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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-02-01
LIEUT., E. GARDNER
KILLED BY TRAIN
At HAYWOOD THUR,
Popular Young Man, lust Dis
charged From Camp;
Widely Known.

A tragic affair occurred at haywood
Thursday morning, when Everett Gard
ner. a NewSYork lawyer and prominent
resident of haywood, who had been
discharged from Southern officers
training camp week ago, where he
was commissioned as a lieutenant,
was struck and killed by the 1852
eastbound Susquehanna train while at
tempting to cross the tracks.
Gardner had lived in haywood for
the past six years and was exceedingly
prominent in HackenSack social cir
cles, being engaged to Miss Marion q.
Ford, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
George H. Ford of Prospect avenue.
He was a graduate of New York
University and prominent member
of the Phi Beta Kappa. His father is
Il prominent wholesale grocer of Jer-
sey City.
Reports from the scene of the acct
dent state that Gardner tried to cross
in front of the train as it was APP
preaching the station and was struck.
Several commuters ran to aid him,
and an ambulance was called. While
being rushed to the Hackensack Hos
pital he died.
County Physician Ogden, in an inter-
view with Record reporter, stated
that he died of fractured skull.
Deceased, in addition to his parents,
is survived by sister and one brother,
the latter being in service overseas
Record.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-02-01
WAS MISS AzEELE PACKWO0D, OF TAMPA, FLA.

positively identified the woman as Il
name being Azeele Packwood, of
Tampa, Fla. The Soldier-husband had
died in France last October of influ-
enZa, and was Major Fenton. There
are three Majors Fenton of record in
the army, so that the case thus be-
comes more and more of jumbled
mystery. Every form of detective
work has been and continues to be
done in the case, and it is still baf-
fling the best there are in the business.
One report said the woman was thirty
four, another that she was twenty-one,
still another that she was twentyeight.
The entire country has become inter-
ested in the solution Of the mystery,
and it is a question if any similar case
in years has attracted more widespread
interest.
On Wednesday the name of Major
FahnestOck, a Union Club resident,
who died overseas in October, was
introduced into the case. A woman
who knew the dead woman and Major
Fahnestock is sure he is the man
mourned by the suicide. Yet he died
worth S5,000,000 and willed his pos
sessions all to relatives.
+ If it is murder, the mystery may
some day be solved. AS the case rests
nobody really knows much about any
thing connected with the occurrence,
except tlls; that an&rnfe tsn1qtte woman was
found dead. Her history is not re-
assuring and her temperament indi-
Gates suicide.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-02-01

built do not require any cost of up
keep except the pumping station, and
that certainly should not be $4,000.
And yet it may be, as operated. This
sum is equal to interest at 6 per cent.
on 100000. An officer of the borough
told The Palisadian this week some
things about the sewer pumping bust
ness.
I'VE have three pumping stations,
and | guess that's where the biggest
part of the cash goes. We pay a man
who attends to them S110 a month
who isn't a mechanic and who never
takes his coat off. One of the council
men went into the station (pumping)
some time ago and found three of the
workmen sitting around smoking ciga-
rettes Two of them jumped into the
hole and the third stayed up. Who
knows how much time they waste?
Nobody there to watch them, and so it
goes"
Another item in the budget. "Gener-
al Borough, $4,000" caused some COM
ment. A borough officer was asked
what it meant. "I'll be blessed if |
know" he replied. And so it goes.
The man asked should know all about
these borough finances because he sits
through the meetings that are held in
behalf of the borough's interests. An
item like Interest on bonds, S1S.7JO,"
is understood, because it tells its own
story. But two other items, Interest
-
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-02-01

