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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-11-03
Fort Lee Turnpike,
New Cement Road,
Opened Wednesday

The first vehicle to pass over the
new concrete section of the Fort Lee
Turnpike informally opened to the
public on Wednesday was a one
horse shay driven by John DeGraw,
one of the oldest residents on the
Teaneck ridge. A cleaning pumpkin
in the wagon was deemed a golden
omen for the future of the highway.
The Board of Freeholders and road
officials after a careful inspection
ordered the removal of barriers on
each end. In few moments there
after streams of autos were speed
ing over the level white-way, which
promises to be one of the most allur-
ing for speed maniacs in the county.
1t is straight-away and likely to
tempt the most conservative of dri-
verS.
The length of the road is $500 feet;
the width of concrete construction is
20 feet with 8 inches depth on the
sides and 101a inches in the center.
There are five foot macadam shout
ders on each side giving 80 foot
roadway in all. The concrete has a
reinforced mesh weighing As hun
dredths of pound to the square foot
The slabs are 20 feet in length
These are separated by premoulded
expansion joints. The cost of the
work is $4,000.
The Ufheil Construction Co., of
Peetzburg were the contractors.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-11-03
White In Palisade
Brings Out Only is
Home Folk All Told.

The great White (wayD rally" at
the Palisade Public School last We'd
nesday night was attended by just
sixteen Palisadians. Mayors Ropes
and Cadien, of Englewood Cliffs and
Cliffside Park respectively, made
short talks boosting the Eastern Ber-
gen Imp. Assn, and incidentally
speaking a good word or two for
Mayor White. Both are Republicans
out of place at Democratic meeting,
Mayor White, also, read speech,
as did ex-Mayor Osler, of Leonia and
also Vincent B. Kelly, leader of the
White campaign. The meeting was
late starting, and some left before it
was over There was small dele
cation from Fort Lee present. 1t
wasn't what one could call a rally
but session of explanations" from
Messrs. Kelly and White, each try
ing to justify their many claims and
acclaims in the present campaign
a sort of fence-repairing evening
But the horses are out of the lot, and
the meeting might just as we'll have
been postponed for all the votes il
made.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-11-03
NO DOUBT OF CORKER STRENGTH

The big end of the Fort Lee cam
paign is in sight. Next Tuesday will
tell the tale of whether Honest Sam
Corker, plain, unassuming, gentleman
that he is, is to be at the head of
the Borough's government, or the
head of the present administration is
to be returned.
1t may be said to the disparage-
ment of no man that Mr.. Corker's
campaign has been conducted along
clean and wholesome lines. He has
not made a single public speech.
There have been no "grand rallies"
IN his behalf, no banners raised, no
circus tent headquarters put up, no
trumpets sounded. He has gone
around among the homes of the peo-
pie with his. big, fearless heart,
shaking hands, smiling, greeting
! everybody with frankness and earnest
spirit, and making friends at every
step. His progress has be/n>remark-
able1 hose who have pa lhaI
Tact mat There's man =!
Every inch of the Corker campaign
has shown gain of ground. Starting
out with pledge mot a promise)
OF Commission Government, he fore
ed the opposing administration
third term candidate to come up to
the Commission trough and eat of the
Corker porridge. The people have
seen one candidate initiate a great,
bold movement for the people, ac-
tually INITIATED by the Democrat
ic candidate. Mr.. Corker has gain
ed votes by >this half-hearted, forced
move of Mayor White, whose attitude
all along has been that he doesn't
want to let loose the reins of gov
his suit home to the people.
But the people are wide-awake in
this campaign. They are thinking
hard, the Corker opposition in the
meantime wincing under his hard
trip-hammer blows, delivered with
telling effect on the Leonia Heights
Sewer job, where $4,000 of the
public money has been spent with
out public knowledge, almost, and
the management Of which has been
SO loose and dilatory that the people
are now up in arms over it.
Talk as he will, Mayor White has
been put on the defensive at every
stage of the campaign. He has been
on the run all the way, and now at
the close of the race he calls in out
side Republican mayors to give him
boost he should be able to command
at home. The Palisade meeting
Monday night of the White forces ac-
tually made votes for Corker. There
were only sixteen Palisadians pres
ent, not all of them for Corker.
The best judges of local politics
admit Mr.. Corker's strength, and if
he does not win it will not be caused
by his faultless campaign and his
admirable leadership
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-11-03
Allison Land Co.,
Cauanaugh' S Part In
1t Neuer Answered

