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fF 1 FAIIi TONIGHT AND TO MO EH muni Hi doubt DDAD TOE HEWS thirty-third year PASSAIC, ll WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1910. FOURTEEN PAGES PRICE ONE CENT CLIFTON atiK-ACT; FiiELINGHUYSEN' WRITES TO FORT BURT CAMP PRESENTED. WITH COLORS Spanish War Veterans Get Flag and Camp Banner Presentation by Mayor A. S. Burt Camp, Spanish War Veterans, had the biggest time of its career last night when it was formally presented with its colors.

Mayor Bird W. Spencer made the presentation, and many State officers of the organization attended, besides veterans in the ranks from Paterson, Newark; Hackensack and Jersey City. Before the open meeting, at which the colors. were presented, the camp transacted its business. An invitation was received and accepted to participate in the parade Saturday, in honor of the homecoming of Colonel Roosevelt and two new members were received, Frank C.

Kievit and Louis GebelL In presenting the colors an American rag and a camp flag General Bird Spencer spoke of the advantage of a camp of war veterans and referred to General Burt, after whom the camp had been named. He hajl personally known Burt, he said, and was in position to say that the camp had selected the name of a fine man. The general told of his enlisting in 1865, when he was eighteen years old. His company got as far South as Washington and then the war came to an end. He had been too young for the Civil War and too old fpr the Spanish War.

He spoke of the meaning of the American flag and of the honor it was to serve under it. In behalf of the Commander Benjamin F. Turner accepted the flags. He sid: "Mr. Mayor, as commander of General A.

S. Burt Camp, No. 2, and in behalf of the comrades assembled, I accept these colors from your Honor and from our many friends. I assure you that these colors will have a place of honor in our camp. Their presence will not only be a constant reminder of loyalty and service, but alo a reminder that we have friends who recognize our loyalty and service.

Every member pledges bimself to keep this camp on a high plane. In behalf of General A. S. Burt Camp, No, 2, I thank you. The visiting officers at the flag presentation were Captain C.

I. -Gasser, of Mitchell Camp, Newark, commander-in-chief of the Department of New Jersey; Senior Vice Commander FAed Edge, of WyckoflF Camp, Jersey City; Junior Vice-Commander Stratton, of Brereton Camp, Paterson; Past Deputy Commander Hardy, of Brereton Camp; Past Deputy Inspector Ruck, of Mitchell Camp, Newark; Past Deputy Quartermaster Holt, of Brpreton Camp. The Crescent Fife and Drum Corps, of this city, played at intervals during the meeting. Afterwards all sat down to supper, at which Com-ovander Turner was toastmaster. COLLEGIATE SCHOOL'S EXERCISES Three Members Graduate Pretty Commencement Last Night Mr.

Browns Address The commencement exercises of the Collegiate School were held last evening at the Passaic Club, Sumner Blakemore, principal of the school, presiding. The hall was attractively decorated, and it was a pretty sight as the alumnae, the members of the graduating class and the students marched in and tod their seats. The Rev. William Gordon Bentley, rector of St. Johns Church, pronounced the invocation, after which Miss Dorothy Ethel Miller, a member of the graduating class rendered a pianoforte solo.

Miss Miller showed much talent. She has temperament and an admirable technic for so young a student of the pianoforte. The other members of the graduating class are Miss Hazel May Trimble and CarJ Waldemar Vail. Mr. Vail is the first boy to be raduated from the Collegiate chool, and, naturally, the school is especially proud of him, and he came in for quite unusual honors when Robert D.

Benson, chairman of the committee, presented the diplo mas. Mr. Vail will enter Columbia in the Fall. Several choruses were well sung by th pupils and the exercises were delightfully informal throughout. The address of the evening was delivered by the Rev.

Willard Day-ton Brown, minister of the North Reformed Church. Mr. Brown began by saying that it was indeed an honor to speak before a. school of so high character. He extended happiest greetings and congratulations to the graduates on the real commencement of their life in the world.

He said he hoped they would "make good, and that they would have faith. "Until the man or woman learns to say credo I he or she is not of much use in the world, said Mr. Brown. "Dont be content to be merely negative. I would rather you had a wrong belief than none.