Cardinal Gibbons, noted Catholic
bition, because, by regulation of the
liquor bushes, the liberty of the indi-
vidual is preserved. But whence will
come the regulation? Who will regu-
late? Not the hotel and saloon man,
if that conclusion is based upon past
experience, for it is the majority of
men who carry on the business who
must be held responsible for the ma
ton wide agitation which led to the
present situation. The term majority
is used advisedIy, for there are many
men. in the hotel and saloon business
who have some regard for law and
the rights of citizens generally. But
these have allowed other members of
the trade to outrage law, decency,
morality and public sentiment without
effort to protect themselves by aiding
to punish fragrant offenders. The of
Tending class is composed of those who
have constantly sold to men who should
never be permitted to taste liquor;
they have sold to weak men until they
could scarcely take another drink or
leave the barroom; they have sold to
drunkards, women, children, black and
white, at all times and under all cir
cumstances - on Sundays, election
days, all day and all night, so long as
the applicant had the price; they have
harbored dereIicts known as "bums,"
allowing them to act the role of "set-
tiers" and drink when asked, then when
they became drunk cast them out !;
many of them permitted gambling and
worse in their houses, making them q
rendezvous for toughs, crooks and inn
moral persons of high and low degree
This class made the liquor business a
disgrace to humanity. And the capital
shame is that such men We're protected
in their unlawful and vicious methods
protected by politicians who pretend
to respectable citizenship, men who
would be grossly insulted if their claim
to the title gentleman" We're disputed.
And through these same politicians
high influences have been utilized to
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-02-01

One of the greatest mysteries of the
Palisades has excited the whole cOun-
try this week. 1t was the finding of
the dead body of richly dressed
handsome young woman that bore all
the evidences of refinement, lying in a
crevice of the rocks of the Palisades
near Englewood Cliffs about opposite
One Hundred and Eightieth street,
New York, last Sunday. The New
York newspapers have been filled with
stories of the case all the week, and
outside of theories nothing really def
mite has as yet been found out as to
how the young woman, who was about
twenty-eight, met her death. She was
bandaged up about the face and head,
and an empty bottle of chloroform was
near so that the theory of suicide
appeared natural in the first aspects
of the case Later developments, how
ever, brought out possible clews, and
early in the week the theory of murder
was worked out, only to be refuted.
An Edgewater fireman claims to have
seen a woman like the one found dead,
some weeks before, similarly dressed,
and walking near that portion of the
Palisades. Then another report cOu-
pied Camp Merritt officer with the
crime as a possible theory. Still an
other man claimed to have seen a
woman, similarly dressed, particularly
W.T. respect TO q ssii ysEeeea
golf stockings she wore.
On Tuesday a New York woman
went to the Englewood morgue and
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-02-01
ALL A QUESTION OF
EVERYDAY SENTIMENT,
SAYS A FORT LEE MAN

The Fort Lee Board of Health. ac-
cOrding to reports, has remained in a
state of innocuous desuetude since
the first of the year. 1t is the custom
to name the new board then. Why
has it not been done this year? There
by hangs a tail The saloon inter-
ests didn't want the present board re-
named because it insisted on closing
their doors last fall during the cpl
demic, at the time when the mayor
was jumping like a cat back and forth,
this way and that, trying to fulfill his
obligations to the SalOoners who elect
ed him, by prying them open against
the State Board of Health order and
actually allowing them to open until a
peremptory telegram from Trenton
forced them to close even against the
Influence that kept them open.
After the lapse of all these weeks
the old Board of Health is to be reap
of the ''boss" of the borough. And,
what's more, there is to be new eX-
ecutive officer for the board. In this
connection a gentleman living in Fort
Lee said this week:
1--WE have to meet strange cOndi-
lions now and then. 1t is true the
war is over but not forgotten. | once
knew man who had a son in the draft
age who was sent on an errand and
never got back till the armistice was
declared. He blew in then. The old
man had made pile of war work
money in the meantime-a pile of it, |
Say-and the lady of the house was so
prO-German the neighbOrs abominated
her, so there you are. | guess there'll
be a lot of remembrances like that
passed around. And do you know that
sentiment is worth a whole lot? Yes,
sir; sentiment. By heck, l wouldn't
give two hurrahs in hades for man
right. | don't mean war profit or pO-
litical capital made out of the war
sentiment That amt worth another
two whoOpS. But the real, true-blue
American stuff. That's the kind
mean. Now, man can hold office
just so long. One of these days he's
found out. Up here in Fort Lee we've
grown into a town of moSSbacks.
We're hoary. We've got bristles on
us. We are Rip Van Wrinkles. Old
Rip finally did wake up. Maybe we
CONTINUED on PAGE g
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-02-01
MAN WHO ROBBED BIG
ENGLEWOOD GARAGE
CAUGHT IN BROOKLYN