In 1916 Edward Cavanaugh, Tax
Assessor of the Borough of Fort
Lee, assessed the property of the
Allison Land Company at $780,
800, figures suggested by the Fort
Lee Borough Club. An appeal
was made by the Allison interests
to the County Tax Board of Equal
ization, and the assessment was
reduced to $4,000. The record on
the County Board books reads:
"ALLISON LAND COMPANY,
$136,800, REDUCED TO $4,000,
ASSESSOR CAVANAUGH. CON-
yGIIRRIN6 s, !, z.-..,.....
The Palisadian' has previously
asked Assessor Cavanaugh to an
swer the charge of looping off
$56,800 of HIS OWN ASSESS
MENT FIGURES, but he has re-
manned absolutely silent.
The so-called hearing was be-
fore Mr.. Conklin, the only member
of the County Board present.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-11-03
Mr.. Schau Captures
Fiue Grantwood Boys
Walking In Palisade

Five young men of the Cliffside
Park Borough, Herbert Herschler,
James Mahoney, Pasty Pauto, Tony
Griffin and Frank Damis were held
up in Palisade as suspicious charac-
tiers, this week They were walking
along Palisade avenue quietly and
were trailed for time by a man
who later proved to be Chief of Po-
lice Schall, and who soon had an
other man with him. AS the boys
were about to return into the Cliffside
Park Borough line, Mr.. Schall ordered
the boys to halt. But the boys kept
on walking. The chief came up to
them and pointing a gun at them
again ordered them to halt, demand
ing their business in that locality.
They replied they were just out for
a walk. "You had better come along
with me-" he replied, and walked to
a police telephone box and called
for the patrol to carry the boys to
the station house. In the meantime
the boys asked the men to call up
some of the town folks, but they re-
fused to do so.
Mr.. Schall, who was holding the
revolver, asked his partner to take
it and keep them covered while he
looked for a policeman. The fellow
who was put in charge of the revol-
yer was a nervous Individual and
kept repeating to the boys in very
shaky voice, Don't surround me!
Don't surround mel"
Mr.. Schall returned with an officer
as the patrol came up and the whole
party had a joy-ride to the police
station in Fort Lee where after con-
siderable red-tape and questioning
the boys were discharged. The fire.
auent robberies in Palisade was given
as the reason for their having been
picked up.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-11-03
Red Cross Benefit
At Ciifside High
Is To Be Fine Affair

Although unable to appear person
ally as soloist at the entertainment
and dance given by the Cliffside
Chapter of the American Red Cross
at the High School Auditorium on
Monday evening, November 9Th, Nine.
Blanche Arral Wheeler will present
two of her pupils, Miss Elizabeth
Reid, soprano, who will make her de-
but in public, and Miss Elizabeth U.
Koven, contralto, of Weehawken, who
has already sung in public with great
success and promises to be a singer
of very high class. Both of these
young ladies have been training for
some time with Nine. Wheeler and
will be accompanied by her at the
piano.
The programme will be opened by
Jasper's Orchestra who will give a
selection of patriotic and timely
pieces.
l. Solo-Courtland Donaldson.
2. Sketch, "Who Said Peace"
3. Soprano Solo
Miss Elizabeth Reid
"To Spring" Gounod
Sunshine and Butterflies"
Burning
a. Solo-Harold Devine.
Continued on page 81
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-11-03
TREMENDOUS TRAFFIC HIGHWAY.