I would rather-. man was on the. wrong track than merely negative. And have confidence in yourselves. As many fai because they depreciate themselves as because they overestimate themselves.

Give us men who dare to do something. They are a thousand times more useful than those who are content to rest below the level. The person who truhyjcnows himself and reaches up to his fullest height is more value to humanity and to God. The speaker said the need was to get back to a basis of reality and 'truth. The doing well of some single useful thing was the greatest joy that can possibly come to one in life.

He quoted Lincoln's "I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to be true. He quoted Governor Forts statement at the recent session of the Reformed Synod that he believed an upward trend had set In, and that he, the Governor, would rather have the backing of the presiding officer of that Synod "than all the wealth and power that the world of politics could bring. The world respects a life If fc stands true and labors to the end, said Mr. Brown. "Somewhere for every educated person there is a work 1o do.

Mr. Brown spoke of the woman In the home, of the need of pleading for the old-fashioned home. He would not speak of equal said. He believed that womans realm was "far above the sordid things her consort moves in. "There is a realm for one and for the other, he said, "and God help us to fill the realm to the full.

At the conclusion of the exercises, the graduates and the members of the faculty received. Dancing followed. This afternoon at 12.30 the luncheon of the Alumnae Association was held at the school. PROTEST Speakers at Mass Meeting Flay Erie for Increase in Commutation Rates RESOLUTIONS ARE ADOPTED Committee to Cooperate with Passaic Board of Trade There was an enthusiastic meeting (n the Clifton Fire House last night, hen Erie commuters held a general (discussion of the proposed increase in commutation rates and incidentally 'laced the Erie Railroad from the Btate line to the Jersey City ferries. Arranged under the direction of the Clifton Civic League, the meeting had large attendance, and during the evening several interesting facts developed.

The matter of the proposed Increased ates was introduced by President William M. Ferber, who in his introductory remarks that the commutation rates wonul not only affect the present commuter but the coming generation, and more particularly the growth of the community. Augustus Nathan was the first speaker. He compared the railroad rates in New Jersey with those on Long Island, showing that in New (ersey an average of forty-five cents charged to travel the same distance as on Long Island for ten and that consequently New York residents who desire to locate out of the metropolis favor Long He dwelt on the fact that people in the United States are entirely too careless ind do not watch the government. He declared that there were about 150 families in the United States who con trol the country.

He explained the harm done by the proposed increased rates in the way of keeping newcomers from Clifton and other commun-ties along the Erie lines. Says Railroads Control Paper. Mr. Nathan was followed by J. Schlosser and L.

Reed, both of whom spoke of the proposed increase in rates as being unfair to thecommun ity. James Clancy, formerly' foreign editor of the New York IIeralLred the "hot shot of the evening. He produced facts and figures showing that a railroad can make a profit at a rate of two cents a mile, and his statistics showed that at present the Erie is charging the Clifton commuters nearly three cents a mile, and with the increased rate will collect almost five cents. He said that the railroad cared more for freight than passengers, and declared that the Erie was springing the "Mellen gag on the Jersey com-rruters, referring to President Mellen of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, who has come into the public light recently by reports that he has lengthened the distances between his stations in order to justify the increased rates. Mr.

Clancy said he had discovered by comparing old Erie time tables with more recent issues, that the distance from Clifton to New York had been increased from 13.4 miles to 14 miles. In speaking of the general publicity given the present argument over increased rates, Mr. Clancy said that New York newspapers wete controlled by corporations, particularly railroad corporations, and for that reason the New York papers did not give the accounts of the conditions which they otherwise rr'ght. He said that be did not dare talk about New Jersey newspapers while in New Jersey, but declared his statement regarding the newspapers was made with certainty, as he was in a position to know the conditions. Railroads in England.

Mr. Clancy waked warm in his argument. flaying the railroads and declaring that the more the Erie made the more it wanted. He dwelt on the fact that the greater part of the Erie profit came from freight and said that the rerent four-track cut through Bergen Hill was for the sake of cattle nd merchandise and not fpr humans. Dont let the corporations get away with a statement that they are majeing Improvements for your benefit, he mid.

