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The Boston Americans. premier ba ehall team of the world, arrived yesterday morning at 9 o'clock for ther spring training in Hot Springs, and this morning about the same hour they will be in uniform and headed for Majestic Park field where their first cayorting since the worlds series cf last rall will he indulged
 President Frazee and Manager Jack Barry yesterday made personal visit 10 the Majestic Park field which they pronounced in excellent condition Also President Frazee, tho new own er of the team. expressed delight that Hot Springs was the scene of the sprine training "I feel like l am going to enjoy my visit to Hot Springs immensely said President Frazte. and also feel certain that as a training ground it has no sup. erior'
 Of the Boston delegation who ar rived yesterday and were registered at the Majestic hotel there are Mir. and Mrs Jack Barry Mr. and Mrs. OI.eary. Mr and Mrs George Ruth, Mir and Mrs II J Peunock Mr and Mrs sam ? Jones. Olef Henrickson Harold Ianvrin Joe Burns, Jim Me Donough NJ C. Greedy Richard Leon ard. Edward Martin Wtll'am SDargo, II. w lannigan, S Vanilye, r. P. Col Her Charles Wagner, Ernest Shore, Sam Agnew. J. w. Wvokoff T L. Cady Albert Tyson Fred Wilder, Jos. P Devine, Carles Green, George Mur- ray, l.. B. Graves
 There Is another deleea ion of the team expected tomorrow, which will complete the list of all who will be in the line up of the Bostons in their further effort to crown the big east ern metropolis with championship honors This latter dele2atiou is eX- nected to include the arrivals of all who hal been discussed in the press as hold outs but who are all eX- pected to report in time
 The Brooklyn Nationals are getting in some practice work now, and with tho arrival Of others Of the team to. morrow they will be ready 10 put iu some hard strides at the Whittington Park field
 After the arrival of President Chas Eybetts of the Brooklyn team the paatter of engagements late in March .hviu be taken up and the announce ment given the public.
 Today's the day Jack Barry the Red SoN's new manager, commences whipping his warriors into shape tc take up where hey left off last Octo Der viz give Boston its annual Amer can League pennant winner and then later blast the daylehts ditto the night lishts, out of whatever team Il is scores in the National League.
 Barry was simply a private himself when the Rcd SoN were registering their 1915 and 1916 conQuests but Y, tans of Boston. likewise the baseball orld at large knows fun well h, lid his share of the work in both biz 3riyos. Not only did Jack shine doing everything on the field. but he served Is a most efficient assistau. to Bank or Bul Carriean
 Now Barry is the hos- and today hc sets his machinery in motion FM-
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DISSOLUTION NOTICE.

Nome is herewith gwen that on this 2lst day of February 1917. the partnership formerly existing be- tween W. II. Housley and George R. HousIey under the firm name of w. M. nousley Company has this day been dissolved; the business in the future Co be conducted by W M Housley
 2.3l-I0t W. M- UOUSLEY co.
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munRAY TRANSFER co.

We have the only fireproof ware house in the city Warehouse con st-ucted with separate apartments for Four furniture.
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BOSTONS ARRIVE
 AND BEGIN WORK
PRESIDENT FRAZEE AND. MANIAC ER BARRY FIND MAJESTIC FIELD ;N PERFECT CONDl-
 TON

Players Win Don Uniforms This Morn Ing and Have Their First Day at Work of the 1917 Spring Training Season
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A nARcAlN lNursrMFNr

We offer for sale sub feet Co prior sale, a block of bath house stock at less than gar value, that will pay a handsome diVi- derd each year from this time. if in t,rtsted, call PhCne = or call at oUr of tiCc. Cohen Ldtta Realty Company.
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We nave m operation a circulating ar system throughout out plant, which prevents a f'y from lighting. The Pas MIX CO. S-1f-H
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Dr. E w. n95edloye mas returned to the city and can be found at his offices on the third floor of the Ar kansas National Bank building. 21ltf
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Prevent La Grippe by taking ReXal Grippe Pills Price 25c R. G. Morris Drug Co, 2-2S.tf,
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This is Clean-up and Pa,ntUp week. We have all kinds of paint and do all kinds o' painting Bisss the Paint People.
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For reliable roof work call Geo J. Turk phone 239. 12 ?7-tf
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STOKA6E