The old Bergen Turnpike with it's
ripe memories of century gone road
lore and recent calumny seems des-
tined by the whirl-a-gig of time and
events to return to it's prestine
glory. 1t may be the first road to
be improved under Gov. Edges COM
prehensive state highway plan. If
route 10 is constructed on the plan
as outlined by the Bergen County
Board of Freeholders the Bergen
Pike will be the most famous and
most used road from New York City
to North Jersey and beyond.
From Trenton comes the word that
if the State Highway Commission is
to be guided by the majority senti-
ment of the Counties through which
Route 10 in the States proposed $751;
100000 highway system will pass,
then the route from Paterson to Fort
Lee by way of Hackensack will in
clude the Bergen Pike from Hacken-
sack to Ridgefield to Palisades Park
to Fort Lee. That means that East
Paterson, Rochelle Park, haywood,
Hackensack, Little Ferry, Ridgefeld,
Palisades Park, Fort Lee and Edge
water will all be directly benefited.
All of this as eliminating result
of the recent hearing in the Board
Of Freeholders room when Director
Eager so forcibly pointed out to the
Commission the desirability of the
route, which statement was backed
up by a most carefully drawn brief
submitted by Engineer McClave point
inG Out ~ advantages of the
~ lW lgIles. ln host pfnrns lsas
he matter of q. kles. The new roIt=
ing adhering to strict economy as
well as many other advantages ap-
pealed to Chairman Herbert of the
Commission and to Mayor Radcliffe,
of Paterson, who is earnestly seeking
way to relieve the manufacturers
of his city from the handicap of in
adequate rail service Director Nc
Donald of the Passaic Board of Free
holders expresses, himself as entire
ly satisfied with the route as sug-
gested by the Bergen Board.
In 1915 when the Eagan Road Bill
slipped by Senator Hennessy with no
mention of Bergen County road,
Assemblyman Winnie in the eleventh
hour snapped in an amendment Civ
ing Bergen it's place in the sun,
though the Small Boards Legislative
Continued from page S
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-11-03
$195,895.6O
Assessment Puzzle Is
Latest Novelty in
Fort Lee Campaign

An interesting little campaign puz-
zle has been gotten out in Fort Lee
1t purports to be a war map of two
adjoining sections of the Boroughs
of Fort Lee and Englewood Cliffs
On the Englewood Cliffs side of the
little printed diagram, are six lots
their sizes and valuations. They av.
erage about 250x100 feet in size, and
are all but one assessed at 81 900 each
An acre tract alongside is assessed
at $4,000. Then just over the Dor
ough line is Fort Lee. The land ad.
joins the Englewood Cliffs lots
There are only two lots on the Fort
Lee side, but they are assessed al
$500 and $1,000, and are about loo
by 200 feet in size. An acre adjoin.
ing on the Fort Lee side of the Dor
ough line is assessed at $4,000. The
puzzle is entitled, "Obiect Lesson in
Taxation"
The point meant to be emphasized
is that as an Assessor of class, Mr.
Cavanaugh sort of takes the rag of
the bush.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-11-03
Cauanaugh Was Not
Told To Increase In
Fort Lee IS Per Cent

A well authenticated statement
reached "The Palisadian" yesterday
to the effect that Borough Assessor
Cavanaugh, of Fort Lee, harrassed
at the criticism of the tremendous in
creases he placed on property this
year, asked member of the County
Board of Equalization if he wasn't
authorized by the Board to add the
35 per cent he placed on the Fort
Lee ratables this year. He was CIV
en- the merry stare over the telephone
and told in effect to go and chas,
himself. The Board has written a
letter to member of the Fort Lee
Borough Club telling him NO ORDER
WAS GIVEN ASSESSOR TO IN
CREASE THE BOROUGH RAT
ABLES TO ANY SUCH FIGURE AS
CAVANAUGH PLACED THEM AT.
Now where does Mr.. Cavanaugh
get off? The Borough of Fort Lee
has added about $1,750,0O to its last
years assessment.
WHAT THE COUNTY BOARD
WANTED THE ASSESSOR TO DO
WAS TO EQUALIzE ASSESS
MENTS, and de didn't do it.
The only benefit to come from the
large increase In assessments this
year is that it will give more borrow
ing capacity, and the Borough is now
loaded to the guards.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-11-03
Corker Endorsed By
Prominent Democrat
Who Believes In Him

One of the most prominent Demo
Gratis of the Borough of Fort Lee said
yesterds.. to "Palisadian" repre-
sentative in speaking of Samuel J.
Corker, candidate on the Republican
Citizens Ticket:
81 expect to vote for Corker be-
cause believe in the man. l have
never known a finer character. He
is really one Of the most likable fell
lows in the world. He would sooner
cut off finger than do an underhand-
ed trick. In politics he is exactly
the same. He never tries to put one
over-no matter how great the temp
tation.. If he is elected, he will not
only make a good mayor, but be an
honor to the Borough"
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-11-03
White Dodges
All Main Issues
On Leonia Sewer