have engineered the Stillman 4 Hoag
garage robbery at Englewood few
weeks ago and for whom the police
have since been looking, has been cap
tured in a barber shop on Sumner
street, Brooklyn. He acknowledged
his guilt, but claimed that much of the
booty he had taken had been stolen
from him. He was arraigned before
Judge John 0. Walsh in Brooklyn, who
held him for 80 days pending the ar
rival of extradition papers. He will be
brought to Hackensack Jail and given
a dose of Jersey justice-Record.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-02-01
YOUNG WOMAN DEAD ON PALISADES;
CASE EXCITES WIDEST INTEREST;
BELIEF STRONG IT WAS SUICIDE

Parties Walking Near Cliff Front in EngIewood Cliffs Last Sunda
See Body Which Proves to Be Well Dressed-CeWs and
Indentificaons SO Far Uncertain-Said to Have Been
War Bride of Major Fenton, Who Died in France
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-02-01
PALISADE SOLDIER,
FORMER TOWN BARBER,
BACK FROM FRANCE

Philip Basile, the Palisade barber
arrived from overseas this week and
is now at Camp Merlttt awaiting his
discharge. Phil got leave of absence
this week and came to Palisade and
Brentwood to visit his old friends for
a little while on Tuesday He is look
ing in fine condition and has enough
tales of the war to fill book.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-02-01
AN ARRANGEMENT

Editor Bird, of Hackensack Republican, eloquenty
of evils of saloon system long protected by
ous here for the benefit of such
Baroom ALT. and Schooner Bill whose weknown ailia-
tons WITH and election by these interests has made and
order at times impossible, excused and murder
and the voters sustain both thrones of reekng
with the fumes of lawessness well liquor Chris
tan community like Paisade holds saoonp pledged man
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-02-01

Confirmed on Page s.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-25
Shameful Betrayal.

WASHINGTON, July 25-Refusal
by the senate to ratify the league Of
nations covenant would be shame
full betrayal of civilization at the great
est crisis in history declared Sena-
tor Smith, Arizona, in senate speech
today.
Smith said league opponents, for
partisan purposes, are trying to
brighten the American people with
"spectres and COLLINS"
May God have mercy on the man
who would willingly place party sue
cess above the peace and prosperity Of
his country" said Smith.
1T seems pitiable to me that men
can be found willing by any pretense
or under any conviction. or for any
purpose, to throw away this first real
chance of the world to better the con-
ditions on 1t.
why all this clamor about treaty
amending our constitution? Why all
this gross exaggeration about this?
This covenant changing our form of
government? Why this desperate
delusion of super sovereignty being
erected on the ruin of our revered
constitution?
"a super-sIate indeed.
without a citizen or subject, with
no local habitation or name, no geo.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-25
COUNTY HOUSE
VERY QUIET
Between War Time Prohibition and
Hot Weather and Vacations
the Officers Are Having
Dull Time.

The officers at the court house are
almost enjoying vacation these
days. except that they are obliged to
spend 1t on duty.
Since the first of July the sheriff's
office has been almost superfluous.
The bootleggers seem to have quit
business, with the result that the
county Jail Is losing tenant occa-
sionally and is not getting others to
take the places left vacant by those
whose terms expire.
With both of the judges OF the
county away on their vacation, the
clerks office is having but little
work to do.
The midsummer slump in the real
estate business is reflected in the
absence Of much work in the re.
corder's office.
The county treasurer and the
auditor are also enjoying dull sea
I son.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-25
Violation of Prohibitiop

UNITED Dress Leased Wire Service I
CHICAGO, July 25.-The question
of intoxicating power does not enter
into suits brought for violation of the
war ume prohibition act, Federal
Judge Page ruled here today.
Hearing arguments in demurrer
against confiscation charging the
Stenson brewery, Chicago, with man.
utacture and sale of beer in violation
OF the act, Judge Page held it un.
necessary to prove the LIQUID sold
was intoxicating. Prosecutors. he
said, needed only TO prove It to be
wine or beer. Beer, he said, has
been held in other decisions TO con
tain 112 percent or more alcohol.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-25
Texas Negro Lynched.

