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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Concord Estimate of ThOreau the Man

James Gull, a citizen of Con-
cord, Mass, whom / met there some
years ago and whom found to be
fairly saturated with information as
ISOLATED with the prominent men and
women of Concord, was | discovered,
disposed to be somewhat irritated II
anyone suggested to him that Tho
reau was a cynic, a misanthrope, q
recluse who constantly Stunned asso-
citation with his fellows, and was, IN
fact something like a human bear.
Mr.. Gull went to Concord TO live
year or two after Thoreau's death, in
1852, For that reason he never saw
Thoreau, but he established a warm
friendship with Thoreau's sister, So
phia, and had many pleasant CONVEX
sations with her, almost all of which
brought out some new incident assoc
ciated with Thoreau's life in Concord
Its all wrong" he said to me,
this impression which is so wide
spread that Thoreau was an migrate
ful. disagreeable and altogether un-
pleasant man to have anything to do
with. He was, it is true, somewhat
peculiar, but his sister told me that
that simply reflected his habit OF
meditation. In the home he was the
kindest and most considerate of sons
and brothers, Sophia told me that
her brother Henry almost died of a
broken heart, when his brother job
fell q victim to lockjaw. The two
brothers were inseparable and it was
impossible for a greater degree Of
fraternal attachment to be estab-
lished between two brothers than
that between Henry and John Tro-
reau.
There are quite number of people
now living in Concord who knew
Henry Thoreau. You won't hear any
of them speak of him without feeling
that they remember him with respect
and admiration and often with the
most tender feelings. Almost all of
these were children when they knew
Thoreau. Now, if you want to know
what men or women really are you
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
FARM TO TABLE BY EXPRESS.

The Wells-Fargo Express Company is determined
to get right competition with the government for
the same line of trade and is making success of it.
The food products department of the express company
carries out the farmtotable idea and is not only
carrying agency but an intelligence Office The names
of consumers along the express lines tabuated and
given TO producers, and the result is brisk move
ment of fruit vegetables butter and eggs from the
farms not only to the large cities, but to many small
towns.
All this means quick. cheap and wide distribution,
and prevents the tendency to glutted markets. The
company reports this branch of its business steadily
gaining and as the work is in the hands of experts
the parcel post may find the express very lively
competitor in the elimination of the middleman and
the reduction of living cost
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
VOL. LxxxIn.-No. 2s1.
WEDNESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER .,
rHE INcoNGRUoUs GERAN LAW,

Chief Justice Gummere has perhaps passed upon
more recount election cases than all the other New
Tersey Supreme Court justices combined and there
ore has had opportunities nnumerable to encounter
he incongruities in the Geran act. In the course
If his review of the referred ballots in the Twelfth
yard aldermanic recount the chief Justice was moved
crticise the law laid down for his guidance There
ire provisions that must be adhered to- the court not
being allowed the slightest power of discretion.
Where points permitted the application of common
sense the justice ruled in the light of common sense
Where the intent of the voter plain teehnieaties
were ignored and the ballot counted.
With the unwieldy ballot and the method of de-
livery to the voter it is unreasonable to expect that
the ticket could escape being soiled or marked in
some way, but such marking soiling, to the mind
of the chief justice is not always to be considered
as a distinguishing mark indicating fraud or oollu-
sion.
In a brief criticism of the Geran law it was made
clear that the act should be amended in the interest
OF individual rights and law itself
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
"a me EDITOR Of the Evening star:

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Dear Sir-In one of the Sunday
Newark papers an "Office Girl" sug-
gested that the department stores
open at $3.50 a. m. instead of a. m.
for two OF three days a week from
now until Christmas, so that she
could do her shopping, as she was
tired after office hours and the stores
closed around $50 p. m.
Now, there is only one, store clos
ing daily at $50 Except Saturdays,
which is D. No.. All the other
stores. with one exception, close at 6
D. m. This exception keeps open Sat
urday evening late, and am sure
there is ample time for her to do her
shopping instead of requesting thou
sands of employees to be at her SER
vice" a. haif-hour earlier in the morn
ing just to satisfy her personal wants.
/ am sure If she asked her employer
for an extra half-hour he would grant
her request and not ask the depart
ment store people to wait on her per-
sonal wants before their eyes are
open and stocks in order
We are trying to rank Newark with
the leading up-to-date cities of the
United States, and this young lady is
irving TO undo what the good men
and women of Newark have for so
many years been trying to accom-
plish.
Trusting she will talk it over with
her employer, whom I am sure. IL he
has a heart at all. will grant her re-
quest and thanking you for your
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
a MILITARY MAN FOR CIVIC JOB.