When you want 10 store nOuseholl goods, or crate, pack or snip furnitur call on
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DrlnK Bulgarian sutf~smllk fo' sI1u
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RIDING HABITS.
For Rent or sals

HOT SPRINGS RIDING HABIT co 2pQ cotYaos st. phons 5s3
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-05-15

approach OF the enemy easy Ewald
showed his energy and readiness by the
way he acted. He covered the bridges
and the nearest houses with straw and
then summoning the leading people,
told them that the moment there was
any outbreak he would set fire to the
place. AS Mount Holly was a we'll to-
do village and the shops were full of
valuable goods, his precaution was
effective, and he remained undisturbed
until midnight, then withdrew and
joined Donop."
But to return to our theme. The gun
under discussion is so we'll made thatit
could have been produced only by per-
sons long experienced in the art of
casting guns. in itself highly special
lied and skilled department of craft
manship.
1t is unlikely that Denning, or any
other American workman, had the
skill to produce such a weapon as the
Mount Holly gun this early in the war.
We know the American forces had
little, if any, artillery OF native make
at the siege OF Boston in ITS, and
Denning seems to have given his at
tention to wrought iron guns, while
the local one is of cast iron. Another
point is that the force under General
Griffin was hastily collected for the
purpose of attracting the attention of
the Hessians at Mount Holly and Bor-
dentown. 1t is probable that in the
emergency Griffin took the best guns
he could get from the port of Philadel-
phia, whether they were adapted for
field pieces or otherwise. The local
cannon is just such weapon as might
have been used by body of irregular
troops acting for the purpose OF dis
tracing the attention of an enemy,
without conducting a carefully ar
ranged engagement.
In connection with the Denning
wrought iron gun, the Pennsylvania
Archives contain an interesting diary
OF a British officer found after the bat
tie OF Germantown, which states that
cannon corresponding to the descrip-
ton of those made by Denning had
been captured by the British at the
battle OF Brandywine. This account
agrees with the statement made by
Barber and Howe.
Considering the foregoing, it seems
reasonable to believe that the cannon
In the court house yard was not made
in Mount Holly. 1t is very probable
SA~e'S ~ Woo OoC0 ny buc
troops in December, 1776, and is one
OF the two guns captured here by the
Hessian Ewald, one of Donop's SUBJ
ordlnates, whose energy and resource
fulness in planning to burn Mount
Holly, is so much admired by the Ger
man writer. The logical conclusion is
that the gun was disabled and aban.
doned by command of Ewald, when he
was "Obliged to leave his eunturao,,
here, and hurry to rejoin his superior
officer, too late to help Donop or Rail
at Trenton. We have found no trace
OF the other captured gun. 1t may
have been taken to Trenton. AS the
grist mill was built soon after the Rev
olution, it does not require much i'm
agination to suppose that the workmen
found the old cannon in the racewav,
where it had been thrown by the He's
slams, and that the gun was then
placed in the position it occupied be-
fore its removal to the court house
yard.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-05-15
TUESDAY, MAY Is, 1917
The Clerks Office

The Office Of the County Clerk has
been the subject OF some criticism,
lately. mainly from one source. and
the reason for the attack may be for
reasons solely for the benefit Of the
people or it may be that the heat OF
the recent contest for the nomination
OF Republican candidate for Governor
has left bad taste which has not been
entirely gotten rid of.
There have been several attacks on
the county clerk which were of a per-
sonal nature but the first real criticism
came during the recent murder trial
when some Of the clerical force from
the clerks Office attended the trial
Nothing was said with reference to the
other county Offices nor has there been
any criticism on subjects that the
grand jury has under consideration.
Perhaps this part is all right and re-
marks on this line are not in order un-
til the jury has finished its labors.
But the clerks Office has been made
the target and the charge is that there
10 too large force in the Office. This
La matter for the finance committee
OF the Board Of Freeholdsrs to give at.
tention to. They have had this called
70 their notice more than once and
each time they have replied that there
did not seem to be any necessity for
reduction along that line.
Another charge is that the clerks
offics Is being run at loss and that
there is an annual deficit in the con-
duct OF the Office. This is not carried
out by the reports filed with the county
collector. They show as follows:
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-05-15
Historic Mount Holly.
THE OLD CANNON ON THE LAWN OF
THE BURLINGTON COUNTY
COURT HOUSE
By william A. Slaughter and Henry c. shIun


