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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-18
HERE PLEDGE
AID FOR WAR VICTIMS
Red Cross Society of Essex
County Appoints Com
mittees.

Pledges to aid victims of the war
were made at meeting of the italian
Red Cross Society of Essex County
Saturday night at Roma Hall, l2O
Bank street. Many prominent Italian
were present. 1t was de-
cided to appoint committees and sub
committees consisting of men and
women to solicit aid from Essex
county. These committees will be ap-
pointed at the next meeting. and are
to make weekly reports.
Dr. Frank A. Caruso was chairman
of the meeting. He spoke upon the
necessity of helping destitute widows
and orphans in Italy. He told his
hearers that the great number OF
Italians in Essex county should 90
their utmost for the unfortunates In
their mother country.
Addresses were made by DR.. Frank
r. Di Malta, Anthony r. Ffnelli, Dr.
Angelo r. Bianchi Joseph Padula,
Gaetano Bernleri and DR.. Camine G'
Berardinelli.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-18
MRS. GRIFFIN IS VIGOROUS
ON HER HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY

Mrs. Emmeline Griffin is celebrat-
ing her Tooth hii-tl lday anniversary
today at the home of her son-in-law
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus +.
Lawrence, 1142 Broad street Despite
her advanced age shU is possessed of
all her faculties, and is as spry and
active as many q woman thirty years
younger than herself.
Mother. | want ho congratulate
you on being 100 yea RS old today,
said Mrs. Lawrence this morning,
when she went to her mothers room.
II don't believe I'm that old, said
the aged woman, for l certainly
don't feel it"
"You We're born in 1874 and this is
1915. How old does that make your
queried the daughter.
That's a hundred all light, but I'll
never see another hundresl' smilingly
replied the centenarian
Mrs Griffin had a remarkable cure
two years ago, when her hearing was
restored to her, and, if anything, she
is in better health today than she
was FIVE years ago. She is a strong
advocate of total abstinence and does
not regard alcoholic beverages as
necessary, even for aged people like
herself Mrs. Griffin belongs to the
Octogenarian branch of the Inter-
national Sunshine Society and is al
ways bright and happy
Mrs. Griffin was born in Watertown,
n. Y, where she lived until two years
ago. She married Willet Griffin in
1884 and at his death in 1876 went to
live with a daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Charles e. Griffin. and two years ago
she came to this city.
There are twenty-five living de-
cendents of Mrs. Griffin, ranging from
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-18
BASEBALL PROBLEM RENEWED
BY ANOTHER LAW STUDENT

actual control or custody invariably
gives legal possession, whether the
custodian exercises control on his own
account or as the servant or otherwise
on behalf of the owner. But no sys-
tenn of law has gone that leHs III
Possession in law follows inVaflaoly
upon a complete taking, whetner
rightful or not. Indeed, it seems cor
rect to say that any power 10 use
and exclude others, however sihail
will suffice. if accompanied py tne
animus possidendi, provided that no
one else has the animus possluehul
and an equal or greater power lIer-
ry, Prime. of Anglo American Law, p
26S).
But at what point in the process
of capture is the takers control COM
plete enough to make him a posses
sor? This is in its nature as mucn
question of fact as anything can pe'
yet it is one upon which the law. can
not escape from having an OPINION
A jury is not free to hold that nav
ing nearly taken fish will do as wen
as taking fish. And so with the pres
ent case it cannot be said that sllce
the opposing club might TAKE
possession of the ball, it has taken
possession, Jne Seheldl PiiiiGiP IN
ing that pursuit short of capture WIN W.,
not do (Kenb's Commentaries, H.
349).
"There is one fundamental division
of the ways in which an existing pos
session can be changed. AS the new
conner gains possession the outgoing
possessor must loseit; and this loss
must be either With or without
his own will. When possession is
changed without consent not only
must the newcomer have at least as
much actual control as would be eV-
idence of possession, If there We're
nothing to the contrary but he must
effectually exclude the former posses
sor. Since this has not peen accom-
plished by the opposing clu bthe pos
session of the ball while still In the
air continues to remain legally with
the club of the pitcher who threw 1t.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-18
D. A. R. WILL PLACE A
STONE IN LINCOLN PARK
Memorial Boulder to Be Erected
at Newark's 250th Anniver-
sary Celebration.