United Press Leased Wire Service ]
GILMER, Texas, July 25-County
authorities promised a full investiga-
ton today of yesterdays lynching.
in which Chiffon Jennings, negro, was
taken from the Jail and hanged by
mob of citizens.
Jennings was said to have confess
ed to an attack upon a white woman.
He was arrested early yesterday
after having been pursued all night
by a posse. Sheriff Bryce and citi-
zens were powerless to handle the
mob. which gathered from the coun-
tryside.
The woman assaulted was report
ed in critical condition today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-25
Commander Mass Dead.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
WASHINGTON, July 25-The death
of Commander Chas. o. Mass, former
naval attache at the American en-
bassy at Paris, who has been serving
with the American Red Cross in
France, was reported IN dispatches re-
ceived at the Red Cross Headquarters
today.
Mass. who lived In New York, died
In Paris after undergoing treatment
for intestinal trouble.
The dispatches also mentioned
awards of decorations by the Serbian
government to three Red Cross work.
ers here for humanitarian services.
They include Captain Emil Armand,
Camp Rogers, California
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-25
Splinter Is knighted.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
PASADENA. Calf, July 25.-"Tm
now Sir Charles William Paddock
oh. boy" wrote Charles Paddock.
star Splinter Of the inter-allied games
in Paris, in letter to his parents,
just received here.
Paddock explained that he was
knighted following his victories on
the cinder path, by the king of Mon
tenegro, and was given the right to
the same rank in the Montenegrin
army as he holds in the American
army, that Of lieutenant.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-25
Late Market Quotations

1900; COWS, $7.O0@12.75; stockers
and feeders, $7.OO@13.00; calves,
$6.5O@18.25; Texas steers, $4,000
14.25; cows and heifers. S7G0@14.50.
Hog receipts, 5000 head; market
10@25c lower. Mixed and butchers.
$2z.75@23.25; good to heavy, $500
@23.35; rough. s20.00@21.00; light,
$21.OO@22.50; pigs, S15.00@20.00,
bulk. s22s5@23,25.
Sheep receipts, LOO head; market
steady. Ewes, sS.50@9.00; sheared
lambs, $15.00@1675; Gamers and
choppers, s2.50@6.00.
Kansas City Live Stock.
KANSAS CITY. Mo, July 25.-Cat
tle-Receipts, $500 head, including
800 southerns. Market steady. Ma
tive steers, SHOWCASES; southern
steers, $9.00@16.00; cows and heif-
ers, S7.50@12.75; stockers and feed,
ers, $S50@14.50; calves, $S.50@16.0O.
Hcgs-Receipts, $500 head. Mar.
ket steady and 10c lower. Bulk,
$22. 65 @230O; heavy, $22.55@23.00;
medium, s22.65@23.05; light, $22.15@
2290.
Sheep-Receipts, $500 head. Mar
ket steady. Lambs. $14.50@17.00;
stockers and feeders, $6.75@9.50.
Omaha Live Stock.
OMAHA. Neb., July 25.-Cattle-
Receipts, 1900 head. Market slow
and lower. Steers, $1O.5O@17S5;
cows and heifers, $6.O0@14.0O; stock
ers and feeders, S7O0@14.00; calves,
O50@15.0O; bulls and stays, $3.50
@11.G0.
Hogs-Receipts, 1900 head. Mar
ket 10 to 35c lower. Bulk, s21SO@
21.90; top. $3.50.
Sheep-Receipts. 1880 head. Mar
ket 10 to 25c lower. Yearlings, $10.25
Q11.25; wethers $1O.o0@1075; lambs
$1600@17.40; ewes, s7.00Q9.25.
Chicago Produce.
CHICAGO, July 25. Butter
Creamery extras. 52@52hc: cream
cry standards, 52@52Ac; dairy firsts
49@51c; dairy seconds, 46h@4Sc.
Eggs Ordinary firsts, 39@41c;
firsts, 1914 @43kc.
Cheese-Twins 31k@31Ac; Young
Americas, 32@32kc.
Potatoes-Receipts, 80 cars. vir.
ginias, per Dbl, s7.OO@7.50; Ohios,
per cwt., s3.50@3.75.
Live poultry-Fowls. 311sc; ducks,
Csc; geese. 16@25c; broilers, 3O@
35c; turkeys, 25c.
New York Produce.
NEW YORK, July 25.--Flour-Quiet.
strong.
Pork-Dull. Mess, $59.00@5s.
Lard-Inactive, lower. Middle west
spot, $34.75@34.S5.
Sugar raw-Firm. Centrifugal test,
$7.2S.
Refined-Firm. Cut loaf, $1,000;
crushed, $10.25; powdered, 1915;
graduated, $500.
Coffee Rio No. z on spot, 22Ac.
Tallow-Easy. City, 20Ac; special,
21c
Hay-Steady. No. 1, s1.95@2.o0;
No. 3, $1.45@1.55; clover, s1.25@1.9O.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-25
Grain Review.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, July 25.-Grain futures
were somewhat higher on the Chi.
cago board OF trade today, but trade
was listless. The main influence on
prices was continued reports of hot
weather without, however, definite
statements of crop damage.
Provisions were higher also.
July corn opened late at 1876, up
IL, and rose another II. September
corn, up " at the opening, 1856. gain
ed u in later trading. December
corn opened at 1864, up Is, advanc-
ing n thereafter.
July oats was off u at a late open
ing. sos. rising n in later trading.
September oats opened u up at S0A,
losing * subsequently. December
oats was unchanged on opening at 80
and continued at the same level.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-25
TWENTY AERIAL. MEN
ON FIRST STRIKE
(Continued from page -

