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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04
NEW ALMSHOUSE
SPECIFICATIONS
UP TO MAYOR
Committee So Decides-Archi-
teot to Explain Charges
Monday.
EXAMINATIONS EXPECTED
TO BRING ABOUT CHANGES
Supplies Are Now Said to Be
Costing Too
Much.

New specifications for the furniture
for the new almshouse at Ivy Hill
are now up to Mayor Raymond, The
aldermanic committee on poor and
aims at the meeting yesterday after
noon decided to have the mayor ap-
prove the new specifications before
bids are asked for. Although the
specifications as drawn by Joseph p.
O'Rourke the first time were thrown
out by the court, only a few minor
details have been made in the new
set to be presented to the mayor
next week it - believed that several
thousand dolla. will be made by the
change.
So that the specifications can be
gone over in detail before they are
given to the mayor for his considera-
ton, the members of the committee
will have a special meeting on Mon
day night, in the City Hall, when the
architect will be there to explain the
changes.
The bill of John p. Curin for SER
vices as expert on the furniture and
furnishings Tor the new almshouse
was received and referred without
comment to the law department.
The bill was for $2,09950, five per
cent. of the lowest bid ($41 $500 ON the
original specifications. The commit
tee had previously decided to do
away with the services of the furni-
ture expert
The changes in the specifications
proved to be confined to the elimina-
tion of various articles, such as
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04
MANUF FACTURER
CONWCTEDF FOR
MAIL THREATS
Kaufman Sent Letters to
Woman in Town Near
Paterson.

Harry Kaufman, a silk manufac-
turer, of 81 Park street, Paterson.
this afternoon was found guilty of
sending threatening letters through
the mails to Miss Norma Kopp of
Midland Park The case was tried
in the local branch of the United
States District Court The Federal
jury went out at noon and returned
a verdict at 2:30 o'clock.
The third day of the trial. replete
with sensations, began with the testi-
mony of George IL. Johnson, a con-
vict brought from the Hackensack
county Jail on a writ of habeas cor
pus. Johnson proved an important
witness for the government.
Summing up started after Judge
Thomas G.. Haight denied two mo-
tion to quash the indictments
against Kaufman. Harry Joelson, of
Paterson, counsel for the defendant,
pressed the motion on the ground that
the indictments were irregular.
Kaufman is alleged to have sent
the threatening letters to the Misses
Constance, Norma. Charlotte and
Fleurette' Kopp, of Midland Park,
last fall. About the same time shots
were fired at members of the Kopp
family and rough characters were
seen prewling. about the home. All
of this trouble followed a collision
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04
j. s. TOCARRY
STEEL SUIT TO
HIGHEST COURT
Undoubtedly Says Attorney
General Gregory, When Asked
if Appeal Will Be Made.

WASHINGTON. June 4.-Attorney
General Gregory was authority for
the statement after the cabinet meet
ing today that the Steel Trust suit
Undoubtedly" would be taken up by
fhe government 10 tine Supreme
Court -,,
The opinion i'm connection with the
proceedings reached the department
this forenoon. They covered 200
pages, and officials said the work of
going through them thoroughly
would take considerable time.
Assistant Attorney-General Todd
conferred with Attorney General
Gregory relative to the government 3
prospective course, and later with eX-
Assistant Attorney-General Cotton
who, under Attorney Wick
ersham, handled the case, and is now
q special assistant of the department,
aiding in conducting the suit, on ac-
count of his familiarity with it.
Bankers and industrial leaders have
accepted the opinion as a victory for
the business interests of the country
and an indication that new era is
commencing.
Judge Gary's statement after the
announcement of the decision was
re-echoed from many parts of the
country. Il feel that this decision
approves the general policy of the
Steel Corporation" he said. at
should have a great and good effect
upon business conditions throughout
the countrv."
George w. Perkins, who was named
as a defendant in the original bill Of
Continued on Page 3. Column 81
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04

