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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-19

George f. Blakeslee, campaign
manager for Senator Edward j..
Edwards, in the latters quest for the
Democratic Gubernatorial nominal
ton, returned to Jersey City Tuesday,
says the Hudson Observer, after Il
months sojourn in the South and Mid
die West. He at once buckled down
to campaign work and from now until
primary day he will be the leader
among Il group of Senator Edwards
friends, who are lending their support
to the senator's candidacy.
Mr.. Blakeslee, who is a member of
the New Jersey Highway Commission,
has the distinction of being the father
of the good roads system in this state.
AS an automobiist of note and as
president of the New Jersey Auto
mobile Trade Association, he advo-
Gated a system which by the use
of the revenue received from motor
vehicle licenses improved roads might
be built in New Jersey. Practically
alone he got measure through the
legislature providing for a bond issue
to finance the work and then went be-
fore the people of the state and got
their approval by n majority of
$4,000.
One of his accomplishments of that
campaign was the preparation of the
schedule of the estimated annual in
come from motor vehicle fees, =
tie cine MS critics said he ,sas 'visiSn
airy and that no such money would
ever be obtained. Yet as years pass
it is shown that, if anything, Mr..
Blakeslee was conservative. In 1919
it is intimated that the state will be
enriched by more than $3,000,000 from
this source, an amount equal to the
state tax for roads.
!. 81 have been temporarily dissociat-
ed from active campaigning in behalf
of Senator Edwards for the past
few weeks" said Mr.. Blakeslee. Il
have recently returned from trip
to the South and | have found upon
my arrival many letters containing
assurances of support for Mr.. Ed
wards in his primary fight. They have
come from men of influence in the
counsels of the Democratic party, and
they all incline to the conclusion that
the battle is already won, and that
the senator's nomination is only a
matter of time that will have elapsed
between onw and the primaries.
surveying very carefully all con
ditions fail to see how any other
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-19
2 Negroes Escape
Hackensack Jail,
Overpower Guard

Two negro prisoners almost killed
Kenneth Meyerhoff, night warden
in the Hackensack Jail, at about l 10
Monday morning, tied him up, locked
him in a cell, and then escaped. The
desperadoes were later discovered in
Little Ferry, but eluded arrest and a
fusilade of shots. One of the priS-
oners, crossing the Hackensack river
in a boat at Little Ferry, brutally
attacked Thomas Melia, West Shore
railroad detective, almost bit finger
off and stole his revolver, black jack
and flash lantern.
Sheriff John w Courier has a score
or more of armed men searching for
the escaped negroes, one of whom is
believed to be hiding in the meadows
near Little Ferry.
The prisoners are in their bare feet,
which is the best description thus far
obtainable, outside of wearing brown
jumper suits.
According to George Church, the
night Waterman at the Jail, it was
shortly after l o'clock when Kenneth
Meyerhoff, guard, procured some
medicine and started upstairs with it,
saying that one of the negro prisoners
had fit. The alleged sick man was
William Mckinley, aged 81, of 32S
West Fifty-nineth street, New York,
and the man who had reported the
fit" was his pal, John Brown, u, of
Newark.
These men were arrested in Little
Ferry on Sunday, June 20, and were
charged with using revolvers freely
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-19
l.. o. SYKES, CASHIER
FORT LEE BANK FOUND
UNCONSCIOUS AT FERRY

Found unconscious at the Edge
water ferry house last Tuesday night,
says the Record, Leon O. Sykes, cash
Ter of the First National Bank of Fort
Lee, is in the Englewood Hospital in
il critical condition. An examination
showed him to be suffering from the
effects of some drug.
Mystery surrounds the affair AS
far as the police We're able to learn,
nothing of value was stolen from Mr..
Sykes, and they are at a loss to dis
cover any motive for the drugging.
The theory has also been advanced
that the drugs may have been self
administered.
Mr.. Sykes was found in the lava
tory of the Edgewater ferry house by
Patrolman Wilson, who was notified
by man who said there was "a dead
man in the ROOM" The unconscious
man was taken to the Edgewater po-
lice headquarters and physician
called
Dr. Charles f. Buckley, of Edge
water, made an examination when
revealed that the man was suffering
from an overdose of some drug. He
ordered him removed to the Engle-
wood Hospital At that institution it
was said, Thursday night, that Mr.
Sykes condition was about the same.
The further statement was made
that he was victim of kidney trouble,
but would recover.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-19
Trolleys in Crash
At Loop Turn on
Palisades Line