"they are considering themselves first. Comparing the railroad service in (Continued on Page iu17 CENSUS CHANGES NOT EFFECTIVE TILL NEXT YEAR That is Opinion of Supervisor Fischer Census Bureau Will Not Report to Congress Until December. George A. Fischer, supervisor of the recent census taking in this congressional district today expressed to a Daily News man the opinion that the laws affecting Passaic and other cities resulting from increased population would not take effect until after Congress convened next December, The census bureau will report the count to Congress, and Mr. Fischer believes the laws will take effect with the adoption of the report.

Mr. Fischer concludes that the elections here this Fall will be as usual and that the decrease in number of Councilmen will not take place untill the Fall of 1911. If the repoi is presented and adopted before January 1. next, however, the appointive offices will be filled in the new manner prescribed. RAILROAD CASES ARE ARGUED AT TRENTON TODAY Counsel Appear Before State Commission in Garfield and Passaic Crossing Matters Decision Reserved.

By Telegraph to The Daily News. Trenton, June 15. The Van Winkle Avenue grade crossing case, which almost resulted in a riot in Garfield soinq time ago, was argued by counsel before the State Railroad Commission today, upon application of the borough for permission -to construct the crossing over the tracks of the Erie Railroad. That local interest in the controversy between the railroad and the borough has not abated was indicated by' the fact that Mayor John Karl and a delegation of Garfield residents came here to hear the argument of counsel. The Erie was represented by George S.

Hobart and II. A. Taylor, and the borough by Andrew and Lewis A. Allen and Adrian D. Sullivan, the latter being the borough counsel.

Mr. Hobart contended for the railroad that the crossing is now in existence and has been used by the borough, and that; therefore the Railroad Commission is without jurisdiction. lie said that should the commission not aedept this view but hold that it has jurisdiction, the conditions were such that a crossing at grade would be unwarranted. Few people, he said, live in the neighborhood and the crossing is little used. The alternative position taken by counsel on both sides as to the Jurisdiction of the "commission resulted in some legal complications which puz- zled President Frank H.

Sommer and his associates in trying to determine upon what arguments counsel relied their case. Mr. Foulds first submitted that the application to the commission was unnecessary because Van Winkle Avenue had been laid out as a continuous highway since' the early seventies and that the public had a right to use it as such. The duty to maintain a he submitted, had not been lost by adverse posses sion, the borough claiming its right to a crossing because of the age and early dedication of the highway. Admitting, however, that under Section Eight of the act creating the eommis-fion, jurisdiction over the crossing might be assumed, Mr.

Foulds Insist ed that the need of it had been shown to.the commission during its easiin ation of the place. The railroad, he said, divided the borough into two sections, and its future growth wotild be retarded if the crossing were not constructed. As evidence of the attitude of the borough, lie referred to the fact that it had given a bond of $10,000 to indemnify the railroad for any damages sustained by the use of the Mr. I'oulds said -tl was ridiculous for the railroad to contend that the mere laying of a plank across its tracks constituted a crossing and that, therefore, the borough couldnot appeal for 'redress to the commission. The commission today also heard argument on the application of Passaic to construct a crossing at Madison Street over the Erie Railroad tracks.

The railroad and city were represented by counsel. The commission reserved decision, which will be announced shortly. 1 Twelve Perish in Fire. By Telegraph to The Daily News. Niagara Falls, June 15.

Twelve foreigners, all workmen on the Canadian power development, were burned to death at two oclock this morning in a fire which destroyed a large boarding house at Falls View, Gat. It is not known how the blae started. The men were trapped in their room' and suffocated before help could arrive. Morgan Sails for Home. United Press Cable.

Southampton. June 15. J. P. Morgan sailed today for New York on the White Star I.inei Adriatic.

