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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-11-11

HCotiAs AAAbi - SAa''>'. - -.
John Brinckerbon jackson is the
son of the late r. Wolcott Jackson.
for many years general superinten-
dent of the New York division of the
Pennsylvania railroad. and was born
IN Newark August 10, 1862. He was
graduated from the United States
Naval Academy in 1888 and was COM
inissioned an ensign in 1885. He TOOK
q course at the Newport torpedo sta
ton and was stationed at the/ ord
nance proving grounds at Annapolis.
He resigned from the naval service
in 1885. In 1889 he was admitted to
The New York bar. He was appoint
ed second secretary of legation in
Berlin In 1890 and secretary of en-
bassy in 1894 and frequently served
as charge d'affaires at the German
capital. After having accepted the
mission to Chile he was appointed
minister to Greece, Rumania and Ser
bia in 1902 and diplomatic agent in
Bulgaria the following year. Mr..
Jackson represented the United States
at the coronation Of King Peter of
Serbia in 1904 He was appointed
minister to Serbia in 1907. to Cuba in
1909, TO Rumania. Serbia and Bulgaria
in 1911 and resigned his post in 1913.
Mr.. jackson was a delegate to the.
international Maritime Law Confer
ence at Hamburg in 1902 and the In
ternationai Archaeological Congress
at Athens in 1905. He was the Amer
lean representative at the Olympic
games at Athens in 1906. In 1912 he
served as special representative OF
President Taft, with the rank OF ann
bassador, for the coming of age OF
the Crown Prince Boris of Bulgaria.
Mr.. jackson is member of the
New York Bar Association, the Union
League. Lawyers, Army and Navy
and University clubs. Of New York;
the Rittenhouse, of philadelphia; the
Metropolitan, of Washington; the
Casino, of Berlin; the Union of Ha-
vana, and the Imperial Yacht Club,
of KieI, Germany. Princeton Uni
versity conferred upon him the de-
gree of master of arts in 1886
Mrs. Gerard was married to the
present apibassadors to Germany IN.
1902. and IS daeEhter Of the lata
Marcus Daly, the copper 1hagnatc-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-11-11
KAISER HONORS NEWARKER
AND AMBASSADORS WIFE
j. 3. jackson Decorated-Mrs.
Gerard Gets Medal Granted
Royalty Only.
BY The United Press.

BY the United Press.
BERLIN, via The Hague. Nov IL
Kaiser Wilhelm today decorated Mrs.
James ". Gerard, wife OF the Ameri-
man ambassador with Red Cross
gold medals Of the first and second
class. This is the first time the
kaiser has ever given a decoration of
the first class to woman not OF
royal blood.
The Kaiser also awarded red cross
medals of the second and third class
es to Rev s. Barclay. Of Gotham,
va. and John B. jackson, Of Newark,
n. ]. both have been active in in
vestigating prison camps and sug-
gesting improvements.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-02-08
REASONS ADVANCED WHY ALASKA
 NEEDS A BOARD OF CONTROL,
TT HE EFFORT to provide better government for Alas

pTOVlde government Alaska
 that its inhabitants will not be forever subjected
 to the caprice of bureau chiefs 1000 miles distant natu rally meets immediate opposition from the will become of them and their tape Alaska is to be taken out of their clutches! Hawaii is segovenmg Porto Rico isl practically the canal is virtually military reservation Philippines are governed in the Philippines Alaska is the last resort of the Washington bureau chief Take that Territory from him and the last stronghold of the crcumocu tiOn office will fall.
 Secretary proposes establish governing board in Alaska to look after the minor affairs of the Territory and o handle its business generally subc Congress and the tary of the interior Under this plan, applicant for fifty foot lot for the purpose of raising chickens would have his pcation passed upon and decided in Alaska instead being compelled to hand it down to his grandchildren while the gov ernment at WashihgtOn deliberating upon it.
 But this method of governing Alaska Alaska meets the determined opposition of the American Forestry Association which prefers to keep Alaska breeding ground for fads forestry At meeting of the association in Philadelphia gently asserted by distinguished forest experts that the proposal to place affairs Alaska in the hands of governing board nmica the forest serVce that public lands would be "whed down" and gradually pass into private hands, and such magnificent forests the Chugach Ton gass would finally disappear It added that there complaint against management the forest reserves in Alaska.
 The facts that neither Cgac Tongass contains as much forest land The and it worth anything ought be in private handsn the hands of citizens engaged in building homes and developing the country At least 5000O00 in the reservations forested Yet they administered from Washington as forests and there great show of scientific management cutva On etc., all of it calling for appropriations from the treasury without beneftng the nation the people of Alaska The sole benefit of the present arrangement goes employees of forest service.
 While Congress is considering conservation matters it could well afford to dig into the Alaskan situation and obtain frsthand information from Aaskans. Ninety per of them favor Secrtey Lanes pan They American c zens, building up the nations interests in faraway too inviting of the national domain. If they part of the public lands they ought be able it, with due gard to the public interest governing board the ground clothed with to dispose of minor business and directly under the of the Secretary of the Interior would be infinite ly effective in governing Alaska than the bureaucratic system that pursues the theory that every person Alaska
 thief trying to swnde the United Washington Post
The Cordova daily times., 1915-02-08
WARS RED WHEELS CRUSHING
 OUT THOUSANDS OF HUMAN LIVES

