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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-30
NEWARK ROCKED
BY EXPLOSION IN
P. S. GAS WORKS
Slight Damage Is Done, but Vi
brations Extend Far-Care-
less Workmen Blamed.

Residents in Newark and surround
ing towns were aroused from their
slumbers early today by an explosion
in the Public Service gashouse in
lower Market street.
The explosion was caused by the
contact of accumulated gas and heat
from a boiler which workmen were
cleaning. None of the workmen was
injured and there was practically no
damage, Two broken panes of glass
in the window of the superintendents
office about twenty feet away are the
only evidence of the explosion.
The report shook the city and sub
urbs for miles around, rattling win
dows and alarming thousands of per
sons. Police headquarters and The
Star office were besieged with tele-
phone inquiries about the location and
extent of the explosion. Everyone
who sought information was sure the
explosion took place in his own neigh
borN oca All sorts of rllmors of bomb
were afloat.
If the Public Service Gas
Company said today that, although
the explosion made considerable noise,
there w,a@ ro aa"eer of injury or dam
age. They likened the occurrence to
a Jack a4au- III N stove.
Captain c. Albert Gasser. OF the
bureau of combustibles and fire risks,
who conducted an investigation to-
day, said the explosion was caused by
the carelessness of the workmen. The
workmen, in cleaning out the boiler,
he said, must have thrown the door OF
a hoiler containing waste heat open
suddenly, instead of opening 1t grad
ually. The sudden contact OF the
waste heat with the air caused the
explosion
Had the course of the gases that
exploded been through the open door
way, the workmen unqeestionably
would have been killed." said Captain
Gasser. "As it was, the back draught
followed the line of least resistance
and escaped through the rear smoke
stack. IT was purely case of care
lessness on the part of the workmen,
and. as far as | could see, was not the
fault of the system. This is the first
time an explosion of this nature has
been brought to my notice at the gas
works, and no action will be taken.
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CHARLES J. CANDA
DIES IN SUMMIT
Millionaire Steel Manufacturer
and Assistant u. S. Treasurer
Under Cleveland.


SUMMIT. Nov. 20.--Prostraued 2
week ago yesterday with a stroke OF
paralysis which rendered him speech
less and the right side of his modv
useless, death came yesterday after
noon to Charles ]. Canda at his
beautiful home, 'tNuthurst,' in Nor
wood avenue
Born In Paris in 1888. Mr.. Canda
was the heir of distinguished parents,
his father, Florimond Canda. hav-
ing been o general in Napoleon
army Mr.. Canda came TO America
with his parents when an infant.
His parents settled in New York, his
father possessing much wealth and
living a retired life. The son was
educated in Brooklyn and New York
institutions of learning. He begun
his business career when but d young
man private secretary TO William Il.
Ogden, who was at that time presi-
dent of the Chicago and North
western Railroad, with headquarters
in Chicago.
In his position as secretary to the
railroad president, Mr.. Canda early
developed a tendency for financial
operations in which he afterward
made great success and from which
during his lifetime he amassed
great fortune. Mr.. Canda is said 20
have been a millionaire. His finan-
cial contributions to philanthropic
enterprises were many and large and
were scarcely ever known of outside
of the immediate members Of his
family and those to whom he made
his gifts. He was the largest single
financial contributor TO the fund for
the recent purchase by this city AMI
adjacent municipalities of Overlook
Hospital While ii has never been
made public just what his donation
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TWILIGHT SLEEP"
USEDON DOCTOR

