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respite for accidents in these perilous
times.
The reason for leaving London in
darkness Is twofold. In the first place.,
get for bomb-dropping Zeppelins. This
mas already been demonstrated by the
attacks upon Gravesend and Kings.
land. which took place before Che new
laws went into effect. In the second
and more important place. 1t is dene;
nitely known that motor cars hayas
worked In collision with the ZeppelinSi
ana ana nave tracked out course for
them In their flights over the city.
1T may be easily imagined how diffl.r
cult 1t is to aim with precision from A..
zeppelin, which is moving at a high
rate of speed some thousand feet In
the air. 1t is more than probable thar
bomb directed at Buckingham Palace
might be carried as far out of the wa q
as kensington Gardens in one direcs,
ton and the Thames in the other ~
Tc remedy this grievous fault-for
fault it would be to drop a bomb on
what appears to be the great ship-S
building yards of Newca stle Tyne,
where the new dreadnaughts are being
built, and have 1t land somewhere be-
tween Newcastle and the North sea
it was planned to have motor cars
driven by confederates of the Zeppelin
bomb throwers. By a special signaling
system and by certain lights known
to both a motor has been known to
lead the way for Zeppelin and in
dictate the exact location of places
where bombs are to be dropped.
For this reason, recognized by Brit.
ish officials to be of paramount i'm.
portance, the new laws of darkness
have been formulated and vigorously
enforced. At least the further practice
of cooperation between Zeppelin
drivers and ground spies has been pre-
vented, and 1T is hoped a victory over
the menacing dirigibIes has been eff
fected.
Why. every one asks, must the Zep-
pelins be combated in such indirect
manner? Cannot they be brought to
earth? Only one dirigible balloon has
ever been brought down by the allies,
and this was accomplished by daring
aviator who scared above it and shot
Town upon it. BY thus tearing holes at
he top of the balloon compartments
lie was able to liberate the gas The
Zeppelin crumpled up and descended.
Even though it were possible to de-
troy Zeppelin by shooting up at 1t
rom the earth it is hardly probable
bat much could be accomplished in
his way now. The latest Zeppelin
eWS says that a dense, white, cloud
Ike mist is being thrown around the
lrigibleS on their latest flights. and
hey are rendered practically invisible
o people watching for them on the
arth.
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THE FIRE HOLE


~ been single excursion steamer
known upon which the fire, risk was
reduced to an absolute minimum The
chief objection which the service has
round on the part of builders to MAX
ing their craft fireproof has been the
statement that the cost of such con-
struction would entirely remove all
profit from the operation of a boat of
this character in the excursion field
Ihe government men, however, do
not agree with this statement and
call attention to the fact that although
inf1ammability of the ordinary type of
river and excursion steamer is a mat
ter which should have fullest consid-
Grafton. little or no effort has hereto
fore been made to design these steam
ers upon lines any different from those
which have been in vogue for many
years =
Quite days work for the inspector
OF hulls? Yes, but the duties which de-
volve upon him in connection with the
thousands of small motor craft fitted
for carrying picnic parties or few
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-01
A BRITISH GIRL WEARING RESPI-
RATOR USED FOR PROTECTION
AGAINST GAS BOMBS DROPPED ny
ZEPPELINS,

attacks. All downtown streets as we'll
as remote suburbs are darkened at night.
shop windows are dark. street lamps are
uni1ghted except at crossings of fire
runs. motor cars go about with dark
ened headlights, and all houses must
nave the blinds drawn closely Special
Watchmen enforce these new laws and
snap off all illumination in manner
peculiar to London. whose far-famed
Piccadilly bears the reputation of being
the brightest street IN the world at
night People venturing forth after
nlghtfal do SO on their own respon-
sibility. for the government grants no
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Inspecting Observation-Disclosures the Eastla1

