerset County Court in the re-
trial of the suit brought by Miss
Emma A. Mccoy. a New Brunswick
school teacher. against Arthur w.
Mil,bury, assistant secretary of the
State Teachers Association, who is
also a mining promoter. Miss Mccoy
originally brought action against Mr..
Millbury to recover s1,20s, a part of
$4,000 which she had invested with
Mr.. Millbury in stock of the Douglas
Mining Company of Dakota which
later turned out 70 be of little value
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
Confusion for Wall Street in
Ticker Service Breakdown

NEW YORK, Dec. 17.-Wall Street
was thrown into q state of confus on
at the opening of the stock market
today by an almost complete break
down in the ticker quotation service.
The machines which furnished QUO
tations to outside sources were out of
order, and many brokerage houses
with direct exchange connections
were unable to post early prices.
The disorganization OF the service
extended to various out of town
points. including Philadelphia. For
tunately trading was light in the
early dealings. so that the disruption
of the ticker service caused only tenn
porary inconvenience.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
Paterson Man Badly Hurt
Under Overturned Auto

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-Two per-
sons, a man and a woman. received
fractured skulls and another man
was bruised when an automobile
turned over at 161st street and Sher-
man avenue. the Bronx, last night.a
The woman is said to be Jessie
Havens, of % Columbia street. Meri-
den, Conn. The man is Charles An
tona, shoe manufacturer. of Pater-
son, y. j. The third person is C. NJ.
Campbell, an automobile demonstra-
tor, and all are now at the Lebanon
Hospital Campbell held by Coroner
Flynn to await the result of the in
iuries to the two others. Campbell's
father is a Paterson physician.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
Canal Conference Is Off
Until Monday Afternoon

JERSEY CITY, Dec. 17--Because of
the inability of Counselor Boles, of
the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company.
to attend the conference on Morris
Canal abandonment, scheduled for
yesterday afternoon. it was postponed
until 3 p. m. next Monday. The con-
ference will be restricted to the city
commissioners, the Hudson Assembly
delegation and the representatives of
the Lehigh. Valley Railroad Company,
lessee of the canal.
1t was said that the ejectnent suit
against the canal owners on the
ground of non-user will be pushed by
the city. unless the company is will
ing to make a fair proposition. Mt.
Corbin, representing the railroad COM
pany, said that he was not authorized
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
Prisoner Admits He's Wanted
for New Brunswick Murder

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 17.-Henry
Thomas, wanted in New Brunswick,
N. j., by the authorities for the mur-
der of Henry Rahmer on the night
OF October e3 last, was arrested yes
terday in Jenkintown by Chief of Po-
lice William B. Thomas, Of the Jen-
kintown department.
Chief Thomas was standing in front
of the station house when he saw
Henry Thomas walk by. The alleged
murderer was selling pencils. Ger
tain that he was the man wanted,
Chief Thomas took the New Jersey
man into custody. The prisoner,
Chief Thomas declares, confessed that
he was the man wanted In New
Jersey
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
Philip TumuIty Injured,

JERSEY CITY, Dec. 17.-Contractor
Philip ''nmulty, jr., brother of Presi-
dent Wilson'S secretary Joseph p
TuInulty, Is at his home, 395 Yori
street, with both feet badly bruised
He was unloading lumber from a
wagon at Mercer and fremont streets
when one of the heaviest pieces oi
lumber rolled off the wagon, striking
MIN
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
Yachtsmen Unite to Fight
Pound Nets Along Shore

ATLANTIC CITY, Dec. IT,
Yachtsmen of the Jersey coast joined
hotel owners of the shore resorts
from Long Branch to Cape May in
a determined campaign to rid the
shore line of destructive pound nets
Captain John L. Bailey, of the
Beach Haven Transportation Com
pany, who is leading the fight for
the prohibitory legislation at Tren-
ton this winter, threw a shell into
. the camp Of the pound barons when
he announced that officers of the
South Jersey. Yacht Racing Associa-
/. tion have signed the petition for
drastic legislative action.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
Woman Dies from Cold
on Long Branch Estate

LONG BRANCH, Dec. 17.--Mrs.
Bessie Reynolds, thirty-five years old,
wife of Frank Reynolds, a caretaker
on the Edward H. Wise estate here.
was found dead on the bank Of a
brook near her home yesterday. When
she did not return home Mr.. Reyn-
olds, thinking she might have gone
to be with friends in New York city,
went there for her A searching party.
organized later, found the body. She
had died from exposure.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
Three-Ton Rock Drops on
Freight Cars in Tunnel

NEW DURHAM, Dec. IA three
ton rock dropped from the top Of the
tunnel onto n train of freight cars,
overturning two of the cars and the
locomotive, in the West Shore yards
yesterday afternoon.
Trains were tied up for several
hours, and 200 passengers had to
leave a train and walk.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
Fingerprint Evidence in
Alderman Robbery Trial

Special TO the Evening Star.
ELIZABETH, Dec. 17.-Charles
Connors is on trial here today,
charged with the theft of $4,000 in
jewelry from the residence of for
mer Senator Ackerman. of Plainfeld.
Finger-print evidence will play an
important part in the trial.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17

$25, 900 Fire at Burlington

BURLINGTON. Dec. ia stub
born fire. hich for two hours menaced
surrounding property late yesterday
safternoon, destroyed the -four and
feed mill and grain storage of Amos
X. Ashby, on the river front at Della
ware avenue and Stacy street. caus-
Ing less Of $25,000
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
Illness Halts Murder Trial