Robert Bacon, American Ambassador to France, also was a passenger. Senate President De-' mands 'Proof of Charges Made by Governor URGES CALLING OF SPECIAL SESSION Says He'll Work and Vote for Best Bill Presented Trenton, June 15. Governor Fort has received from President of the Senate Joseph S. Frelinghuysen a letter in which Mr.Frelinghuyscn demands that the Governor take some action to prove his charges that the Legislature is corrupt ana under the control of a "most powerful special interset." President Frelinghuysen pledges himself to work for the best bill proposed at a special session of the Legislatura to consider rail6ad raes. The letter follows: I read with interest your speech reported in yesterdays papers in reference to the increase of rates to commuters.

If I understand it correctly, you are of the opinion that the increase would have been impossible if at the last session of the Legislature a law had been enacted Jn accordance with your views and recommendations. Inasmuch as the advance in rates applies chiefly to commutation from points in New Jersey to New York City, I have been of the opinion that the question was an interstate one and therefore under the jurisdiction of the general rather than of the state government. However, as I have not had the advantage of either legal or judicial I am not" as well qualified, as you to speak on the subject. "What to me, and I think to the entire public, is of more importance is the charge, time and again made, by you during the past six months, that the Legislature was under the domination ana control of corporations. Only Saturday night you spoke of the corporation trail and claimed that a special session will be of no avail until the people rise in their wrath and convince their representatives that they must obey their will and not that of 'a most powerful special interest.

"Between the charge recently made that one branch of the Legislature upon its closing engaged in acts of immorality ana debauchery, and your oft rpeat charg thit the Legislature serves not the people but special interests the public will come to view their representatives as disreputable and dishonest. Call a special session of the Legislature; present to it a plan which you think will be fair and reasonable to the railroads as well as to their patrons, and may I suggest which will also be within the power of the state to enforce, so that in the future we may not be called pretenders or hypocrites. If you call such a session, I pledge you that I will exercise all my energy and influence to bring about tne enactment the best bill which may be More than that, I will utj tthnost effect the pointaMt ai or other body taS power cezv duc' thorough, searching and merciless investigation. To such a commit tee, may I trust, you will make known all the facts on which you base your oft repeated charges of a legislature corrupt and dominated by a most powerful special "It is time for the public to have facts rather than mere charges and insinuations, so that they can distinguish the saightfo ward fom the deceitful, -the moral from the dissolute, the honest from the corrupt. If you believe that the railroads have taken an unfair advantage of the public and that it is within the power of the state to apply a remedy, or if you believe thet he legislature is corrupt and under the control, as express it, of a mot powerful special interests.

I point out that it is time for action. MARRIED FIFTY-ONE YEARS AGO TONIGHT. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas P.

Terhune Are Celebrating the Hapy Event Son Here from Mexico. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas P. Terhune, of 57 Passaic Avenue, today are brating the fifty-first anniversary of their marriage.

Their son, Richard, has come on from Torreon, Mexico, where he is manager of a big rubber company, to join in the merry-making. Mr. and Mrs. Terhune were married in the old First Church by the Rev. J.

P. Strong, 51 years ago tonight "There was a big crowd there, hut I couldnt see anyone but my wife," said Mr. Terhune today. PASSAIC DAMAGE SUIT BEFORE JUDGE BLACK. damages for injuries received in an alleged assault mad upon him Sep- temper 13, 1908, was called by Judge Black, in Paterson, this morning and at press time was still on.

Newman and Hamburg were in a short time before which was the out- business up to the altercation. I Was Tendered at Suggestion of School Board rJcmbers PETITION IH CIRCULATION Mr. Flower Says the Board- Disapproves of Teachers Interest for Woodley It became known today that Oscat I- Woodley, superintendent of schools, presented his resignation last Monday after it had been suggested to him by members of the Board of Education that this was the wisest course open to him under the circumstances. It was said today that an official statement might be made to this effect, but no such statement has reach-ed The Daily News. This announcement was made, however, by Edwin Flower, president of the Board of Education, after he had consulted with James I Bull, chairman of the education committee of the board, asl it was made to a delegation of citizens who called on Mr.

Flower last evening to talk over the situation. Petitions have been in circulation since last evening in behalf of Mr. Woodley. It is said that they originated with several principals and teachers and that they ask the Board of Education not to accept Mr. Woodleys resignation and to expresa confidence in him.