debris OF the machine, which was
smashed to mass Of tangled wood
and iron. Lieut.. Kerr received SER
ious injuries to his head and 1t Is
feared his neck is dislocated.
Details as to the cause Of the accf
dent have not been ascertained.
May Mean Tie-up.
WASHINGTON, July 2b--Postoffice
officials today admitted that a strike
of air mail aviators would probably
mean a tie-up of the service between
New York and Washington until new
pilots can be obtained.
Assistant Postmaster General Prae-
ger in charge Of the service, declared
that the two pilots discharged would
not be taken back and added that
when the mail aviators were refusing
to go up, other aviators were taxi lg
up passengers for hire.
The aviators. Praeger said, must
take mail up when the postoffice de-
partment has mail ready to go.
May Be Arrested.
NEW YORK, July 25--Striking
aerial mail pilots of the pioneers In
that phase OF labor and war. are liable
Ito arrest for violation of their oath
Of office to the government, d. q.
Jordan, assistant superintendent Of
the New York postoffice declared this
afternoon.
Jordan pointed out that the score OF
mail aviators who went on strike this
morning because of number Of griev
ances. eliminating with the discharge
Of two of their number, have the same
status as soldier or sailor.
| All the strikers, as we'll as the two
men discharged are through" Jordan
said. Most of the strikers are former
army aviators.
All scheduled mail flights were
made today after some delay, Jordan
said, including the New York-Wash-
ington and New York-Chicago trips.
The machines were operated by re-
serve operators. Jordan emphasized
that these reserve men were regular
employees, not strike breakers"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-25
Daily Air Travel.

UNITED Press Leased Wire SEA-
NEW YORK. July 25-Daily paI No
ger carrying air flights between
York and Atlantic City will Degin 4
morrow morning. Three planes 81
commodating three persons each n !,
maintain schedules which ca.
flying time Of an hour and a nan
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-25

York. against Earl z. r. Wlll i.s
movie actor, recently tried VIZ, 20.
$4,000 verdict for Miss Rayinonu ~.
sulting, has been closed, 1t was aid
derstood today. Williams mas IVA avo
Miss Raymond a sum said 10 h'''
been more than $4,000.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-25

graphy, no army or navy, no treasury,
no power to declare war, make peace
or levy taxes. And such is this scare
crow that prejudice or personal hate
is holding up to the frightened gaze
of those who are often times willing
victims"