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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-27
NEWARK ENTERPRISE CANNOT BE HALTED.

WHEN NEWARK surrenders its control of meadow and
harbor development commission dominated by three other
cities that yet have shown little inclination improve
their fronts have spirit of enterprise and would surely
hold harbor development allegiance for will sacrifice
all the immense advantages that actually sight 1t
will give substance for shadow The time lost would prove
fatal to city enterprise.
Why for than three years this enterprise held back
suppressed has been explained due railroad influence hos
tile municipal terminal 1t is also doubtful if New York
commercial look with any friendly eye the development
of the Newark bay front give this city transportation facilities
better than those of Manhattan The suggestion that New York
and Newark be whole that New York
boss the job and give incidental bay
tributary New York commercial interests State control
that Newark shall be tied three other sowmoving cities
that have begun be educated the idea of large
and costly improvement Newark representatives in commits
sion be small minority And who what influences will
take control of the commission In of the opening of the
Panama canal and the New York barge canal and the
of the necoasa canal the State further delay habor
Improvement will be tremendously costly city
If Newark goes ahead with its plans and makes object
for the other the bay they will wake up
And nothing than instructive obectsson needed
wake them up The improvements made by Newark will then
the carrying of general scheme of development for
the whole bay.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-27
DADE MASSACRE IN FLORIDA

1t was twenty-eight years ago that
the Dade massacre took place near
Fort Drane. in Florida, writes Rev.
Thomas B. Gregory. Major Dade and
his command of 100 men were at
tackled by the Seminoles and COM
pletelY wiDed out. only four of the
force escaping.
The head and front of the Seminole
war, in the course of which this
massacre occurred was Osceola, as
pure n patriot and as gallant a fight
er as ever broke into history.
The Seminoles were dissatisfied
with a treaty that a few chiefs had
made for their emigration west Of
the Mississippi, and when General
Thompson was sent to remove them
by force they arose, under the lead
ership of Osceola. and began fighting
for the land that had come down to
them from their fathers.
They did just what the Americans
would certainly have done under SIM
liar conditions. The United States
troops were invaders and the Semi
noles resisted them. Major Dade and
his men We're invaders and the Semi
roles killed them. The fact that a
little bunch of chiefs, assisted by
American diplomacy" and fire wa
ter. had made treaty" giving away
tteir country did not seem sufficiently
sacred to the redmen to justify them
in submitting to the American claims.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-27
THE PARTISAN MOTIVE IN IT.

THE POINT of the queries put to the State labor commits
in hearing Trenton Wednesday whether his
department well managed efficient and economical If he
could show that all these requirements fulfilled he would
justify the retention of the organization and win credit
for himself The State subecng all commissions and
departments fail should
abolished reformed
1t of consequence whatever whether there is
partisan motive in the inquiry ocehoder of Office
brought dscedit his administration the
commendabe 1t the theory of party government that
efficiency neglect and the of administration is
watched for and exposed by the minority of be used
expeng the party in Office from power Distinct recognition
given partisan motive for the public good
In uphoding the grave defects and singular of the de-
ground motive the inquiry Tren-
ton queer exhibition of its partsanshp.
Waste of lack of supervisory control and avoism
inquiry Acknowledgements the
proper these things should go because there is
eged partisan motive in the investigation? And the interests
great of labor we'll the State be held secondary
of easy-going official in his job?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-27
WITH THE NATIONS TOILERS

conduct of young girls in Dundee,
Scotland, is to be considered.
A new union, that of florists, gar
deners, statesmen and salesladies, has
been organized in the suburbs of
Greater New York.
1t is proposed to create a bureau
of employment in the New York State
department of labor which will
license all employment agencies and
establish free employment agencies
in the municipalities, which is in
tended to end the padrone system
Because twenty-five ministers Of
Scranton, Pa. donned overa1lS and
started to build the tabernacle which
will be used for the evangelical SER
vices to be conducted by Rev. Billy
Sunday, the baseball evangelist, In
March, the Carpenters Union de-
clared boycott on the structure and
on the religious meetings to be held
there.
The referendum of members of the
National Brotherhood of Operative
Potters upon the proposed division. of
the 100000 defense fund of the order,
has resulted In the defeat of the
project by a ratio of nine to one. This
obviates any danger of the disruption
of the union by the scattering of its
defense fund.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-27
A MINIATURE COLONY SCHOOL

