davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-15
Gun Running . Is Risky

Six years ago a tragedy occurred
that shows the desperate character 0
the men engaged in these enterprises
A three masted brig lowered off Tun1
and began to unload her cargo into
small native boat. The operation
We're seen through a telescope by
some French revenue officers, who
certain that something Illegal was
taking place, dispatched a number o.
armed vessels to the spot, instruct NJ
the crews to wait until daylight be-
fore boarding the brig. Suddenly .
terrific explosion happened, and the
spot where the brig had rested at an
Choir was clouded by smoke. Wher
il cleared away, not a vestige of tie
brig remained. 1t is conjectured that
rather than be captured and impris-
oned, the captain had applied light
to the huge quantities of dynamite on
board and blown his boat, his crew
and himself to atoms.
Often, instead of exciting suspicion
by running into port, gun-smuggler
will place his ornaments in a'r-tight
tn cases, which are next concealed in
wooden chests. A long piece of rope
is then attached, and at the end OF
this is fastened q buoy. The chests
are then heaved overheard near the
coast, and buoys floating on the water
denote where they can be found. A
night the rebels go out in boats and
tow them ashore.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-15
AN ASTONISHING STORY.

The first instalment of the disclosures by Charles
5 Mellen. the former president of the New Haven
Railroad system strikes in an unexpected direction
the municipal government of New York, and impli-
Gates not only men who before were smirched,
but even the judiciary. The further statements by
Mellen will be looked for with breathless interest
This is not the story of an onooker under
ling. but that Of the principal the transactions
narrated The story could come only from his lips.
And as he is self-accusatory and has apparent
motive to lie, the story will be accepted with i'm
pcit faith Besides there is little doubt that there
is documentary and other evidence to confirm It.
A unique method of bribery is disclosed. MI.
Melens company sought get possession of certain
electric railroads. and franchise changes neces-
sary as a preliminary. The New York City Board Of
Estimate and Apportonment at that time was the
power to appeal to- The majority of this board were
men of upQuestioned high character
How were the franchise changes procured? Mel
len tells "slush fund" of 5000 shares of New
Haven stock was set aside. 1t was worth $3.50 a
share This was traded off on the basis of share
for three shares of the Westchester electric road
stock then worth, Meen says about ten cents
pound" as junk The men who Influenced and gave
the franchise rights got the New Haven stock worth
81 zoo 900 and paid for it this Westchester junk.
And this is only prelude to a story that promises
to outclass the worst revelation of railroad and
public official corruption in the past 1t throws into
the shade the disclosures recently made of corruption
in the State departments and public works of New
York.
And yet the most amazing part of the Mellen
story may relate to the transactions by which the
New Haven acquired its New England monopoly and
the part taken in them by high finance in Wall
Street As to what is to next from Mellen
Chief Counsel Folk significantly says wait" The
narrative is to be resumed next Tuesday.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-15

Huge profits and spice of danger
are the chief attractions of gun run
ming. A market for the arms and
ammunition that important countr es
discard as obsolete can be found in
partly civilized districts and among
rebel societies. Russian terrorist COM
mittees, Indian hill tribes and Arabs
are the chief buyers of old guns, says
London Tit-Bits.
A few years ago London firm was
offering for sale 100000 single-shot
rifles which one of the smaller Euro
pean States had discarded. In order
to get them right out of the country
and thus away from revolutionists,
the State had sacrificed them for
mere song. The London company
bought them, and was ready to dis
pose of them at a slight profit.
Pathans on the Indian slopes would
dear,y have loved to get hold of some
of these rifles, for a hill native will
risk his life creeping into the British
frontier posts by night in order to
steal Tommy's firearms.
Immense profit is to be made, there
fore, by smuggling guns into forbid
den territory, and sea captains and
other hardy Adventures are to be
found ready to stand their chance of
either making fortune, being blown
sky high or languishing in prison for
life
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-15
NORRIS CANAL AS INTERSTATE.