day. He succeeds Nathaniel King,
vice. president of the board. 1t is
understood that Mr.. Kings resigna-
tion was offered some time ago. The
announcement was made last night
at the meeting of the Board of Edu-
cation, and this afternoon his sue
cessor was named by Mayor Ray
mond. Mr.. King was appointed to
the Board of Education on February
/, 1911. From the beginning he
served upon the buildings, grounds
and supplies committee. On Febru-
airy 1, 1914, he was made vice-presi-
dent, and by virtue of that office be-
came chairman of the finance COM
mittee.
The addition of Mr.. Sommer to the
board, it was said, will give Mayor
Raymond complete control of its af-
fairs.
Mr.. King told the mayor that busi-
ness pressure was the cause, but II
is rumored that friction among the
members hastened his departure
from the board.
In naming Mr.. Sommer the mayor
said that he was pleased to have
the privilege of placing a man of Mr..
Sommer's calibre on the board, as
he knew that Newark would be the
winner of his studious career.
Mr.. Sommer was born in Newark
September 3, 1872, and graduated
from the Washington Street Public
School when he was twelve years old.
His school work was broken UP by
need of money. He sold papers out
of school hours. Upon leaving school
he secured place with "A broker as
an Office boy. Subsequently he be-
came identified with w. B. Guild who
took him into his law office. He then
entered upon work at the Metropolis
Law School of New York. He at
tended the evening sessions.
He was graduated from this school
as honor man of his class in 1898 and
returned the same year to lecture
upon the subject, pleading at Com
mon Law" Two years after this he
was made a professor in the law de-
partment of New York University. He
was continued in his position as lee
turer. this time on Real Property,
Mortgages and Suretyship." The uni
versity has conferred upon him the
degree of bachelor of laws, master
of laws and doctor of Jurisprudence.
Upon the death of the former edi-
tor. Austin Abbott. he became editor
of the University Law Review,
Immediately after his graduation
he was admitted to practice at the
New Jersey bar and entered part
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04
Academy street School Again.


Another feature of the meeting was
the. tentative. decision TO spend $780,
200 for the building of a five-story
school building on Academy street,
between Washington and Plane
streets. The building will house the
Fawcett Drawing School and the
Girls Industrial School.
Commissioner Charles p. Taylor
was the only member voting against
this project. The plan eliminated the
erection of an administration build
ing for the board Mr.. Taylor said
the administration building was es-
sential and should be built.
Later on you will find that we
have TO have an administration
building" he said, "and you will also
find the cost of erecting 1t on CEN
trally-located property Will be much
greater than it would cost at pres
ent."
Ernest f. Guilbert, architect for the
board, submitted two plans for the
combined drawing and industrial
school building. The first was an
eight-story building with forty three
classrooms. 1t would cost $193, 900.
This structure could be built on prop
erty already owned by the board on
Academy street
The second plan, which was adopt
ed, includes the purchase Of fifty
four feet of additional property eX-
tending from the present Fawcett
Drawing School to the Coleman Busi-
ness College, at the corner of Halsey
and Academy streets. The sum of
$780, 700 was set aside for the purchase
OF this land, while $244, 900 was fixed
as the estimated cost of the five-story
building. This plan, IL carried out,
will include the razing of the present
Fawcett School building.
Last year the board secured an ap-
preparation authorizing the selling
of 100000 worth OF bonds. This sum
was to be used for erecting an adj
ministration building, according to
the original plans.
Miss Winser Asks Questions.
Miss Beatrice Winser, member of
the board, suggested that the draw
ing school could be erected on prop
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04
NEW HIGH SCHOOL
To Be ERECTED
ON WEST SIDE.
School Board Favors lt-Bud-
get Plans Call for
$1,125,Ooo.

Tentative plans for spending ST.
$4,000 of the Board of Education's
construction budget were made last
night at a meeting of the board.
That the board intends to erect an
other high school in the western sec
tion of the city also became known
last night. The site has not been Sc
lected, but a sum to cover the pur-
chase of suitable property was laid
aside
New school buildings and additions
to schools which the board plans will
cost 1867 900, according to the esti-
mate reached by the commissioners.
The balance of the $l,125, 900, or $685.
900, is to be reserved for the purchase
of new land
The four new schools to be erected
this year are Speedway Avenue, Eigh-
teenth. Avenue, South Market street
and Fifteenth Avenue. Following is
a list of the new buildings, additions,
with classrooms, and estimated cost:
South Tenth Street (addition) hrdla
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04
FORD PAYS OUT
S4S,OOO,OOO IN
DIVIDEND JULY
Announces Authorized Capital
Stock Jump from $1,000, 900
to $1oo,ooo,o 900. a

