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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23

Germany has made some wonderful
changes since 1911 in Heligoland. Two
years ago the island was pretty thor
oughIy exploited in the Franch and
English press on account of the fear
that the Morocco incident might lead
to war between England and Ger
many. 1t was then a fishing island
which was being gradually trans
formed into a naval base, particularly
for submarines and torpedo boats.
Now it is a veritable Gibraltar, with
a home for all small war craft. in
Guiding dirigibles and water planes.
This German, Gibraltar protects the
mouths of four rivers, including the
Elbe and the Weser. A protecting
sea wall has been built half round
the island. and from the high ober-
land, the. biggest and best Krupp
gums. on disappearing platforms. COM
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23

threw himself into dreadful rage
when he heard about it and did his
best to stop it. The emperor was
very fond of Nine. Mara's voice; SO
much SO that when she once refused
to sing because she was worn out ana
i'll he sent a body of soldiers, VINO
dragged her out of bed and carried
her bodily off to the emperor to sing
Later, when she received an offer
from London and wanted to break
her life contract with the emperor.
she and her husband had no end OF
difficulty in escaping secretly from
the German court, and were notify
pursued till they reached the frontier.
When the musician Mozart heard her
voice he said, with characteristic
egotism, that "she had not had the
good fortune to please him, but the
poet Goethe greatly admired her
powers and wrote a poem to her on
one of her birthdays.
Other famous women born on feo-
ruary % are Emma Willard, who
wrote Rocked in the Cradle or tne
Deep" the founder of the Troy IN "
Female Academy; Margaret Deland,
the talented American novelist; Gene
We've Cowles, the illustrator, and
Madame Schroeder, the Prpssian
actress, born in 1871, who was Known
as the German Siddons.'
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Night in Camp With Theodore Winthrop

Colonel Edward J. Allen, who in
the early fifties blazed a path from
the Missouri river to Oregon and be-
You'd, and who in Civil War days COM
manded a Pennsylvania regiment I'M
til he was severely wounded at
Gettysburg. related to me recently
what he called a very unusual Incl
dent connected with Theodore Win
throp's famous book, Canoe and
Saddle"
Theodore Winthrop was of New
Haven birth and was a graduate of
Yale College in the late fifties. He
was an intimate personal and family
friend of George William Curtis, and
it was from Mr.. Curtis's home that
Winthrop went to the front early in
1861 as a lieutenant in the Seventh
New York Regiment. He was killed
in the battle of Big Bethel, and his
funeral in New York was the first of
the many which took place in that
city Of officers killed in the Civil War
Colonel Allen said to me: "In the
early fifties there was no emigrant
road into what was then the territory
of Upper Oregon, hlt is now the State
of Washington. | was living there as
a pioneer. There ! first met Captain
Mcclellan, who, ten years later, was
In command of the army of the Poto-
mac. | was one of those who aided
in building road into the ''Whulge,"
which was the name at that time of
what is now known as the Puget
sound country. Captain George Brin-
ton Mcclellan, with a company of
robust, Woodworking frontiersmen,
labored incredibly in these wilds of
the Grand forest Of the cascades
doing what would never have been
undertaken except by those who were
enthusiastic in their purpose of over
coming very stubborn natural condi-
tions.
Then only twenty-five years of age,
| was chosen to command this COM
pany. We went right out into the
heart of nature. climbed the snow
neaks crossed the swift and dang sr-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23
THE BRIDGE OBSTRUCTION IN THE BAY

PROBABLY railroad bridge barriers Newark bay
would have been removed long had determined
energetic campaign against them by business
ests in Newark vicinity The federal government in its
policy always protected its navgab waterways and the rail-
roads have always them lowyng bridge that in
the winter makes anchorage for of the railroad
And bridge therefore preferred because inter
Heres with river traffic.
navigation of Newark bay OF vital Importance to New
ark industrial interests and the railroad bridges
now constructed seriously interfere with navigation But oc-
complaints followed apes into indifference and do
Willingness will removal of the Instructions
Board of Trade committee taken appeal to the
Appeals kind reluctantly received and
slow in being Washington and their usually
depends persistence and of those who make the
appeals etup the demand for the removal OF
the bridge and apsng of the interest II likely
that there will be an early and favorable response.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23