The assistant general solicitor Of the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad says of the Morris Canal: The canal
itself is not interstate carrier and, hence, as
canal is not subject to the Panama Canal act. But
the basin at Communipaw is part of the harbor,
which is interstate regulation and enters the
case in that relation"
The Morris Canal was built to do interstate
business that of carrying coal from the Pennsylvania
coal regions to tdewaer at Jersey City Until after
the railroad company got possession of the canal the
boats were loaded at the mines in Pennsylvania.
The railroad company lessee Of the canal broke
OF the connection with the Delaware to destroy this
interstate traffic. Should it now be permitted to
plead that this misuse of the canal property has
awaited to change its character?
If the Morris Canal charter had not been violated
the canal boats would still be carrying coal from
the Pennsylvania mines to Jersey City and inter
mediate points in New Jersey The canal lessees
made this interstate traffic impossible By acts which
the late Cortlandt Parker. pronounced criminal the
traffic was confined to the State and ultimately
destroyed. Can the railroad company take advantage
Of its own criminal acts?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-15
Mink Growing Scarce

Mink, hunted persistently by 3
largely increased number of trappers,
show from their steady decrease that
they will be the first of the small fur
bearers to disappear, If prices hold
and nothing be done in way of saving
laws. says Outing. Three leading
dealers report their January offerings
in London as 81. 800. They were 50, 404
in 1913 and 1886 in 1912.
Mink are shy and hard to catch.
Few are taken by boys. The greater
part are caught by professional trap
pers, which reduces the number
handled by small dealers. Probably
10000 would be fair estimate. They
sold, a few extra dark, as high as IS,
some small Southern as low as $1.50.
If we call the price 81 skin 1t would
give s280,000 as the contribution of the
mink tribe to the fur business of last
winter
Four prominent firms shipped and
sold at auction in London, as shown
by their reports of the January sales
in 1912, 1913 and 1911, skins totaling
in number 13,9S9,S $40, all of the small
fur bearers excepting perhaps 100000
wolf and bear, and this but part of
the business done by these houses.
Which shows how conservative an
estimate I have made and tempts
me to increase my totals. If the I'M
cured skins of these animals sold for
nearly Sl0,0000,000 the past winter,
what must their value be when
worked into garmentsi
Wise laws will keep this back yard
fur money many years for the com
mon people. First, give a close sea-
son varying according to location, but
on the average from about March l to
October /.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-15
PEOPLE WITHOUT PATRIOTISM.

All that the Quakers of Philadelphia could see in
the funeral pageant in that city on Wednesday in
honor of the two dead of the navy, which was wit
messed by enormous crowds, that it "glori-
acation of war At the yearly meeting of Quakers
one of the speakers woman declared to the shocked
assemblage that after the parade. which she wit
messed, she had little children bearing brooms
over their shoulders and playing soldier, their actions
undoubtedly resulting from the military spectacle
they had beheld.
There is some of the Quaker spirit in the national
councils at Washington and more especially in the
state department But it is we'll to recall the fact
that when the great Civil War closed and two mil
lions of men who had been marching and fighting
bloody battles returned to civil life they dropped
their and resumed their civil employments and
there wasn't any spirit Little children paraded
with brooms that time, too, but they didn't grow
up with thirst for slaughter.
A who cannot possess feeling Of patriotic
interest in such event the funeral of dead
soldier or sailor honored by his eountrymen Is man
without country and belongs to order of human
ity born to bear shackes.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-15
EDITORIALS BY THE PEOPLE
Immigrant Children the Best and Quickest Students and Our
Curriculum Not Quick Enough. CORRESPONDENT Asserts.