How the Steamboat Headquarters WASHINGTON Dies lie
Wok-A Branch OF the Department of Commerce
Motives the coast and Geodec Survey and LhoesAtems
Render Travel on Water Safe Possibly Alade Service Has lis
That
Sound, Properly Constructed Equpped
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proof that the work ordered has been
done.
Having seen to the seaworthiness of
the hull, the condition of the boilers.
and that all life-preserving and fire.
hghting apparatus is beyond reproach,
there is still another factor which may
constitute menace to the lives Of pas
sengers and crew at sea. That factor
is the fitness of the officers who COM
mand ship. And in their qualiflca-
tions the steamboat inspection service
takes a deep interest
Applicants for marine licenses must
submit to the inspectors at the district
I'm which they seek credentials evidence
of their experience and physical fitness
to assume the position to which they
aspire. Before the steamboat inspec-
ton service will place man in charge
of steamer. where upon him will rest
the responsibility of human life, he
must be in possession of all of his fac
ulties, be free from color blindness and
mentally, strong. in addition to making
his rating as a mate or master.
To this branch of the work the sea-
mans bill. recently enacted, has added
greatly. for in the future it will be
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The Complaint.

EN-PRES1DENT TAFT. condemning
u the anarchists. said in New Haven:
Put an anarchist in a multi-million-
aires place, and he'd do as the multi
millionaire has done. Such fellows talk a
lot about tainted money. But their chief
complaint is that faint theirs"
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The total number of persons now con-
nected with the steamboat inspection
service Is 26l. including the Washing
ton personnel: one travelling Inspector.
whose duty 1T is to standardize the,
work of the different districts; ten.
supervising inspectors. forty-seven To-
cal inspectors of bulls, forty-seven To-
cal inspectors of boilers. fortv-one as.
sistant inspectors of hulls, forty-two
inspectors of boilers and sixty-nine
clerks to boards of local inspectors
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more important subdistricts, are given
assistants.
me fountain head of the steamboat
inspection service is located in the De
partment of Commerce building in this
city. where Mr.. Uhler has his Office and
where exhaustive card indexes are kent
showing the inspection history of
every steamboat in the country, to-
gether with the records of ali men
licensed as officers in the American
marine.
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inspection service of the Department of
Commerce is perhaps receiving an es-
pecial emphasis by reason of it's con-
nection with the Chicago tragedy, this
branch of the federal government
stands principally for the prevention of
such wholesale loss of life, rather than
for probe of such accidents after
they occur. Broadly speaking from the
lives. it closely resembles. in it's mo-
tives. the coast and geodetic survey
and the bureau of lighthouses. In fact,
this trilogy does much toward render
ing travel on water as safe as it pos
Sibly can be made.
While the two sister bureaus see that
mariners are supplied with accurate
chartings of treacherous coast lines, and
that lighthouse warnings are given
them of dangerous waters, the steam
boat inspection service has as it's guild
ing rule the principle that one of the
first requirements of safety at sea is
that the ship itself shall be sound,
properly constructed and. above all,
perhaps, properly equipped.
Some idea of the responsibility the
government assumes in the operation
OF the inspection service may be gained
from the fact that during the fiscal
year ending in June, 1914. more than
three hundred millions of persons were
carried on steam vessels which are re-
quired by law to report the number of
passengers transported. OF this num-
Der. due largely to the activities of the
steamboat inspection service. only 105
were lost. ratio of only one to every
three million.
The work of the steamboat inspec-
ton service in reality begins before
any ship of more than 100 tons gross
register. the maximum size exempted,
is launched. At the time application
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-10-02

the other, a series of hollow objects
made of sticks and boards and stones.
But the foregoing might represent
little town-planning in practically
any part of the globe. 1t might have
the dignity of name, and yet lack
the chief element that towns name
usually stands for. If then, we sup
pose there is suddenly added to our
framework a half million pounds or
so of living human flesh, distributed
among all ages and sizes of human
beings, the other ingredient" for our
community is supplied. Fathers and
mothers, sons and daughters, brothers
and sisters, uncles and aunts; Ameri-
cans and Canadians, Firms and Rus
sias, English and Irish, Germans and
Austrians, Italians and French; and so
on, and SO on. These, in a small host,
five thousand strong, also go into the
definition of what is Cliffside Park.
A mighty subject, and as fascinating
as that of life, itself.
If one goes further into the study
of the matter, as for instance, into
the physical, moral, mental and spirit
ual expression of that life, the more
deeply fascinated he becomes.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-10-02
Something A Bit
New In Stumbling
In Weehawken Heights

