Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-17
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Expects to Make Fortune Through

Expects to Make Fortune Through
spIrituaIlsm In Glass Manufacture.
! BRIDGEPORT, O., July 1.-THE
only factory in the world founded on
belief in spirltualism is being COM
pleted here by Frank Wilcox, a glass
worker, who claims to have received
in visions of his dead father in
spirations for inventions which Will
revolutionize the glass industry Will
cox's building, where he will perfect
and use these inventions. is known as
the house of mystery" None but
spiritualists are employed in the con-
struction work and a score of husky
guards-all spiritualists-are on
watch day and night to prevent any
but employees from going inside the
ten-foot concrete wall which sur
make a fortune in glass" Wilcox
tells his friends, land all because of
my belief in spiritualism. | began
my experiments in Pittsburgh sew
eral years ago but secret service
agents, who tried to steal my designs,
forced me to come here" Wilcox has
purchased valuable real estate in
Wheeling, w. Va. where he plans to
erect spiritualist church to cost $12,-
900, as a memorial to his dead parent
Loud Snoring OF Whale Saves Ship from
Going to Bottom.
NEW YORK, July 17.-Captain
Clifton Smith of the Red Cross steam
er Stephano, which arrived y sterday
from st. Johns, N. f., brought tale
of the sea such as usually reach New
York in mid summer.
I'VE were about fifty miles east of
Nantucket at noon yesterday" said
the captain, "going slowly in a fog
that you could have cut into chunks
with a sheath knife, when suddenly
I heard a dull booming, as near as
| could Judge, dead ahead.
ut did not sound like vessels fog
signal of any kind l have ever heard.
but l was taking no chances, so
steered few points to starboard, and
was soon abeam of the sound. Just
then the fog lifted, and l saw huge
bull whale, fully eighty feet long, ly-
ing on the surface, fast asleep. lie
had been snoring. 1t was the biggest
whale I ever saw" the captain added,
land had lost his port eve.
"If / hadn't sheered off just when
| did, the Stephano would have hit
the big fellow amidships and I'm sure
the boat would have crumpled up
against his great weight"
Brothers to Oppose Each Other for Con-
gressionaI Nomination.
NEW YORK, July 17.-There is a
prospect of a lively, but friendly,
fight this fall for the Republican Con-
gressional nomination in the Long ISL
and district between former Repre-
sentative William H. Cocks, of West
bury. Long Island, and his brother,
Frederick Hicks, of the same place.
Hicks owes his name to his adoption
years ago by Benjamin ID. Hicks, a
wealthy resident of Westbury.
Representative Cocks has always
been a staunch supporter of Colonel
Roosevelt. Mr.. Cocks. in making for
NAL announcement of his candidacy,
is expected to declare that, while he
seeks the Republican nomination, he
is opposed TO party bosses of the
Barnes type"
Glass Company Paid 81 Per Cent. Divi-
dend Stock Owned by Employees.
CUMBERLAND Md, July 1.-THE
Potomac Glass Company, capitalized
at $25, 900, on a business of $4,000 dur
ing the fiscal year just ended, declared
a dividend of 80 per cent. Most of the
companys shares are owned by its 300
employees, consisting of men, girls and
boys. Ex-senator George L. yelling
ton, the only outsider owning stock in
the works, encouraged it financially
when it started.
The plant runs day and night and
has orders ahead for over a year The
| first dividend of 10 per cent was de-
| clared in 1910. after eight years of
operation. Other dividends :. were:
1911, 80 per cent: 1912. 81 per cent.
and 1918, 72 per cent
siamese Twins. Joined Together Back e
Back, Are Separated.
| PARIS, July 1.-THE two sisters
who were born on May % last, Joined
together back to back. being united
in the lumbar region. were cut apart
yesterday. This difficult operation
was performed by DR.. Mignot, assist
ed by DIR. C. w. du Bouchet, chief sur
geon of the American Hospital.
The most delicate part of the opera
ton was the dissection of the mites.
tines, which at one point were united
for a space of an inch and quarter.