UNION HILL. Nov. 30.-Scopolamin
the Twilight sleep drug. was used
in successful operation for appendi-
citis for the first time in this coun-
try Saturday
The operation took place in a pri-
yate hospital in Weehawken. and was
performed upon DR.. Charles Y. Me
meyer of 134 Fourth street, Union
Hill, himself an expert in the use of
the drug for maternity cases.
Drs. Louis La Barr and Arthur
Walschied. of the Polytechnic Hospital,
New York, personal friends of Or.
Niemeyer, assisted by two local doe
tors, performed the operation. The
patient is progressing very favorably
today.
DR.. Niemeyer was stricken on Fri
day night and removed 70 the private
hospital where he requested that sco-
polamin be used when the operation
was performed He was SO struck
with the success achieved by the drug
in the maternity cases that he had
operated on that he expressed the
desire TO have 1t tested In his own
case.
He was formerly attached to the
staff of the Polytechnic Hospital and it
was in that institute that he per
formed several operations with the
drug in maternity cases.
1t was learned last night that while
this was the first time the drug had
been used for an appendicitis oper-
alton, it has been frequently used
with success by DR.. Grille, Of Cleve-
land for the removal Of goitre from
the neck.
owing to the effect eNerted on the
heart action by this growth in the
thyroid gland, known as goitre, SEQ
poiamin has been found to be the
most effective anaesthetic for use in
its removal
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Who will help to make more COM
Portable during the holiday season
the unfortunately situated families
whose cases are briefly cited below
Read them over and see if there
isn't, in one of them at least, d
strong appeal to your sympathy.
Every case is fully authenticated by
some one of the organized charitable
societies and presented to you by the
Evening Star as being worthy of
confidence and generous support
This plan of Christmas giving, we
believe, will appeal more strongly to
charitably inclined people of Newark
and vicinity than the previous year s
funds gotten up by the Evening Star
which while very generously sup
ported, were more or less promiscu-
ously distributed at Christmas time
BY asking the cooperation of the
various charitable organizations we
know that our bounty is given where
most needed. And so the Evening
Star asks support for~its Christmas
Cheer FUND, with the assurance that
only worthy objects of charity will
be benefited thereby.
Every case cited is the result of
some sudden miSfortunev7such as the
loss or illness of the hehd and sup
port of the family. And, too in every
case little children are the ones to
feel, especially at Christmas time,
the pinch of poverty.
Read the stories of heroic mothers
struggling against bitter world for
a bare existence. Read of small
children (who should be attending
SCHOOL, supporting sick mothers and
baby sisters and brothers, and judge
for Yourself whether they are de-
serving of little cheer at Christmas
time or a little support to make their
load the lighter.
The Evening Star knows that if its
readers will but scan the histories of
these and other cases which we shall
present to them our appeal to their
generosity will not be in vain.
lady to whom the circumstances
in Associated Charities Case No. !
strongly appealed called at the Eve
ming Star office on Saturday and con-
tributed five dollars TO the support
of the family in this case. This takes
care of one week for this unfortunate
family. Will not others interest them
selves to provide little cheer for
one of these cases of actual want?
The Bureau Of Associated Charities
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HENNESSY MAY Be
MINORITY LEADER
He or McGinnis in the Senate
and Martin in the
House.

TRENTON, Nov. so. = The Demo-
cratic members of the next Assembly
and State Senate will gather at the
State House here tomorrow 10 caucus.
Assemblyman aJnes c. Agnew, Of
Hudson. dean of the House Demo-
Gratis, will preside over the delibera-
tions of the lower body and Senator
Peter J. McGinnis, Of Patterson, will
probably hold this post in the CONFER
ence among the Senators.
With the party in the minority in
both branches of the Legislature next
winter. practically the only work in
the way OF selecting will be that OF
choosing a leader for each Legislative
body. Just to whom viii go the per-
functory nomination for the speaker
ship of the House and the presidency
of the Senate has not bee definitely
determined.
1t is expected that Thomas F. Mar
tin. of Hudson. will be chosen leader
of the House minority and that either
Senator McGinnis, of Hennessy, VIII
be the whip in the upper branch. Mar
tin has had considerable experience in
the lower body and was leader in 1912,
when the Democrats were also in the
minority. Senator McCiinnis was the
leader of thep arty in the Senate last
year.
Simultaneous with the caucusing Of
the minority, the Republican majority
in the House will reconvene its con-
ference of a week ago when its slate
was made up for the coming session.
The gathering will be for the purpose
of hearing the report of the steering
committee,% named by Chairman and
Leader to-be Runyon, to apportion
the patronage among the G. Q. P.
members.
It is also expected that incident to
their selection of names the Demo-
Gratis tomorrow will discuss a legisla-
tive program, just as the Republican
Senator'S did at their conference of a
weak ago
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ELECTION FOR
CONGRESSMAN IN
NINTH DISTRICT