One stranger tried to work a new
game on Dick Kahrs, proprietor OF
the store at Palisade avenue and
Dodd street, Weekawken Heights, re-
Gently. Representing himself as a
selling agent, this stranger offered to
dispose of Kahr's store, but wanted
fifteen dollars in cash in advance as
part of his commission, to pay the
preliminary expenses of the sale.
Kahrs was unwilling to hand up
the cash, but he is making the story
public because of the fact that other
storekeepers may fall into the trap.
He hopes that his warning will not
90 unheeded. The stranger became
abusive when his scheme did not
work. Kahrs tried to engage him in
conversation, hoping that cop would
come along, but the Weekawken posts
are large, and the officer was else
where. The stranger, whom Kahrs
is convinced was a flimflammer, got
away.
The man was we'll dressed. He
came into the store and asked Kahrs
if he wished to sell. The store
keeper said he would if the right
price was offered. Asking what the
price was, the stranger expressed
the opinion that it was very cheap,
and that he could readily dispose of
the business at that figure.
"But I will pay all of the expenses
out of my commission" the man de-
clared, "and there will be some
items, such as advertising, etc. How
ever, that need not bother you.
shall need fifteen dollars in advance
on my commission before taking
this proposition in hand, however"
The fifteen dollar cash proposition
did not impress Kahrs. He demanded
to see the alleged agents card, and
was showed very costly and elabo-
rately engraved piece of cardboard.
When he asked for one, the stranger
would not part with any. He re-
placed the card in his cardcase, and
began to express his opinion to the
storekeeper. Kahrs followed as he
went out of the door, and tried to
continue the conversation, but the
stranger was not anxious to talk
any more.-Observer
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-10-02
Anti-Saloon League
Of New Jersey.

Bergen county elected a Local
Option Republican last fall. He was
the only Republican or Democrat at
the election who stood for Local
Option and ran 600 or 700 ahead of
his mates. He was not seated, how
ever, even after the recount, because
he was a Local Optionist.
This year it is apparent Bergen
county means to elect three men to
sit with their able and courageous
senator, Mr.. Hennessy, fit to repre-
sent their county on this issue.
The Bergen County Local Option
League has incorporated and is in
the field to stay. 1t has enrolled
over 5000 Bergen voters, regardless
of party, who have expressed their
interest in seeing Local Option Can
didates elected. These voters con-
troll the balance of power.
Two candidates among the Demo-
cratic nominees and five among the
Republicans can be depended on.
1t only remains for you, men of
Bergen, to unite on the men in your
party who stand pledged to the peo-
pies rule on the license question and
it will put your county out in the
clear as a Local Option county. Do
your part this year and you will
probably have but little trouble in
the future. After that the politicians
will seek your support rather than
that of the Brewers advocates.
Yours for the peoples rule,
James K. Shields,
State Superintendent.
P. S. Local Option has an un-
equalled opportunity this year all
through our State. But to improve
the opportunity we must reach near
ly hundred thousand friendly vot-
ers, whose names we have, with a
report for their county similar to
this. We have every thing but post
age. Send us a dollar, or more, for
postage. We are doing our part.
Will you do yours?
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-10-02
Union Church Holds
Meeting Of Trustees
To Select Pastor

At meeting of the board of trus-
tees of the Union Church, of Pail
SADIE, held on Monday evening a
unanimous call to the pastorate was
extended to the Rev. John j. Bar
sam, of the Westminster Presby-
terian Church, Port Huron, Mich. Mr..
Barsam will assume his duties as
resident pastor Immediately. The
community will be well pleased with
this act of the trustees to serve
the best interests of the community,
and it is expected that many good
things will come from the able
leadership of Mr.. Barsam.
For the past five years Mr.. Bar
sam has been most successful in the
pastorate of the Westminster Pres
byterian Church, of Port Huron,
Mich.
He has already endeared himself to
our young people, and his winning
ways have won him many friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barsam will be well
come to our community, and we count
ourselves particularly fortunate to
have them with US.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-10-02
Voters Must Demand
Local Protection
By Frank Theodore Allen

