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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Men Who Postponed Cashing Their Checks

I happened to mention incidentally
one day to Asa Potter, who was for
merly q banker of Boston, and was
Intimately associated III business
with Jonas French, at one time chair
man of the Democratic State Central
Committee, of Massachusetts, an incl
dent which had been narrated to me
by the late Charles Finney Cox, who
was for many years in post of high
executive authority IN the Vanderbilt
railway system.
l said: MIR. Cox told me of an eX-
traordinary incident which came
within his personal knowledge and
which related to a curious disposi-
ton respecting his investments by a
man who owned a large block of the
securities of the New York Central
and Hudson River railroad COM
panies. This mans dividends, which
In the aggregate each year We're
large, were forwarded to him by
check. After his death the admins
traitors upon his estate discovered a
large number of these dividend
checks which had never been ue-
posted or offered for payment. This
investor had kept them In Il secure
place, but had evidently felt that
the money which these dividends
represented was as safe In the form
OF cnehS DIS III thily OltleT. Inc dBBte-
gate amount was some ten thousand
dollars. The administrators pre-
scented them and they were duly paid
over to the estate"
II can tell you OF an incident some
what similar to that, although the
amount involved was not so large"
said Mr.. Potter. For many years
before his death, John p. Healy was
the Boston city solicitor. His rela-
tions with prominent politicians were
intimate and he could. if he had been
so disposed. have secured nomination
and probably election to a more
conspicuous office than the one which
he held He was a man of great per-
sonal popularity, the soul of honor
and was widely respected.
Among his more intimate per-
sonal friends was Frederick Prince,
the Boston banker, who for many
years was the treasurer of the Ma
tional Democratic Committee. That
relation to national politics brought
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02

A strictly scientific contribution to
knowledge, in the form of a discus
sion of some OF the results incidental
to the triangulation work done by the
Coast and Geodetric Survey, is pre-
sented by Grove Karl Gilbert, of the
United States Geological Survey, in a
short paper on the Interpretation of
Anomalies of Gravity" recently pub
nshed by the Geological Survey as
Part c of Professional Paper So.
After stating the anomalies of grav-
ity, which are also expressed graph
ieally on the map of the United States
accompanying the paper, Mr.. Gilbert
discusses the Interpretation of these
anomalies under the assumption of
imperfect isostatic adjustment, verti-
cal heterogeneity of the crust, and
variation of depth of compensation.
The geologic relations suggested by
the map showing the geographic dis
tribution of the anomalies are next
set forth.
The speculative nature of this scien-
tific contribution is we'll expressed by
MIR. Gilbert in the few sentences that
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02

honor was a press dinner in New
York city. The nner was a success
from the point of view of Charles
Dickens and the men who attended
it, but not from the point of view OF
the women who were refused per-
mission to be present. Among the
most irate of these offended women
was Mrs. Jane Croly, who was the
foremost newspaper woman of her
time. She called to a meeting of pro-
test q small group of intellectual
women, among them Mrs. Charlotte
Wilbur, and these indignant women
organized themselves at this meet ng
into the first incorporated women's
club of America.
This organization took as its name
"Sorosis," from the Greek word
meaning a union of many in one,
and Mrs. Wilbur was elected it's first
treasurer and recording secretary.
Later, when the organization had
grown to greater S &c, she became it's
national president. Besides her in
terest in this first of all American
women's clubs, Mrs. Wilbur was a
prominent advocate of dress reform,
and was well known among club
women for her generous and fearless
support of this crusade.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
MARCH
Charlotte Wilbur Ella Dorsey
copyrsh
BY MARY MARSHALL.
Copyrighted. 1918.