A military makes an ideal administrator OF
civic affairs, and Governor-elect Whitman, of New
York recognizes this in selecting Major-Geners Will
lam w Wotherspoon for State superintendent of pub
lie works. 1t is by far the most important place in
the gift of the Governor it carries unlimited pat
onage and heretofore has been looked upon as part
of the organization spoils,
The completion of the s1O1,Oo0,OOo canal system
Of the State is task that calls for high executive
ability and crystalline integrity such as may be ez-
pected of the veteran officer who was chief OF stan
of the United States army when he was retired for
age last month General Wotherspoon at sixtythree
is still vigorous man. and it Is fortunate for New
York State that foolish limit prevents 1t from
svailing itself of his services.
Under his administration the vast public better
ents OF the State ought to be accomplished with the
maximum of efficiency and the minimum of waste
But grafters are not applauding the choice.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
Az AorATIC TOLL ROAD.

The irrepressibe conflict between land and water
traffic appears in the case of New Jerseys 100000
inland waterway between Bay Head and Cape May,
which is aptly compared to "a turnpike with many
barred tolIgates The tollgates consist of bridges,
os which there are seventeen between Atlantic City
and Cane May and the railroads, which maintain
some Of these bridges allowed their use for just
nve-sxths of the time, water traffic being accorded
open draws for only ten minutes in each hour.
This arrangement which practically bars out
steamboat enterprise, looks like gross favoritsm on
the mart of the war department toward the railroads
The water was there before the bridges, and water
traffic should have the right of but this estab-
ished principle seems to be reversed. The govern
ment might at least require higher bridges so that
small craft could pass under without using the draws.
and might require motors operate the latter instead
of the Anticipated hand devices which add to the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
NEWARK KNEW THIS ALREADY.

Dr. Harvey w. Wileys statement that bad teeth
are one of the serious of menaces to the public
health is nothing new, but coming from sanitarian
of such national fame it will be valuable stimulus
to municipalities to take hold of this problem His
showing that out of about ten thousand school chill
dren examined in Washington nine in every ten had
defective teeth is probably fair sample of conditions
in all cities
The remedy is free dental clinics, and Newark
may we'll feel proud of being pioneer in this vital
benefcence. The $4,000 year which this city APP
propriates for its free dental clinics Is money well
spent and the volunteer service of the operating
staff is a fine example of public spirit
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09

AS a little girl Emma Abbott
wandered about from one place to
another with her father, earning
their meager living by playing and
singing in hotels and private draw
ing-rooms wherever they could gain
an entrance. Emma had remark
ably fine soprano voice and she sang
to her own accomplishments on the
guitar, but she knew nothing OF The
stechnique of music. She could not
read a note of music and she had
never heard q really first-rate mu-
sician in her life. But she had am
bitions and she determined when she
was eighteen to go to New York to
secure a musical education. she
boarded train at Chicago TO New
York. She carried a guitar, a few
clothes in a handbag and enough
money to carry her as far as Fort
Wayne. There the young girl stopped,
hoping that by giving a few hotel
concerts she could pay her expenses
over night and get enough money TO
continue her progress. But all she
could earn did not pay her night 5
expenses. So she pawned her guitar
and proceeded to Toledo. There she
stopped again. She discovered that
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, the IA
nous singer whom she had long
wished to hear, was in Toledo sing
rectly to Miss Kellogg and intro
duced herself to her and asked
whether she might hear her sing.
She could not afford to buy ticker,
said the girl, but she would be glad
of a seat anywhere in the house.
Miss Kellogg not only gave the girl
a good seat for the opera, which was
the first time Emma had heard an
opera, but promised to pay her way
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
BIRTHDAY OF NOTED WOMEN
BY MARY MARSHALL.
DECEMBER 9
Emma Abbott WetherelI
Copyrighted 1914.

to New York, and gave her letters
of introduction to friends in that city
who would provide for her.
Thus encouraged, Emma proceeded
on her way the next day. She went
first to Beecher's Church, in Brook
Ign, and was admitted to the choir,
where she first learned to read music.
she managed TO get some other sing
ing to do, and 1t was at Beecher's
Church that she met Mr.. Wetherell.
Within four or five years Miss Abbott
had made such progress that the
congregation of the church in which
she was singing collected funds to
send her to Paris. The music teacher
to whom Miss Abbott first went hap
pened to be the teacher of the son
of the Baroness de Rothschild, who,
on hearing of Miss Abbott's fine voice
and her perseverance, sent for her
and gave her $1,000 to spend in study
ing music.
Miss Abbott studied diligently in
Paris, and before very long Mr..
Wetherell came across the ocean to
marry her and carried her back to
this country, where they started an
opera company of their own.
Needless to say, Emma Abbott
made a striking success, and is ranked
among the most prominent American
singers. But the fact remains that
she was not highly endowed with the
talents usually necessary to a sue
cessful operate star. She was a good
vocalist and a splendid musician, but
authorities tell us that her voice was
not of the first order, She was a
woman of interesting personality, but
she was not beautiful, and not even a
person of great attraction. Emma
Abbott's life success is a brilliant
example of the power of sheer ambi-
ton and perseverance.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
MARRIAGE TO a coNsUMprrvE VOID.

