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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
COAL FAMINE OR
STRIKE IS DENIED
Local Dealers Declare They
Have Large SuppIy-Drivers'
Complaint Termed Joke"

That there will be neither a coal
famine nor a strike of coal drivers in
Newark is the general impression
among the large coal dealers in this
city. At the present time there are
several hundred thousand tons of coal
stored at the Lackawanna and Le-
high Valley railroad pockets. From
this supply all dealers in this vicinity
are privileged to draw. is estimated
that the supply on hand will last local
factory and private consumers for
several weeks.
The dealers are at a loss to know
where the coal famine rumor origi-
naeed. They declare that several
days ago they were avalanched with
orders from private and factory Off
cials. This they can now account for
owing to the rumor
To supply the demands, local deal
ers have several hundred extra teams
of horses at work. This is made nec-
essary by the slushy roads. 1t is is
pected that conditions will be again
normal in several days.
1--WE do not care how many nor how
big the orders are. We will take care
of them ALL" may be considered as
slogan of the big dealers in this
city.
Many of the smaller dealers are
without coal at their yards. This will
not hamper one bit. The large supply
at the local railroad pockets will take
care OF the local dealers.
The price of the fuel will remain as
at the present time. inns morning 1t
was rumored that the price would be
raised. This was emphatically denied
by the dealers.
The question of strike among the
drivers is nothing more than joke
with the dealers. They declare they
have heard nothing about the con-
templated strike. They further add
that it will not affect the local situa-
ton one bit, as they can secure all
the men they may need.
1t was reported that a dozen coal
drivers went on strike yesterday.
This could not be confirmed. George
A. Colby, business manager of the To-
cal Teamsters' Union, could not be
found today.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
FIRE CHIEF MOORE
SOUNDS WARNING
Keep Hydrants Free of Snow
and Lecture Children on
Fallen Wire PeriIs.

In connection with renewed re-
quest that the citizens continue to
communicate with fire headquarters
through telephone number 1926 Mar
ket, the central office number, Chief
Paul j. Moore. of the fire department,
calls public attention TO a matter. also
of serious Importance, and that is the
need of keeping fire hydrants and ap-
proaches thereto free anl clear of ice
and snow or other Instructions.
1T is a physical impossibility for
the fire department to detail men to
this special work, explained the
chief. I'VE haven't men in sufficient
numbers. They are out on other duty
and cannot be spared. During the
storm of two weeks ago | called upon
citizens and had company command
ants throughout the city do likewise
and asked them to cooperate with us
in the task of keeping fire hydrants
clear. Business men and dwell
ers cheerfully complied with the re-
quest. They cleared away the snow
from hydrants near their places of
business and dwellings ana their as
sistance was invaluable. It was for
their own protection, in case of fire
as well as great aid to the depart
ment.
If they do as well now as they did
two weeks ago, | can assure them
that their efforts will be appreciated
and they will receive the thanks of
the department.
ut wouldn't be a bad idea, either
declared the chief. "if the laborers
employed by the city to remove snow
would pay more attention to clearing
a path to the FIRE hydrants. l extend
my request to them.
Hint to school Teachers.
Il hope | may be pardoned fol-
going slightly beyond what some
may consider my line of duty" said
Chief Moore, taking up another
thread but while upon the subject
of overhead wires and the danger to
life that turks therein, l will VEN
ture a suggestion, and let it go for
what it is worth, even inviting criti-
cism of being q 'butter-in. If dan
Cling and fallen wires, and the dead
ones seem to be like the pistol that
wasn't loaded" carry death to adults
who are supposed to be careful and
guarded. how much greater is the
peril to children?
IF I were a member of the Board
of Education j would issue orders to
school principals and school teachers
generally to lecture and caution chill
dren to avoid wires that they may
ind lying on the ground or dangling
from poles or trees. Such wires are
usually charged with the deadly elec-
trio current, and children are prone
to play with such things.
MY attention was called TO this
menace to children and the need OF
warning to them by q lineman in our
department. who yesterday ran across
some children who were playing in
the snow near a PROSTATE wire. The
lineman discovered that this very
wire was charged with electricity
lie cut it off at a point too high foI
children to reach"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
HACKETT |NHER|TS
|. FORTUNE OF NIECE,
WHO HATED ACTOR
Gets Bulk of $2,5OO,OOO Estate
Left by Mrs. Minnie Hack
EFT TrOwbridge.