into higher mathematics and that in-
tricate study, the Talmud.
In the bigger cities of Italy, as in
America, education Is compulsory.
The immigrant child coming from the
Italian school is better versed in the
languages and the arts than the ma
tive high school student What the
average high school student in tia
knows at graduation would take
master degree at our universities
This | learned from a gentleman who
has recently returned from Italy after
a study of the Italian system of edu-
cation. As for the immigrant child
coming from Italy who has lived on
the farm away from the city and the
schools. we know their ancestors have
not been oppressed. They have lived
the life of the peasant, who goes to
town on market day, sells his wares,
hears the opera in the evening and
returns home in ecstacy, happier
since he has satisfied his craving for
music-grand music. And grand mu-
sic is art. And Italy has given the
world the greatest masters of that
art. Every Italian-be he ever so
humble-dig he the streets for h s
daily bread-Will spend his every
effort to be able to better appreciate
his hobby--music-gr music. And
the child coming from Italy has in
her.ted the same craving of his par
ent for music-grand music. And he
learns. he literally devours. german
dies his daily lessons in the public
school. besides the hundreds of vol
umes in the public libraries. There
is l.tt,e doubt but that if in some way
the authorities could list the names OF
readers of the best literature in the
libraries. foreign born readers would
head the classification.
Thus it would be far better that the
educational experts las they are
termed) try to remedy the school
curriculum with the American child in
mind and allow the immigrant child
to take care of himself, as he is ac-
customed to do and always has and
will do. Yours truly,
PAUL WRIGHT.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-15
Interesting Facts About Mexico

to the fact that governors hold Office
with the approval of the president;
that jefe politicos have similar rela-
tons with the governors, and that
the officers of the municipalities are
generally controlled by the jefe poll
ticos.
The church and State are independ-
ent, and Congress cannot pass laws
prohibiting or establishing any re-
ligion.
OF the 100000 inhabitants two
ffths claim direct descent from an
/, cient tribes or families which are ac-
cepted as the basis Of Mexican his
tory, two-fifths are of mixed native
and foreign Blood the remainder be-
ing classed under the common appela-
/ ton of foreign"
| The city of Mexico. 264 miles by
rail west of Vera Cruz and 7,40O feet
/ altitude, is reached by two rail routes
climbing from the hot lands through
difficult mountain passes, one OF
which closely follows the trail taken
| by Cortes in 1919, by General Winfield
| Scott with American troops in 1S47
and over which fifteen years ago the
! invading French troops passed.
One half of the railroad mileage oil
the country is between sea level and
5000 feet, and about an equal amount
| between 5000, and 10000 feet
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-15

munition from Germany consigned to Huerta, since
he is in possession of the Tampieo custom house.
The capture of Tampico has given Carranza the
financial to purchase the cargoes, to literally
turn Huertas guns himself.
And yet there Is a question Of policy for our gov
eminent whether permit these large eonsignments
to be turned over to Villa. They may eventually be
used against our troops. We don't want to arm
probable future enemies with weapons to fight US
with.
Our relations with Carranza extremely IN
certain and those who best understand Mexico and
the Mexican character that no dependence can
be placed in the friendly attitude of the Constitu-
tionalist chiefs under any circumstances There are
immense opportunities in this matter for the placid
Mr. Bryan to make another blunder
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-15
LA TOILETTE TURNED A TRICK.

Senator La Follettes speech in the Senate
occupies seven pages of the Congressional Record,
but with the documents he introduced nearly 1870
pages are taken.
Senator La Toilette in his speech showed the
influences brought to bear the Interstate Com
MERGE Commission in connection with the proposed
increase in freight These included the letters
favorng an increase that were received at the White
House and improperly forwarded TO the Interstate
Commerce Commission
The Wisconsin Senator could not take the time
to read this data the Senate, and few million
people in the country would like to see 1t he had
it put into the Congressional Record. OF course
there is an cutlery from those who would like to
see ell this information buried 1t will have a
wide circulation.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-15