Why should Palisade, or any other
town or city, be interfered with and
ruled by the elected representatives
of counties, towns and cities in other
and remote parts of the states?
What do, or can, these outsiders
know of our peculiar needs? What
moral or ethical right have they to
dictate the conditions under which
we shall conduct our own affairs?
We grant the need, right and JUS
tice or having the state legislature
pass laws affecting, and the state
officials officiate in all matters con-
corning the state at large. But we
do not feel that we have such an
endowment of wisdom or are gifted
with such special rights, as war
rants US sending representatives to
Trenton armed with the authority to
impose our notions upon other COM
munities in the conduct of their
purely local affairs.
We are content to mind our oun
business and earnestly desire that We
be permitted to do so.
In short, we want to realize in
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-10-02
A Wonderful Machine.

Some Facts About The Human Body.
Number of bones, 24O.
There are about 100000 skin
pores in an ordinary sized man.
Ninety-eight degrees Fair. is the
average temperature of the human
body.
A man breathes about twenty
times a minute, or 1000 times in an
hour.
In twenty-four hours thirty-three
ounces of insensible perspirat ton
pass from the human body.
The average weight of the brain
of man is 81 pounds; of a woman,
pounds II ounces.
The average weight of an English
man is $50 pounds; Frenchman,
1876 pounds; a Belgium, 14O pounds.
Two thousand five hundred square
inches may be estimated as the sur
face of an ordinary sizer mans body.
The average weight of an adult
man is 140 pounds 6 ounces; average
weight of skeleton, about Ia pounds
The average height of an English
man is 5 feet 8 inches; a Frenchman,
5 feet inches; Belgium, 5 feet 6A
inches.
One hundred seventy-four millions
holes or cells are in the lungs which
would cover a surface thirty times
greater than the human body.
A man breathes about eighteen
pints of air in a minute, 1,067 in an
hour, or upwards of seven hogsheads
in day.
The pressure of the atmosphere
being IA pounds to the square inch
the human body sustains weight
of 29,232 pounds (about 13 tons).
The average of the pulse in in
fancy is 12O per minute; in manhood,
eighty; at sixty years, sixty. The
pulse of females is more frequent
than that of males.
A man gives off 4.O8 per cent. car
bonic gas of the air he respires; res
pires 1866 cubic feet of carbonic
acid gas in "a hours, consumes TO-
666 cubic feet of oxygen in "a hours
equalhng 125 cubic inches of COM
mon air.
At each beat of the heart (about
seventy-two per minute) about six
ounces of blood is driven into the
aorta from the left ventricle, and the
same amount driven from the right
ventricle into the pulmonary artery.
The whole of the blood in the body
(about 5,760 grammes in an average
MANI passes through the heart in
thirty-two beats.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-10-02
Familiar Mis- Quotations

"Look before you leap" should be:
"And look before you ere you leap
Franklin said: Honesty is the best
of policy" but the maxim is of Span
ish origin, and may be found in
"Don Quixote."
Pope is generally credited with
having written: "Immodest words
admit of no defense, For want of
decency is want of sense" though it
would puzzle anyone to find the verses
in his writings. They were written
by the Earl Of Roscommon, who died
before Pope was born. But CDR.
Johnson said it should be: Tmmodest
words admit of this defense, That
want of modesty is want of sense"
We also hear that "a miss is as
good as a mile" which is not as SEN
sible or forcible as the true proverb {:
"a miss of an inch is as good as a
mile"
A famous passage of Scripture is
often misquoted thus: "He that is
without sin among you, let him cast
the first stone" 1t should be: "Let
him first cast a stone."
Nothing is more common than to
hear: "a man convinced against his
will is of the same opinion STILL"
This is an impossible condition of
the mind, for no one can be convinced
of an opinion and at the same time
hold an opposite one. What Butler
wrote was eminently sensible:
"He that complies against his will
Is of his own opinion STILL
Sometimes we are told: "Behold
how great fire little matter kind
leth," wheresa St. James said: "Behold
how great matter a little fire kind
leth," which is quite a different
thing.
Nine men out of ten think that
"The Lord tempers the wind to the
as Lawrence Sterne is the author
shorn lamb" is from the Bible, where
Pouring oil upon the troubled
waters" is also ascribed to the sacred
volume, whereas it is not there; in
fact, no one knows it's origin. Again
we hear people say: "The proof of the
pudding is in chewing the string"
This is arrant nonsense, as the pro-
verb says: "The proof of the pudding
is in the eating thereof, and not in
chewing the string"
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-10-02
Cliffside Park
From Many Angles