The special election called to fill
out the unexpired term of Judge
Walter /. Mccoy, the former repre-
sentative from the Ninth congress
sional district, will be held tomorrow
The polls will be open from 6 a. m.
until 7 p. M, the same as on a
regular election day Three candi-
dates will be voted upon. They are.
Arthur E. Seymour, Democrat; Cow
gressman- elect Wayne Parker, Re
publican, and William Z. Boehn, So
cialist.
What the outcome will be is, Of
course, problematical. AT the regu-
lar election. the combined vote OF
Seymour and Julian A. Gregory, run
ming as Democrats, exceeded the vote
of Parker, who was elected. Specu
lation as to what will happen at the
polls tomorrow is rife 1t is
rumored whether just or otherwise,
that still smarting under the defeat at
the primary election, Gregory sup
porters will not lend much assistance
TO the Democratic candidate. 1t is
said the Gregory followers plan to
register their disapproval of Seymour
by either voting against him or by
staying away from the polls. In some
quarters this attitude was laid di-
rectly to the doors of Mayor Gregory.
He could not be located today.
Mayor Gregory's followers denied
that, however. They asserted that
under no circumstances could Mayor
Gregory be swerved in his loyalty to
the Democratic party and that he
would cast his vote tomorrow for Mr..
Seymour.
The Wilson Leaguers are also said
to have their knives whetted and in
tend to try them out on Seymour
John l.. Armitage, president of the
Woodrow Wilson League, of Essex
County, had this to say today in re-
gard to the rumorS:
IF the voters residing in the
Ninth Congressional district are
Democrats they'll go to the polls to-
morrow and vote for Seymour. That's
what the Wilson League expects they
will do. OF course, the league has
taken no official action in the matter.
1t never does Even in the city fight,
no official action was taken by the
league
Mr.. Armitage said he had heard
no rumors of the alleged plans of the
Gregory faction to knife Seymour.
The Ninth district takes in the
cities of Orange, East Orange and
various sections of Newark.
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BY KARL u. Won WIEGAHD
Copyright. 1914, by United Press in e.
;. and Great Britain. All Rights
Reserved.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY
OF THE CROWN PRINCE IN
FRANCE. Nov. 20 (by courier Yia.
Namus. Aix-la-Chapelle and The
Hague to London, by cable to New
York; rk)-"Undoubtediy this IS the most
stupid. senseless and unnecessary
war of modern times. It IS a war nos
wanted By Germany, can assure YOU
but il was forced on US. The fact
that we we're so effectually prepared
to defend ourselves is now being used
as an argument TO convince the world
that we desired conflict
In the above words FREDERICK vii
helm, crown prince of Germany, and
heir to the throne of the kaiser,
opened the first interview he has ever
given 10 q foreign newspaperman.
With these words he prefaeed the
first direct statement made to the
press by any member of the German
royal family since the outbreak of the
war. l arrived at the headquarters of
the fifth German army in an auto
mobile shortly before midnight. At
daybreak / received call from Major
Elder Won Der Planitz, personal aide
de1camp to the crown prince. Who
stated that his imperial highness
wanted to welcome me, but that he
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CARRANZAC CAUSE
HIT BY DETECTION
OF GEN. GONZALES
Mexico City Reported Tranquil.
Rival Forces Make Rush
for Tampico.