In the course of a paper read be-
fore the London Royal Society of
Arts, A. Zimmerman described a
process by which sugar might be
manufactured from sawdust.
In its natural state, he pointed out,
wood contains no sugar, but when
sawdust has been subjected in closed
retorts to digestion with a weak sui
phurous acid solution under pressure
of six to seven atmospheres, a very
remarkable transmutation takes
place, as much as 20 per cent. of the
material being converted into sugar.
In this Mr.. Zimmerman claims that
we have a valuable feeding stuff for
horses, cattle and sheep.
Draught horses, in whose daily ra-
ton four pounds of "cacchulose mo-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23
CERMANY'S NEW GIBRALTAR

mand all approaches from the sea.
A tunnel pierces the island from
west to north, through which ammu-
milton and other material may be
safely taken. Huge searchlights Dis
cover every distant vessel at night,
and there is a wireless station.
To the south of the lower part of
the island a new island has arisen
from the waters. 1t is half as big
as Heligoland itself and has been
built of material brought from Gerk
many. This new island provides
shelter for torpedo boats, destroyers,
submarines and cruisers. Early in
the month there were forty one tor
pedo boats and twelve submarines
On this island are also magazines and
sheds for airships of all sorts.
Two years ago the garrison was 100
strong, now its men number 1,500.
Germany has never had cause to re-
greet the exchange Of Zanzibar for
IIeligoland with Great Britain in 1890.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23
LIBRARY CENSORSHIP

exclude postoffice directories if the
result of supplying them is to crowd
the desks with persons directing COM
mercial circulars.
But that is not censorship any more
than excluding sleepers is censor
ship Censorship begins when rate
payer asks for a novel by Hall Game
and the committee says Hall Gaines
novels are not good for your CHAR
acter: You must read somebody else
Rebelas. or Shakespeare, or Fielding,
or Sterne, or the Bible Censorship
ends in logical completeness when
nobody is allowed to read any books
except the books that nobody can
read.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23

The dominating position of Paris as
tho worlds clearing house for ART
dates hack to the days "hen Inc
French under Francis l., returned
from their Italian expeditions lauen
with artistic spoil, says the Loiiuois
Times and already in the reign VI
Henry IL. the first steps were taken
70 regulate public auction sales
which are now conducted unuer tne
supervision of the State, by the ciose
corporation of "commlssalres prs
aurs." without whose pernlsslon ~
public auction may be helq III Fd ~
Roth from the point OF view VI .a.e
state and the public the faIis sys'eAi
has much to recommend IL.
The state is assured of the payment
fIits imposts. the disposal OF stolen
oronertv is. rendered more dif1cuit,
Ind the buyer and seller are proteeteu
a oainst that feature of the Lohuom
eeiosroon the dealers knockout
S,,ction where the dealers having py
:, oreement kept down the price 10 pc
Daid At the public sale, meet IN pr
t,ate afterward and put the Object up
for sale among themselves: ..a
These safeguards asalilst a ouu
and unfair salesroom tactics are "a
nensiye. and the competition oi tho
freer art markets of London ana N ,r
work. is felt more every year Inc
conditions of a sale in Paris are h%ed
by legislation, and the costs are 20
ner cent. for registration, l per cent
municipal tax, per cent. toward the
"commissaires priseurs" guarantee
fund and their fees per cent Ioi
| the EXPERTS fees and from per cent
70 as much as per cent. for the gen
eral expenses of the sale. Ihese
charges are shared by the buyer and
the seller, the buyer having TO pay ~
per cent. on his bid toward the eX-
penses of the sale.
The crown of the Aynard collection,
offered for sale this month, is formed
Inv two gothic" tapestries when
were bought by M. Aynard many
wears ago for song in rag mer-
| chants shop They are portions OF
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23
AN EXHIBITION OF THE VILLAGE SPIRIT.