PERSON nearing abattOir warned of ith proximity from Europe during the past four months has filled the
 by the ordOrs arising from it. 1t the same way news souls ot men with the ordors that have been the sambes there These have during the past ten days been accentuated by the caacm that the earhouae moblzed its forces and took up its march Italy
 "On horrors head horrors accumulate" until
 We are "suppd full of horrors.''
 They are having their effect upon the wod unconscoslv men are yielding to the sinister influence been no war the news from Italy would ere this started relief ships the to Italy and the Red would have been urgent in it's sphere of hep followed the Mesna cata trophe.
 When men are dying their secretions cease and while friends around them weeping they shed tears Are the finer instincts of breaking accommodating ev dences that has deserted the and the old brutal methods of primitive have assumed full swayq It looks that way
 When people rise up break unbearabe letters that the worlds ympahes wrap them round the world better and tenderer watching them.
 But when migthy war is launched upon the world for no purpose except to minister to the lust of conquest extend and commerce and gratfy unhoy ambitions then it be- comes only mighty uggenaut and while its wheels are crushing out human lives making barren fallow of fertile fields grinding into ruins noble cities with their gloes and architecture the ruin does not stop with destruction The shadow of it, falling the souls of men, them their higher attributes act like dying they have lost the power to weep
 The disaster of the present in Europe extends far be yond its local boundaries. It makes dsrusul of their fellow its tendency to make question the movies of
The Cordova daily times., 1915-02-08

their fellow men; doubt the divinity of charity and love almost to doubt the mercy of God
 As yet there signs that any of the nations en- gagged has desire to end the struggle except and so the uggenaut continues roll burden of the news each day IS but the story battles and the odor from the mighty abottors continue to tant the world atmosphere For us there nothing do except plant larger area than was ever before harvested and try to keep charities and prepare people far possible against any such catasrphe threatening wreck civilization itself ir the old world.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-02-08

In discussing the question of the police and parasites the Juneau Empire points out how little determination and eff cency the part of the local authorities up such dlton 1t The members of the Juneau City Council are determined that the parasites, who live from "pcking unsuspecng gambling games those of that worse brand of parasites the who live from earnings soute cannot ply their nefarous trades in this city
 There is nothing remanng for the Council and the new Chief to do but to put stop to practices that ntoerabe-and that they will do it is certain
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-04-08
IOWA LEGISLATURE
THINKS OF QUITTING
Seasonable Attack of Laziness
Brings Talk of Adjourn
ment.

Des Motnes, Ia. April 5.--Spring
FEVER has attacked the Iowa legisla-
tors, They want to go back home.
Several acts of the house and SEN
ate IN h last "a hours indicate that
adjournment will be Forthcoming Just
as soon as the business now ON hand
can possibly be disposed of.
Ihe house Friday afternoon voted
10 adloufn Monday, and then changed
ITS mimi and decided to work Satur-
uay forenoon, when adjournment was
taken THIS noon. 1t was decided to re-
convene this afternoon instead of TAX
ing usual Saturday afternoon va
cation.
Bruce, of ~Pccahontas. introduced a
resolution hat all bills on the calendar,
excepting appropriation, retrenchment
and reform and special order meas
ures, be turned over to the sitting COM
mittee.
Senator Helmer. of Carroll, intro
duced q resolution to limit debate in
the senate to five minutes, with 10
minutes for the closing argument Of
the author. This rule is now in force
in h house.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-04-08
FAIL TO FIND TRACE
OF WOMAN AND BABES
Believed North Bend Woman
Drowned Children and
Herself.