DETROIT Mich, June i.-Th 4
Ford Motor Company announced tn
day that it had increased its author
ized capital stock from S2,000,000 -
500, OOJ and had declared stoclS
dividend of $4S,OO0,000, payable July 1.
A cash dividend was declared on
the original authorized stock of ST.
900, 900. but the amount was not madt
public. The stock dividend increases
the holdings of Henry Ford, presi-
dent of the company, by S27.S4a,0oo.
James Cousens, president, re-
ceives $5,000,00O.
The stock increase brings the issued
capital stock of the. concern TO Q
valuation of $5O000,000 The remain
ing $4,000, 900, it was announced, viii
remain in the company's treasury
'to be used as conditions demand in
the future"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04
Man Poisoned;
Daughter Held

Although no charge has been made
against her as yet, Nellie Alston,
twenty-five years old, colored. of
81 Parkhurst street, is under ar
rest in police headquarters. The
prisoner is the step daughter of
Louis Alston, forty-three years old,
who is in the City Hospital suf-
fering from arsenical poisoning. 1t
is thought that the Young woman has
been arrested in connection with the
case.
Captain of Detectives Frank Tuite
refused to discuss the case or give
the girls name. Alstons condition
is not serious.
Alston, it is said, kicked young
man out of his house last week with
whom his daughter was keeping COM
pany. There has been ill feeling be-
tween the pair ever since. Saturday
night Alston complained of pains in
his stomach and suspected his daugh-
ter of having put something in his
tea. The police are investigating the
case.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04
Will Be Dispatched TO
Berlin Late Tonight
or Tomorrow.
BRYAN, LANSING AND
GREGORY CONSULTED
State Department Counselor
Attends Cabinet Meeting-TO
Say Lusitania Was Unarmed.
BERNSTORFF'S ENVOY
TO INFORM GERMANY
Goes to Supplement Exchange
of Diplomatic Messages
Between Nations.

WASHINGTON, June 4-President
Wilson finished the new note TO Ger
many today and laid it before the
cabinet. 1t probably will be dis
patched to Berlin late tonight or to-
morrow No arrangements have yet
been made as to the time when 1t
will be made public
White House officials said today
that while the president had penned
the note himself, he had consulted
with Secretary Bryan over the prin-
ciple and the details. He also has
been in constant consultation with
Counselor Lansing and also Attor.
ney-General Gregory, who investi-
carried guns.
The government is convinced there
Is no ground for that contention and
the note will so inform Germany.
Lansing at Cabinet Session.
Counsellor Lansing, as the presi-
dents chief adviser on questions OF
international law, sat in todays cab
met meeting. Previously he has only
attended in tine absence of Secretary
Bryan, but today Mr.. Lansing had
been invited by the president to ac-
company the secretary.
All the cabinet members uniformity
refused TO discuss the subject as they
entered the meeting.
Following the cabinet meeting tha
members were unusually reticent but
there were some indications that ths
note had not finally been disposed OF
I'VE reached no final conclusion
| about anything" said one.
In answer to questions, Secretary
Bryan replied:
II cannot divulge anything that
happens in cabinet meetings"
The meeting lasted for two hours.
While the president and the cabi-
net were discussing the note a Ger
man agent was on his way to Berlin
to present a first-hand report of the
interview which Count Berrstorff,
the German ambassador. had We'd
nesday with President Wilson
Officials at the German embassy re-
fused to discuss that development
but it became known authoritativeIy
that Meyer Gerhard, who sailed from
New York yesterday for Copenhagen
on the steamer United States with
a guarantee of safe conduct obtained
by the American government from
the allies, is the man. He is an at
tache of the German colonial Office
and has been in the United States
several months representing the Ger
man Red Cross. He goes to Berlin
TO present first hand the views oil
the American government as Couit
Bernstorff got them from President
Wilson. Difficulties of communics-
ton through the war zone, the Ger-
man embassy feels. have deprived
the Berlin foreign office of full light
on the American position.
The dispatch of the envoy was tho
basis of much confidence in German
quarters here. where it was believed
an understanding on submarine war
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04
CHAS. NJ. MASON
NAMED REFEREE
$ IN BANKRUPTCY
Former Under-Sheriff Receives
Appointment to Federal
Position.