BY William A. Slaughter and Henry C. ShInn
inserted in the brick base under the
old cannon mounted in the court house
yard il marble slab inscribed, "Can.
non made in Mount Holly. Used in
Revolutionary War" The latter part
Of this inscription is probably correct,
but the first statement is open to some
question. 1t seems to be well estab
lished from a number of sources that
cannon balls, sheet iron for army ket-
ties, and castings for the salt works at
Tuckerton were made at the old foundry
on Pine street prior to it's destruction
by the British in 1770, but we are I'M
able to find any mention of cannon
having been made there. The product
OF the works must have been of great
value to the American army, as we
ind that the workmen were exempted
from military service by an act of the
Legislature passed at Haddontield on
June 5, 1777. This act provided for the
organization of a company Of IRON
workers, not to exceed fifty, under the
command of captain and two lieuten-
ants to be named by the proprietor OF
the works, and commissioned by the
governor of the state.
In Barber and Howe's Historical Col
lections, published in 1874, we find a
statement which may have been the
seed from which grew the present-day
belief that cannon were made in Mount
Holly. In description of the ia.
nous wrought iron gun made by Will
liam Denning during the Revolution,
we learn that ''Denning completed one
at Middlesex, and commenced another
and a larger one at Mount Holly,
but could get no one to assist him who
could stand the heat. *+ The one
completed was taken by the British at
the battle of Brandywine, and is now
in the Tower of London"
We have received biography of the
Revolutionary artificer from William
F. Denning, of Philadelphia. 1t was
published in the Philadelphia Press a
number of years ago, and describes a
monument erected at the grave of
William Denning, atNewville, Pa, by
the state of Pennsylvania. We learn
from it that Denning was lieutenant
in the American army in 1776-7. He
was blacksmith by trade. The need
for arms and ammunition becoming
urgent, Denning was made head OF a
company of workmen in Philadelphia.
When the British approached that city
he was removed to the Cumberland
valley, and stationed at Mount Holly
Springs. He completed number of
four and six-pound guns, and began a
twelye-pounder, which he never finish
ed. He died in 1880.
Barber and Howe's book is known to
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-05-15