Fremont, Neb. April 5.-Search was
resumed hero today for Mrs. Arch
Ferguson, who is supposed to have
thrown two children, aged 9 and 5. into
the Platte river, south Of North Bend,
and leaped in herself. Dragging and
dynamiting has been conducted four
miles south of the bridge, but not a
sign of bodies has been found yet. Eff
forts to locate the husband, who left
North Bend Wednesday morning on a
freight train going east, have been
unsuccessful so far.
Every house in the vicinity of the
river was visited by searchers, but
none of the inmates have seen Mrs.
Ferguson or children. John Kent, of
North Bend, who crossed the bridge at
1880 yesterday, say he passed Mrs.
Ferguson and two babies on the
bridge. She was writing in a note
book and did not look up. Francis
Griffin, who brought the empty baby
buggy in from h bridge, saw moth
ing of Mrs. Ferguson, but when he
lifted the baby pillow The notebook fell
put of it. The letter was apparently
Intended for the husband, but no adj
dress was written on 1t. Mrs. Fergu-
son was % years of age was
married to Ferguson eight years ago.
They had five children. AS Nellie
Strayer, a few years ago she was re-
garded as one of North Bends pref
Hest girls.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-04-08
MAN HELD FOR
NUMBERING HUSBAND
Kansas Woman Says Paramour
Tried to Induce Her to
Poison His Rival.

Paola, Kan. April 5.-Mrs. Maude
McEleheney, widow of Geo. b. Nc
cheney, formerly postmaster of Louis
burg, Kan. who was slain by a shot
through the window of his home Octo-
Der IA, 1912. testified for the prosecu-
ton at the preliminary hearing here
of Roscoe Hornbaker. arrested in con
nection with the killing, admitted re-
lations with Hornbacker, both before
and after her husbands death.
Hornbaker is a mail carrier and met
Mrs. McIIlheney when her husband be-
came postmaster.
Two or three months before the post
master was killed, the widow testified
Hornbaker gave her a bottle containing
poison and urged her to put it in her
husbands food. She refused, she said.
and later broke the bottle and threw
the contents away.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-04-08
International Mercantile Marine
Company, Morgan Concern,
Unable to Meet Inter
est on Bonds.
FRANKLIN N RECEIVER
Parent Corporation and Sub
sidiary Organizations OPP
Grated More Than 100
Ships of All Sorts.

New York. April 5.-The Interna-
tional Mercantile Marine or
ganized by j. p. Morgan g. Co, and
controlling a great fleet of steamships
plying between The United States and
Europe. was placed in the hands of g.
receiver today by the federal court.
The receiver named was p. A. S.
Franklin. vice president of the COM
pany.
Action against the ompan was
taken by the New York Trust COM
pany, trustee of it's $50, 744, 900 Az per
cent collateral trust bonds, interest on
which has been defaulted. The pro-
ceedlngs are understood to be
friendly.
Mr.. Franklin was placed under a
$780, 600 bond and empowered to con-
tinue the business of the
The mammoth fleet that flies the flag
OF the International Mercantile Marine
company was brought together by q
syndicate OF American and British cap
italists, under the leadership OF the late
J. P. Morgan. The corporation, in it's
present form, was chartered by the
state of New Jersey in 1902 and sue
ceeded the international Navigation
company.
One hundred and nineteen steamships
flying, the flags of Great Britain, the
United States and Belgium, We're OPP
Grated. according to the latest available
figures. and they We're then building
Is more ships. Some of these have since
been completed.
More than 100000 900 of the COM
pany's authorized capital stock OF $780,
900, 900 has been issued. j. P. Morgan
& Co. are large stockholders. Mr.. Nor
gan is a director of the company. whose
funded debt is approximately $40, O00,-
900. This is made up of two issues Of
bonds, the big issue, on which interest
has been defaulted. and an issue of
ST., SS2.0 900 first mortgage 5 per cent
bonds of the international Navigation
company.
The interest on the $52, 744,0oo bond
issue was due October | last, but a
clause in the bonds "a the
six months grace to make payment.
This term expired April /.
No transatlantic steamships were
directly operated by the company. their
operation being left to subsidiary cor
poratlons, whose stock was held by the
International Mercantile Marine com
pany. These companies directed the
operation Of the White Star line, the
Red Star line. the American line. the
Atlantic Transport company. the Ley
land line. and the Dominion line. 1t
was said the receivership proceedings
would not in any way disturb the oper-
alton of The company or it's subsidi-
aries
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-04-08
ITALIAN AMBITIONS
FAVORED BY RUSSIA
Vexing Question In Diplomatic
Negotiations Settled-Rome
Also Warned,