the agricultural plan is developed.
A portion of the garden is cleared, a
miniature farm OF six fields is pre-
pared, and the different methods of
fencing are applied to these fields.
The ground is plowed and crops are
sown in rotation-wheat, potatoes,
barley, oats, clover and cabbage. A
matched log hut is built and fur
nished to serve as a homestead for
the farmers and the necessary out
buildings-barn, stable, wagon shed.
pigsty, poultry house and dog ken
nel-are built around it.
All the school work is done in close
relation to the community activities.
Practise in woodwork and carpentry
is obtained by making rabbit war
rem, an aviary, insect cases, garden
frames, cases for weather instruments
etc. The use of pudding clay and
the mixing of concrete and cement
are illustrated by constructing pond,
drain pipes and other mason work.
There is practical arithmetic in the
measurement of lengths and dis
tances, in estimating costs and guam
titles, in finding heights by means of
simple instruments, in making records
of rainfall, barometer, thermometer.
sunshine, etc, and in other calcula-
lions required in garden aid manual
work.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-27
DISCREPANCIES AT SEA
= FURNISH MANY MYSTERIES

If the ocean has it's mysteries, so
has the ship that rides 1t, and which
furnishes the more battling puzzles
would be difficult to determine.
Ships leave ports and are never
seen nor heard of again, and-in some
respects more inexplicable still-pass-
engers board vessels and suddenly
forever vanish from human ken, says
the San Francisco Chronicle.
The strange disappearance of DR..
Diesel, the famous inventor, is case
in point. which must be fresh in
eyerybody's mind.
One day few months ago, it will
be remembered, DR.. Diesel left Ant
Werp on board one of the Great East
ern Railway Company's steamers for
Harwich, when he proposed Journey
ing to London to keep an important
business engagement. On board the
the best of health and spirits and at
10 o'clock p. m. retired to his cabin
for the night.
Next morning he was nowhere to
be found, and the mystery of his dis
appearance remains still unsolved.
Again, not many months ago, the
steamship Baldor, on arrival in the
Firth of Forth from Gothenburg, had
a queer story to unfold through the
mouth of her skipper.
II concerned the uncanny disap-
pearance of a second-class lady pass
enger. The last seen of her WAS late
at night, when one of the steward
esses noticed her pacing the deck. The
vessel was then in the North Sea.
Afterward the passengers berth
was found TO be unoccupied, and, not
only the lady, but her baggage, con-
sisting of a bag, had vanished
Where and how no one knows.
Could anything be more battling
than the following: 1T occurred on
board a steamer between Leith and
Orkney. Among the passengers were
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-27

Osceola fought like a lion for two
years against vastly superior num-
bers, and in 1897 was made a pris-
oner by General Jesup, while holding
conference with him under flag
of truce, and imprisoned in Fort
Moultrie until his death, which took
place two years later. :.
Beaten in the field and bereft OF
their great leader, the Seminoles re-
tired to the swampy Businesses of the
everglades and kept up the fight for
five years longer, successfully resist
ing the onslaughts of more than 10000
American troops. To this day the de-
scendants of the Seminoles are to be
found in the big Florida swamp, pre-
serving in their features and in their
courage the characteristics of their
stalwart and gamy ancestors.
Osceola had every cause to hate the
white man. His wife was seized -as
slave, and when he protested and.
threatened revenge he was seized by
General Thompson and imprisoned
for six days in irons. For this out
rage Osceola killed Thompson, for
doing which he was dubbed a Zero
cious savage" and declared an OUT
law.
Great is the mystery of the white
mans justice! 1t is no wonder that
the children of the forest were never
able to understand the ethics and re-
ligion of the paleface.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-27