Two well-known men told a representative of The Daily New today that the petition had been preaented to them by Herman K. Weber, who, as truant officer, is an employe of the Board of Education. They added that they did not. sign the petition and were unacquainted with its specific contents as they did not read it. President Flower told the delegation of citizens who waited upon him last evening that the board would look with great disfavor upon any such petition that might be the work of principals and teachers.

He said that it was a matter for the board to settle, and that, while it was a matter in which the parents and the generat public were concerned, it was certainly not a matter for the principals and teachers to involve themselves in. The Daily News made several attempts to reach Mr. Flower today, hut was unable to do so. This afternoon he is attending the commencement exercises at Montclair. One of the teachers at No.

Ten School today asked The Daily New ta say that she was not aware of the affair at the school until a few days go. So far as I have been able to learn," she said, but three of the teachers knew of it." SECRETARY KNOX ON AMERICAN DIPLOMACY. By Telegraph to The Daily News. Philadelphia, June 15. Secretary of State Knox, at the commencement exercises of the University of Pennsylvania, held here today, delivered an address upon the spirit and purpose of American diplomacy.

After reciting at length the history of the various diplomatic associations, conferences and accomplishments in which the United States has been concerned, Mr. Knox turned to our relations with the twenty other Republics of the Western Hemisphere. It was the aim of the United States, he said, to contribute as much as possible to the ends of stability, justice, numeration and mutual responsibility among the Southern Republic. This was best established not by military but by economic and social forces. CHARITY DAY RECEIPTS MAY EQUAL LAST YEAR'S.

From present indications, the Charity Day fund for the General Hospital will be as large this vear as last, if not a little larger. Returns from all the districts are daily being made that are swelling the figures close to the $4,800 mark. The receipts last year, with clear weather, which was not enjoyed on Charity Day this year, were a little above $4,800 Those who still want to make contributions may send them to Pat.1 W. clerk to the Board cf Governors of the General Hospital, who is in the Passaic Trust and Deposit Company headquarters. Hughes Signs Exche Ellis.

By Telegraph to The Daily News. Albany, June 13. The CooM -bills designed to reduce the ru-td rr of saloons in the State and -more stringent the provisions cf -excise law was s'-rej after-). by Governor Ilufie. Hughes Calls on Interstate Commerce Commission Regarding Increased Rates WICKERSHAM WRITES KINKEAD Commuters Case Will Be Taken Up Under New Law By Telegraph to the Daily News.

Washington, June 15. Congressman Hughes of New Jersey, called upon the Interstate Commerce Commission today for the purpose of finding out what could be done in the matter of preventing the proposed increase of commutation rates from going into effect on the first of July. The Interstate Commerce Commission has decided that under the present law it has power to act only after the rate is put into effect. The Congressman thinks, however, that this situation may be changed by the passage of the pending railroad bolL As the matter stands now there is nothing that the Interstate Commerce Commission can do until after this bill becomes a law. Congressman Eugene P.

Kinkead, of New Jersey, who wrote to Attorney General Wtckersham last week regarding the increased commutation rates, received word yesterday afternosn from the Attorney General that the Government would doubtless take action as gooff as Congress passes the railway biHwhich. is. now pending. bill gives the Interstate Commerce Commission enlarged powers. Attorney-General Wickersham has written Mr.

Kinkead that as soon as the railway bill is through and signed he will co-operate in a move to have the commuters cctnplaints acted on by the Commission on the ground that interstate trafific is involved. Congressman Kinkead expects the railway bill to be a law before July 1, when the increased commutation rates go into effect. It is possible that a suspension of the increased rates, pending an investigation, will be ordered by the Commerce Commission. Mr. Wickersham is in communiaction with the East Orange commuters also and has given them the same information.

RULING IN FAVOR OF THE EMPLOYER I Ccprwm Court Holds Contract Ex. empting Liability for Accident is Good. Trenton, June 15. The Supreme Court yesterday laid down a rule to the effect that a contract by which an employe agrees to exempt his employer from liability for injuries incident to the employment is not contrary to public policy. This ruling was made by the court in setting aside a verdict obtained in the First District Court of Jersey City by Richard Dodd against the Central Railroad Company.