A score of passengers We're injured,
three of them seriously, last night at
Dead Mans Curve ON the Hudson
River trolley line atop the Palisades,
nea TIE amusement park, in rear
cad N5afisi,ai o1 Atao Sfoiits tdis. $40
of the more seriously injured were
women.
Mrs Florence Lining, of Ames ave-
nue., Leonia; Mrs. Louis Synder, of
Edgewater, and Frank Ansell, of
West Fort Lee, were the most seri-
ously hurt. They were treated by
Dr. Charles F. Buckley, of Edgewater,
and later were able to be taken to
their homes. The rest of the injured
suffered from cuts and bruises.
The accident occurred at $50 A
Fort Lee car, in charge of Motorman
William Calhoun and Conductor
Alonzo Monroe, had started down the
steep grade and around the curve from
the amusement park. An EnglewOod
car followed it in charge of Motorman
James LOugheed and Conductor
Ernest Erlacher
According to LOugheed, when he at
tempted to put on the brakes as the
car gathered speed they failed to
work. There is a safety switch with
sand rails half way down the grade at
which all cars must stop and Cal
houn was holding his car back ready
to make the stop when the Engle-
wood car crashed into his Fort Lee
car. That several passengers We're
not killed is considered a miracle.
Traffic on the line was delayed for an
hour.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-19
Continued on Page s.

during a game of craps 1t was also
reported they were guilty of highway
robbery.
What happened after Meyerhoff
reached the cell of the desperate me-
groes is best told by Sheriff Coulter.
Just before | was called by the
night Waterman and told a prisoner
was suffering from fit, l heard calls
and cries coming from the Jail, but
concluded another crazy person had
been committed during the night.
Il hurried to tie upper tier and
found that Meyef 1off had been tied
with Il strap and strips of bedding and
then locked in one of the cells His
keys had been taken from him, ana
the negroes had no trouble in getting
into the elevator, going down to the
main floor, opening the main Jail door,
then sneaking along in their bare feet,
through the narrow passage to the
front door and to their freedom.
"AS soon as l saw what had hap
pened | released Meyerhoff, summon
ed doctor and then got busy sending
out the alarm to all the surrounding
police stations.
"Meyerhotf was in serious con-
dition when l realeased him and hys-
terical | decided it best not to ques-
ton him for details, as the facts We're
self evident"
The negroes were not apprehended
Record
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-19
No Gas Raise Now,
May Be in Fall, Was
Decided on Wed.

Testimony was heard by the Pubic
Utility Commissioners in Newark
Wednesday, in the matter OF the IN
creased rate schedule filed by Public
Service Gas Company. Only hVe
municipalities were represented by
counsel and the hearing was con-
tinued to September IL.
The company seeks to increase It's
base rate from 81 cents to 9l.lo Il
thousand cubic feet and bases It's ac-
tion on the higher cost OF LABOR, OH
and other materials. President Thos.
w McCarter, in outlining the COM
panys position, declared that tie
starting point of the cOmpany's pres
emf case was the utility boards decls-
ion in the Pasaic gas case, when was
begun in 1911 and decided early III
1918. In that case the board caused
q valuation of physical property TO DE
made. Evidence was produced Snow
ing changes in conditions and higher
COSTS since the PaSSaic case ana IL
was pointed out that the company had
never been able to set aside as mucii
for depreciation as the State Board
had declared was desirable. Mr.. NC
Carter took the position that 1t was
necessary to pay dividends to main
taip the company's credit so that IT
could attract capital for extensions.
In a statement filed with the board
comics of which were sent to the COVER
inc bodies of all municipalities served
by the company it was shown that tne
company. beginning August l. VIII
have TO nav five cents per gallon for
its gas oil against it's former price Oh
sos cents per gallon, an increase OF
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-19
Ex-Sheriff Dead,
7. L. Van Buskirk;;
Father of Co. Clerk