two sisters, who were travelling TO
attend the funeral of a third sister.
When off Bell Lighthouse one Aof
the women retired to her bunk, ths-
other, as the night was fine, prefer
ring to remain a little longer on
deck That was the last seen of her.
Another amazing incident was that
reported by the captain of Dutch
steamer, the Van MORT, on his 81
.-.7sxsI at Singapore. The parties i'm
mediately Concerned were three sis
tiers of German nationality who were
passengers aboard and had been
touring in Java.
After having spent the evening on
deck chatting and reading they were
seen one night going to their cabin
about 10 o'clock. Next morning the
attendant could get no answer to his
knocks at the cabin door and, on an
entry being made, the room was
found empty.
On the table was a note addressed
to the captain, which briefly stated
that he was to have their luggage,
and ON a desk was a bottle contain
ing few drops of chloroform. From
this it was conjectured that the three
sisters had each taken chloroform
and then climbed through the port
hole into the sea.
AS q final example may be menl
toned the case of a vivacious young
woman who disappeared from q
steamer while crossing from Belfast
to Fleetwood.
AT II o'clock p. m. the young wom-
an was seen by the stewardess
whom she asked to bring a cup OF
tea at o'clock next morning, as she
wished to catch an early train to-
Manchester. At the hour named the
stewardess took in the tea as desired,
but was amazed to find the cabin
empty.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-27

Making the school grounds minia-
ture colony, with the pupils busily
engaged in all kinds of productive
occupations. is the device of the
Birley House School. an open-air
school, in England, as described in
bulletin just issued by the United
States bureau of education.
Various minerals-coal iron ore,
copper ore, lead ore and gold quartz
are buried In different parts of the
school garden. and the. children go
out prospecting" for them. The
finders become captains of industry.
To work the mines the captains of
industry engage laborers at the labor
exchange. which is managed by one
of the pupils. Boring is then pro
ceeded with, shafts are sunk, winding
apparatus is constructed and the
mineral Is brought to the surface.
Here arises the need of coal and
a system of transportation in the
form of a miniature railway is or
ganized, furnaces are set up, factories
are planned, the possible markets for
the product are considered and the
Importance of a merchant marine is
recognized.
In close connection with the indus
trial side of the colonization scheme
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-27

"a radical difference between Eng
lish and American systems of school
organization is in the relation of
elementary and secondary schools"
says I. L. Handel, of Manchester
England, in bulletin on English
elementary education just issued by
the United States Bureau of Educa-
ton. The American high school re-
ceives its pubils after they have COM
pleted the elementary school course
and builds up its curriculum on that
foundation. The English secondary
schools receive their pupils from a
variety of schools-special prepara-
tory schools or elementary schools
and the pupils on entering may vary
in age from 10 to IA"
In general Mr.. Handel finds it diff
cult to institute a detailed comparison
of the standards of elementary school
work in the two countries, because
circumstances are so different. 1.-THE
American elementary school has been
for nearly a century the national
school. the common school of all the
people. In England the elementary
school is just in the process of de-
veloping into national institution, a
public service for national needs. in
stead of being regarded as a charity
school for the education of the lower
classes"
Another factor that renders COM
parison difficult, according to Mr..
Handel. is the inherent difference be-
tween the English and the American
child. The latter, he declares, lis by
nature more precocious, natures ear
lier, is by circumstances of his up
bringing thrown more into the COM
pany Of adults with the consequence
that he is less reserved and self-con-
scious and more alert than the form
er.
American children have far bet
ter knowledge of the history of their
country and In some cases of gen.
eral history than is to- be found
among English elementary school
children. Tho same is certainly true
of their knowledge of local and ma
tional government. In English Ian
guage the American child has better
command Of oral expression; he Is
more given TO debating and discussing
than the English child. The reading
of English literature Is also more ex-
tensive in American schools. and In
art work there Is greater variety.
"But if the English elementary
school has much TO gain from the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-27