Sufficient money was appropriated
for a boulder in Lincoln Park by the
State Society of the Daughters of the
Revolution at the 250th anniversary
celebration of the founding of New
ark next spring at a meeting held
Saturday afternoon in Bridgeton,
with Mrs. Howard Jerrall as hostess.
The stone will contain a tablet bear
ing an inscription.
At the close of the meeting reso-
lutions were adopted endorsing all
efforts towards national defense and
preparedness to protect what the
forefathers Of the nation fought for
A sum of money was also voted to be
used toward placing a memorial in
New York State, at the twenty fifth
anniversary of the national organiza-
tion. During the winter each Of the
! junior chapters in the State are to
send complete outfit to French
boy or girl, orphaned by the war,
in memory Of Lafayette, who fought
for Americas liberty.
| Delegates to the State Federation
| of Women's Clubs, at Woodbury.,
| October 80, include Mrs. Thomas w.
Hawkins and Mrs. Myron ]. KIM
ball, of Vineland; Mrs. Howard Jer-
rail- and the Misses Katharine An
derson, Laura Laning, Theodosia
Foster and Martha Collins, of Bridge
ton, and Mrs. Evert u. Drew, of
Woodbury..
Prior to the meeting a buffet
luncheon was served by the hostess
and at the close of the afternoon the
members went on a motor trip as
guests of Mrs. George D. Moore.
regent of Cohanzick Chapter An in
formal reception followed in the eve-
ming.
The next all-day meeting will take
place at Ridgewood November II,
when the members of the Ramacoo
Valley Chapter will provide an enter
tainment in the afternoon.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-18
WOLATORS OF AUTO
LAWS TRAPPED BY
A RUSE OF POLICE
Chief Long Utilizes Plain
cIothesmen to Detect Driv-
ers Who Transgress.

Adopting a ruse to catch violators
OF the automobile laws, Chief OF
Police Long and Captain James A.
McRell sent out four motorcycle
policemen in plain clothes Saturday
A number of arrests were made, and
most of the men were fined s5 each
by Judge Grice in the First Precinct
Court today.
Motorcycle Policemen Truax and
Jewell patrolled Broad street during
the day and Policemen Jewell and
Brodsky at night. They were on
rented motorcycles, of different
color from the department machines.
The work of the men was so success
full that they will be continued in
plain clothes for the present.
On charges of speeding Judge Grlce
today imposed fines of s5 each upon
Alfred Balmeister, of S5 Speedway
avenue; DR. William H. Green, of 5s
East Kinney street; William B. Hop
per, of 727 Jefferson avenue, Eliza
beth; George Steets, of 13 Newton
place, Irvington; Charles Rappaport
of 1876 Spruce street; George +.
Roerhle, of 80 Brientnall place, and
Ira Vail, of 494 Thirteenth street,
Brooklyn.
Harry ,Hinsch, of 800 Hunterdon
street, was placed under suspended
sentence and Frank C. Hahn, of 1112
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, for
feited a deposit of So for failing to
appear.
Besides the plainclothes motor
cyclists, the men were arrested by
Mounted Policeman Hopkins. Motor
cycle Policeman Newhall and Special
State Inspector Richard C. Jenkinson.
Alexander Linnett, of 81 Sherman
avenue, was placed under suspended
sentence on charge of failing to
obey an order of Patrolman Fahey to
stop at Broad and Cedar streets while
traffic was stopped there.
On a charge of driving an auto
mobile without having a license,
Ernest Kline, eighteen years old, of
100 Ogden street, was fined $40. He
was arrested yesterday at the garage
of F. P. Huston, at Warren place,
where he is employed, by Plain
clothesman Peter Mcclure, of the
First precinct. According to Detective
Mcclure, Kline took a machine from
the garage without consent, but the
owner refused to make a complaint
against him.
For not having a lighted lamp at
tached to his wagon Saturday night,
Jacob Brodsky, twenty years old,
of 1853 Livingston street, was fined $40
by Judge Wolf in the Fourth Precinct
Police Court today.
Two automoblllsts, Harry Doale, of
81 Park avenue, Rutherford, and
Walter Aikman, of 292 Ridgewood
avenue, Glen Ridge. were arraigned
before Judge Mancusi-Ungaro in the
Second Precinct Court today and al
lowed to go on suspended sentence.
Their arrest was made on Broad
street by Motorcycle Policemen Nc
Feeley and Widman.
Riding his motorcycle Saturday
night on Summer avenue near Third
avenue, Tony Ferrara, twenty-one
years old, of 81 Seventh avenue, col
lided with an automobile of William
H. Rademaker, of 81 Washington ave-
nue., receiving bruises about the body.
He was taken to the City Hospital
and then home.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-18
RECEPTION TO VOTERS IS
A NEW WRINKLE FROM GILLEN