On the Leonia Heights sewer, May
or W Il mite II oses mot ,answer the vital
points at all. For instance:
1. Are the figures, $195,O0O, cor
rect?
2. Was the semi-fnal certificate
authorized in 1916?
8. Was there delay of ID months
in the appointment of the Assess
ment Commission?
4. Are the Commissioners ready to
report?
5. Did the cost of the sewer carry
interest during the ID months delay
in the appointment of the Commits
sioners?
6. Is it not fact that $105,00O of
the cost of construction will have to
be paid for by the Borough at large?
Z. Did the cost of the sewer carry
estimated cost of the Leonia Heights
sewer as supplied by VIM. J. Morri-
son, Chairman of the Assessment
Commission Here it is, as it went
from the Council to the Commission
errS:
May %, 1917.
Borough Of Fort Lee, Bergen Coun-
ty, N. j.
STATEMENT SHOWING COST OF
SEWER CONSTRUCTION
Leonia Heights
For Purpose of Assessment
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-11-03
Help to Make This Reality With Your Vote
Fort Lee Tax Books Are Altered
In Strange Way By Somebody to
Preuent Plain Skow of Fdvoritism
Citizens Committee Looked OUer Assessors Books Be-
fore Changes We're Made And SalU The Figures in
'PaIisadian IS" Tax List.

The evident scare that the new
Fort Lee tax list has thrown into
the White camp is shown by the
scampering of certain taxpayers to
to the collectors office.
The Corker Campaign Committee
secured a complete roster of the tax
list and it is published on page sew
en- of this issue of 1.-THE Palisadian."
When the tax list is looked over it
will be seen that Councilman H. D.
Schall's property is placed at $4,6O0.
1t was discovered Thursday night
that the books now in the hands of
Collector Bender HAVE B E E N
at $4,000, whereas the amount was
changed, and Mr.. Schall's total is
$4,000 on the books. Who ordered
the change?
It is understood that once the tax
list leaves the County Board it can
not be changed. Another instance OF
a change is the case of A. w. Tams.
He had no personal tax on the list
opposite his property as it went to
Assessor CavanaQgh. 1t now has
$500 personal tax added and four
lots. The Logan home, house and
one lot is placed at $4,000. The Lee
mon house and lot is placed at $4,000.
1t was sold for $12,500.
How much more "doctoring" OF the
returns has been done is not known,
but the evident intention of the
changes was to wipe out evidence of
favoritism. :,
There are men in Palisade who will
make affidavit that the BOOKS HAVE
BEEN CHANGED.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-11-03

Construction .......... $144,217.42
Engineering, Surveying
and Inspection ...... 19,516.52
Interest, Incidentals Ex-
penses and damages
awarded ............ 3O,25O.52
Advertising ......... lila
Attorneys fees (esti-
mated) ........... $4,000
Commissioners (esti-
mated ........... -. 10000
$195,895. go
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-11-03
Goethals Calls Bergen Turnpike
Most Important Road In New Jersey
To Be One Of the Earliest Started

Bergen County Gets Large Benefit From Edge Road
Turnpike Coming At Last Into Its OUn As Direct
Route From Neu York City To Paterson Vide
AuUake To Importance OF This Great Work.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-11-03
False Rumor is Run
Down About Water
Co. Pooling People.

A report is being circulated that
the Water Company is signing up
agreements with consumers AT THE
OLD RATES.
More politics, unworthy of the title
of CAMPAIGN LIE.
The FACTS are that the old rates
will apply on all water used till Jan
/, 1918. After that date the new
rates go into effect automatically.
And incidentally, to NO MANS
ADVANTAGE.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-11-03
Mr.. Corker's Pledge
To the People of Fort Lee:


If l am elected to be Mayor of
the Borough of Fort Lee, l shall
take the oath of office unfettered
by single political obligation.
Pledged to no man, | shall fulfil
every platform agreement and
carry it out to the letter. MY
words shall all be made good, a
statement in which l glorify. l
am for the peoples rights, and
shall play no favorites.
SAMUEL J. CORKER.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-11-03
Get Your Tax Bill
In 20. Today

Your tax bill, Mr.. Voter, is in the
Post Office today Get it. You will
have a pleasant surprise.
Most of you.
Some Of you will be tickled.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-08-14

One hundred tons Of paint. costing
approximately $4,000. represents the
lnltiai color requirements for a new
battieship The annual upkeep cost
may exceed this sum, since It Is the
custom to repaint the different parts
of a modern war vessel every three to
six months. This would Indicate an
annual paint protection outlay of near
~ S1,0OO,O00 for the navy. IL to this
sum Is added the cost Of painting the
thousands Of lake boats, freighters,
river steamers and pleasure craft some
conception may be had OK the imrof-
lance OF marine painting.
Among the most important naval
paints are those which are applied to
protect the submerged parts of the
hulls from corrosion or fouIing by bar
nacles. The word barnacle is the pop
ular name for that form Of marine
crustacea which consists of a clam
like body lodged In a shell that is often
formed in a series Of rings or plates.
They adhere with great tenacity.
without anti-fouling paints the speed
of. vessels would be greatly retarded
by the piling up Of thick incrustation
of barnacles and attached sea grass
Boston Herald.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-08-14
DENIES RUM0R OF DISASTER
TO UNITED STATES FORCES