decision which will attract wide attention is
that of New York Supreme Court justice who holds
that when person marries consumptive and does
not find It out until afterward, the marriage is null
New York woman welded to Jerseyman, be-
lieying him TO be in good health, but a few days
later he was found by a physician TO have ncurable
tuberculosis The justice admits that he could find
no direct precedent for his ruling which he bases
the general principle that ANY misrepresentation of
material fact incidental to the contract of marriage
is sufficient to void it." The decision may be said to
put eugenics on judicial basis.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
A FAMOUS MACHINE BREAKING UP.

Baseball has all seasons for its own. Although
it is two months since the crack of bat against ball
ceased resound the business aspects of the sport
continue to furnish interest and sometimes excite
ment for the Fans
The sale of Collins, the famous second baseman
of the Philadelphia Americans, to Chicago, of the
same league, is sensation that ecpses the jump of
Pitchers Bender and Plank to the Federals. Bender
and Plank were tagging superhuous and would have
been released to minor league if they had elected
to remain with organized baseball.
But the transfer of Collins marks the breaking up
of the famous Mack machine" which won three
worlds championships for the Athletics within four
years.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09

appears in household all tba o+h,,.
chlIdren should be kept from school
out 1t is unnecessary to send tiysy,o
out OF the house. The room In vvtieh
the patient is being nursed shonId he
isolated from the rest of the 'honss
with as rigid quarantine as If the
eoni,aglon We're always fatal. RI the
.hoarer IS the nurse she should keen
at least two weeks after the III, M
tlent has recovered. It is nossibIs
Tor a child to take measles bv merely
passing the open door of a room n
whlch the patient is confined
A week after the last signs Of she'd.
ding have disappeared it is safe o ~
permit me patient to mingle with
other children again. But before th.,
room in which he has heen no,'s .l's
is used 1t should be disinfected ', MI ),
great care. WI
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
Is THIS THE COUNSEL OF A FRIEND?

Naturally Japan is interested in the American
question of national defense, since it would be her
obvious policy have the United States unprepared
Toxic newspaper therefore thinks that further in
crease of armament for America would add nothing
to her enviable international position.
But 80 long as the Americans do not proceed fur
Their in excluding Asiatcs with utter disregard to in
ternatona law, there is fear that the immigration
question will become the of war. There is
something of a menace in this The only nation that
has made trouble over immigration laws is Japan.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
The Nineteenth Week Of war.

From the Washington star
Most eonspicuously in evidence at
the opening Of the nineteenth week
Of the war Is the reported capture OF
LODI, in Poland, by the German
forces. after many days of furious
lighting. AT one time it seemed in
svitable that the second German IN
Casion OF Poland would be turned
INTO a grave disaster TO the kaiser
a.I-n,ies. for the Russians had all but
sncircled q large portion of the ad-
rancing troops. Owing, however, to
tardiness on the part OF General Ken
nenksmpf, who has since been as
honored for his fault, the enVelop-
nent was not completed and the Ger
man troops won free and have since
evidently reformed their lines ana
been STRENGTHENED by achievements
The capture of LODI is regarded as
~ the utmost importance, for II is
rated as equivalent to opening the
,gay to Warsaw, which has from the
ontset of the war been a much desired
German objective. Petrograd Is silent
regarding this late development, and
his silence must, for the present, pe
.interpreted as confirmatory Of the
German claim of success.
In the western theatre OF the wal
there has been but little change, but
that little has been to the ADVANTAGE
81 the allies. Late reports Indicate
some advances have been scored by
the English and French in Flanders
ana in the Argonne district. These
changes Of position are not suscept'
ible to Interpretation as indications O
a general aggressive policy on th'
part of the allies, but are more hkel.
fo be mere developments OF loca
lighting. There is, in fact. no slgl
mat the allies have begun their Otter
neralded advance to drive the Ger
mans back to their next line OF de
fense. in central Belgium.
Naval operations during the past
week have been of no moment, bu'
the nineteenth week Of the war opens
with the statement from Berlin to th,t
eject that forty British and French
yVarships are gathering at some pom
unnamed with the evident intention
81 forcing their way through" Ths
censor shag deleted the name OF th'
obiect sof attack. but 1t has been as
sunaed 1Abat the Dardanelles is TN
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09