WASHINGTON, Nov. S0.-With
three distinct governments pro-
claimed in Mexico and others be-
lieved TO be in the process of de-
velopment, the beginning of a battle
royal which will show one distinct
faction supreme was in sight today.
The latest claimant, General Pablo
Gonzales, has heretofore been looked
u on as one of Carranza's chief sup
porters and his detection may prove
serious to the former first chief now
in Vera Cruz.
Gonzales is reported at Pachuca.
forty miles northeast of Mexico City,
with the outposts of Villas army III
close proximity. and news that fight
ing between them had commenced
was expected here at any time. At
the same time Carranzista and
Villista forces are racing for Tam
pico, where General Luis Caballeco
has repudiated Carranza and declared
for Villa and the Gutierrez govern
ment.
Mexico City, now held by Ia alta
troops with several of Villas vet
eran regiments in reserve, is re-
ported quiet. The reorganized police
force is in complete control and all
threatened rioting is being stamped
out with extremely ecective methods.
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and the Catholic Children's Aid Society
are gladly cooperating in this work
with the Evening Star by acquaint-
ing us with deserving cases in New
ark. while the Orange Bureau of
Associated Charities will give us the
histories of similar cases in the
Oranges and suburbs.
Charitably inclined persons cannot
help but see the urgent human appeal
in such cases as the following:
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES CASE
NO 1.
After long illness, man in this
city died, leaving his wife penniless,
with the responsibility of caring for
and supporting four children She is
q cheerful, courageous little woman
and is making brave fight against
big odds. She has not yet won out,
but in just a year the oldest child
can obtain working papers and come
to her aid The workroom for women
connected with the Bureau of Asso-
ciated Charities found her work at
scrubbing three days a week in a fac
tory, where she earns $5 week, and
is very we'll liked, being a good
worker She wants more days work,
but pending that needs some help to
maintain her home. A definite
amount to aid TINS family, weekly Tor
a few months would encourage this
mother.
The Evening Star suggests that an
other So a week added to this
mothers present income would enable
her to care for herself and four chill
dren until her labor will bring her
the necessary added income.
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES CASE
NO. ..
There are only two little girls, with
their mother. in this family, but they
sorely need all the things that other
little girls need, and many of which
their father provided until he became
a victim of tuberculosis and was sent
to Verona The father has n good
work record, and his employers fitted
him out with necessary clothing for
his stay ct the sanatorium and prom
ised him employment again when he
is restored to health. Meanwhile, his
wife has no work. and, though rela-
tives have given her shelter, they
cannot do more, being themselves
poor The Evening Star asks some
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HOST OF FRIENDS
MOURNS DEATHOF
JOSEPHL MUM
Funeral of Former County
Counsel to Be Held
Tomorrow.
NOTABLE PUBLIC CAREER;
EXPERT IN LEAGUE AFT AIRS
Prominent in Public Life Since
He Was Seventeen
Years Old.

The funeral Of former County
Counsel Joseph L. Mum, who died
yesterday at his home, IL Mum ave-
nue., East Orange, will be held to-
morrow afternoon. Services will be
conducted at the house at o'clock
by Rev. s. j. Mcpherson. of Law
renceville, formerly pastor of the
Mum Avenue Presbyterian Church.
The interment, which will be private,
vii, be in Rosedale Cemetery.
Besides his wife, Mr.. Mum, who
was seventy-four years old, is sur
vived by three daughters, Miss Mary
r. Mum ana Mrs. S. H. Fitch, of
East Orange, and Mrs. Frederick
Ravn, of Copenhagen Denmark, and
a son, John Randall Mum, of New
York
Mr.. Munnis death came after a long
illness. He was stricken with paral-
ysis in June, 1918. lie partially re-
covered from the attack, and,
although in poor heath, his condi-
tion was not regarded as critical
until two weeks ago.
The deceased had one of the most
notable careers of any public official
in the history of the State. He be-
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sca.. interested in public affairs
when only seventeen years old. With
the exception of the years 1907-190S
when "A Democratic administration
was in control, Mr.. Mum was county
counsel from 1894 to. 1911 besides
that, he was at various times the
first township clerk of East Orange,
a member of the Assembly, presi-
dent of the East Orange Board of
Education, township counsel of East
Orange, surrogate. counsel to the
Essex County Park Commission and
counsel to the Essex County Court
House Commission. He was county
counsel and counsel TO the park and
Court House commissions at the same
time. He was counsel to the Park
Commission for eight years
He had a host of friends, and his
loss will be nourned by many
throughout the State.
Born December D, 1910.
Born December ), 1910, in the house
adjoining his present residence in
the street which bears the name of
the Mum family, Mr.. Mum prepared
for college at Newark Academy after
attending the Local schools. He was
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OFFICE
IS CROWDED At
THE LAST MINUTE
Record Throng at Kinney
Building TO Pay Emergency
War Tax.