NEW YORK March 4.--James X.
Hackett, the actor, will be notified
today that he inherits the bulk of
the S2,50O,000 estate left by his niece.
Mrs. Minnie Hackett Trowbridge,
who died yesterday at her home, 70
Park avenue. A strange feature of
the amazingly unusual story is that
Mrs. Trowbridge had always refused
to receive or have anything to do
with the man who is to come into
her fortune. and it is doubtful if she
ever even saw him.
1t is likely the courts will be called
on to untangle some of the intricacies
of the situation, but lawyers familiar
with the facts did not see today how
Mr. Hackett could be prevented from
coming into the fortune of a niece
who hated him, as he is the nearest
of kin and entitled to the residuary
estate, willed to her husband. who
died before her
The beginning of the story dates
back many years. Mrs. Minnie Hack
EFT Trowbridge was the only child of
John Keteltas Hackett, for years re-
corder of New York city, a distin-
guished lawyer. and son of James
Henry Hackett, "Falstaff'' Hackett,
famous actor of the first half of
the nineteenth century.
How Family Feud Started.
John Keteltas Hackett's mother
died in lS45, and "Falstaff'' Hackett
some years later married a second
time, against the wishes of the en-
tire family. James K. Hackett. born
1869, when his father was sixty-nine
years old, is the only child of this
second marriage.
The opposition of Recorder Hackett
to ti1s second marriage was so pro-
nounced 1t had clung TO his daughter.
Asrs row bridge until the end Of
her sfxty-seven years. Recorder
Hackett's wife was Miss Laura Jane
Hail. member of an old family and
a relative of A. Oakley Hall, one time
mayor. Among Mrs. Trowbridge's s
distant cousins are L. Oakley Hall.
Mrs. George Peabody Wetmore, wife
of the United States senator from
Rhode Island; Miss Alice Keteltas
and Mrs James l.. Clancy, wife of
the warden of Sing Sing prison. The
old Keteltas home on Second avenue
was the last of the old family resi-
dences to remain on that thorough
fare.
Miss Minnie Hackett inherited
three fortunes. Her father left her
a large amount and her mother left
her the home at 72 Park avenue and
the house at 72S Fifth avenue, later
owned by Charles w. Morse.
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
TO RESUME LABOR
PROBE ON MONDAY
Economy and Efficiency Com
mission Sets Date-Awkward
Situation Arises.
Especial to the Evening star.I

TRENTON, March 4.--The inveSti-
cation of the State labor department
by the Economy and Efficiecy Com
mission is to be resumed next Mon
day morning, it was announced last
night from the offices of the commits
sion. The hearing was to have been
continued on Monday of this week
but the storm prevented the principals
from reaching this city. Commits
sioner Lewis 7. Bryant will resume
his testimony as witness on that
day, and Assemblyman Walter L.
McDermott will resume his question
ing of the witness
The probe has aroused more discus
sion than any probe of a State de-
partment or institution held for years
Opinions differ as to the seriousness
of the revelations. 1t is generally
agreed that the one hour of actual
questioning last Wednesday indicated
the need for further investigation
In some quarters fears are expressed
that the department of labor is
threatened by the investigation. That
is not the idea of the investigation
at all. they say. The economy and
efficiency commissioners, who arc
both friendly and critical of the de-
partment, agree that the department
should not be discontinued, in any
event.
Assemblyman McDermott said to-
day that he had heard that labor
leaders are fearful of the effect of the
probe on the existence of tn depart
mnt. He said that h had nothing to
say against the usefulness of the or
ganization, except that it, in his
opinion, might be rendered more ef-
fective than it has been.
The postponement of the hearing to
next Monday has produced an awk-
ward situation. The report of the
Economy and Efficiency Commission
referred to the investigation as being
under way. with a promise that legis-
lation would be asked for at its COM
pletion, and during this session. The
time limit on the introduction of new
bills expires tomorrow, and the end
nf the probe may not come for weeks
How the situation is to be met will
depend on the action of the two
houses of the Legislature with regard
to whatever bill may .be decided upon
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04

