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ASBURY PARK JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1902. LOWS SUCCESSOR. RURAL FREE DELIVERY. FARMERS MET DILAPIDATED GETTING READY THE TRAGEDY STEEL STACKS Many of Those on Local Electric I Plants are la a Bad Condition. People who have occasion to travel I by the power plant of the Atlantic Coast Electric Railroad company or the station of the Atlantic Coast I Electric Light company adjoining the former on Railroad avenue, have meir ihtouub inure im ed to the condition of the tall steel I smokestacks in use there.

I There is one oi mese uu sieei i 1 A.ll x. 1 I stacks to each Doner ana most gen- erally one or two are in a partly wrecked condition or gone entirely, botn now Deing tne case. Alter i every storm the newspaper reporter I always turn their attention to this spot in writing up the havoc wrought and it is usually the rule that the loss of another smokkstack is re- corded. Ihis damage lorms quite an annual I i expense to the companies, besides I FOR CONFERENCE Methodists Will Convene at Salem on March 12 for Fifth Time. XOT MANY CHANGES LIKELY.

BUhop Snyt the Chun hrs Have Been Doing peadld Spiritual ork" Arrangements are under way for tne sixty-sixth session of the New Jersey Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which will convene in the Broadway Church, on Wednesday, March 12. Bishop Edward U. Andrews has twice presided over the Xew Jersey Conference at Millville in 1882, and at Camden in 1894. He is one of the senior bishops, having been consecra- ted to the Episcopacy by the General Conference in 1872. The last session of the Conference 1871 and 1881.

The Conference church is one of the well known temmea of Methodism in South Jersey, and ia fairly well adapted for the Confer- enee sessions. Rev. Dr. Alfred iatrir. the Dastor of the Salem church, together with the following, compose the Confer- necessitating the closing down of a I the old town of Peapack, X.

has held in Salem Was in 1889. The Con-boiler until the stack is restored. I brought hundreds of visitors to the ference also met there in 1847. 1860. Entertainment Committee: M.

Speaking of this matter a man who builds steel smokestacks said: I "The life of a steel smokestack de- I pends on many things. Leaving out I of consideration the big firebrick-1 lined stacks which will stand many I rears, it may be said that if a stack I of one-sixteenth of an men thickness I of material will last in a given local- ity and use two years one of mate- I rial of an eighth of an inch in thick-1 ness would stand in the same place I ten or twelve years. A stack or a I given thickness would last twice as I long at a dry inland point as it would I if subjected to the corroding influ-1 ences of salt air. such as you have I here in Asbury Park. The agency most destructive to I the chimney, however, is found in I the phosphorus and sulphur fumes from the burning coal, it tne tires I are run in such a way as to make it I possible to apply there is nothing I that will help more to prolong the I steel smokestack life than paint ap- length and so small in places, as to rious sections of the Conference show plied at the proper intervals and in hardly permit the passage of the that much has been accomplished to-good solid coats inside and out.

body. The explorers were at times, ward reaching the end sought. Many Steel smokestacks are not quite I so common as stovepipes, but there I are many thousands of them, ranging I in size up to lofty stacks ten and I twelve feet in diameter, standing in Grand Master Charles W. Mead, of PI their congregations, and gratify-this country, and thousands of new the Grand Lodge of Free and Accept- in? results, and the completed re-ones are built and set up every year, seyed Masons of the State of New ports will no doubt reveal a large re- Freehold to the Ceater of Dia- trlbatlsx District. Arrangements are being made to provide the western part of the county with free, mail delivery.

The distributing centre will be Freehold. A petition will be circulated among the farmers and residents of Freehold, Atlantic, Marlboro, Manalapan, Mill stone and Howell townships, and if sufficient number of persons ex press a desire for free mail delivery, he scheme will be carried into effect. From six to eight persons will be eniiuovea as man carriers, uco car rier will cover about twenty miles if route per day, and it is intended to so arrange the deliveries tnat every house, no matter how remote, vill get its mail once a day. This free delivery will probably result in cloing many of the small postoffices which are located within a few miles of Freehold. The business now done at these small postoffices will there after be done either at Freehold or by the The new business thus credited to the Freehold office will result in a great increase in the receipts of the office.

This will give reehold's postmaster a larger sal ary, ana it win aiso give tnai town free delivery, as well as the rural district roundabout. The carriers employed in the rural delivery scheme will get $300 per year each. Xew Jersey's Backw oods. There are parts of Xew Jersey within a verv short distance of Philadelphia, too, which, strange as it may seem, are but little more known to-day than they were 200 years ago. In fact there are portions of the "Pine Barrens" which have never known the tread of a white man.

it is this wnaerness, rigm at our very doors, that a party of naturalists Mr. Stone as chief and Messrs. Kehn and Coggins as assisttants, are starting out to explore. Starting from Medford they make a circuitous route camping as best they can for seven nights and returning' to Medford with their collections. In a certain sense of the word, this expedition is only preliminary to ones of a more extended nature which may follow.