March is the birthday Of two
prominent American women-Char-
lotte Wilbur and Ella Dorsey. Ella
Dorsey was born in Washington, d.
c., and began to write before she was
twenty. She began her literary ca
reer in newspaper writing, and for
many years acted as special CORE
spondent for newspapers in Chicago,
Washington and Boston. During the
Spanish American War Miss Dorsey
served under the surgeon general of
the United States and had charge of
24S Catholic sisters, who served as
contract nurses in the United States,
Cuba and Porto Rico. Miss Dorsey's
interests are exceedingly varie' She
is active in the Daughters a sle
American Revolution and C0S)
NAL Danes. She has take1 i&as1ye
part in the promotion of h.,- gSu-
cation for Catholic women, am. she
was one Of the two founders of the
National Library for the Blind in
Charlotte Beebee Wilbur who was
born on March 2, 1888 will always be
remembered as a pioneer of women's
clubs III this country. On Dickens's
second visit to America in 1867 one
of the entertainments given in his
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02
NOTES OF SCIENCE

OF the $1,000 electric vehicles in the
United States, about $4,000 are pleas
ure cars.
italian State railways will use $780,
600 tons Of Welsh coal this year.
A telephone transmitter that works
perfectly when completely submerged
in water is a novelty.
Semi official statistics place Rus
sia's beet-sugar production last sea
son at about 1,703, $40 short tons.
With the opening of new cables to
Ceylon messages have been transmit
ted from London within half an hour.
For warming the feet foot rail-
for steam radiators adjustable as to
height and length has been Invented,
Duralium is the name that has been
given in Germany to several light but
tough alloys in which aluminium
plays the chief part.
To every 100 men Austria employs
AZ women in the industries; France,
"a; Italy, 80; Germany, 30; Switzer-
lad, 20; England, "a, and Sweden, Fl.
Although many plants close their
leaves and flowers at the approach Of
rain, lettuce flowers open their widest
at such times.
Harvard University has opened a
special course for training men for
the duties of municipal health Off
GERS.
The German pound is exactly one
half a kilogram or about one tenth
more than the American and English
pound.
BY treating iron vessels with a gold
amalgam and driving off the mercury
with heat an inventor has found a
way to gold-plate food containers al
most as cheaply as enameling them.
Adjustable canvas shields have been
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02
COOPERATIVE MARKETING

creased his outlay by from per cent.
to per cent. The result would have
been even better if the German work
man had fully utilized the opportuni-
ties offered him for buying sea fish
at a specially low rate, but among
the idle and lower classes in the
in+e Tor of Germany there st!ll exists
q strong prejudice against the con-
sun. ption of smoked and dried her
rings.
Generally speaking, this arises from
the. fact that the women of these
classes do not understand how to
prepare these fish in an appetizng
manner In order to get over this
difficulty free cooking lessons in the
preparation of salt water fish were
inaugurated. but SO far the result
achieved has been anything but sat
isfactory. Even the fact that the
prices have almost been reduced to 81
minimum has not succeeded in doing
away with the existing prejudice
agans the eating Of fish of this
kind. Here we have once more a con-
ermation of the old contention that
the better CLASSES, are much more cas-
lily convinced of the utility of an in
novation of this kind than are the
common people.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02

PRESIDENT WILSON'S campaign speech in 1912 at Wash
ngon Park Gloucester county, which he strongly took
tolls American ships
part the Congressional Record will be used the
debate in Congress the tolls question.
In that speech Mr. Wilson expressed national sentiment
Referring the bill then pending for
free tolls American coaswise and prohibiting rail-
road-owned ships the canal he said
I'VE don't the railroads with themselves be-
understand that kind of competition We
rage compete with land carriage perfectly that
going better around the canal than would
the continent Referring the Democratic national plat
with its plank for free canal tolls Mr. Wilson declared Our
platform catch flies business.
says 1t the of honest who
intend do business along these lines
BY what kind of casuisy any Democrat in Congress
away this plain pledge the people and this promise that the
Democratic national platform in its free tolls plank means
business?"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02
THE EARTH'S INTERIOR