THE ELIZABETH Common Council has refused to give any
Endorsement to the Legislature providing for appo
paon of $4,000 celebrating the ciys 250 anniversary AS
the action of the virtually kills the bill the will have
be raised privately And the council be supported by
Elizabeth hasn't learned to take large view
Of affairs money The village sentiment there strong
And what will this controlling sentiment when it comes
10 thousands of dollars for haTbor
roveent? for the 250th anniversary celebration looks
Is big as mountain will quarter half million look
And there people who sobey propose that Newark
should halt enterprise Newark bay until Elizabeth and Bay
onne always unready Jersey City make their minds spend
money.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
BY MARY MARSHALL
FEBRUARY %
Madame Mara
Copyrighted, 1918.

The first great singer that Germany
ever produced-Gertrude Elizabeth
Schmeling Mara-was born on Feb
ruary %, 1749. Up to that time the
great singers had come from France,
Italy or from England, and Germany
was considered the last place to look
for trained voice. Gertrude was the
daughter of a musician named
Schmeling, who taught her to play
the violin so successfully that she
became a child prodigy. He also used
to tie her to a chair when she was a
little girl while he went about his
business, to keep her out of mischief,
and this so injured her health that in
later life when she became a great
singer she used sometimes to have to
remain seated during the perform
ance.
She gave up the violin for the voice
because someone told her that the
violin was not a "ladylike instru-
ment." At the outset Frederick IL,
then Emperor of Germany, refused to
let her sing at court, so sure was he
that no German could sing to suit
him, but later, when her ability was
proved, he engaged her for life at
salary of 1880 francs a year. Here
she fell in love with and married
vioincellist who played at court
named Mara, although the emperor
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23
New Stars Found.

The American Association of Vari-
able Star Observer has just complet.
ed its second years work with a total
of 1890 observations to its credit as
compared with 6,1s0 observations con-
tributed last year. The association
has a membership of twenty observ.
ers, and is under the direction Of the
Harvard College observatory. Tho
value of cooperative observing in
this line of telescope work has been
fully demonstrated.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23
Electric Operation of Guns.

The recent announcement that the
British dreadnought Invincible is to
have its gun-controling mechanism
changed from electric to hydraulic
gear has met with much criticism
among electrical engineers in Great
Britain. It is claimed that the change
signifies no superiority Of the hydrau-
lie system, but is due chiefly to fric-
ton between two departments, one
of which controls the guns and the
other the electrical equipment. In
our own navy the guns are operated
by electric motors under control of
hydraulic variable speed gears.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23
and IloW

Today every State in the Union
is following the recommendation
of Congress at the time OF Wash
ingten's death that his country
men meet on February % and do
honor to his memory with fitting
ceremonies. Washington is the
only American whose birthday is
recognized as a legal holiday in all
of the States and the District OF
Columbia, Porto Rico and Alaska.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23
SUGAR FROM SAWDUST

lasses. were substituted for four
pounds of oats, were kept under OBJ
servation for seven months, and wer9
all found to have increased in weight.
while a colt, which was in SO weak a
condition that veterinary surgeons
advised it's destruction, put on 269
pounds in six months and is now in
excellent condition.
The food has also been tried in
large Durham colliery, with the re-
suit that it kept the pit ponies and
horses in good and hard condiI !.
Many other uses, 1t was suggesl
would be found for this convel
wood-for example, in the manul
ture of explosives, of margarineS
synthetic rubber, and, in virtue ~
its characteristics, incubators, ic
chambers, and so on.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23
PARIS LONG THE ART CENTRE

the famous tapestry representing the
history of Alexander which adorned
the palace of the dukes of Burgundy.
The scenes they illustrate appear to
be the literal Interpretation OF pas
sages from the romance OF Alexan-
der. written in the twelfth century
by Lambert lie Tors, which has given
the name of Alexandrine to the ~
syllable verse. They differ entirely
from the two large pieces in the pos
session of Prince Doria at Rome, and
are probably Flemish work of the
fifteenth century.
Among the many examples of the
French primitives'included in the col
lection, LA Vierge ct fEnfant" of
Jean Malouel and La SoAge du
Grand Enchanson" are the most
noticeable,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23