This decision reverses the ruling of Judge Carrick, who held that the contract entered into by Dodd with his employer, the United States Express Company, was illegaL Dodd was a porter in the employ of the express company when injured while working in the terminal of the Erie Railroad. The defense interposed grew out of two contracts, one between the rail-, road and express company and the other between the express company and Dodd. HARRY E. HUNT BENEDICT. Miss Catherine Laucr, of New York, Becomes Wife of Carlstadt Man.

In New York this morning at 10 oclock, a quiet wedding took place in which Harry E. Hunt, a well known Carlstadt man, and Miss Catherine Lauer, of New York, were the prin-cipals. The affair was a quiet one, and members of the families of the contracting parties and intimate friends only were present. There was a reception after the wedding, and then Mr. and Mrs.

Hunt left on a wedding tour, the destination of which is unknown. Mr. Hunt has many friends lower Bergen County and they expect to give him and his bride a warm reception when they reach their future home, which will be in the Muehhng Building in Carlstadt. Y. W.

H. A. Incorporated. The Young Hebrew Association of this city filed inconora-tion papers with the county clerk this morning. The headquarters of the association are at 138 Monroe Street Finklem Miss Lillian H.

Meyer. CJaplain Adam Tornqvist made invocation. During the evening all the visiting officers and a number of the out-of-town men in the ranks made addresses. A. S.

Burt Camp is in splendid condition and growing all the time. Its membership is fifty and the SB embers will endeavor to double Cbesrm- cr- NOTICE SERVED ON TENEMENT V0USE OWNERS Board of Health Takes Action to Remedy Conditions Discovered on Recent Tour of Inspection. William B. Davidson, secretary of theBoard of Health, yesterday wrote the Vander Vliet Construction Company, Aaron Kaplan and J. Fortgang, owners of buildings at 119-120 First Street, 149 Second Street aad 123 Sec-ondV Street, respectively, notifying thenNthat those buildings must be put in sanitary condition.

They are buildings visited by a committee of the Board of Health, as already told in The Daily News. The improvements to be made fn the Vander Vliet and Kaplan buildings are specified. Mr, Kaplan is notified that his building must be vacated within ten days of yesterday, and that it must be kept vacant until the improvements have been made. Health Board to Meet A special meeting of the Board of Health will be held in tomorrow night. the board rooms It is said that the New York sanitarian whom the board members have in mind for sanitarian here will attend the meeting and that the situation here will be gone over.

Notices of the meeting have been mailed to the members by Dr. Frank H. Field, president of the board. MEETINGS TONIGHT. Solar Lodge, No.

171, I. O. O. F-, at Odd Fellows Hall, 253 Main Ave- Emerald Council, No. 113, C.

B. L-, (Fogartys Emerald Hall, State Street mg. PcTPjfCtpwraM llaffqtat an Joiners, Eme aid I State Lessing Lodge, No. 189, F. A.

Masonic Temple, Erie Street. Humboldt Grove, No. 20, U. A. Werners Hall, Dayton Avenue arid President Street Branch 32.

Benevolent Society of jthe United States for Propagation of Cremation, Saals Hall, Monroe Street and Parker Avenue. ORPHANS ON THEIR ANNUAL OUTING AS ELKS GUESTS The thirty-three inmates of the Pasasic Home and Orphan Asylum are today enoying their annual out-ine a guests of the Elks of the Coon-tv. They were taken to in trolley cars early this morning. After romping there they were put in automobiles obtained by the Elks and taken for a two hour spin. They were entertained after being brought back to the park and will be brought back early this evening.

With them are the orphans of Paterson. The Elks give the children a splendid time, providing all sorts of pleasures. S.rorIVour 'SSon" SS News office. SUBSCRIPTION BLANK. BOOST CLUB OF PASSAIC SAFE AND SANE CELEBRATION JULY .4 1910.

Passaic, N. toward above celebration, pay- ableonorbeforeTune Mr. Wi-hi urer, (Signed) Address.