Former Sheriff Jacob L. Van Bus
kirk. father of County Clerk George
Van Buskirk, of 1875 Main street,
Hackensack, died at his home last
week following an attack of heart
trouble. He was in his 6Sth year,
having been born in Saddle River,
July 30, 1851. He was educated in
New Bridge and Hackensack public
schools after which he learned the
blacksmith trade, which he followed
for a period of nine years. He then
opened butcher shop in Hackensack.
Deceased was lifelong Democrat,
and for many years was interested in
politics. He served as Freeholder
from 1890 to 1896 and for three years
was Director of the Board.
In 1898 he was elected Sheriff by a
majority of 700.
He was a member of Hope Encamp-
ment. |. o. o. F., Order of American
Foresters, Red Men, United Workmen,
Hackensack Lodge of Elks. of which
he was a charter member, Hackensack
Wheelmen and other organizations.
Mr.. Van Bushkirk was president of
the Exempt Firemen's Association OF
Hackensack and one of the organizers
of the old Liberty Steamer Co, OF
which he was foreman.
The deceased is survived by two
sons. George and Henry c. Van Bus
kirk, and one daughter. Mrs. Mar
garet r. Blauvelt. all of Hackensack.
Funeral services were held in the
First Reformed church on Sunday
afternoon. -Hackensack Record.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-19

hesitate to express themselves over
it,
at is barely probable that these
gentlemen are straining at gnat and
swallowing a camel" said another
citizen. "The community house was
not started with the thought of violat-
ing any restrictions on property. The
great need of such an institution must
appeal to the heart of the village, else
so quick a response would not have
been made to the committees appeal.
In the little time that work was done
about $4,000 was subscribed, a very
respectable showing, and the town not
half way covered. The Improvement
Association will not add anything to
it's usefulness if it opposes anything
so universally demanded as a COM
munity house What do they want?
Palisade is not trying to set up false
gods, nor obtain something under false
pretenses. 1t very sincerely desires
a public place for meetings, gymnasium
and the like for the children of the
village, and this community house idea
was one of the things that would do
more lasting good than anything else
that could be named at this time"
"While it is true that The Palisa-
dian would have desired the location
of the community house on Bluff road
where its advertising value would have
been the greatest, more serious thought
OH the matter made it appear as best
to locate it near the church. There is
piece of land adjoining the church
worth perhaps $1,000, on the block,
but which had been offered at S2,O0O,
supposed to be one-half of a $4,000
value, which would be admirable for
the community house. Anyhow, the at
tempt to muzzle the community house
should die abornin'. 1t is little short OF
a public scandal to frighten the town
into fever of fear over a lawsuit
about building what the town wants
more than it does men who oppose
everything that comes up that happens
not to please them. 1t is high time
that everybody get together, bury the
Ratchet and forget their imaginary
enemies. Palisade is not going to get
to heaven one whit sooner by holding
rigidly to restrictions that do no
harm as in the case of the community
house, and which could not in the ma
ture of things be accepted as an eX-
ample for others to follow"
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-19
ARMED MEN GET SIS
FROM LUNCH WAGON

Two armed men walked into Ter
bunes lunch wagon at Ridgefield
Park very recently and holding up
John YOckell, better known as
Hamburger Jack" the night man.
robbed the cash register of S15 and
slipped away without being caught
Two guns We're pointed at him
while one of the two alleged robbers
looted the till. A good description
was given of them.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-19
CITIZENS CLUB
TO MEET MONDAY EVE

The Grantwood Citizens Club will
hold regular meeting next Monday
evening at the regular place, Carneys
Hall. A large attendance is looked for
as there are many important matters
to come up for consideration. The
Citizens Club are far from being
mollycoddles, and generally have
meetings that get them somewhere.
Their activities have been the life of
Grantwood for several years.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-19

more than sixty per cent. Other i'm
portant items of increased cost were
also shown.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-09-19
LOCAL ITEMS