| WASHI MOTION. q March 4. - The
Democratic administration was year
old today. Just tgely, months ago at
noon Woodrow Wilson stood on the
east front of the Capitol and took the
oath of office ushering the Democ-
racy into control of all branches of
the national government, for the first
time in twenty years.
At the White House, in executive
quarters generally and in congress
sional circles the day served to recall
the work of the fleeting year. Mem
bers of Congress realized that except
for a short breathing spell at the
Christmas holidays they had beer in
practically continuous session.
From the time the President broke
a century precedent ana stood be-
fore an assembled Congress to urge
the enactment of low tariff, close
cooperation has reigned between the
chief executive and the leaders Of
the dominant party in Congress. Fhe
enactment of a tariff law Oh October
3, 1913. making vital changes in the
duties on imports, was followed by
the signing of a banking and currency
act on December %, 1913 These two
laws and the recent ratification of the
arbitration treaties are the things
which the Presidents friends were
pointing To as the direct result of the
intimate contact established between
the executive and legislative depart
ments of the government.
Mexico Greatest Question.
Much of the Presidents time and
energy have been spent III wrestling
with a troublesome Mexican situation,
as yet unsolved. and the diplomatic
tangle with Japan growing out of the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
PIew Hanged for Murder as
Mrs. Wakefield's Death
Is Stayed by an Appeal

HARTFORD, Conn. March A.
James Plew. who murdered William
Wakefield, at Middlebury. last. June,
in order that he might marry Mrs.
Wakefield, was hanged in the State
prison at Wethersfield today. Plew
went TO his execution calm and un-
afraid.
In a cell in the death row" not
many hundred feet away from the
execution chamber, was Mrs. Wake
field under sentence of death for
completely in the crime. She was
originally sentenced to die with Plew,
but by a strange coincidence, argu-
ments were made for a new trial be-
fore the Supreme Court on the very
day she was sentenced to be hanged
the appeal acting as a stay of eXecu-
ton.
Mrs. Wakefield was awake and
praving at the hour Plew paid the
penalty of the law. Plew made re-
quest that he see Mrs. Wakefield be-
fore he died but this privilege was
denied him by the prison rules.
PIew made no written confession
before his execution, but talked free
lv of the crime to the prison chaplain
and officials During the day he was
visited by his brother, Isaac Plew
of Salisbury Hills, Orange county, n
T.. and his sister, Mrs. Mary r.
Zedenburg, of New York.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
Church TO HONOR
BISHOPS MEMORY

4 special meeting of the official
board of Calvary NJ. e. Church. East
Orange, will be held tonight to take
action on the death of Bishop Thomas
Bowman yesterday. Ever since the
bishop had made his home In the
Oranges, about fifteen years ago, he
rad made Calvary Church his home
church. and until recent years was
actively identified with its life and
activities, laying aside his work only
when the infirmities of old age made
further service impossible.
He was a regular attendant at the
Sunday services, frequently particl-
pating in them with the pastor, Rev.
Dr. Fred Clare Baldwin, and regular
ly assisting in the communion SER
vices. He was also a very regular at
tendant at the mid-week prayer SER
vices, where his broad and ripe eX-
periences, together with his fine schol-
arly attainments, made him the OBJ
iect of especial esteem and affection.
Rev. DR.. Fred Glare Baldwin will
offer a prayer at the home of Burns
ID. Caldwell, High street. Orange, SON.
in-law of the bishop, where the re-
mains are resting, tomorrow morning
at about S:15 o'clock Then the body
viii be taken to the Market street
depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad
and then TO Green Castle, Indiana,
where the services are to be held at
the DePauw University on Friday
morning.
DR.. Baldwin arranged today a list
of honorary pallbearers representing
the official board of the church and
the Mems Club, Bishop Bowman also
being a member of the latter, who
will accompany the remains from the
home to the railroad depot in Newark.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
MYSTERY IN CASE
OF OLD MAN FOUND
DYING IN STREET
Clark Irwin Believed to Have
Been Struck by Vehicle-PO=
lice investigating.