in Minichello's Hall, Fourteenth and
Fairmount avenues. He repeated his
charge that certain corporations die
tated his rejection as the organiza-
tion candidate for reelection. The
man of mysterious political power
whom they call a boss Is simply a
cog in the wheel of a system" he
said
The system is conducted on an
abundance of bluff, he declared, and
fake threats are often made that an
independent official will be ruined in
social and business life. Wouldn't
the question of good government be
hopeless If one or two politicians and
q few corporations could rule abso-
lutely against the wishes of all the
people under our present system OIL
government?" he asked.
Speaking of the granting of special
favors by government, Mr.. Gillen
said: people who receive special
favors usually grow rich, as a result
of these favors. They then use their
wealth to control certain politicians
and political rings, and their fnfiu-
ence becomes so powerful that it is
almost impossible to fight them once
they have gained a foothold."
Mr.. Gillen declared that he had been
lighting in the Board of Works three
wears for what he believed was the
cause of the public, and that his fight
had been conducted almost single
haiyded.
Mr.. Gillen also visited the F. VOL
denburg Association, 2S5 Springfield
avenue; the reception of the Four
Bells Association, and dance held
by the Hayes Foundry employees In
Hensler's Auditorium, Hamburg place.
A quantity of printed matter Is being
prepared for distribution, setting forth
the reasons for Mr.. Gillen's candl-
dacy.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-18
AFULL DAY FOR
THE rowing SHOP
Suffrage Speakers Will orate
from Van Each Hour of
Twenty-four.

For twenty-four hours, beginning at
6 o'clock this morning, the novel
suffrage van known as 1.-THE Rowing
Shop" will be the rostrum for a
speaker in the cause of votes for
women, from the vantage ground at
the south end of Military Park.
This demonstration Is intended to
constitute the final plea for equal
ballot rights, and II any passerby
fails to receive the jolt of a suffrage
argument, at any time between this
and tomorrow morning, 1t will not be
because there has been lack of ora
tors to expatiate on the issues.
The headquarters of the Political
Union at 70 Halsey street, where the
business transacted during the past
few weeks has assumed gigantic pro-
portions, will be filed with workers
preparing for the final onset.
The schedule for the twenty-four-
hour meeting at the park Is as fol-
lows:
to 9, chairman Miss Mildred Mil
ler; speakers, Mrs. Maude Schwartz
Miss Eleanor Brannan and Miss Mil
dred Taylor; subject, women In In
dustry."
9-12 A. M.-Chairman, Miss Sarah
Crowell, of Newark. Speakers, Miss
Anna Constable. of New York city;
Mrs, Mary d. Howe, Seattle, Wash;
Miss Violet Dean, of Newark. Sub
iect, How Women Have Measured
Up as Voters"
12-3 P. M.-Chairman, Miss Mil
dred Taylor. Speakers, Winter Rus
SELL New York; Herbert Solomon,
New York; Walter Randolph, New
York. Subject. How the Ballot
fleets the Legal Status of Women"
3-6 p. M.-Chairman, Miss Gene
We've Frances, Newark. Speakers,
Mrs. Helena Hill Weed, Connecticut;
Miss Alyse Gregory, Mrs. John
Rogers, jr., New York. Subject, The
Home Vote"
Go p. M.-Chairman, Miss Ger
trude Lowey of England. Speakers,
Miss Anna Macauley, New York;
MISC Harriet Porritt, New York; Mrs.
| Nora Blatch De Forest. Subject.
women in the Professions"
9-12 p. M.-Chairman, Miss M. Mil
Ter. Speakers, Mrs. Florence Kelley,
New York; Miss Alice Carpenter,
New York; Rev. Allen McCurdy, New
| York. Subject, Women and War"
TUESDAY.
| 12-3 A. M.-Chairman, Miss Belle
Calm, New York. Speakers, Herbert
Solomon, New York; DIR. G. j. Men
delsohn, New York Ferdinand Pc
cora, New York. Subject, THE New
Democracy"
A. M. to A. M-Chairman,
Johanna Masconi. New York. Speak
ers, Mildred Taylor, New York; Wal
ter Randolph, New York: Mrs. Ella
Reeve Bloor. Subject, THE Labor
Vote"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-18
Junk DEALER, ACCUSED
AS FAG|N, ARRESTED
Charged With Encouraging
Boys to Steal Metals for
Him.

