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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-09

When Jay Gould died George
Gould, as the oldest son, was placed
in charge of the estate although Ed
win Howard and Helen we're also
designated as co-trustees. Whatever
criticisms can be directed at previ-
Gus Gould management of their rail
roads, no such criticism for financial
losses can be directed at George
Gould by the rest of his family for
his management of the estate, which
is said to have more than doubled
in value since the death of his
father, while at the same time the
personal fortunes of the Goulds have
Increased proportionately.
In it's strong financial position,
therefore, the Jay Gould estate has
proved veritable "Aladdin's Lamp
when it became necessary, as 1t often
did, to perform some financial won
ders with the Could roads, and par
ticularly when it became necessary
to extricate one of the properties
from a critical situation.
At one time George Gould, with
the aid of the estates funds, loaned
the Missouri Pacific as high as $780,
900. 900 without security, to ,stave OFF
recelVerSn1p. his was III 1864. since
that date the estates funds have
saved the various properties time and
again. In 1911, when the Missouri
Pacific sold the $4,000, 900 notes which,
have only recently been creating so
much trouble, the company owed the
Goulds $12,000,000, and at that time,
although they were paid off from pro-
ceeds of the note sale, they agreed
to loan an additional $3,000,000 If the
company needed it, and it did, al
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-09
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Man Who Negotiated the Purchase of Alaska

the fact that Fox first became the
manager of a great mill after he had
served about twenty years as an OIL
GER of the navy, beginning as mid
shipman. Then, after his remarkable
success in the navy department dur
ing the Civil War he again became
manager of another great mill prop
Aerty.
There is another fact associated
with Mr.. FoX's career of which the
public has no knowledge. You will,
of course, remember that | have OFTEN
told you why my father, when sec
rotary of state, earnestly advocated
the purchase from Russia of what was
then known as Russian North Amer
lea. but is now known as Alaska.
Fox was appointed as official repre-
sentative of the federal government to
carry the expression of sympathy and
of profound gratitude felt by the
United States that the Emperor of
Russia, Alexander H.. escaped the act
of the would-be assassin, who tried to
kill him when the Emperor was upon
visit to Paris. Fox was privately
and informally instructed to under
take when upon this mission to per-
feet negotiations with the Emperor
which would make it possible for the
United States to buy Russian North
America. He carried out these instruc-
tons with great skill and delicacy,
and it was largely due to the service
he then performed that my father was
able to negotiate the arrangement
with Russia whereby for $7,200,0O0 the
sovereignty over Russian North
America passed from Russia to the
United States.
Copyright. 1914. by E. ]. Edwards. All
rights reserVed.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-09

Probably the most intimate personal
association which was made by Fred
erick w Seward when serving as
assistant secretary of state in the
administration of President Lincoln
was one which he maintained with
Gustavus V. Fox, who was assistant
secretary of the navy. The acquaint-
ance established between the assist
ant secretary of the navy and the as
sistant secretary of state was based
i'm part upon the admiration and high
respect which each of the two men
entertained toward the other. But
there was also congeniality of tenn
permanent, of ideas and views respect
ing the conduct of the Civil War.
Long after Mr.. Seward retired from
the state department he said to me-
THE people did not know at the time
of the war, and ] suppose they never
will know. how invaluable were the
services of Mr.. Fox to the secretary
of the navy, Mr.. Welles. Why said
Mr.. Seward impressiVely, lit was due
TO the recommendation of Mr.. Fox
that F'arragut was selected as the
officer in charge of the naval eXpedi-
ton which made possible the capture
of New Orleans. This was only one
of many valuable recommendations
which were made by Mr. Fox.
ut is a curious fact in connection
with the career of Mr.. Fox that he
was twice the manager of great
wooden mill properties in Massachu-
setts, once at Lawrence, few years
before the Civil War, and long after
ward when the war was ended and
Mr.. Fox he'd retired from public ser
vice. when he was appointed manager
of great mill properties at Lowell. The
neculiar feature of this is found in
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-09
UPLIFT TALKS
EFFECTIVENESS VS.. sTRENUoUsNEss
BY oRISoN SWEET MARDEN:
Copyright 1914.