Miss Edna Allgood, Of near Mari
eta Camp Ground, is attending the
Marietta High School this fall and is
boarding at he raunt's Mrs. Will H.
WEIGH, 800 Roswell street.
Mr.. J. w. Allgood and family, and
Mr.. Henry Allgood, of near Camp
Blackjack, spent Sunday with rela-
tives near Draketown, Ga. -,
Mr.. John Kirk and daughter, Miss
Mamie Kirk, of Atlanta, spent last
Sunday with Mr.. George Lindsey and
family at $40 Roswell street.
Mr.. George Allgood and his sister
Miss Cynthia Allgood, visited rela-
tives and friends at Draketown, in
Paulding county last Sunday.
Mr.. N. j. Kile and family, and Miss
Stella Hayes, who have been visiting
relatives in Cleveland, Tenn. returned
home on last Friday. .x..
DR.. N. Strickland and wife, and
Mrs. Bill Smith and two children, of
Dunwoody, spent Tuesday with Mr.
and Mrs. w. H. Welsh on Roswell
street
Mr.. Joe Grower who has recently
bought Mr.. Simp Jackson's place on
Roswell street has moved into it.
Mr.. w. H. Welsh has recently
bought Mr.. James Clackum's place
on Atkinson street.
Married on last Saturday night at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Bea-
vers on Atkinson street, Mr.. Andrew
and Miss May Beavers.
Esquire B. V. Greer officiating. Miss
Beavers is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Beavers.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-09-19
PEANUT MEAL FOR DAIRY cows

The use of peanut meal as feed
for dairy cattle is of growing impor-
lance in the Southern states. 1t has
been one of the leading feeds for
swine in the South for some time and
still holds prominent place as such,
but a discrimination by packers
against peanut fed pork has dinin-
ished to some extent, its use for this
purpose. With much Of reaction
against its use considerable quantities
of this feed would accumulate on the
markets and as result dairymen
would likely be induced to feed even
more of it than is being fed at the
present time. In feeding large guam
titles of peanut meal to dairy cows
the question concerning its effects on
dairy products naturally arises. At
present no serious criticism is offered
to peanut meal as part of the dairy
cows ration, but with more extern
sive use objections similar to those
made against peanut fed pork may
come.
The Georgia Experiment Station
has under way, at the present time,
feeding trials for the purpose of
studying the effects of peanut meal,
when fed to dairy cows, on the quail
ties of butter fat and to see if me-
thods may be found by which this
feed can be used without undesirable
effects. Three herds of four cows
each are being used in these trials.
One herd is used as a check and re-
ceives wheat bran, corn meal, beet
pulp an dalfalfa hay in constant
amounts throughout the trial. With
the exception of wheat bran the other
two lots receive the above mentioned
feeds in like proportion. In addition
to these feeds one herd begins with
five pounds of peanut meal per COW
while the other begins with an eoui-
valent amount of wheat bran. At the
end of each fourteen-day period one
pound of peanut meal per cow is sub
StItuted for its equivalent in wheat
bran in the ration for the herd be-
ginning with wheat bran, while the
reverse substitution is made in the
ration for the herd beginning with |
wheat bran, while the reverse SUBJ
is made in the ration for the
lerd beginning with peanut meal.
ouch substitutions are to be made un-
II all OF the peanut meal in the or
ginal peanut meal ration is replaced
~ wheat bran and all of the wheat
IRA min the original wheat bran ration
S replaced by peanut meal. This
ives an opportunity to study the eff
ects OF the two feeds as they vary
rom one extreme to the other.
Chemical and physical tests are
elng made on the butter fat at the
nd of each fourteen-day feeding
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-09-19

period to the extent of determining
the melting point, boiling point, soil
dification point, iodine number, Wis
costly, color, flavor and aroma of the
butter fat, the size of fat globules and
the percentage of soluable and in
soluable fatty acids. 1t is hoped that
if peanut meal has any noticeable eff
fects on the butter fat these tests will
show the nature Of same. When this
work is finished and published copies
of such publication may be had by
applying to the Animal Industry De-
partment Of the Georgia Experiment
Experiment, Ga.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-22
VIA Bolshevism Must Fail