The committee of a public library
has No right to exercise any censor
shin at all. Any public committee
man who tries to pack the moral
cards in the interest of his own
notions is guilty of corruption ana
impertinence, writes g. Bernaro olisw
in T. P.s Weekly. The business u ~
public library is not 70 supply e..
looks the committee thinks good for
tbe nuhlic. but to supply the public
, rr tba hooks the public wants The
Committee w,on may exclude betting news
if the effect of supplying it is to MI
Tho library with betting men ana de-
feat its proper objects, just as 1t may
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23
oGORMAN STANDS FOR AMERICANIsM.

SENATOR oGoRMANS charge in secret session of the
that Carnege millions had been used to ubdze
and speakers this country favor unAmerican
treaties that the income of his Peace Foundation had been
mostly used to promote principles of world peace preudcia
welfare Of this country denied by Senator Root And
ia. latter as the Peace Foundation has used it
influence Congress repeal the free tolls provision Of the
Tsnan,a canal treaty Root being principal OF repeal
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23
Chen

one hundred and thirty years
ago Newport, r. l., celebrated
Washington's Birthday with the
ringing of church bells, firing of
cannon and decoration of houses
and ships. So far as known this
was the first civic celebration of
the twenty-second as Washing
tons Birthday. He was born, ac-
cording to the old calendar, Feb
ruary II, 1882, and he himself OBJ
served that date until his death in
1882
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23
Architects of Nature.

From the Boston Transcript
The annual gathering of the Ameri-
can Society of Landscape Architects,
which assemblies here this evening, is
a reminder of the debt the public
owes to the gentlemen of this profess
sion. 1t can be safely maintained
that but for their pioneering half
generation ago our parks and reserva-
tions, national, State and city, would
be far less generous than they are and
that they would certainly lack many
of their present amenities. A popu-
lar misconception often supposes the
landscape architect chiefly a designer
of broad-acred private estates. He is
quite as often tireless and self
forgetful publicist who is willing to
spend his time and energy creating a
public sentiment for a conservation
project which he not only may not
live to see completed, but which is, as
often as not, to be of other mems be-
ginning.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23
woman's defiance of The weather.

Woman's Defiance of the Weather.
From the st. Paul Pioneer Press
Nature selects the kind of weather
to prove to. a credulous world that
woman is not the weak vessel, physi-
cally speaking, that sentimental
poets would have us believe. Take
yesterday. for example, when the
thermometric mercury was cutting
all kinds of sub-zero antics. and OBJ
serve the representatives of the fair
sex on the streets and trolley cars.
Here came one with her neck enfold-
ed in a voluminous fur wrap. But
did it meet under her neck and pro-
tect her throat and chest? Not that
one would notice. Carefully folded
away from her throat, 1t left gen.
erous V-shaped section of her chest,
though perhaps in cheerful mockery
the edge of the opened garment
might carry a fringe of fur.
Here is another, whose scant-width
skirt disclosed-no, not heavy arctics,
but low shoes, almost pumps, and
thin silk stockings through which the
flesh tints declared themselves. Con-
trast her with the puny specimen of
manhood that acted as her escort.
not have weighed as much as $50
pounds. so he required the protection
of a fur cap pulled over his ears and
half his face, meeting the upturned
collar of a heavy fur-lined coat. His
delicate pedal extremities were cased
in weighty lined overshoes, the third
clasp of which was concealed by his
neither garment.
The man shivered: the woman
radiated warmth and health. Neither
attracted special attention, as the
spectacle is not out of the ordinary
Take any one of these crisp spark
ling days, and you may see it dupli-
Gated over and over again. 1t is an
old saying that a man takes cold
through his chest and woman
through her feet, but observation and
experience would teach that woman
takes cold through neither.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