Rome. April 3 (via Paris). April 8
The P~etrograd Telegraph agency, a
~semi-officiai organization, has author
fzed it's correspondent here to issue a
statement asserting that Russia is in
sympathy with 1taly's territorial as
pirations. around the head of the Adri-
attic, but hopes that the Italian gov
eminent will not + excessive claims.
The statement says the imperialistid
attitude towards the Adriatic attributed
to Russia is due to German i%nstigation
This announcement from P~etrograd
assumes special significance because OF
Italy's warlike preparations and the eff
forts to adjust the boundary question
with Austria.
The territory indicated is inhabited
chiefly by people of Italian stock
which would include the provinces OF
Trent and Trieste.
The British embassy at Rome denied
a report that Lord R~csebery o any
other person is going to Rome on q
special mission for Great Britain.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-04-08
W0MENPOL|T|C|ANS
STAGE REAL RIOT
Chicago Supporters of Thomp-
son Pack Sweitzer Meet
inu and Break 1t Up
Police Called.

Chicago. April ga demonstration
approaching a riot in its uproar and
disorder marked a woman's political
meeting here late yesterday and was
brought to an end only when managers
of the theater in which the meeting WAS
held dropped he steel curtain and some
spectator sent a riot call for the police.
The meeting was called by Miss
Marion Drake who a year ago was
the progressive candidate for alder
man Of the first ward and was decisive
ly beaten by John Oath House, Cogll~
Ian. Miss Drake had organized the
Cant Stand for Thompson" club and
until she declared herself yesterday for
seymour Steadman, The socialist can
didate for mayor was believed to have
favored Robert Sweitzer, the demo-
cratic candidate as against William
Hale Thompson, the republican.
AS a Sweitzer supporter, Miss Drake
would have been aligned with Coghlan,
his colleague, Michael (lIinky Dini1)
Kenna and other politicians whom She
had attacked in her campaign a year
ago.
Woman supporters of Thompson In
tilnated Miss Drake had formed such
an alliance and the meeting either by
chance or design, was well filled with
those ~antagonistic to Miss Drake.
AlllOllS lle L llbilIDSOl supporters pres
ent were Miss Dora Earle, Mrs. Susan
L.. jerks, Mrs. Marke A. Rolfe, Mrs. E.
w. Apologize Mrs. Gertrude Presenell.
Miss Helen Goldsmith, Mrs. Louise Os-
borne II others well known in suf-
frage affairs here.
Stedman and John II. Hill. the pro-
hibition candidate had mad speeches,
when Miss Oral rose to introduce
Sweitzer, He had only bowed when
the outbreak began. Where's Thomp-
son. Get Il man. We want to hear the
men were the calls as men and women
through the theater rose to their feet
and these We're followed by less polite
EXPLANATIONS including a prolonged re-
quest for some n to get the hook"
The curtain dropped as a score OF
volunteer speakers began haranguing
for their particular candidate from u
score of locations III the big hall.
When the police came. the theater
was cleared.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-04-08
GARY MILLS RUNNING
AT FULL SPEED NOW
About 10000 Men Given Jobs
Steel and Car and Loco
motive Works Busy.

Chicago. April 5.-Nearly 10000 men
are working in the steel mills of Chi
caso Heights for the first time since
the first of the year, when business de-
preston and lack Of materials caused
the mills to close down. Several hun
dred more We're put to work in the mills
at Cary and South Chicago. Eighty
factories and locomotive works re-
sumed work on a normal scale.
The Central Locomotive & Car
Works alone took on 1000 men, work.
ing two shifts, for the first time since
last December. The Calumet Steel
company too on 800 men. The Chi
ago Pneumatic Tool company put on
800 men, working in three shifts. The
Cannedy-Otto works furnished jobs for
1890 men, are now running full
capacity. The American Maganeae
Steel company hired $500 men.
Practically every mill n factory
in Chicago and surrounding suburbs
are now operating, most of them full
time, with full crews of men.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-04-08
GOT THE MESSAGE TWISTED
Jenkins Believed In 6revity, and All
That Kind Of Thing, But He Had
a Sad Awakening.