~ Ii admitted that the clerks in
former years. after paying their help.
had about $1,000 left for their own
services. Now they get salary of
$500. Add to this the amount OF net
gain to the county. as above quoted.
and 1t Ia easy to see that the difference
OF an average Of $1,000 brings the
salary nearly up to the 81, 600 referred
TO an resolved under the fee system.
In . statement published in THE
NEWS in 1913, it was shown that the
county clerk would have received in
the three years preceding, and which
followed the adoption of the salary
system. the sum Of $22, 222. 50 had he
been working under the fee system,
but rs fact, getting a salary, he re-
ceivsd $11. 1855, and after paying all
expenses, the net gain to the county
was SIC. 805.95. So that, instead of
deficit. there has been q surplus turned
into the treasury each year.
II in all right to criticise any county
ONCE or any county officer, but the
action should not be based on personal
prejudice or any motive but desire to
benefit the county.
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had retreated to Moorestown, to ad-
minister the oath of allegiance to the
detected inhabitants. In the Hessian
account of this fight, quoted from
1.-THE German Allies in the Revolu-
tion," by Captain Max Won Eek
ing, and translated by ]. 6. Rosen-
garten, it is stated: ''Donop, gen.
orally so cautious, allowed himself to
be led on, and followed the Americans
to Mount Holly. He pursued with the
greater part of his force, the 42d Regi-
ment, the grenadier battalions of Lin
singer and Bloch, and a Hessian Yae-
ger company under Captain Ewald."
This contemporary account then states
what seems relevant to the present
point: 1.-THE last named officer had al
ready turned the left flank of the
enemy, taken two light guns, and cut
off hostile force which had crossed
the stream that divides Mount Holly
into two parts. When Donop heard
the cannon at Trenton December 26)
he recalled Ewald, and so the latter
was obliged to lose his captures"
This account readily agrees with
other items we have concerning this
skirmish. If the "hostile force" of the
Americans was cut in two, it was prob
ably done by the Hessians getting pos
session of the small bridge on Pine
street, near Mill, and then pursuing
the two parts of the American forces
out Pine street to Iron Works Hill, and
out Mill street to Top-e-toy. In the
local museum is an iron cannon ball
dug up on Church street near this
bridge, and three others were found
right at the corner within rs feet of the
bridge. Cannon balls, musket balls
and grape shot have been frequently
unearthed at Top e-toy, and in the
neighborhood of Pine street, forming
mute evidences OF the struggle.
Ewald's conduct as commander of
the Hessian rear guard in Mount Holly
before the battle of Trenton is describ-
ed in the German work previously
mentioned. 1t is of considerable local
interest, and we quote it at length.
"Donop drew his detached forces to-
gether at once, and tried to reach
Crosswicks, so as to keep open the road
to Princeton, where General Grant had
a force. To cover his retreat he left
Ewald with rear guard OF 80 mem
Scots, Grenadiers and Yaegers-and
with positive orders to hold the place
until the last man had fallen, and at
all hazard until midnight. The task
was a difficult one; the inhabitants
were bitter enemies of the royal cause,
and Ewald knew that arms and am.
munition were hidden in the village.
The native population could use them
at any time on his little band" (The
Hessians had con6scated a quantity of
munitions stored in the town hall only
a few DAYS before, and publicly burnt
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-05-15
Along the Shore

Frank r. Austin, of Ocean county,
member of the State Oyster Com
mission, has issued statement deny
ing that the new law will be enforced
by that body 10 that the native oyster
men will be forced out Of business by
the leasing Of the State oyster grounds
to any monopoly. He says the COM
mission will lease as small pieces of
ground as five acres to the indepen-
dents, and that no more than ten acres
viii be leased to any one person until
ell who wish to lease beds have done
20. The natives, despite this, declare
that large concerns have made applica-
ton for hundreds of acres by the use
OF the names Of employees. The natives
also object to that part OF the law that
requires each Of them to take out a
license before longing.
While rumors are heard that the
Lakewood-Point Pleasant trolley line
In to be revived, Sheriff Brown il ad-
vertising for sale the right of way of
the trolley company at the suit of
three creditors, Charles A. McCue.
Stewart Holman, both of Lakewood.
and Charles o. Klopp. There are 10
tracts advertised, consisting of the
right of way across 10 different tracts in
Lakewood township. The foreclosure
IL to satisfy three judgments, two in
the supreme court and one in the COM
mon pleas court, two of them against
the Trenton, Lakewood and Seacoast
Railway Co.. and one against the
Vandergrift Engineering Co. as well as
the railway company.
Notified that there was a wireless
station at Bay Head in defiance Of the
federal rules, Sheriff Brown and under
Sheriff Wilsey made a trip there one
night recently, only to find that the
coast guards had removed the aerials
before they got there. 1t was at the
house of Howard Clayton, and was
said to belong to his son, OF his son-in-
law.
Three New Egypt boys started for
Fort Slocum for three months training
last Monday, Forrest Bright, stepson
OF lawyer John Meirs, in the Engineer
corps; Earle d. Moore, in the coast ar
tillery; Lyman Woodward in the reeu
lar army.
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be full of errors, and the statement that
cannon were made in Mount Holly is
shown by the biography quoted to
properly refer to Mount Holly Springs,
IA. The statement that the completed
gun is in the Tower of London, is also
incorrect. Many American tourists
have searched there for it, without
success, among them being Howard C.
Lewis and the late Admiral John J.
Read, both natives of Mount Holly.
The cannon captured at Brandywine
may be the identical one designated as
No. 10, in the 1906 catalogue of the
museum at Woolwich Arsenal, near
London. 1t is described as Wrought
iron gun of hoop and stave construc-
ton. Much corroded. Calibre in,
total length 49in. One trunnion broken
off,"
The local cannon was placed in it's
present place by Washington Camp
No. II, P. o. S. of A., of Mount Holly,
in 1915. For many years the gun had
been buried in the earth at the north
east corner of the old grist mill on
Mill street. About eight inches of the
muzzle projected from the ground, and
served as afender to keep wagon wheels
away from the corner. This site had
been occupied by mill since 1735.
The last building was erected about
1885, and the cannon had been buried
at the corner as far as the memory of
our Oldest residents extends. The old
mill was destroyed by fire in 1910, and
the cannon was then removed from the
ruins. 1t was found to have its right
hand trunnion broken off and the
cascade missing-the latter apparently
cut squarely off with the intention of
making the gun useless as a weapon and
extremely dangerous il any attempt
was made to fire it. The present trun-
MON and cascade are reservations.
made since the gun was taken from
the debris of the mill, and before it was
mounted in its present place. The
weapon is of excellent material and is
pronounced by experts to be a beauti-
full piece of moulding. 1t is apparent
ly better adapted for naval purposes
than for use as field piece, except in
an emergency. 1t looks very much
like another cannon now in front of
the restored barracks at Trenton, which
has crude fleur de lis on its upper
service. The local gun is fifty-six and
half inches long and the diameter OF
It's bore three and a half inches. 1t
fired a six-pound bali, and is made of
cast iron.
Now as to its probable use in the
Revolution. The condition of the gun
when taken from the ruins of the mill
confirms local tradition of a cannon
having been disabled here by the Brit
ish and thrown into the creek. This
very likely may have occurred in De-
cember, 1776, when the ''Flying Camp"
of the American army marched from
Philadelphia to Mount Holly and
made surprise attack on Donop's
Hessians here few days before the
battle of Trenton. AS has been stated
in a preceding article in this series
c'The Battle ofIron Works Hill, "pub-
lished in THE NEWS of April 17), the
Americans and Hessians fought for
several days in this vicinity, and the
line of battle was partly on Pine street
and partly on Mill street as far east as
Top-e-toy. Donop was wounded in the
head, and Bancroft's history SAYS that
he remained heres after the Americans
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-05-15
Historical Society Meets.