jay Gould died in 1892. at a time
of life which is regarded by most
business men as the period when the
mental and the physical faculties are
at their best. He was only htty-sM
years of age and had been an inVahd
for two or three years. After MS
death his estate was inVentorled at
about seventy-five million dollars, all
of which had been accumulated in
about a quarter of century
When Mr.. Gould was in the MOOD
for chatting with his friends ne was
sometimes extraordinarily frank IN
his statement of what he mad Done
and why he had done certain things
that were so severely criticised. one
illustration of his frankness and
courage occurred at the time when
a desperate attempt was emade to
ruin his credit. He then summoned
a few friends to his office and opened
before them boxes which contained
good securities owned by him of the
value of many millions of dollars.
No other of the men of great achieve
ment as financiers had up to that
time made such a revelation OF pos
sessions as Mr. Gould then did.
A few years before his death he
was in conversation with friend
whom he greatly respected and to
whom he made a statement which
that friend afterward communicated
to others. 1 was told of the incident
by the late Charles Finney Cox, who
at one time was associated with Dan
iel Drew, who was an opponent of
Mr.. Gould and who later became
treasurer Of all the railroads in the
Vanderbilt system which were west
of Buffalo. Gould's friends told him
that the newspapers the magazines
and many bankers were accusing him
of having taken undue advantage of
his authority over the railroad sys-
TENS in the Southwest by which he
had got not unlawfully, but certainly
by sharp practise, some ten or f1f-
teen million dollars.
Mr.. Gould sat in big armchair, his
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-27
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
How Jay Gould Justified His Alleged Sharp Practise

little figure all drawn up in 1t and he
was, according to his habit when
thinking, occupied with tearing pieces
of paper into innumerable bits until
the floor around his chair was lit
tered as completely as though driy-
ing snow had beaten in upon that
place. He said:
well, even admitting that / did
gain by what some people are pleased
to call trickery some millions of dol
lars, now let us see what the other
side of the ledger shows. l can give
it to you all in detail
when l took over the Missouri
Pacific railroad the entire system was
under 300 miles in length, and it was
earning little less than 100000 a
month. l put capital and energy into
that system and developed other lines
in association with it, until it repre-
sented, with its allied interests, about
10000 miles and was earning about
SIS, 100000 a year.
II have made an estimate of the in
crease in value of farms and indus
tries in the Southwest, which was due
almost wholly to the work which
did with the Missouri Pacific and the
capital which l put into it and to the
development which it created. My
statements show that the increase In
values, which other people than my
self shared, was about $1,000, 900, 900.
That wealth went to the country as
whole. Suppose l did make 100000
600 or $15.000,0O0 by what they call
sharp practise-although I didn't do
it-what was that sum to the increase
of wealth which followed by develop
ment of the railroads of the South
west?"
That" said Mr.. Cox, was the
manner in which Mr.. Gould was some
times persuaded to justify himself
against the attacks of those who
criticised him severely"
Copyright, 1914, by E. j. Edwards
All rights reserved)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-27

always speaks of him with the great
est fondness
Her first appearance took place
when she was much too little to re-
member it. A child was wanted for
the spirit of the Mustard Pot" and
she was taken to the manager and
accepted, Then at the first rehear-
sal she objected to being rammed in
to the mustard pot and yelled lus-
tily and had to be taken home.
Here her father put her in the cor
ner for punishment. you'll never
make an actress he told her, but
she merely pouted and said she didn't
care if she wouldn't
But her father was not discouraged.
HE never ceased teaching me, to be
careful, alert and quick" she wrote
once. Sometimes he FASTENED my
perceptive powers with a slipper and
always he corrected me if | pro-
nounced word in slipshod fashion.
Another famous woman born today
is Laura Elizabeth Richards, the
daughter of Julia Ward Howe. Mrs.
Richards has written ever since she
was about thirty and counts among
her works many favorite stories
such as Captain January"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-27
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