To tho Editor of the Evening Star:
In your editorial 1.-THE Hardest
Problem of Our Schools" Tuesday
night you ask How shall we devise
a curriculum not too slow for the
American child born to our language
and institutions, and not too fast for
the Italian or Russian with an alien
speech and the additional handicap
of a retarded intelligence inherited
from generations of oppressed and
benighted ancestors?''
Allow me to say your last state
ment should have been worded like
this: How shall we devise a curricu-
lum not too slow for the immigrant
child, who, though coming TO this
land with an alien speech and addi-
tional handicap of a retarded (as you
claim, and l do not) intelligence in
herited from generations of oppressed
and benighted ancestors, quickly
learns the language and speeds
through the grammar school and high
school at such a rate that the Amer
lean child, born to our language and
institutions, is shaIned.
The course of study set for the
American child does not set too hard
The immigrant child's thirst for
knowledge is so great that he not
only devours all within his reach in
the school in a short space of time,
but is also able to tell you years after
what he has learned in his youth.
This is not the case with American
child. Slow to grasp and seldom re-
Numbering after examination day is
what many have found to be the
case with the native-born child.
The oppression of the Jew in Rus
STA (that is who I understood you
mean when you mention Russia> in a
way has aided the Jew. Since chances
of education in most parts of Russia
can only be bought by the rich, the
poor Jew must learn by hook and
crook, and through such means m s.
cradle Jew in Russia teaches himself
several languages, besides devl'ng
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-15

dergo, but in spite of all that 1t i'm.
piled in a political way Natalie re-
tanned the love and loyalty or the
Servian people. Four years after her
exile she managed to bring about
reconciliation with her husband
Milan, and the following year she ys-
turned with him TO Belgrade.
It would seem that at last Natalie
deserved happiness, and she would
have secured it had it not been thai
in 1900 Alexander contracted q mar
riage with one OF Natalie's ladies' III
waiting-Draga by name-who was
many years older than Alexander
and. from the point of view of kings
and queens, very much his inferior
This proved too great blow for Ma
taIie, and she again left Servia, tax
ing up her residence at Versailles.
near Paris. The next year Milan, the
old ex-king. died. and then two years
later the crowning sorrow came to
Natalie, when she learned of the as
sassination of her son Alexander ant
his Queen Draga. The fact that she
had never been reconciled with he
son and his wife only made the sor-
row the harder for Natalie to bear
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-15

Colonel Roosevelt's discovery or a
Brazilian river Is rivaled in South
America by the University of Penn
sylvania Museums Amazon expedl-
ton, under the leadership of William
c. Farabee. He has just reported the
discovery of a dozen hitherto I'M
known native tribes. the arrange
ment of their vocabularies, the navi-
cation of a number of unknown rivers
and placement on the map OF South
America for the first time OF new
portions of northern Brazil and south
ern portions of the Guianas.
The University Museum expedition
reached Georgetown, British Column
bia, April 49, after having spent al
most a year in the Amazon basin and
in the highlands which divide Brazil
from the Guianas. Severe hardships
were encountered by Dr. Farabee and
his men, according to their recent re-
port. Members of the expedition
emerged from the jungles bareheaded,
barefooted, hungry, fever-racked, and
their ammunition all but spent. Their
hazards were particularly numerous
along the Corentyne river.
DIR. Farabee reports that he and his
men have collected all sorts of eth
biological and other specimens, have
taken many photographs and ar
ranged a new map, geographically
and ethnologically, of the territory
they have conquered.
The first letter in many months has
been received from DR.. Farabee, al
though word reached here on Janu-
airy that the expedition was safe.
Nest of the watershed between the
Guianas and Brazil was absolutely
unexplored country. So far as known
white men have only reached one or
two of the more easily accessible
parts of it, and heretofore no scientific
exploration has been attempted.
DR.. Farabee wrote, in part, as fol-
lows:
From December Is to April / we
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-15