If one wants to know why bolshevsm must
fail, all he need to do is to take note of the fact
that the bolshevsts have conhscated the
churches of Russia and suppressed the Sunday
schools and prohibited all religious teachings in
public. Then he can mediate upon the fact
ment has ever been maintained that did not
have some kind of religion for a basis.
Lenine and Trotzky were shrewd in many
ways. but they were foolish in the matter of
religion. Had they been wise they would have
at least used the churches encouraged
religion of some kind 1t need not have been
the Christian religion; it need not have been
the Orthodox Greek church as established in
Russia. although that would have been the logi-
cal thing. But to break down the churches
with one mandate and to forbid religious teach
ing-that was suicide however long it may be
until the corpse is buried.
But it would not have been bolshevism had
it not sought to destroy religion. Religion
and bolshevism are as far apart as the poles
and they can never be made to work in har
mony-whch is to say that bolshevisn cannot
be made to work at all. In his daily needs
man demands religion of some kind He may
find consolation in the worship of Buddha, he
may find solace in the contemplation of the
words of Confucius he may pray to Mahomet
or to Zoroaster or he may commune with God
but the fact remains that unless man worships
at some shrine, unless he takes note of some
thing besides the material things Of life, neither
his home nor his government will endure nor
peace and happiness fall to his lot.-Columbus
Dispatch
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-22
REVIVING A DEAD CRY.

Clacquers for unqualified endorsement of
the peace treaty and its League of Nations con-
tent are now resorting to a miserable subter-
fuge in order to discredit the senators who wish
to make certain reservations Unless the SEN
ate gives assent to the treaty, with approval of
the Shantung deal, we will have war with Japan.
In fact, it is boldly asserted that the critics of
the document are looking for war; This is
quite as silly as was the "war" cry that proved
so potent in 1915, and the appeal is being made
just as it was then, in hope of catching ap-
prevail from the hysterical. The president
shows little faith in the success of this venture,
for he approaches the senate from another
angle He has asked permission to name
commissioner from the United States on the
reparatons commission. For the moment the
senate is inclined to wait until it can examine
the proposal to see just how far such action
will commit the body toward accepting the
treaty. The crisis is not far away at Wash
ington, and the several maneuvers of the adj
ministration leaders give color to the belief
they are preparing to make some concessions.
The treaty must be ratified and the league en-
Gorsed, but with specific reservations II points
vital to American interests. This result will
not be materially changed by the effort of the
democrats to blow dust in the eyes of the
people.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-22
Why Not a Ford Dictionary
From the MINNEAPOLIS Tribune.

Henry Ford, who is now red-hot for pre-
paredness, nevertheless still wishes the world
were in such good humor that no part of it
would think of going to war with any other
part of it. 1t may seem presumptuous for what
our president calls "pigmy mind" to make
suggestions to man of the mental stature
of Mr.. Ford, but wouldn't it be possible for the
great Detroit business man to put the world
in that kind of humor by publishing work
entitled "Ford's Unabridged Dictionary"
We have been struck with the definitions
given by Mr.. Ford on the stand in his libel suit
against the Chicago Tribune. Judging from
the few samples disclosed at this trial, we ven-
ture to say that lexicon compiled by Mr..
Ford would be notably marked for its original
ity and for its independence of all other exicons
with which the Engsh-speaking race has been
blessed or cursed. We have had plenttude
of dictionaries for the high-brows, the aristoc
racy and the bourgeoisie. We are in sad need
of one for ho polloi, or the proletariat-one
that shall be simple; one that shall look upon
words without ancestral trees; one that shall
be conceived and executed in the new atmos
phere of world made safe for something or
other.
A few deadly parallels in definitions are in
order:
Noah Webster defines an idealist as IAN
adherent of doctrine of idealism." 1t doesn't
get us anywhere except into deeper trouble
than we were before.
Mr.. Ford says an dealist is zone who helps
make profits for others" There we have en-
visaged for the minds eye a person who does
something that we all understand.
Mr.. Webster defines an anarchist as "a NAL
content respecting all existing institutions. re-
guarding them as essentially tyrannical, either
as aristocratic plutocratic." Very WE'LL but
what do macontent institutions, tyranncal,
aristocratic and plutocratic, each and several,
mean? No response from the galleries.
Mr. Ford says an anarchist is zone who
throws bombs or seeks to overturn govern
ment." 1t fills the eye and mind at once with
the bewhiskered man, the smoking, foul-smell-
ing thing and the object at which the man
takes a smash.
In an unabridged work we should expect
Mr.. Ford to tell, of course, why is United
States senator.