introduce the section discussing in
depreciation by nucleal heterogeneity:
The inner earth is the inalienable
playground of the Imagination. Once
it contained the FORCES of blacksmith
gods; or it was the birthplace of our
race, or the home or prison of dis
embodied spi $. Later Symmes
followed from it a vast hAbitable en-
DIRE, concave like the world of Kor-
esh. Science now claims exclusive
title but holds it chiefly for specula-
tive purposes; and the freedom of
speculation practically recognizes but
two limitations; The inner earth is
dense. and it is rigid, AS to all other
properties opinion is untrammeled
1T is my own view that the inner
part of the nucleus is not merely hot,
but very hot. II the law of compress
sion by pressure and the law of ex-
pansion by heat, as we know them at
the surface, apply equally to the
nucleus. then the mean temperature
of the earth must be enormous i'll or
der to afford n mean density so low
as 5.6 An enormous temperature
implies an enormous store Of heat,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02

invented for protecting freshly plant
ed trees from too much sunlight.
France will hold an international
exposition OF marine motors for YES
sells of all sizes from June to Septem-
Der.
The greenhouse attached to q hotel
in Yellowstone Park has been built
over a hot spring to benefit by its
heat.
OF interest TO farmers is a recently
patented device to scatter hay evenly
as it is delivered into a NOV by a
fork.
Spanish railroads are conducting
energetic campaigns of education to
improve agricultural conditions along
their lines.
More than 70 cities in the United
States and more than 100 in the world
are equipped with automatic tele-
phone exchanges.
Great Britain's largest railroad has
adopted for general use a system of
automatic train signaling which pro-
duces audible signals in locomotive
cabs.
An Englishman has patented a pro-
cess for so treating the edges of paper
money that, when placed in a phono-
graph of his invention, they produce
words attesting their commences.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02
ORIGINAL OF ROOSEVELT
SMILE" FOUND IN JUNGLE

mediately called it the original Roose-
Welt grin. Under this name its fame
rapidly spread until it became the
chief point of tourist interest in the
ancient city"
During the centuries that had
elapsed since its abandonment y
dense tropical vegetation had Overt
grown the city, overthrowing Its
temples and palaces and reducing
them to shapeless mounds of fallsa
masonry, writes Mr. Morley.
THE jungle had won its way into
the different courts and plazas; and
these public squares, once teeming
with the life of q populous com
munity, had become the haunt of the
tiger, peccary, monkey, ant-eater and
the infinite host of the tropical forest
The Jungle had again reclaimed its
own. As the work of excavation pro-
ceeded there gradually developed
from this mound of earth and fallen
stone the ground plan Of what had
originally been an imposing temple
105 feet long and 20 feet wide"
More than 200 hieroglyphics have
been discovered, but of these only
about fifty have been deciphered, and
all of these deal with some phase OF
the calendar. AS a result, the more
human side of this great aboriginal
civilization, the record of its wars and
conquests, its religious and socia
movements, it's rise and fall, still re
main a sealed book"
$50 far as the possibilities of the
site are concerned, the ground at
Quirigua may be regarded as having
been little more than scratched" con-
cudes Mr.. Morley. Meanwhile, III
the deep twilight of q tropical jungle
the crumbling remains of this once
proud city lie forgotten, its builders
unknown and its very name lost in
oblivion-a melancholy commentary
of is vanquished glory
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02

Mr.. Prince into very close associa-
ton with the men who were of the
highest influence in Democratic poll
tics, not only IN Massachuset is, but
throughout the United States.
Il never knew whether or not Mr.
Prince had any knowledge of the pc
cultar way in which Mr. Healy kept
a portion, at least, of his bank ac-
count, but 1 have always had an idea
that Mr.. Prince did have his own
suspicion of Mr.. Healy's unique
method of banking.
ut was not known generally. how
ever, until after Mr.. Healy's death.
Then those who administered his
estate discovered that he had q
good many unpaid checks which had
been given to him for payment for
services, either professional or as a
public servant. l have forgotten
what the aggregate amount of these
checks was, but l do recall that while
not large sum 1t was q. consideraa-
BILE amount of money.
Inquiry was made to learn the
reason why so many checks of this
kind-some of them dated months
back-had never been presented by
Mr. Healy for payment. Then it was
ASoA iiOO ny IAlOoG W tlO udu the IlOSI
confidential relations with him that
when he received q check he looked
upon it as so much cash. He put it
in his wallet, where it found the
company of many other checks II
at any time he was in need OF money
he would take out his wallet and
draw from 1t one of these checks
which having been cashed. furnished
him with ali the money he needed for
the time Then when again he found
it necessary to use actual cash he
would draw another check from his
wallet and get it cashed. The was
his habit for years. No one could
explain this idiosyncrasy, but ii
seems to have been something like
the one which persuaded the investor
in the securities OF the New York
Central Railroad Company to keel
his dividend checks for years"
, Copyright, 1914. by e. ]. Edwards
All rights reserved.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02
by HERBERT QUICK.