The area of Mexico is practically
as great as that of the United States
between the Mississippi river and the
Atlantic coast, the Great Lakes ana
the Gulf of Mexico
It varies in altitude from sea level
to $4,000 feet. Its climate is affecteo
by these elevations and by range OF
Is degrees of latitude.
Twelve hundred miles is the DIS
lance traversed in passing south from
Juarez, on the northern boundary, 10
the capital, and 800 miles more TO the
southeastern boundary. The Gulf OF
Mexico and caribbean sea coastline
extends for LOO miles, while the Pa
cific ocean and Gulf of California
touch 1000 miles of Mexican coast.
Prior to 1886 Mexico, as Spanish
colony, and the United States covered
approximately equal areas, but the
! Texas. secession and the result OF the
| Mexican war added nearly l,O00,0Oo
square miles to our territory, ana the
extent of Mexico is now less than one
fourth that Of Continental United
| States.
panse equal to the aggregate OF Aus
! tria Hungary, Germany, France,
| Great Britain and Ireland. The total
area of the republic, $4,000 square
miles. is less than that of Texas, Cali
! fornia. Montana, New Mexico and
! Arizona combined. The average Gen
| sitv of population of Mexico approx
mates 20 per square mile. The most
| thickly populated portions, outside OF
] the Federal district, being the states
of Tlaxcala and Mexico, the former
being less than Delaware in size ana
of about the same density of popula-
| nHATIN
large as New Hampshire, but with
more than twice the number OF IN
habitants.
The Federal district. modelled after
the District of Columbia, but OF elghl
times the area, is surrounded py the
States of Mexico, the large population
of the capital, 100000, materially aid
ing in bringing the average TO more
than 1,2U0 per square mile.
During nearly 300 years supsequen'
to the conquest of Cortes. spain dom,
effort for freedom was started, Whlct
eventually resulted in the Republic Of
Mexico today. ..-
More than half of the first century
of Mexican independence was aoor-
tive. one coterie after another coming
into temporary power, and numbel
| of those acclaimed rulers, after brle1
regimes, meeting lgnomlnlous oSati
at the hands of the people they
sought to govern.
The form of government adopted D!
Mexico follows in general that OF IN
United States, having executive Ju
dirjal and legislative divisions.
Each of the twenty-seven states i
rerresented in two houses OF Con
eress, composed of senators and dep
mites. Congress holds two session
each year for limited periods. Eaci
State has it's governor and legisla
ture, and is subdivided into districts
or counties, over each of which
"tefe politico" is placed, the dis
tricts having subsidiary municipall
ties with magistrates, presiding OF
hcials and councils.
The so-called autocratic feature o
the government may be largely du
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-15
Colonel Roosevelt's River.

Colonel RoOsevelt's River.
From the New York World.
We refuse to permit any bilious
Britisher, no matter what his
scientific reputation may be, to shake
our faith in Colonel Roosevelt's
geographical veracity.
The colonel is a little weak on the
constitution and the courts and the
Sherman antitrust law and treaty
obligations and the Morgan corpo-
ration interests and birds and lions
and elephants and bobcats and
dikdiks and grizzly bears and rivers
ana hills and trees and the Ten Com
mandments and similar phenomenon
of nature.
If the colonel says the river is a
thousand miles long, it's a thousand
miles long. We wouldn't knock off
an inch to avoid war. If any cap
tious critic claims that such a river
! in such a place must run I'D hill in
| spots and cross other rivers, let il go
at that. Maybe it does, for all we
know. Anyway, the colonel has been
there and seen the river and got boi1s
and been ducked in the rapids and
lost his dog and fallen off thirty-flve
pounds in weight, and can produce
witnesses. That is more than the
| otner SIDE mas offered 10 do.
! The colonel is not a nature faker.
no matter how much Of a political
! faker he may be What he saws and
! writes about government and politics
| should always be taken with a few
| grains of salt; but what he says and
writes about hunting and exploring
expeditions has generally withstood
the acid test. AS naturalist, the
colonel never needs anybody TO
underwrte his statements. II is only
in politics that he requires a Loeb.