Work in this region must be done by small parties returning frequently to some base of supplies, as food is nearly unobtainable, and transportation of heavy loads of specimens impossible. The expedition will make observation upon the soil and water supply and col lect all manner of plants and am mals, which will be turned over to eminent specialists for identification. A Double Affliction. The killing of a young man by a Mr. Stiles last year for clamming on private oyster grounds at Tuckerton yet fresh in the minds of our readers was disposed of by pronouncing Mr.

Stiles hopelessly insane and placing him in an asylum, thus relieving him of the serious conse quences of a trial that would doubt less have resulted from the charge of murder. The unfortunate occurrence was attended by much sadness for the family of the victim but now the news comes that the father of the young man was drowned recently while crossing the same bay that the tragedy occurred in, thus leaving the mother and widow a double burden to bear. Soap Goes lp in Price. Housewives will be surprised to learn that the cost of maintaining tidy homes will increase to a con siderable extent for that most use- ful of all household utilities, soap will advance in price. All grades of common soap will, it is said, jump to the nickel mark and stay there.

The reason for this is a sudden slump in the tallow market. For some time the big soap manufactur ers have been using up tallow which was nought some time ago at a low- price. They are now confronted with a scarcity which threatens to cut the supply of soap way down. Kris in a. Dredger.

The local market at Atlantic City is swamped with eels which are to be had for the gathering of them. The fisherman who is thus bountifully supplying the city with this fish is a big dredger which is at work pumping sand from the bottom of the inlet to fill in low ground. The poor residents are having a feast, and scores of boys are gathering in the wrigglers as they are thrown on the ground by the hundred. Armory for Freehold. The Vredenburgh Rifles of Free hold, are about to build an armory and club bouse.

The building will contain a parlor equipped with a library, billiard and pool tables, piano and lounging chairs, meeting room, committee room, kitchen, drill room, gymnasium, bowling, alley, shooting gallery and a place for public meetings and concerts. It is proposed to erect at a cost of $10,000. The in come from the building is estimated at $2,650 and the expenditures $1,475, leaving a net balance each year of $1,175. Masons Want $3.50 Per Day. Long Branch masons will demand an increase of salary on February 1st, The knights of the trowel value their services at $3.50 per day and this rate of wages will be demanded of contractors and builders.

It is the opinion that the increase asked for will be generally acceded to. Jersey 5li Appointed to Saeeeed Xew York's Mayors President. Xew Jersey continues to furnish and m08t successful educators, says 1 the country with some of her best the Atlantic City Review. The latest Jerseyman to be honored by an ed ucational institution is Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, whom the Board of Trustees Monday elected president of Columbia University, to succeed Seth Low.

Dr. Butler, originally a resident of Elizabeth, was. president of tie Jersey State Board of i.uuv,uva nuu aooo lu low, biiu was special Commissioner from this State to the Pans Exposition 1900. As O-i J. I a memoer oi me oiate coara or lau- cation, jar.

nuuer am much to sue- cessfully introduce manual training into the school system. Dr. Butler nas Deen proiessor Columbia versity lor many years, and that he will prove a worthy successor to his worthy predecessor is generally con- ceded. uirii.ipiorMi.wi. the news of the discovery of the crystal caverns in the very heart of scene far from distant towns and cities.

The work of vandals recently in despoiling the caverns of their stalastite hangings, has aroused great indignation. The owner of the lime quarry, in which the entrance to the caverns was discovered, is indifferent to the beauty and value of the find, land has allowed the villagers to ry away tons of marvelous stalactite specimens as souvenirs. It has taken the pluck of a daring mountain girl from a nearby village to push through the narrow subter- reanean passage, leading fromAthe third chamber to the fourth and largest cavern yet found. The feat was performed by Miss Katrina Schwarta, accompanied by her bro- ther Charles. The pair describe the I cavern at the end of the pasage aa one or rare splendor, with white, glistening walls.

It is larger than all the other chambers comibned, but the passage to it is over 200 yards in nearly suffocated by the close air in the passage. Masons Warned of Frauds. York, has sent a letter to the lodges within the jurisdiction which in Part is as follows. "Information reaches me that steps have been taken for the establishment of clandestine lodges in this jurisdiction. The body, although a spurious organization, established without competent au- thority, may succeed in playing up- on the credulty of a sufficient num- ber of people to enable its agents to establish so-called lodgea in this State.

Therefore, to the end that brethren of our lodges may be warn- ed against imposters in the guise of Masons, I deem it my duty to call the attention of the craft to this mat- ter. It is my order, in view of the attempt now made to form irregular and spurious bodies in this jurisdic- tion, that the utmost care be exer- of the lodge from which the visitor that the usual safeguards be abso- lutely observed; that particular care be taken to ascertain the regularity of the lodge from which the visittor hails, and that no visitors be admit- ted except upon authoritative avouchment or the proor of his right to visit by ricid examination." Takes the Place of Her Husband. The Rev. Ernest A. Boom, nastor of the First Ttnntit Phnreh of Wash- inc-ton.

X. became suddenly ill-aa the church bell was rincrnir for the evening service Sunday night and he sent a note to the trustees bv the trustees by Mrs, Boom askinc them to let her fill his nlace. The trustees consented. Mrs. Boom was a trifle nervous when She mounted the platform but this wore awav after she announced the opening hymn.