should observe them in their relations
with children. There wasn't a child
in Concord who wasn't devotedly at
tached to Thoreau. He made friends
with them, got up excursions for them
and was the joy of their lives, and l
have heard some of them say that 1t
was very happy day when Thoreau
took them out yonder in the fields to
pick huckleberries. He often sang
his penknife and he cut willow
whistles for them and made bows and
arrows.
Some of the big men of the town
were also very fond of Thoreau.
When he was dying of consumption
Judge Hoar, who lived across the
street, used frequently to take flowers
to him, and 1 have heard the judges
brother, who Is United States Senator
now, say that the common impression
of Thoreau was entirely wrong, and
George Hoar ought to know, for he
went to school with Thoreau, and
after Thoreau became a teacher was
one of his scholars.
AT Thoreau's funeral almost every
body if town was present and the
bells tolled for him for over an hour.
This is the best kind of proof of
what Thoreau really was. For do
you suppose children would have
nestled up to him or the townspeople
shown him every courtesy when he
was sick and attended his funeral
practically in body If he had been
really the kind of man so many peo-
pie who don't live in Concord think
he was? The reason for this mis-
taken impression was that Thoreau
was never q fiatterer, always spoke
the truth when he spoke at all and
was sometimes a little impatient with
people and always had profound
contempt for bores. But he would
pass hours in conversation with men
who were original and were per-
fectly natural and frank"
Copyright. 1914, by e. j, Edwards.
All rights reserved.l
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09

Akron (o.) bartenders are 100 per
cent. organized.
Uruguay has enacted an accident
prevention law.
Factory inspection was established
in Germany in 1878.
Galveston (rex) wage-earners are
80 per cent. organized
One of the fundamental declarations
of the A. r. of L. is one days rest
in seven.
Easton Glib & Son, contractors for
Rosyth dockyard, Scotland, will give
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
delay The boatmen of South Jersey appear to have
legitimate grievance.
GIANT :. SIEGE GUNS NOT FOR Us

One thing which under present conditions has to
be ignored in the plans for strengthening our ma
tional defense is sfxteenneh field with which
the Germans battered down the forts of Namur and
Antwerp. General Crozier tells committee of Con-
gress that our war department had idea of
experimenting with these gigantic cannon They can
be transported only by rail Even the superior high
ways of Europe cannot stand the wear and tear of
transporting these enormous guns, much less the
roads of America
As General Crozier says, I'VE are not going up
against anything like that" To question whether
an American did not invent similar gun and offer
it to our war and navy departments, the general
points out that there is invention about merely
making guns bigger; anybody can do that But in
the case of the 42-eentimetre siege guns 1t the
German that took the thought to do it.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
News of the Labor World

women whose husbands have been
called to the war house rent free in
the village during their absence, and
also 5cwt. of coal each per month.
ST. Joseph (Mo.) unionists have Or
ganized a ''labor advance commit
tee" for the purpose OF inaugurating
a trade union campaign the coming
year.
The Joint Board OF the Interna
tional Painters and Paperhangers
Union of New York city has called
a series of meetings for its locals
for the purpose of taking a vote Oh
the question of amalgamating with
the Brotherhood Painters.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
What He Needed.

The physician pondered the case for
few minutes before he yentured an
opinion.
81 think your husband needs a rest
more than anything else" he said At
last. "If he could be convinced Of
that"
"But he absolutely refuses to listen
to mel doctor"
''WelI,' returned the physician,
ttoughtfully, that's q step in the
right direction 4.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
HWake!

Death hunts for us beneath the
Death hunts for us amidst the air
Awake, o slunberers lul1ed in ease!
Up and prepares
Shall England bow her head at last
The badge of vassaage to wear?
Awake-the hour for sleep is past
Up and prepared
Know you what fate on Belgium fell
You that have wives or daughters fair?
Shall they, too feed the lusts of hell?
Up and prepared
What sound is this that rises DER
The squadron's tramp, the bugles blafe
'Ts doom, knocking at Engands door,
Up and prepare!
Arm as your sires were proud to arm,
Dare as your brothers yonder dare
In mort and mine and forge and farm,
Up and prepared
William Watson.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09

The Massachusetts Forestry Asso-
citation offers as prize the planting
of fifty acres of white pine to the
town which gains first place in a
contest for town forests.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09

The Boise National forest, in Idaho
had thirty fires during the past sum-
mer, yet twenty-eight were held
down to less than ten acres, and OF
these fifteen were less than one
quarter of an acre. The supervisor
says this success was due TO look
out tower and to efficient telephone
and Photograph service.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
Store Girl Rebukes "Office Girl

time and space I remain, yours re
specially,