A great soul has passed to the be-
yond-the soul of Joseph Fels. Racial
ly, he was q jew, but more than that
he belonged to the world.
The Hebrew world has served hu-
mainly greatly and is giving us great
men all the time-great scientists,
great business men, great musicians,
great artists. great physicians, great
philosophers. But its greatest gift to
earth has been its prophets. A
prophet is one who sees clearly, truly,
deeply, and not one who forete,ls the
future. Moses, Elijah, DAVID, Daniel,
Amos, Isaiah, Samuel-the list is one
which lifts Israel above all other peo-
pies.
The spirit of Hebraic prophecy has
ever been one of protest against in
justice, especially economic injustice.
Moses gave us the best land system
ever put into law, and, until Henry
George wrote, no better was ever
proposed.
Joseph Fels belongs to the great
school of Hebrew prophets.
THE land shall not be sold forever,
saith the Lord, for the land is mine,"
wrote Moses, and Feis lived to SOW
the word with this Mosaic truth. He
never forgot that the land is Gods,
not MANS and that God means it for
us all, and not for some of us. THE
earth hath He given to the children
of men. THE earth belongs in usu-
fruct to the living, and the dead have
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02
A STORM EXPERIENCE AND A LESSON.

MARCH CAME yesterday like the lion 1t recorded the
this section of the country has experienced in the
postrang effects of which exceeded only by the great biz
GARD of March, 1885, People who experienced that blizzard
given vivid of it yesterday and today Against
there hardly any provision in suburban and
country districts. There should be the large cities.
But the dispatches tell the story of municipal
npparedness and hepessness that familiar with
Newark City learn nothing by experience
and the methods of dealing with have improved
The railroad companies have learned much They begin
Sight it sets in Twenty day like
Yesterday a wheel would have turned in Newark.
The fact should be strongly impressed municipalities that
possible public pers we'll
inconvenience and damage may the cutting off of all
Transportation electric light all supplies of food and fuel
these conditions would spell calamity Organization and we'll
plan emergency action should be essential
the regular equipment of the department
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02

Reports show that the new methods
adopted for purchasing foodstuffs in
large quantities for cash have rem
dered q great service to the working
classes of Germany. In most cases
special committees of worlingmen
were formed, whose duty it was to
ascertain what special foodstuffs
should be purchased In large guam
titles; furthermore, they had to test
the samples supplied and to state APP
proXiThately the amounts likely to be
required. They were also called upon
to fix a selling price. The result was
that excellent foodstuffs could be sold
at from 10 to 15 per cent. less than
the ordinary market prices. In the
case of potatoes and coal the diff
ference was even more remarkable
In some towns the municipalities
opened butcher shops for their own
account, so that meat could be sold
even in very small quantities direct
to the consumer. The net result is
that the purchaser, thus buying at
wholesale rates, was not in the least
affected by the increase in prices
during the year 1912, but was even
able to buy at a lower rate than
during the previous year, and de-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02