whole life to the interests of the in
stitution he serves, to stultify his
natural inclinations in every diree-
ton, and to keep clear of all public
affairs which would involve taking
sides or expressing definite opinions
and if he be also kept down in his
business life, what hope or outlet mas
he? We all live largely on hope, ana
I assert emphatically that much oil
the disaffection would disappear were
every man assured of fair chance TO
prove his merit.
This brings me to point when
has not been sufficiently emphasized
in your columns. One sees or nears
constantly of old men of sixty-five or
more hanging on to their posts ana
robbing their younger colleagues OF
their rightful promotion. What
difference 1t would make if retirement
were the general rule at sixty-fVe,
and made compulsory at sixty-flYe'
Another grievance is the MONDAY
question. In his earlier years a CLERK
rarely gets a summer holiday, and III
after years, If he be a married man
especially his holiday is of little use,
because he has not the money to en-
ioy 1t. What is needed is proper
holiday staff, which would be avail
able also as a strengthening BODY at
balance times, when the rush is gem
orally overwhelming.
Furthermore, nothing would be
more popular or more stimulating
than the inauguration of a system OF
Notwithstanding or bonus distribution
| heartily congratulate those VINO
have recently benefited by such DIS
tribution. and hope it may lead to its
adoption generally
In conclusion, may / suggest that
directors should make periodic visits
to the offices in their immediate dis
trict to see and hear things at first
hand l thank you for taking up our
cause. and trust it will result in some
thing material being done.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23
Denmark Prince Works as Farm Laborer,
Minister'S Dan ghter as Maid.


Minister'S Dau ghter as Maid.
LONDON, Feb. 23.-Prince Erik, of
Denmark. a nephew of King Chris
tian X, after working unobtrusively
on an English farm at Fairford, in
Worcestershire, for some months, will
shortly go to Holland and Belgium
to continue his agriculture educa-
ton.
1t is said that the stay of the
Prince in England is due to the ad-
vice of Minister of Agriculture Peder-
sen, who encouraged his own daugh-
ter to study domestic life as maid
servant here 1t is well known that
Denmark is facile princeps in dairy
farming. but NJ. Petersen while visit
ing England some time ago was inn
pressed with the profitable English
methods of using waste lands in hog
rearing, which he is alleged to have
described as the best he has ever seen.
Accordingly he urged Prince Valdez
mar, father of Prince Erik, to send
the latter here.
The prince lives in a farmers
family on an equal status with its
members. He works hard and for
long hours. Occasionally he pays a
visit to his aunt, Queen Mother Alex
andra. at Sandrinsham.
Given Up by Physicians, Girl Cures Her
self and Brother by Prayer.
DELMAR. Del, Feb. 23.-Helen, the
year-old daughter of G. l.. Has
tings, who processes to have been
healed by prayer after she had been
confined to her bed more than a
month by an injury to her spine, Of
fered up a prayer today for her af-
flicted brother Paul. aged 10, who was
unable to walk because of his dis
ease.
After praying several minutes,
Helen told her brother to arise and
walk. At first he would not try to
do so, but finally he consented. The
result was that he was able to get
out of the bed and walk
Physicians had said that neither
Helen nor her brother would ever
walk again.
To Plant 1000 Acres in Sunfowers to
Save Feed Bills.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 23.-L. c. Phillips
will plant 1000 acres of his southeast
Missouri land in sunfiowers this year
as a further demonstration that this
plant can be cultivated with profit on
land where other crops may not.
thrive so we'll. Phillips, who owns
approximately 4,500 acres, half of
which is in cultivation. has been eX-
perimenting for several years in the
culture of sunfiowers, whose seed.
when mixed with other seed, makes
excellent chicken and hog feed.
Last year following the flood he