ton that they haven't time, that
when they have a little leisure they
will take a vacation.
Is there any shorter sighted policy
than for man to overwork and
strain, to plod away for months and
years with dull mental tools. and to
plead as an excuse that he can't afr
ford to take time to sharpen them, to
put himself in state of physical and
mental fitness?
, One of the greatest dangers in our
strenuous American life is the tempta-
ton to overstrain under high pres
sure. Men are continually overdraw
ing their physical bank accounts. us
ing up their reserve capital, and be-
fore they realize it they are physically
bankrupt.
According to very noted medical
authority, while we do know a great
deal more about hygiene and have
been able to conquer many disea ses
especially infectious diseases, which
formerly, through our ignorance, car
ried away vast multitudes of human
beings every year, yet the increased
cost of living, the greater struggle for
existence, our more exciting. more
strenuous, nerve-raclSing life have in
creased the vitality tension, the nerve
tension brain tension. As conse-
quence our worries, our anxieties, our
cares, are greatly augmented. The
wear and tear of life is greater than
formerly and further away from the
simple life.
Anything which tends to lower the
vitality, to sap the energies. cuts
down. by so much, ones efficiency and
possibilities. Over-strepuousness, too
much hustling, is detrimental TO
health. and health is our great life
capital. Perfect health is one of the
most effective discoveries of ability.
II brings out resourcefulness. inve--
tiveness, initiative. which would be
covered up and buried by poor health.
Perfect health. physical and mental,
fitness. means new hope. now life,
new power. There is a vast amount
of ability lost to the world through
poor health, through people not keep
ing themselves in a condition to give
out the best that is embodied in them.
There are many people of a high
| order of ability who do very ordinary
| work in life, whose careers are most
disappointing, simply because they do
not keep themselvs in a physical and
! mental condition to do their best
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-09
HUDSON RIVER BRIDGE SCHEME OFF

The impudent and preposterous plan of the Hud-
son river bridge promoters of financing the bridge and
tunnel project had vitality from the start and it
is now as dead julius Caesar.
To build a bridge the Hudson is an enter
prise that eommends itself to every thinking man
Such enterprise is really State affair The Leg1s-
lature has wholly financed the construction of an
inland waterway in South Jersey which is of benefit
only to that section and is building boulevard
for the benefit of another section. OF vastly more
State importance would be Hudson River bridge.
But if in North Jersey all large improvements
must be financed locally there must be some equity
in the assessment the In the plan adopted by
the bridge commissioners the bulk of the cost is
assessed upon counties from the site of the
bridge and Essex is put down for the largest
share. 1t is amazing that men of any intelligence
should propose such impossible plan of assessment
In time there will be a bridge across the Hudson
built either by public private capital 1t is an
Improvement that is destined to force its Pref
erably it should be public enterprise and if so the
State should share with the counties the cost for
New Jersey.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-09

THE strenuous life is in most cases
the least effective and efficient" So
William c. Redfield, our Secretary of
Commerce, told the Brown University
students in an address on Effective
ness delivered in Providence a few
days ago.
TT is an infantile view of industry
which measures its results by either
the duration or the extent of effort, ="
he said. both the hustler and the
apostle OF strenuousness have become
back numbers in their methods. They
arc today in the same category with
him who also ran"
1t is true that a great many over
ambitious men and women cut down
their efficiency and lessen their ulti-
mate, success by continually over
doing.
/ have known self-made men who
formed such iron habits of work when
they started as poor boys when their
success depended upon working a
great many hours every day, that
they have become slaves to the habit.
No matter whether they feel like it OF
not, they compel themselves to re-
main in their offices or factories just
SO many hours a day, when, perhaps,
three-fourths of the time they are
merely mechanically forcing their
brains to do very ordinary work.
They could accomplish more and bet
ter work in less than half the time
with a fresh, vigorous brain, a mind
elastic and spontaneous, fit for its
work They do not realize that a mind
that is habitually held to its task by
will power for long hours after time
becomes permanently injured, loses its
spring, its residence. just as a bow
would its power to rebound if it were
always strung up
These men know this principle very
well. and they can see that their
friends who are doing the same thing
that they are doing are making a
great mistake in straining so, in not
setting away now and then, getting
freshened up. renewed, getting a new
view of things, fresh outlook on life
and business, putting themselves in
the way of that regeneration which
comes from an entire change in en-
Vironment.
Business men often give as an ex-
cuse for always grinding at their work
and for almost never taking a vaca-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-09