The annual meeting of the Woman:
Burlington County Historical Societ,
ct Burlington, Friday afternoon, was
largely attended. The rooms of the
Society in the library building, where
the meeting was held, were beautifully
decorated for the occasion.
During the afternoon, Miss Margaret
8. Haines read an able paper on ''Earlv
Burlington, which received MANY
commendatory expressions for its
thoroughness. There were some valu-
able historical papers and other things
on exhibition. The most noted per
haps. was the original map Of Burling.
ton, shown under glass on account OF
its frail condition, almost illegible, but
an accompanying blue print reproduc.
ton showed the lines, etc., plainly.
The election of officers was part Of
the days business, resulting as follows;
President, Miss Rebecca Wills, Rance
cas-; vice president, Mrs. Alice r. o.
Paul, Mount Holly; secretary, Mrs.
George d. McIlvain, Beverly; assist
ant secretary, Mrs. George H. Beatty,
Beverly; treasurer, Mrs. Horace X.
McIlvain, Mount Holly; historian,
Mrz ]. Lindsay Clarkson, Beverly.
Directors for years-Miss Ann TAYLOR.
Burlington; Mrs. n. Newlin Stokes, Jr.
Moorestown; Mrs. ]. Clement Hopkins,
Jr., Moorestown; Mrs. /. Edward Har-
rison, Wrightstown; Mrs. William D.
Cowperthwait, Medford. Directors for
/ and 2 years-Mrs. Frances b. Lee.
Vincentown; Mrs. 1. Harrison Hutch
inson, Jobstown; Mrs. William d. Lin
pincott, Moorestown; Mrs. Philip s.
Clarkson. Beverly; Miss Alice D'OIier.
Miss Helen Morris, Penn
berton; Miss Ellen C. Curtis, Mount
Holly; Mrs. F. Fl. Mann, Beverly; Mrs.
David Baird, Beverly; Mrs. Maryland
Edgewater Park.