Cliffside Park is but name. But
what's in a name, ask you? True, it
is that a spoken breath, or a little
printers ink on a sheet; but, like all
names, it stands for something very
real.
What is this thing, therefore, that
Cliffside Park stands for? For one
thing it is patch of ledge top, with
an eastern line of jagged cliff run
ming parallel to and overlooking the
Hudson river, and opposite Riverside
Park, New York City. The cliff line
is nearly two miles long. The patch
itself, at the northern end, is almost
a perfectly square mile. Next below
the patch contracts to nearly per-
feet square a half mile on each side.
The southern end is nothing but a
tail quarter of mile wide.
The patch is like series of great
rolling waves of rock which termin-
ate in jagged Jumps at their lower
end Along the gullies and TANKS,
and over the crests of these mormdo
making their way through the deep
virgin woods, are a network of fifty
thoroughfares with perhaps hun
dred blocks. Each block contains on
an average from six to eight homes.
This is what Cliffside Park stands
for. But, after all, what has been
described is nothing more than
framework, plant. On the one hand
it is nothing but rock, earth and trees,
with grooves cut through them; on
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-10-02
Wit And Wisdom

Smash Up Jack-"What sent Algy
to the insane asylum?"
Tom-"A train of thought passed
through his brain and wrecked it."
Men who consider themselves to be
of very great Importance frequently
treat their wives and children as if
they were of no Importance.
He-"Marry me, Liza, an I'll be as
me-"
She-"Go hon, Emery; don't be
maxim an ass of yerself."
A witty clergyman awakened his
rather drowsy congregation by say
ing, "My dear friends, have come
hear to preach sermon, not to
referee sleeping match"
"He says it is costing him four
times as much to live as it did two
years ago"
"But the price of necessities has
only doubled"
eyes; but he is leading a double
life"
Adversely has ever been consid
cred as the state in which man the
most easily becomes acquainted with
himself-practically as he is in the
state free from fatterers.
Amateur Work-"This poem was
written by a prominent lawyer of
this city. Has it any value? ?"
""About as much value" said the
editor, "as legal opinion written
by poet"
Bill-"Why did you break your en-
gagement with that school teacher ?"
Jack-"If l failed to show up at
her house every evening she expected
me to bring a written excuse signed
by my mother" -,
"Before l married my wife | could
have listened to her sweet voice for
hours" said Smith to his friend.
"Yes-and now?" asked the friend.
"Now," said Smith, with moisture
in his eyes, 81 have to-"
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-10-02

refuse to commit themselves and
make definite promises, then the
names of other candidates should be
substituted who will accede to this
eminently just demand.
Municipal Home Rule League of
New Jersey,
James Comfy,
William Nowlan,
H. D. Rhodes,
Committee.
Chas Hecht,
Chairman.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-10-02
No Trust

Gouverneur Morris, the famous
writer, was talking in New York
about the hard lot of the literateur.
81 know a literateur," he said
'who went to Ocean Grove recently.
He picked out a nice little hotel on
the sea front. Then he walked in
and said to the proprietor:
What is the rate here for quiet
room with a sea view?'
:" Twelve dollars up the proprietor
answered.
We'll, l am an author, and
4" In that case Interrupted the
proprietor sternly-'in that case it
will be twelve dollars down.,