Tho oansus authorities draw the
line between the country anu me otuS
at a population of 5000. Those owen,
ina in places with population Oh
8 600 or greater are classified as hNlnS
In cities. while those living on farms
ar in towns and villages with ieSS
Than 5000 population are classea as
living in the country. On TINS pasis
tho Census Bureau estimate shows
that in the United States in 1914
20 700 900 people are living in cities,
and IS, 100000 are living outside Cities
says the Engineering News
In New England, the proportion OF
CITY dWellers is larger than in any
port of the country, the proportion be-
ing roughly as FIVE to two, or 4,S3O,OOO
living in cities and 100000 outside of
cities. The proportion of rural popu-
lation in New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania is somewhat larger
than in New England, notwithstand.
| ing the enormous concentration OF
! population around New YORK city ana
| Philadelphia The figures for THESE
three States are 13,500,00O in cities to
| 7, 400, 900 in the country. In the States
from Ohio to Wisconsin, which q gen
Grafton ago were considered aSricul-
tural. the city dwellers and country
dwellers are now about equal, there
being about 100000 of the former tc
| 10 .0OO. 900 of the latter. In all the ter
ritory south of the Ohio and west Of
the Mississippi the rural population Is
i far in excess; or, in other words
there are in the various sections from
three to six jewellers in the country
for every one person dwelling in thu
city. In the three States bordering
on the Pacific Coast, the city popula
ton again becomes prominent and thu
proportion of city jewellers and rura
jewellers is about equal
On the other hand, there are thou
sands of towns and villages scattered
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-09
New York Has Greatest Market

from its main line in the north of the
city to st. Johns Park, It's large ter
minal a short distance below. Spurs
from these lines run into the market,
permitting the unloading of cars di-
rect to the commission mems refrig
orators.
The market has been IN existence
at this point for over twenty-five
years, having removed in 1888 from
it's old location at Fulton and Vesey
streets.
Last year the mayor appointed a
market commission to Investigate
and report upon the whole question OF
markets in the city of New York.
This committee. of which Cyrus G.
Miller, president of the borough of
the Bronx, was chairman, has report
cd in favor of, three large terminal
markets for Greater New York, one
of which was recommended to be To-
Gated on the site of the present West
Was hington and Gansevoort Mar
ket.
1t is proposed that this terminal
market should cover. considerable adj
ditYOnal area to that now occupied.
Railroad tracks would enter such a
market on the second f1oor grade, and
would be accessible to the cars OF all
railroad lines by means of hoat
bridges and from the dock side of the
market.
The ground floor of such terminal
would be occupied as stores for the
dealers and commission men. Plat
forms of an area of 100000 to 100000
SQUARE feet would form second floor
for the purpose of unloading, dis
tributing and auctioning the food
products brought in daily by the
railroads. The upper floors would, ac-
cording to the plans, be occupied by
cold storage and general storage
| lofts.
such is the Importance of the West
Washington Market Of today. and its
central location as distributing
point for the food products of Man
hattaneand the city of New York.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-09
SENATOR MARITIME TRUE BLUE.