The original of the Roosevelt
smile has been discovered in the
ruins of Quirigua, in the Republic of
Guatemala, Central America, fifty
seven miles from the Caribbean Sea.
The discovery is described by Syl-
vanus Griswold Morley, in a COM
munication to the National Geo.
graphic Society, at Washington
Quirfgua, he says, was one of the
flization, which fiourished in Southern
Mexico, Guatemala and Northern
Honduras during the first fifteen CEN
turtles Of the Christian era.
Judging from the dated monu-
n1ents which We're erected in its sew
eral courts and plazas, this ancient
American metropolis was abandoned
during the first half of the sixth CEN
fury A. d." writes the explorer.
Toward the close of the sixth CEN
fury the Mayas moved out from the
older centers of their civilization in
the south and migrated northward
into Yucatan. Here in the stress of
colonizing a new and unfamiliar land
the remembrance OF their former
homes gradually faded until Quirigua
along with many another southern
city, became only a memory-a ira
dition. Finally, long before the dis
CONeTy Oh Auierlcd, even the IIaulllOll
of it's former existence had passed
from the minds of men
1.-THE exterior of one of the build
ings recently unearthed," says Mr..
Morley, was decorated with curious
sculptural mosaic. This design, u va
ration of the humorous head motive
found throughout the Maya area, &C.
ours at each of the four corners and
in the middle of the back and side
walls.
I'm this particular example, he con-
tinues, the incisor teeth are as prom
inent as Colonel Roosevelts, and the
first visitor who saw the head i'm
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02
ANOTHER DRY" STATE.

TENNESSEE WENT dry Saturday That is to say, dry
for the population who can't afford import liquor from other
States private bars their dwellings The consumption
of champagne other hghred beverages won't be affected
bv the new law and probably in the hotels There will be
violations galore Maine and Kansas and many the
poce Welding to sentiment will ignore the law the police
other Prohibition States do but it is an object attained
bv the Prohbitonst he has got passed with the aid
of rural legislators The Tennessee law like other similar laws in
the South is aimed particularly the 1t question:
not strictly prohibition that the statute meant to solve
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02
Sold Family Cow to Elope, Then Sem
Money Back to Husband.
Searchlight for Field Use.

The new German field searchlight
hangs at the end of a telescoping
mast, which in the horizontal posi-
ton is short, but as the mast swings
in trunnions it can be swung to the
vertical by turning a crank, while
another crank causes the mast to
lengthen out by withdrawing the sew
sTal tube sections This puts the
searchlight at high point in the air,
which is excellent for directing the
beam around the horizon All the
operations are quickly carried out
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02
OVERHEAD WIRES IN CITIES.

THE BREAKING down of trolley and electric wires poles
by great which yesterday parayzng ranspora
ton communication extnguishng electric lights and endan-
gering life admoniton the public and the companies
get wires underground possible Storms of this
always unheraded and unsupeced and
dozen times in the course of one winter.
IT, as in York. the trolley electric wires all under
ground would be peril the public and loss the
traction company experience of this will have
Public Service Corporation many thousands of dollars damage
and probably than the interest the total
cost of buryng the trolley wires.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02
Petroleum Production in 1912.

According to the United States
Geological Survey. the great produc-
ton Of petroleum in 1911. which was
2o,449,391 barrels. was surpassed in
1912. when the total reached 222, $685.
604 barrels. Higher prices were the
rule in 1912, except in California. and
even in that State there was no ma
terial decline. The total value in
creased markedly, reaching $164,0S7,-
342, or 22.41 per cent. above the value
of 911.-Coal Age.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02
Whom TIE Cap Fits

Go and wrestle with your brother"
The committee said to me;
Show him this, that and the other
Of his sins and faults and see.
Without saying that he has EN-,
Ii he will not take the blame
And so draw back from the chasm
Yawning now his soul to claim"
SO to him rallied at drinking,
Rallied with signs and direful groans
Till he said Nov, | am thinking
That you mean our neighbor, Jones;
Yes he surely ought to quit it"
Here switched, and lies abused;
He said: Smiths vice! You have hit il,
He can scarcely be eXcusedi'
Then said One should not covet--'
Said the sinner: THAT is Brown;
Money How that man does love it,
More than promised harp and crown
Said then: "The vice of knocking
Truly fills me with Alarm
He replied: Indeed it's shocking;
Brother, why don't you reform?'
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