A victim of a mysterious mishap.
Clark Irwin. seventy years old, of SO
Monroe street, was found unconscious
on the car tracks in Ferry street op-
posite McWhorter street early today.
His right ear is nearly torn off. The
right side of his body is badly lacer-
atcd. He has a possible fracture of
tie skull He is in the City Hospital
where the physicians consider his
conuIrion critical.
The discovery was made by Ser
| Geant Groo, of the Third precinct
while he was making his rounds
| shortly after 5 o'clock this morning
The man was lying across the east
bound track. and apparently had
been there but u short time.
Sergeant Groo Immediately sum-
moned the City Hospital ambulance
| and the man was removed to the
hospital, A son of the injured man
Robert Irwin. of 1919 Lafayette
street, was notified.
Irwin had not regained conscious
| ness at the hospital up to noon to-
day, and the police have thus far been
| unable to learn any particulars of the
mishap,
1t is the theory of the police that
Irwin was not the victim of an as
sault, but that he was struck by a
vehicle of some kind. Someone may
be withholding knowledge of the acci-
dent, they think.
Captain Christie, of the Third pre-
cinct, put several men on the case to-
dayfi. and they are making every ef-
fort to clear up the mystery.
At the hospital il aw ssaid that
Irwin might die without regaining
consciousness. His advanced age, it
was declared, might initiate against
his recover.
Irwin was enDloyed by the New
ark Warehouse Company, of 110 Me-
chanic street, and was on his way to
work
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
BLACK HAND BOMB
FOLLOWS THREATS
TO ITALIAN BANKER
Bruce Street Residents in Ter
rOr as Explosion Shakes Sec
tiOn-NO Damage Done.

Residents of Bruce street were
awakened When a dull report rang
out shortly before 1:30 a. m. today.
Windows were raised and frightened
householders rushed to the streets in
scanty attire to see a small cloud of
smoke ascending from a snow pile
in front of No. 1873, the home of Mat
teo Parasi, banker.
A few moments after the explosion
Sergeant Kull and Patrolman Nc
Conneli, who had been attracted by
the sound, came running along the
street. They found the frightened
crowd in front of Parasis home.
Whats the trouble?" the officers
asked.
"A bomb has exploded here they
We're told.
Residents of the street, who are
mostly well-to-do Italians, were ter
ror-stricken. The BLACK Hand" was
frequently mentioned. and the per-
sons in the street kept near the po-
licemen as if for protection against
some fresh attack.
kull and Mcconnell searched IN the
snow and found what was left of a
small, Well-made bomb. Bits of metal
of various sizes were imbedded in the
snow, and as the officers kicked down
the pile heavy gases ascended from
the snow.
Kull and Mcconnell found a piece
of fuse about three feet long near the
snow pile where the bomb lay. After
picking up this and the fragments
of the bomb they rang the doorbell al
Parasis home.
A head was thrust from an upper
window in response to the ring.
What do you WANT the banker
demanded.
Get dressed and come out" he was
told. Somebody has set off bomt
in front of your house."
Quit your kidding" Parasi said
81 didn't hear anything
1t was only after Kull and McCon-
nell had argued with Parasi and sew
| eral of his countrymen had fervently
| assured him in his own language that
! the bomb really had gone off at his
doorstep that he would consent tc
| come out.
Questioned by the police. Parasl in
sisted the placing of the bomb ir
front of his home was a joke. Tbs
police say, however, in spite of his
apparent desire to make light of the
affair. he was visibly frightened and
threw furtive glances at his fellow
countrymen as he talked The police
sa ythey learned from residents OF
the neighborhood that attempts have
been made to blackmail Parasi in
the past, and the opinion of the police
seems to be that the explosion of the
bomb today was in the nature of q
gentle hint to the banker thai this
blaelxmailers still are on his trail.
Plainclothesman Kads is inVesti.
eating the case. Today he found an
other section of fuse near the bomb.
The police investigation has shown,
he said, the maker of the bomb was
experienced in their manufacture and
evidently placed the bomb in front Of
Parasi's door. not with the intention
of doing any damage, but merely with
frightening the banker.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
Preside
New Tariff Currency Laws and Ratification of Arbitration
Treaties Accomplished First Milestone Is Passed
Today-To Address Congress on Tolls Tomorrow