In the Senate yesterday in opposition to the tolls
surrender bill has won for him host of friends
in this State It will always be remembered in his
favor. The subseryiency exhibited by his Junior
associate from this State is in painful contrast TO
his refreshing independence.
And there is nothing uncertain in the stand taken
by Senator MARITIME. His speech yesterday plain.
direct and resoutc He ignored every consideration
but that of patriotic duty his country Whatever
the as yet undsclosed reasons of the President for
forcing such question upon Congress might be he did
not ask. He could admit of or justification
for such an act and he would permit personal
obligation to sway his judgment in matter of the
kind
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-09
OUR SUMNER BAND CONCERTS.

The schedule of summer public band concerts
announced by Supervisor King provides series of
attractive entertainments beginning next Saturday
and ending September g. Four days of each week,
including Sundays. will be given to the concerts,
which are to be well distributed among the city
parks There will be extra concerts during
the
Nobody now questions the policy of public free
concerts and nobody would abandon them. But it
took many years for the citizen as well as
the city authorities realize that they public
necessity For a number of years concerts were
given by private subscription, and that experience
taught the lesson which impelled the Common Council
to make annual appropriations.
And yet in insttuting concerts in the parks we
have simply adopted common custom for many
years in all cities and towns of Europe and in most
of the cities of Central and South America. No doubt
in time the public concert in our city will equal
in quality as we'll in frequency the free concerts
that attract the American tourist in some of the
larger cities of Europe.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-09

The great market centres of the big
cities of the world. like Smithfield
Market, in London, for example, have
been much written about and often
pictured. What is probably the larg-
est wholesale market centre in the
world is perhaps not so we'll known
says the Wholesale Provisioner. By
name it is famous, but not many
people know much in detail concern
ing it's location or facilities.
West Washington and GanScVoort
markets form together the largest
wholesale market in the world. Lo-
Gated in Nesv York city on the North
river between Gansevoort. Little
West Twelfth street. Bloomfield
street. Washington street and Thir-
teenth avenue, the market covers
more than four large city blocks,
with an area of more than seven
acres.
The part of the market known as
West Washington Market consists OF
ten three-story buildings, each 1856
feet long by 81 feet wide. 1t is in
tersected by four avenues running
east and west, each 80 feet wide. and
one avenue running north and south
of the same WlutI'
To the north and to the south OF the
market are the steamship and rail
road docks at which all of the food
supplies of New York city arc re-
oeived
ON the west the marker faces three
large open piers under the control OF
rho New York city dock department,
at which merchandise of all kinds
may be unloaded from the ships of
commerce.
ON the east. between it and Ganse-
WORT Market. runs the To-foot mar
FINAL way. the great tnoroughfare
running along the docks of the river
front. which presents at all hours OF
the day the busiest scene of trafhc III
| New York city.
The New York Central has It's
tracks on this marginal way, running
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-09
Little Editorials
by the People
Bathtubs and Harrison

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Sir-Dr. Henry Alters need have
no apprehension for the health of
bathtub users in the town of Harrl-
son. We had just begun to hope that
the next step in evolutionary prog
ress would bring TO the majority of
the people of Harrison the luxury of
a good tub, but. judging from the
present status of the average Har-
risonian pay envelope, we are not to
be so blessed
Anyone so fortunate as to have the
use of a tub at the present time
knows something of the cost of fill
ing one with warm water enough to
rid the body of the particular kind
of dirt accumulated in the factories
of the town. Just how DR.. Alters eX-
poets the humble workmen to supply
enough hot water to operate a shower
bath is beyond my comprehension
Personally, l think a good bathtub
and a few instructions in the use of
it would be a progressive step for
Harrison. HAROLD A. BAYNES.
Harrison, y. ].
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-09
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
JUNE
Camilla Dufour Toumin, Elizabeth Hamburg
CopyrRh
Copyrighted 1914.
BY MARY MARSHALL.