Charles NJ. Mason had his firSt
case assigned to him today as a
referee in bankruptcy. Mr.. Mason
was appointed referee last Tuesday
by Federal Judges Haight and Rel
stab, sitting in Trenton. His appoint
ment gives Essex county three refer
ees. which number, it is claimed, is
absolutely necessary because of the
rapidly increasing business.
Mr.. Mason is a former undersheriff
of Essex, serving under Frank II.
Sommer, who today was appointed u
member of the Board of Education.
The case referred to him today was
that of j. Leibstein &. Sons, of
which John A. Matthews has been
named receiver.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04
MANNERS
IS DEAD AFTER
LONG ILLNESS
Former AssembIyman Was for
Years Closely Identified
With Gould Interests.

Former Assemblyman Fred Man
ners, chairman of the Fourth Ward
Republican Executive Committee, and
one of the best-known men in Essex
county, died at his home, S6 Walnut
street, last night. Among his inti-
mate friends he was known as Pop"
Manners, and few men were
more popular He was i'll for
three months. Funeral services will
be held Monday afternoon at his late
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04
$1,000 VERDICT
FOR WILDER IN
ALIENATION SUIT
Broker Gets Damages from
Morristown Physician He
Says Stole His Wife.
Special to the Evening Star.


MORRISTOWN, June 4.-George
II. Wilder. wealthy broker, who
lives in Madison, suing DR.. George
Stuart Willis, prominent Morris
town physician, for alienation of Mrs.
Wilder's affections, got a verdict of
$5, 900 damages this afternoon. He
sued for $50 900, announcing that
whatever he received he would give
to charity.
The jury was out two hours. When
it returned with the verdict Mrs.
Wilder had just left the court and
had sped away in an automobile. Dr.
Willis was not present, either. The
only interested party present was
Mr.. Wilder, and he had nothing to
say.
The So, 900 unless DR. Willis appeals,
will go to the Red Cross Society. Mr.
Wilder has announced that his object
in suing was not to enrich himself,
but to make DIR. Willis pay for the
wrong he had done Mrs. Wilder.
The close of the three-day trial this
forenoon developed into an alienists'
battle.
DIR. Luther King. of New York, a
well-known specialist in nervous all
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04
J.F. DRYDEN, I'd,
ENGAGED TO WE'D
Miss Leila F. Batty, of Utica,
to Be Bride of Yale Uni
versity Student.

Mr. and Mrs. S. Albert Batty, OF
Utica, n. Y, announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Leila Flor
ence Batty, to John F. Dryden, I'd
of Bernardsville.
Mr.. Dryden is member of this
years graduating class at Yale Uni
versity. He is the only son of For
rest f. Dryden president of the
Prudential Insurance Company, ano
q grandson of the late United States
Senator John r. DRYDEN.
No date has as yet been set for the
wedding.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04
RAY TO LOSE
POLICE BERTH
Instructor" Will Relinquish
$1OO Per Week Job
Maybe.

captain Martin II. Ray, who has
been paid at the rate of 800 per week
to- instruct" the members of the po-
lice department, will soon relinquish
his Job. At least that is the report
current in police circles today
Mr.. Ray was first hired by the po-
lice hoard some months ago. He was
re-eneaged several times, the salary
remaining at 500 per week. 1t is now
said he will quit his instruction
work this month.
y Secretary James j. Kearney, OF the
police board, said today he didn't
know anything about Mr. Ray going
to leave.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04
Germany Will
Pay indemnity
for Gulflight

WASHINGTON, June 4.-Ambassa-
dor Gerard cabled the state depart
ment today note from the German
government agreeing to pay an in
demnity for the damage done by a
German submarine to the American
steamer Gulflight, torpedoed off the
Scilly Islands.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04
FRANK SOMMER
IS NAMED ON
SCHOOL BOARD
Appointed by Mayor to Sue
oeed Nathaniel King, Who
Resigned.