passage by California of q new anti
alien land law. Lately he has been
devoting himself to a rehabilitation of
the foreign relations of the United
States-the drafting, with Secretary
Bryan, of new peace treaties, the set
tlement of the Panama canal tolls
controversy with Great Britain, diff
culties with Colombia growing out of
the partition of Panama, and many
other subjects of foreign policy.
Five times the President has ap-
peared before Congress, delivering
messages on the tariff, the currency,
Mexican affairs, the annual report of
"The state of the Union, and trust
legislation" The recommendations
of his annual message for the build
ing of an Alaskan railway, rural
credits, and antitrust reform are still
in the hands of Congress with assur-
ances of the leaders that they will be
made law before the expected ad-
joirnment in June
To Speak on Tolls Tomorrow.
Interest In the Presidents sixth
message was apparent when it be-
came known he would address Con-
gress tomorrow in advocacy of the
repeal of the clause eXempting Amer
lean coastwise shipping from the pay
ment of Panama Canal tolls. The
chief executive for the first time asks
Congress, particularly his own party
to reverse itself. but his argument is
that when Congress last passed on
the question. international circum-
stances such as now surround the
question did not then exist. The
President believes a general distrust
of the Intentions of the United States
in constituting treaties for its own sci.
fish benefit has arisen and because OF
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
Moore Quits
State Dept

WASHINGTON, March 4, = John
Eassett Moore, counselor of the state
denartment who ranks as acting sec
retary, has resigned and his resigna-
tion has been accepted by President
Wilson.
For the present Mr.. Moore will con-
time his work here for the Carnegie
Institute. and later Will resume his
connection with Columbia University.
No announcement as to a probable
auccessor was made today. Mr..
Moore's pending resignation has been
r,lmored for several weeks, and each
lime had met with unqualified denial.
Various reports have had 1t that
there was o lack of harmony in his
views and those of higher officials,
4,it they never were supported by
anything official.
Mr.. Moore is an authority on inter-
national law.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
SAYS SUFFRAG|SM
IS LOCAL QUESTION
Matthews Urges Congress Not
to Violate States Rights
by Legislation.
Especial to the Newark Star. /

WASHINGTON, March 4.-Pro-suf-
frage and anti-suffrage women had
an all-day inning before the House
committee yesterday. Those who ia
vored women suffrage occupied the
morning and until l o'clock, and after
o. recess of an hour the antis had
their inning until ) o'clock. There
were about 300 women crowded into
the big committee room, and the eX
planation was made that there would
have been more but that they were
"1ost" on the stalled railroad trains
The suffrage workers gave it to be
understood in no uncertain terms that
the Democratic party would be held
for the failure of Congress to take
up and take up faVorably the ques-
ton of passing an amendment to the
constitution, allowing the women of
the land the privilege of voting. Mrs
Crystal Eastman, of New York; Mrs.
Mrs. Antoinette Funk. of the Con-
gressional Union, were the chief
speakers for the proposed amend
ment.
Former Assemblyman John J. Mat
thews, of Newark, n. j.. was in the
middle of a storm when he started
to talk at the afternoon session. He
followed Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge.
Says It's Local Question.
When Mr.. Matthews took the floor
he described himself as a Democrat,
New Jersey Democrat of the Will
son stripe. He took the attitude that
the question was a local one, and ac-
cording to the idea of the Democratic
party, it would be a violation of the
principle of States rights for Con-
gress to attempt to solve 1t. He then
went into figures to show that even
if it were submitted to the States
and carried by the small Western
States. already favorably disposed
toward equal franchise, it would be
matter of compelling the majority
of the people to submit to the will OF
the minority.
He showed that the Western States
which would supply the necessary
three-fourths majority to carry the
amendment were not as populous as
some of the districts represented by
members of the committee in their
congressional districts.
DIR. Mary Walker, in male evening
dress coat and other masculine
habiliments of the near evening
dress kind. projected herself into
the discussion after the women
who were opposed to Nthe suf-
fragists had concluded their argu-
ments. DIR. Walker had obtained the
promise Of Chairman Clayton that she
would be heard. She was told that
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