Camilla Dufour Toulmfn was a
child wonder, but it was dire want
that made herr take up writing when
she did. AT three she could read, but
as her parents had little money-theX
were, however, rela ted to many peoA
pie of prominence-her education was
largely the result of her own efforts
Her father died when she was very
young, and she and her mother were
penniless. So Camilla wrote poems.
stories of the sufferings of the poor
essays, biographical and historical
ketches-anything that she could get
together that the editors would buy.
She was one of the contributors to
Chambers Journal for over fifty
years.
When she was thirty-eigh years
old she married Newton Crosland, a
London wine merchant with a taste
for the classics and lit erature. and
her marriage did not interrupt her
work. She was an interested inVeSti-
gator into the phenomena of spiritual
ism and wrote on the subject. One of
her most interesting books was pub
lished in 1S9S--the landmarks of a
Literary Life"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-09
FORESTS THE GrARpIANs OF wArER SUPPLY.

Striking proof of the service performed by forests
regulating the discharge of water holding back the
excess in and feeding it out in drought is
found in Idaho The town of Wallace receives do
nestle and power supply from watershed which in
1910 was swept almost bare of its ancient growth of
timber by forest fires The flow of the stream now
with the same average rainfall is just about one
fourth what it was before the conhagration. Could
there be more impressive object lesson in the need of
UNFOLDING national conservation policy toward the
forests including their systematic protection against
fro
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-09
ovERcLEMENcY 4 PREMIUM on CRIME.

Some remarks by Federal Judge Haight in this
city do not promise cemency for letter carrier whom
he will sentence tomorrow for robbng registered mail
that if the culprit TO prison his wife
and children will suffer but if this plea were to pre-
vail there would be few crimes adequately punished
II is the memorable law of justice that the innocent
must suffer with the guilty AS the judge said too
much enieney with dishonest postal employees will
demoralize the whole system And the same is true
as general principle in dealing with lawbreakers
Overclemency is premium crime.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-09

By MARY
Camilla Defour Toulmin, later Mrs.
Newton Crosland. born June 9, 1912,
gained fame as miscellaneous
writer. Mrs. Elizabeth Hamburg, born
on the same day in 1893, gained fame
through plain old age. although she
was also noted as a philanthropist.
Mrs. Hamburg sent message to
Queen Victoria in 1900 from her old
est subject" AS she was a hundred
and seven at the time, she probably
had few disputants for the honor. A
few months later. in 1901, she died.
Mrs. Hanbury was a member of the
Society of Friends, and as a child
helped Elizabeth Fry, the prison re-
former, in her work. Later, with her
sister, she became an active anti
slavery worker
When she was twenty-nine she be-
came the second wife of Cornelius
Hamburg. She went on with her
work and was later acknowledged n
minister in the Society of Friends.
Up to the end of her long life her
mind was clear and active and she
took a lively interest in the work of
her daughter, Charlotte. among the
Moorish prisoners.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-09
English Aviator's Career.
Filson Young in Pail Mall Gazette.

Ftlson Young in Pail Mall Gazette.
We talk Of such a man as Hamel
as we talk of middle-aged men who
have won their way to fame through
years of toil--forgetting that he is
little more than a boy, and ignoring
in it's glory the brevity of his career.
But what fame as this, which can
be achieved in three short years?
What a diadem that can be thus won
on the wing; aye, and what q death,
to drop like a falling star from the
conquered azure into the sea and
never touch earth again? 1t was An
dre's death, it was Grace's, and 1T
seems to have been HamePs-to
achieve thus gloriously and then sim
ply to disappear. No dismal anticli-
max of disease or visible dissolution
hene butaa flight from the seen into
thej unseen from time into eternity.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-09
The Call of the City

all over the country with from 1000
10 5000 population which have public
water-supplies, public lighting sys-
tems. paved streets and sidewalks
municipal schools, facilities fol-. public
amusement and recreation, and other
advantages of city life. The trend
of population from the farms to the
towns and villages during the past
quarter century has been as notable
as the growth of the large cities.
II then a comparison were made be-
tween the dwellers on farms and
those who are living in either cities or
villages, the total population living
where they have the advantages of
comm unity life would be far greater
than the census estimate of nearly
forty million city dwellers