ing Topped up and down, alternating
between danger and clear. The gate
man at the crossing looked into the
pipe and saw the grounding.
A fire was started to smoke out the
animal. The towerman, seeing the
smoke, thought the crossing was on
fire, and stopped all north bound
trains. The grounding finally capitu-
lated and normal traffic was resumed.
Terrorized by Ice, Sailors Desert Posts,
Officers Bring Steamer to Port.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 27.--Terror-
stricken at the sight of snow and
ice encountered by the German
steamship Ockenfels off the New
Foundland banks, the crew of fifty
eight Lascars deserted their posts and
for four days refused to leave the
engine-room of the vessel. Assisted
only by the mess boys and cooks, the
officers of the ship were obliged to
do all the seamen's work as we'll as
navigate the vessel on the voyage to
this port.
The cold was so intense, according
to the ships officers, that waves froze
into solid ice almost as soon as they
broke over the rails OF the vessel. The
steamer arrived here yesterday from
Narvick Sweden, with cargo Of iron
ore.
Gray Wigs and Bdstles Certain; Ruffies
scE Men.
NEW YORK, Feh. 27.-White and
gray wigx haze actually arrived for
tsis use of American women of fash
ion. They were accompanied by Mr..
and Mrs. ]. M. Gliding, who arrived
yesterday from Paris aboard the
White Star liner Olympic.
Gray wigs greatly enhance a wom-
ans beauty" said Mr.. Gliding. "The
purple, rainbow and colored wigs,
however, will never be popular. 1t
would not surprise me to see men
wearing ruff1es before the end of the
season.
"Women's hats will be small and
worn over the eye. The hustle Is COM
ing with a vengeance"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-27
NATIONAL DEBTS OF EUROPE

The French public debt exists in
the form. of bonds called ''rentes."
French rentes sold in early December
at 8S.35-the lowest price ever known.
No wonder!
In the second week of December
twenty millions of Canadian govern
ment bonds were offered on the Lon
don market-four per cent. bonds.
Only seventeen per cent. of them sold.
No wonderl
The average yearly income of a
family in Italy or Russia is. from
$3.50 to S175 The cost of living is
higher than ever before. In fact, ten
cents or more out of every dollar
earned is taken by the government
for these unholy debts-and more is
demanded.
No wonder that there is more of
discomfort and unrest than ever be-
fore in all the nations of the world.
The wonderland perhaps the pity
lis that there are not rebellions, in
surrections and uprisings everywhere.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-27
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
FEBRUARY IT
Ellen Terry
BY MARY MARSHALL.
Copyrighted. 1918.

If you were born on February q
and have any ambition toward the
stage you should take heart, for today
is the sixty-sixth birthday of that
famous woman, matchless in beauty,
spirit, voice and power of acting
Ellen Terry.
She was born in Coventry, England,
in q lodging-house, where her mother
and father were staying at the time,
although just which house it was
even Ellen Terry could never be sure.
Her father was an Irish actor, who
carried her mother, the daughter of a
Scotch minister, away in pony
chaise. That is all that Miss Terry
knows of her ancestry She had
eleven brothers and sisters in all and
her own life was. from the start, one
of many hardships and trials. AS a
little girl she lived in the attic lodg-
ings of her parents, who locked her in
the room when they went to play at
the theatre. At night she slept on the
floor at her fathers side and remem-
bers that she used to hold his hand in
hers as she slept. To her father, VINO
drilled her for the stage from her
earliest childhood, she owed her early
training and incentive to act, and she
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-27

The executive council of the Amer
lean Federation OF Labor has decided
to institute a vigorous campaign 10
organize civil service employees.
OF 100000 organized wage earners
in New York there were 1911 per-
sons idle on September 80, 1913.
There are 10000 mine workers en-
ployed in the anthracite coal region
of Pennsylvania.
Governesses in Great Britain earn
an annual vaerage wage of less than
500.
Building trade unions at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, report an increase In
membership of 23 per cent. for 1913.
In a dozen States the factory in
spection departments were reorgan-
lied and enlarged last year.
1t is estimated that there are about
100000 workers engaged in making
clothes in the United States.
Toronto won the next annual con-
vention of the International Brick
layers, Masons and Plasterers' Union.
A proposal to have female police
officers 70 attend to and supervise the