Jenkins wife was away on a visit
Now, Jenkins was a very busy man
He believed not in lengthy communi.
cations. In letter-writing, brevity
was the synonym of excellence.
He loved his wife devotedly, enjoyed
hearing from her often, and always
devoured her brief letters with the
keen appetite Of an enthusiastic lover,
But to wade through a long, drawn.
out letter of 16 pages was to him an
utter waste of time and eyesight.
So one day his heart danced with
delight at the receipt of the follow.
ing from her Ga perfect gem of a thing
so short and sweet-so to the
point:
IN. d. L.,
b. S. d. f. t. n. a. n. o. t. w. m. I.
MARY"
He read it:
Il barely sleep, dearest, for think.
ing night after night of thee. With
much faith, MARY"
He should have read it thus:
Money down low. l bought silk
dress for thirty-nine at Newburg's on
tick. Wire me fifty. MARY"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-04-08
ROAD INSURGENTS LOSE
ATTEMPT ON COMMISSION

Des Moines, la, April 3.-Road in
surgents in the senate made an UNI
ktccessful attempt to put the state
highway commission IN bad today.
senator Chase. of Hamilton. who went
hoWn In defeat as general of the john
stoh road bill forces, introduced a reso-
,uton calling upon members Of the
highway commission to pay back to the
state money allowed them for expenses.
senator Chase declared the law did not
aul:oflze the expenses in question.
Inc mount We're as follows: A,
Marston, $157.61; j. w. Holden, $685.
e.; III. G. Beard, $1,4S1.40. The resolu-
tion called upon Attorney General Cos
son TO secure the epayme of this
money and all other amounts illegally
paid.
The vote was 10 for. to q agains
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-04-08
CRUISER E|TEL IS
STILL At ANCHOR
Report That She Had Dashed
to Sea Under Cover of Snow
storm Proves Without
Foundation.

Washington, April "a whirling
gale and snow storm which enveloped
the Virginia ape last night and to-
day did not tempt the German auxil-
larry cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich to
make a dash for the sea through the
Gordon of hostile cruisers outside, and
at l o'clock this afternoon an official
government dispatch from Hampton
Roads said the German raider still wa
moored to her wharf.
The storm, which drew the curtain
of secrecy over the Prinz Eitel for a
communication with the Hampton
Roads district, save wireless, started
a crop of rumors saying the German
cruiser had dashed behind the curtain
Of snowflakes and past the watch dogs
at the entrance to Chesapeake bay.
The governmental agencies got in
touch with Newport News, Va, and
established that the Prinz Eitel had
attempted no new daring exploit.
Coaled. provisioned and repaired. the
Prinz Eitel has been living at her
wharf a day TO day mystery, leaving
unanswered the question of whether
Commander Thierichens would finally
elect to intern his ship and men for
the wan or attempt a dash through the
fan of allied cruisers which have hoy
cred outside the three-mile limit be-
You'd the capes.
The chance of an unarmored ship
breaking through that Gordon was re-
sardcd as SO mail by naval officers
that it had been the almost general
opinion that the T.itel would he in
termed when the last moment of her
time expired. But such "a storm as to-
days makes every lane out to a sea a
comparatively safe route and many adj
mirers of the German commander re-
calling his daring exploits in seven
months at sea rowing. before he came
to Newport News. would not be sur
prised If he accepted the fortunate op-
portunity the elements afforded.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-04-08
AMERICAN EXPERTS
TO HELP SERBIANS
Rockefeller and Red Cross FL
nance Expedition to Combat
Typhus and Other Plaques.

New York, April 5.-The Italian line
steamer Duca D'Aosta, which sails to-
day for Naples, carries nine sanitary
experts, composing the American Red
Cross sanitary commission. which will
endeaVor to conquer the typhus fever
and other dread diseases epidemic in
Serbia.
The expenses OF the commission will
be borne jointly by the Red Cross and
the Rockefeller foundation. From
Naples they will go to Saloniki. Greece,
and then proceed into the heart of the
plague-ridden regions. The commits
sion will be under the direction of DR..
Richard p. Strong, of Harvard uni
versity. who already is in Europe.
Those who sail are: DR.. Thomas w.
jackson, chief sanitary inspector; DIR.
Hans Zinseer. b~acterologist; DIR. w.
Sellards, Or. George c. Shattuck, Dr.. f.
B. Grinnell. DR.. II. w. Caldwell. Hobart
d. Brink. w. S. Standifer and Louis
De La Pena. The last two named We're
members of General Gorgas' staff in
the sanitary campaign that rid the
Panama canal zone of fever.