MOUNT HOLLY, Dec. 17.--Because
of the sudden illness of the foreman
Of the jury trying Edgar c. Murphy
for the death of Herman Fisher, the
trial has been postponed.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
Smoke in Bed Costs Life

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE habit
Of smoking in bed or an upset lamp
cost Albert Noyes his life today, and
drove eighteen roomers at 1867 West
One Hundred and Sventeenth street
TO the street clad in their night
clothes.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
Books, Special, SOC

HtgHIaF SUt 70 3I.Us
Assorted titles by various au-
tf1ors. Books for bows, girls
in fact, everybody. Betty Wales
Series, Dora Porter Series, Lama
Series, Elise Series. All Among
the Loggers, A Ward Of Salem,
The Little Princess Series, Lin
coins Life, and hundred and
one others for all members of
the family.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
Books, Special, 25c
Regular 55c to soc

A large collection of titles,
noted authors, including poetical
works, Shakespeare's works, fc-
ton; books of good reading for
men, women, boys and girls.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
Women's Sateen PetticOats

Splendid quality of sateen; good
deep flounce; accordion plated; in
black, brown, navy, Russian green
and plum, al ...................
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
$500 Messaline Blouses-

Several good models, black and color
in large quantities; in navy, black, s.
brown, green; all sizes in the assort- ,
ment; to close out, special. .......
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
Sl.OO Crepe Kimonos

Excellent assortment of eolorings.
model is we'll made; empire, V neck, ~
and fold of messaline, in light or dark 4
colorings; special ...............
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
$500 Flannelette Kimonos-

Several good models TO select from,
or dark coiorings; fitted, empire or loos
full skirt, with long or short sleeves, 81
with small or floral patterns; sizes
"a 10 A ............-.
Evening journal., 1914-07-01
DELMARVA PENINSULA LAND OF OPPORTUNITY WITH OPEN DOOR

our crop from one hundred and
twenty trees at from twelve TO fifteen
hundred hampers. The average
price in Wyoming in 1903 was S1.50
per hamper, 18th bushel size. The
present crop is the admiration of all
who see it."
F. NJ. Soper, Magnolia, Del, wrote
recently: Il have been in Delaware
thirty-two years and / have never
known a complete failure of the apple
crop. We have $4,000 trees under
cultivation and will say that Della
ware produces as fine an apple as can
be produced in any section of this
country We get the flavor and color
and quality, and in price we are
second to none. Last year we sold
two thousand dollars worth of fruit
from seventy-five trees, and this year
we received from one acre of Yellow
Transparent over twelve hundred
dollars"
Professor c. P. Close, Horticul-
turist of the Maryland Experiment
Station, was the Horticulturist of the
Delaware Station before going to
Maryland, and at a meeting of the
Peninsula Horticulturist Society in
DONeIs bdlus DtlOIt COmluS W DCid-
ware / thought that apples could
grow only on clay soils, and when /
saw the Delaware sands l thought
they might do for peaches but not for
apples But after a careful study and
observation OF what is actually taking
place in Delaware, we must admit
that Delaware can produce as good
apples as can be grown in any por-
tion of the country. The greatest
surprise of all is to see what can be
done on the light sands of this State.
You get the flavor and color and
quality, and in prices you are second
to none Last winter 1 had occasion
to visit some of the fruit stores in
Philadelphia and found the bes.
grades Of Delaware apples we're sell
ing for better prices than those from
Oregon or from New York. A friend
of mine, who is interested in apple
culture in Colorado, advised me to
invest in raw land in that State at
$1OO per acre, with water rights to
cost another 800. When I told him
that Delaware orchards sometimes
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Evening journal., 1914-07-01

favorable for their profitable produc-
ton. These early varieties mature
after the winter apples are out of
the market, and just at the end Of
the strawberry rush they bring a good
price. They are shipped in refriger-
ator cars to all of the eastern part
of the United States and into Canada,
and in all this territory at this sea-
son they very nearly monopolize the
apple market. Il will be a long time
before the demand for these early
apples is fully met, and although the
production is increasing in quantity,
the quality is improving and the de-
mand is more than keeping pace with
the supply, so that every succeeding
year prices are higher than they we're
the year before. On our level, easily
titled lands, orchards are started with
comparatively little expense. The
land requires no special preparation.
Il is marked off at the proper dis
tances to set the trees, which is done
with little labor, and the trees them
selves can be bought at from $50 to
$3.50 per thousand. With proper cul-
ture these trees grow very rapidly
and begin to bear when five or six
years Of age. We have a large num-
ber Of varieties, both early and late,
that are admirably adapted to this
section prolific bearers, fruit of the
finest quality and handsome appear
ance, and commanding the very high
est price in the market; and the crop
can be counted on as regularly and
certainly as corn and wheat. The
Peninsula has the market for early
apples almost to itself, because
farther South these early varieties do
not thrive, while on the Peninsula
they succeed to a degree that leaves
nothing to desire. The late varieties
also grow to perfection, and of these
we have many kinds of large size,
beautiful in color, of the best quality,
that will keep all through the winter,
so that they can be held for the
highest prices of the year. Apple
growing is increasing in importance.
In 1890 there were 340,64S apple
trees of bearing age in Delaware;
in 1900 this number had become
567 ,61S, an increase of 66 per cent,
and it is certain that we now have a