Answering rumors as to an alleg-
ed disaster to American forces, Sec
rotary of War Baker, made the fol-
lowing statement:
81 have no hesitancy in saying
that not a syllable has reached the
War Department which would lead
us to believe that any misfortune
has attended our forces on land or
sea, and l can reiterate the pledge
made some time ago that any such
word will be instantly given to the
country, subject only to the quail
fication that any military movement
in process at the time be completed,
so as not to imperil the remainder
of the forces involved. Let me re-
peat that no word has reached us
which would justify any fear at this
time"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-08-14
HOW WILLIE BE RA!sEna

In discussing the question of rails
inc the enormous amounts of revenue
necessary during the coming twelve
months, an exchange, after demon
strating the utter impossibility OF
raising the vast amount by taxation,
and the corresponding necessity of
resorting to bond issues, concludes
as follows:
'1n a sentence, unless the big
loans are balanced with heavy taxes
upon those who are making money
out of the war, we will rapidly and
inevitably reach a state of financial,
industrial and social chaos"
The conclusion is inevitable to
the candid person who will give the
question unbiased thought.
Based on the probability of
need of from fifteen to twenty bill
lion dollars by this time next sum-
mer, the demand would mean from
5000 to $3.50 for each of the twenty
million families that make up the
nation. 1t can be seen at a glance
that this can never be even approx
mately distributed among tn e
masses. Possibly a few more bill
lions may be secured through popu-
lar subscription, but the great bulk
of the required means must come,
as our contemporary suggests,
from those who are MAKING NON
Ely OUT OF THE WAR.
If the war continues for even two
years longer there will be fortunes
made that will dwarf any the world
has yet seen, provided business is
allowed to take It's hitherto unlnter-
rupted course. While it is true we
will spend prodigious amounts, it is
equally true that we will make fabu-
lous amounts. The allied nations
are practically at our mercy for
food and other supplies. Huge reve-
nues are constantly coming from
that source. Not a dollars worth
of any commodity that can be used
by man need go to waste in the
United States for want of a foreign
market.
1t is up to our government to cor
rectly analyze the situation and
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-08-14
THE GIANT AWAKE

We have but recently witnessed an
event in this country the like of
which the world has never before
seen-at least, the world of our
knowledge. We have witnessed the
entrance into the ranks of a nations
fighting men, of ten million soldiers;
waiting for the call to the colOrs.
We see today an army of nearly two
million men actually under arms,
equipped and assembled, ready to
do or die in their country's service.
1t is an amazing sight. America.
the peaceful; America, the cradle
of liberation, the nursery of justice
and right-America in arms and
springing to the fray!
And the strang feature of the
case is, it has astonished even
Americans themselves. We had
been so long accustomed to hear
ourselves referred to as a sleeping
giant that we had come to so regard
ourselves. We had thought that
the affairs of the outside world
concerned us not, and that we were
sufficient unto ourselves.
But today sees the giant awake.
A little groggy, it is true, but rapid
j. assimilating the power and might
that will sweep everything before
him when once he gets his stride.
It also sees him shOrn of his prOvin-
cialism and taking his rightful
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-08-14
Vegetable Soups or Purees.

Soup is not necessarily made from
meat stock. Vegetable soups or purees
are made by boiling potatoes, beans,
peas or other vegetables until soft,
MASKING through a sieve and then heat
ing with a little liquid water, milk,
soup stock or whatever seems desir-
ablc) and flavoring. Using leftover
yegeta hlcs Ger ss::::c.; Pu-ees is az eco
nomieai practice. Milk soups, which
are really milk thickened and Favored
with some vegetable, fish or other food,
to give flavor and perhaps thickened
still more with little flour or stale
breadcrumbs, are both nutritious and
appetizing. They furnish also an ex-
cellent means of using up skimmiik.
Those who wish to bring down the cost
of food should remember that skim
milk, cup of which contains as much
protein as a cup,of whole milk, Is far
too valuable food to be overlooked.