Another arrest of a junk dealer.
who is alleged to have bought stolen
goods from young boys, was made
by the police today. Charles Lavano,
thirty-one years old, of SO Harper
street, is locked up at police head
quarters charged with receiving.
He was arrested in Broad street to-
day by Sergeants Hummell and Bon
net, of police headquarters. Accord
ing to the police charges, Lavano has
bought up several thousand dollars
worth of brass, iron and other metal
goods, which has been stolen in the
city during the past six weeks. They
alleged that he encouraged boys to
steaLa and sell their stuff to him.
In several cases, the police say,
Lavano has furnished the boys with
push-carts to carry away their loot.
Six boys, ranging In age from ten to
fifteen years old have made state
ments to the police, it is said, upon
which Lavano was placed under ar
rest today. The boys have not yet
been arrested.
Most of the robberies have been
at fuondries and metal shops in the
Ironbound district, and complaints
have come into the police frequently
during the past six weeks. In many
cases valuable patterns have been
stolen and sold for junk. j. @. Pier
son, an iron founder at New Jersey
Railroad avenue and Elm street, has
been a heavy loser by the depreda-
tions Of the boys. the police say. They
estimate that nearly $1,000 worth of
metal has been stolen from his place
at various times.
The metal was stolen in small
quantities, the police say, and dis
posed of quickly by Lavano. None
of the stolen metals have so far been
found. but the police will attempt to
have some of those who have been
robbed identify goods in Lavano's S
shop.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-18
ELECTION JUDGE
Is REMOVtD
from First Pase.>

am being made a goat in this affair "
White also told him, the witness de-
clared, that he knew that no such
person as John McCrudden existed.
White denied that he made the lat
Ter statement, but admitted that he
said to McCrudden that he was being
made a target or a martyr or some
thing to that effect. He said tnat ne
was asked to get signatures to the
petition by a man named Berry, VINO
he believed was the Berry running
for freeholder as a "Wdlson Demo-
crat."
"There had been petitions gotten up
before down there" said White, ana
I Though this one was AL right, so
7 went in and woke up the fellows
and asked them to sign. They'd sign
ANYTHING. You don't have to coax
them. r,.,.,
ct don't remember telling them who
the petition was FOR. as didn't know
at that time myself. l simply said
sign this The other man, Berry
held the pen and handed 1t to the
men. l didn't observe any money
being handed to anybody. 1 know
no more about the thing than they
did"
Al the conclusion of Whites state
ment Judge Osborne said
'IInon Mr. Whites own statement
| he has shown that he is unfit to be an
election officer and he will be removed
| forthwith"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-18

David Schnur, of "a Nassau street,
Orange, a student at the New York
University, says that Professor Gal
vim McClelland, of the New Jersey
Law School, is mistaken as to who
possesses a baseball which has left
the hands of the pitcher and still is
in the air. The professor saws the
pitcher Is the possessor. The stu
dent says the pitcher never was the
possessor, but merely the custodian
of the ball, and that the possessor is
the baseball organization for which
the pitcher who threw the ball works.
He says:
ITO substantiate this contention we
must first answer the question, In
whom, as a matter of law, Is the pos
session of the ball before it is thrown
into the air and while 1t is in the
hand of the pitcher Surely it can
not be disputed that the pitcher s
club legally has the possession. His
club is his master and he is but a
servant thereof hired to do the hurl-
ing. (McColligan VS.. p. r. r. c., 214
Pa. 229; Messer VS.. Bell, ETC., co.
1873 Kentucky. 19). And, moreover,
the pitcher can never have the legal
possession of the ball at any stage of
the game.
"It has often been decided and Is
now the we'll settled law that goods
In the bare charge or custody of q
servant are legally in possession of
the master (Oxford VS.. State, SO Ala,
416; Reg VS.. Samways, 26 Eng, L. &
Eq., 576; Commonwealth VS.. Brown,
4 Mass, $50; People VS.. Belden, 81
Cal, 51).
Now when the pitcher throws the
ball, thus releasing 1t from his GUS
tody, does the possession still remain
with his club or does it pass into the
possession of the opposing club while
still in the air on its way to the pat
ter and catcher?
Possession in law is most easily
understood as associated with possess
sion in fact. This is the normal aspect
of the right. The law would be much
simpler than 1t is if 1t were held that
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-18
Gaffy SeHarS,
English Organisf,
i'm Organ Recital

