New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Nutley Buys Hearst
Papers and Makes
Bonfire of Them
Commuters Form Circle
and Watch "Americans"
Go Up in Smoke
Special DisDatch to Tho Tr;b,,ro,

tSpectNl OtSpQtch TO The IrtbnUeo
NUTLEY, N. j., June 4-Special
Hearst representatives who were dis
patched to Nutley to sell Hearst news
papers after local newsdealers quit
handling those publications did land
office business this morning.
"New York Americans" sold like hot
cakes. The Hearst agents did not have
to cry out their wares. Persons went
up and asked for them. Some bought
as many as ten or twelve copies. So
great was the demand that the entire
stock was sold out before o'clock,
half an hour after the agents had ar
rived in town.
The light began to dawn upon the
Hearst emissaries when their first Gus
toner went out in front of the railroad
station, crumpled up his five "Ameri-
cans" and touched a match to them.
This man had waited until number
of other commuters arrived and made
their purchasers Of Hearst newspapers,
so when he started the fire there were
others at hand to keep it we'll fed.
Sign Tells Nutley Sentiment
Women and children, as we'll as men,
attended Nutley's bonfire "party."
News that the 7:45 and 8 o'clock COM
muters planned to stage the "party"
apparently had spread through town
last night, for those who take earlier
trains sent their wives and children to
act as their personal representatives
in the business Of booming Hearst
sales.
The youngsters made an occasion
of it, furnishing all the noise and
plenty of action for the "party." The
men and women formed circle about
the fire, watching the "Americans"
burn. Many of the men present were
members of the Nutley Battalion, New
Jersey Militia Reserve. Last week
this battalion pledged it's 400 members
to use all lawful means to keep Hearst
newspapers out of town. 1t was Lieu
tenant Claude w. Boynton who put up
a sign soon after the fire was blazing
high. The sign read:
SPIES
LIES
SEDIT1ON
HEARST
NONE OF THEM FOR
NUTLEY
The principal comment the Hearst
agents made was to the effect that to-
morrow morning they would bring out
more "Americans" than the town would
be able to buy.
Hearst Agents Cut Price
A member of the battalion said that
Nutley has no intention of buying
Hearst papers tomorrow morning. He
explained that the one exhibition was
United States know how Nutley stands.
Another. member favored bonfire
every morning.
The Hearst agents brought with
them copies of all other New York
papers, as we'll as Hearst publications.
They offered all papers at two cents,
one cent cheaper than the local news
dealers sell New York papers.
But Hearst papers were all they sold
thls morning, according to battalion
members. This was despite the fact
that James Vrceland and r. H. Ritchie
the local dealers who sell at the Frank
lin Avenue station. were driven from
their usual stands on the station plat
form. Battalion members said this
was done by the Union News Company,
which controls newsstand privileges at
Erie stations.
These two newsdcalers stood outside
OF Erie property, however, and Nutley
citizens bought their papers from them
as usual-paying the extra cent rather
than have the Hearst agents injure
the business OF the local dealers, who
quit handling Hearst newspapers
when public opinion regarding Hearst
became apparent in tn (, town