Hundreds of men and women be-
sieged the office of the United States
internal revenue department on the
ninth floor OF the Kinney building
today to pay their emergency war
tax before the expiration of the time
limit at o'clock this afternoon, after
which a penalty of fifty per cent. is
assessed.
Long before o'clock, when the
Offices were opened, a long line of
taxpayers had assembled. Many of
the taxpayers were on hand before
the elevators had started to run and
walked up the flights of stairs TO the
revenue headquarters.
The crowds clamoring for admis-
sion to The offices are the largest ever
handled by the local department.
There were seven different throngs
in front of as many doors. Special
policemen and extra elevator con-
ductors were pressed into service to
keep the crowds orderly.
The corridors on the ninth floor
were jammed with tax payers. For a
time it seemed as If the elevators
would not be stopped at that floor.
The crowds were pressed hard against
the elevator doors and extended in
a solid mass around to the southwest
side of the building. II was almost
impossible to force a passage through
the mass in order to reach the office
of Collector Charles V. Duffy in the
northwest corner of the building.
Most of the provisions of the special
emergency war tax act will go into
effect tomorrow. If the taxes are not
paid today the penalty of fifty per
cent. OF the amount of tax due Is
imposed upon delinquents. This was
the cause of the unprecedent crowds.
The taxes were payable on October
%.
So great was the congestion early
today that Mr.. Duffy was forced to
apply for express elevator service to
the ninth floor. One elevator in the
building was set aside for the use of
the department, and 1T was crowded
on every trip.
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SIEGE OF CRACOW IS REPORTED To HAVE BEGUN
SUBURB OF STRONGHOLD SAID TO BE IN FLAMES
WAR MOST STUPID
STRUGGLE IN HISTORY, SAYS
CROWN PRINCE FREDERICK
Kasers Eldest Son. in ntervi Describes Conflict Who
ly Unnecessary and Asserts It Was Forced Germany
BIanes England and Wonde at Americas Attitude

wae leaving for the firing line and
would see me z little later in the day.
When, sometime later. the crown
prince returned. I was presented to
him. He greeted me cordially and
without any Of the stiffness or cool
reserve that might have been ex-
pected.
Crown Prince Talks English.
Il am very pleased TO see you
here" he said, and hope that you
will find plenty to interest you. I
want you to feel at liberty TO go
wherever you like"
Il hope your imperial highness will
pardon my Americanized German" !
said, in stating to him some points
in which l thought American read
ers would be chiefly interested"
Then let Us talk English, if you
feel that we can better thus express
ourselves" was his quick reply.
Acting on the suggestion the crown
prince Of Germany proceeded TO give
his first interview II English.
II am a soldier and therefore can
not discuss politics. said he, but
it seems to me that this whole bust
ness, all Of this action that you sec
around here Is senseiess. unnecessary
and uncalled for. But Germany was
LETT no choice in the matter. From
the lowest to the highest we all know
that we are fighting for our existence.
I know that soldiers of the other na-
tions probably say and a great many
of them probably think the same
thing. This does not alter the fact,
however, that we are actually fight
ing for our national life
Since we know that the present
war was to be forced on US 1t became
our highest duty to anticipate the
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PATTERSON, Nov. 30-Informhtion
has been received at st. Bonaven-
ture's Monastery here, of the honor
conferred upon one of the members.
of the order by the kaiser, in recogs
milton of particular valor displayed
on the battlefield. The honored friar
is Rev Theophilus Witzel, o. F. NJ,
regarded as one Of the most brilliant
members of the German province.
By reason of his native ability and
serious and persistent study, many
high degrees have been conferred
upon Father Theophilus, who has
two brothers in the Franciscan
priesthood and another in the secu-
lar clergy, all of whom are possessed
of more than ordinary mental equip
ment, "a.
While the exact particulars have
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KAISER DEC CORATES FRANCISCAN
FRIAR WITH THE IRON CROSS

not been supplied, possibly due 10
censorship, it appears that Father
Theophilus was engaged In an I'M
portant expedition, end he and some
others were report d among the
missing for several days. Upon their
return his companions reported an
act of signal bravery performed by
the priest which reached the ears OF
Emperor William. Father Theophilus
was sent for, greeted most cordially
by the kaiser, and in recognition Of
his services presented with the Iron
Cross.
Father Theophilus was a class
mate OF the Rev. FIR. Charles, o. f..
NJ. professor of dogmatic theology
at the local monastery, and is an in
innate friend OF Rev. FIR Matthias,
O. Il. M, and the latter family,