Gatty Sellars, the well-known Eng
lish organist and composer, who is
about to begin his fifth tour of Canada
and the United States, gives a recital
in the Forest Hill Presbyterian
Church tonight, to which no admission
fee is charged. The occasion Is OF
interest not only because of Mr.
Sellars's well-known ability as an
artist, but for the reason that the new
organ of the church will be used at
the recital for the first time.
The program follows:
PART ONE.
Tone Poem, Findlandia, Sibelius;
Chant Sans Paroles, Tschaikowsky;
Fugue in b Minor, Bach; An Evening
Idyll New, Sellars; Allegro Appas-
sionata and Adagio from the Fifth
Sonata, Guilmant.
PART TWO.
Concert Overture in G Minor (No.
p, Hollins; Cantilene Joyeuse New,
Sellars; A Dream. Bartlett; Prelude
in C Sharp Minor. Vodorinslci; The
Russian Patrol, Rubinstein; Overture
to "William Tell" Rossini. Cathedral
chimes used with organ.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-18
Steamer Majestic Sold;
Will Operate Between
Washington and Norfolk

The steamer Majestic, which has
Piled between Newark and Conay
Island for several years, has heen
sold to the Chesapeake and Poton1an
Steamship Company, and will he
placed in service between Washing
ton, d. c., and Norfolk, Va.
The boat was built in Elizabeth IN
the order of Charles M. Schwah WIN ba
had in mind using it for transnortine
poor children of New York city to 5 am5
from a playground on Staten Tslana
The project was abandoned before
the steamship was completed. how
ever, and its first service was for
George z. Wiedenmayer to Conev
Island, IL is now in Brooklyn dry
dock, being made ready for its new
uses. nc"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-18
lARLTON CRIES
AS He RELATES
MURDER STORY
soner on Trial at Como
Breaks Down and Retires
ID at One Point.
The United Press.

the United Press.
DINO, Italy, Oct. 1S.-TDmbllng
at the point of collapse, Porter
rlton today told the court which
rying him for his wife's murder
he met and married his victim,
their life together, of the events
Oh led up to the killing in the
eymoon villa on Lake Como. The
ng American told of his discovery
/ he had slain the woman during
Interval he declared was a blank
ais mind, of the manner in which
sank the body, in a trunk, in Lake
10, and finally of hts flight.
be woman, Mary Scott Castle, al
1y divorced and considerably older
d himself, was married to him in
he said. His love for her, he de-
ed, was so intense that 1t filed
entire life. He could think of moth
else.
her furious jealousy and violent
of anger against him following
Ii marriage he spoke Mt length.
use gusts of rage he attributed to
cause which finally, he said, tenn
arily unseated his reason-the con-
at intensity of his wife's passions.
ext he described their "trip to Italy
cher; of his wife's alcoholic in
Bperance, her persistent carousing
her savage abuse of himself.
Threatened to Leave Him.
Il last, he said, she declared she
d about to leave him.
She covered me with insults" he
4 the court. "She swore like a
nan of the streets. | could not
think that another man awaited
Something broke in my brain.
oping, seized a wooden mallet.
mt happened next l do not re-
hber.
On waking up I understood that
iething terrible must have hap
ed. l jumped from bed, and saw
3 wife lying across the threshold.
nediately l remembered the scene,
threw myself upon the PROSTATE
n. imploring her to answer me.
/ understood what ] had done. 1
3 filled with horror. I had destroyed
woman for whom would gladly
% shed every drop of my blood
Thought First of Suicide.
fe thought at first of suicide,
Arlton said, but abandoned the idea
of regard for his family. Instead,
4 packed his victims body In a
nix, carried it by night to Lake
no and sank 1t in the water, at
he'd to a heavy stone. Then he
/ to Genoa, on his way home. At
j point the prisoner broke down
apletely, and, at his broken-voiced
uest, the court allowed him to re-
J.
he judge had under consideration
I defense's request for an adjourn
at until October 25.
harlton was a pathetic figure as
told his story in Italian. Repeat
u he was on the verge of tears.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-18
VIII Employ X-Ray
to Reveal Extent
of Spinal Injury
Joseph Jurgowsky's Condition,
Following Fall Down Stairs, to
Be Determined in Hospital.

The condition of Joseph Jurgowsky,
forty-nine years old. who fell down a
hight of stairs at his home. $50
Chestnut street, yesterday afternoon.
remains the same, it was reported at
the City Hospital today, where the
unfortunate victim of the mishap was
taken for treatment.
Jurgowsky sustained fracture of
the right leg and injuries to his spine.
An ex-ray examination will be made
today to determine how serious the
spinal injuries are. Jurgowsky was
at the top step of the fight of stairs
when he slipped and fell.