Frank H. Sommer. counsel to the
Board of Public Utility Commission
ers and former sheriff of Essex
county, was appointed a member of
the Newark Board of Education to-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04
TIM HURST,
UMPIRE, DIES

POTTSVlLLE, Pa. June 4.-Tim
Hurst, the former major league base
ball umpire. died suddenly at the
home of friend in Minersville today
from an attack of acute indigestion.
He was .fifty-four years old.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04
TEUTON FORCES
STILL ROLLING
BACK RUSSIANS
March on Lemberg, Cars Last
GaIician Stronghold, Has
Begun.

Having captured Przemysl. the
Austro- German forces are maintain
ing their offensive with unusual speed
along the Galician front, and the march
on Lemberg has begun. The troops
which broke through the Russian line
at Stry are pushing northward rap
idly. A statement from the Russian
war Office contains the admission that
in the region beyond the Dniester
river the Austro- German army has
advanced along the Tismenitza- -Stry
front
A Petrograd dispatch states that
the German force which captured
Libau, In Russia, on the Baltic, some
time ago, has been isolated. Russian
forces are said to have cut off the
Germans from their base at Memel,
East Prussia, while other Russian
troops have approached from the
north and south, so that the only
communication with Libau is now by
sea.
Few details are available of the
development of the Italian campaign.
statement from General Cadorna,
Italian chief of staff, says the pre-
liminary movements are continuing
all along the frontier, developing to
the advantage of the Italians. The
Vienna war office states that the ltal-
ians have bombarded Austrian forti-
fications at several points without
success.
Conditions are virtually stationary
along the western 'front.' so far as is
shown by the official communications.
Slight gains i'll the district north Of
Arras are reported by the French.
AUSTRO HUNGARIAN FIELD
HEADQUARTERS, June 4. via. Lon
don, 4:55 p. m.-According to infor-
nation given out by the Austro-
Hungarian military authorities to
representatives of the press, heavy
fighting is now in progress along vir-
tually the entire Galioian front, and
the general situation is very favor
able to the Austro- Germans. deci-
sive conclusion to the entire. Russian
campaign in Galicia is in sight.
BERLIN (via The Hague), June
1.-The Austro- German march on
Lemberg has begun. Upon 100
mile front the combined forces of
Maekensen and Lindsingen are roll
ing the Russians back upon their last
stronghold in Galicia. The Slavs are
making desperate efforts to reform
their lines for final stand.
From his new headquarters in
Przemysl, General Mackensen tele-
graphed message of congratula-
tions to the king of Bavaria today.
THE conduct of our brave Ba-
varian troops has aided us in great
victory wired the German COM
mander. They have won a name
for themselves in the history of a
great "er.'
From the south Won Linsingen is
hurting the full weight of his armies
against the Russian left wing. A
gigantic battle is raging along the
entire front from the region of Sam
Dor to the north of Stryj. Repeated
| terrific Russian counter attacks have
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04
Fielder Expected on Tuesday;
to Go Directly TO Sea Girt
From q Stan Correspondent

TRENTON, June 14.-GoVernor
Fielder is expected to return to New
Jersey next Tuesday. Arrangements
are under way for the opening of the
Little White House at Sea Girt on
Wednesday of next week. Governor
Fielder will spend the summer
months there.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04
Allies i'm Compact
Against Separate
Action in the War
B, the Associated Press.

TOXIC, June 4.-Foreign Minister
Kato. interpellated in the House OF
Peers today by the budget COMMITTEES.
made the declaration that Great Brit
ain, France, Russia, Italy and japan
had agreed to take no independent
action of any kind in connection with
the European war.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04
Fair Tonight and Tomorrow,
Is Weather Mans Report

The fair weather is to stay with us
until tomorrow, If the prediction of
the weatherman comes true. He says
that tonight viii be fair with mod
crate northeast winds becoming
northwest
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-04

home, Rev. DR.. Robert Scott Inglis
a lifelong friend and neighbor of Mr.
Manners. officiating.
Mr.. Manners was private secretary
to Howard Gould for the last fifteen
years, and before that time had been
a confidential clerk to Jay Gould, the
noted inancier, for nearly sixteen
years. At the time of his death Mr.
Manners was in his forty-sixth year
1906.
Mr.. Manners was born In Newark
in Columbia street, January 27, 1870
His father was Abram Manners, a
lawyer, who came to Newark from
Wirtsville, Hunterdon county, where
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