After the hymn she said she would sneak on "Life in the Great Cities." She spoke more than an hour extemnore. It was her first attemDt as a Dublie sneaker and she was congratulated warmly. Her little son sat in a pulpit chair during the discourse ana started the singing of the closing hymns. Odd Home for a Snake. For years Henry Huessalman, of Camden, has felt confident that some I living animal had its abiding place I in his stomach.

He visited many phy- sicians and all ridiculed his theory, uauiuug i ob uupwooiwic iu Ji. i i v' vs Tiityi vianaKa TTnnaDaTman woo nf uuuaou iovv, o. A uvoomuiou una iTSi I picture taken of the middle part of f. rr.ii. his body.

To the great surprise of the operator and scientists the de- veloped plate showed the body of a snake. The question now is how to get the animal from the man atom- ch ft ig euppoged ttat drinking irora some perhaps many JLft muBh he vears Huessalman mush have I gwallowed a snake's ee. Sioux Indians Lifted Scalps, And you want your scalp raised a condition or health ana xree rrom dandruff Dr. White'a Electric Comb I will do it. Nothincr else will.

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De out of It; but why wait until you catur, 111. I I I I I to OF HAMAN The Amalekite's Hatred of Mor-decai the Jew Explained in Sermon. DR. WEDDERSPOOX SPKAKS. His Eloquent Application of scripture Mory to Kveryday Llfe and Xeetfs.

As the weeks go on the congregations at the First M. E. Church grow continually larger. Sunday morning the house was well filled and the evening service was attended by the largest number of people that have been present since the new building has been in use. The seats in the audience room were entirely taken up and but a very few remained unoccupied in the Sunday-school chapel.

At both services the choir and quartette did excellent ork. In the evening Miss Bertha Martin rendered a contralto solo in a very effective manner. Dr. Wedderspoon's text last night was taken from Galiations 6:7. Hainan, the Amalekite, was the subject treated.

The introduction was a story of the glory of the Persian empire and the great King Xer-xse. A description of the character of Haman, the king's favorite, was given. His hatred of Mordecai, the Jew, was graphically sketched, and the vile scheming for his destruction and that of his people was considered at length. A strong lesson was drawn concerning help fromunexpecfed sources. Esther the Queen, heroically saved her people and foiled nefarious scheming.

The gallows he had reared for Mordecai swung his own body in the air. Written across the whole tragedy was the word retribution. The great lesson drawn was, "Sinners will receive their just deserts, and God will elevate the faithful. One only has atoned for our sin, thrist our Saviour." The meeting was a very remark able one. There was intense interest from the beginning and breathless silence prevailed until the close of the pastor's last appeal.

Playing Trump Cards. Postmaster Bacharaeh, of Atlantic City, has gone to Washington to play his trump card in a game of diplo macy with the members of the Post office Committee of both branches of Congress, the prize at stake being a new postoffice building. He takes with him ten large books full of newspa per clippings that show how well sus tflined is the city claim for a Government building, and the postmaster will leave these with the Congress men and ask that they be perused be fore the committee makes up its re port and passes upon Atlantic City's application. Railroad Record for 1901. There was an increase of 4,518 miles in the railroad mileage in the United States during 1900, Texas leading with 537 miles.

The increase in New Jersey was five miles. Dur ing the year also 142,514 new cars were built, the largest output for any year. Of these 2,089 were passenger cars, and 508 street cars. The greatest amount of railroad building has been west of the Mississippi. Thieves Cool and Polite.

Polite thieves recently robbed the home of J. M. Gardiner, a lawyer in Passaic. They were at work when Mr. Gardiner's brother called.

One of the thieves responded to a knock at the door. "Is my brother home?" asked the caller. "Yes, you'll find him in the parlor." responded the thief. The brother stepped in and the two thieves stepped out and es caped. Fighting; Foreign Superstition.

The Newark Hoard of Health is endeavoring to stop a strange and superstitious practice in vogue among foreigners there. When a person has a contagious dsiease. especially diphtheria or consumption, a culture from the patient is inoculated in a cat. By this means, the friends of the sick person believe, he or she will le delivered of the affliction. In this manner many cats have iecome infected and are said to have spread tuberculosis and diphtheria to an alarming extent.

Old Fire Horse Bolts. "Old Bill," South Orange's first fire horse, now doing duty in a laundry wagon, created consternation in Couth Orange recently by running away and causing two other horses to do likewise. The clanging of a trolley car bell perhaps recalled to "Old Bill" the fire alarm while he stood in front of a laundry. At any rate he started down the avenue at a lively clip. A policeman caught the old horse at the gates guarding the Lackwanna Railroad crossing.

Woman Loses a Finger. Mrs. John J. Hendrickson, of Fair Haven, who cut her finger by the breaking of a lamp chimney several weeks ago, and who has since been at the Long Branch hospital, has had the injured finger taken off. The amputation of the finger was considered necessary in order to save the rest of the hand.

IfTTRENTON 27th Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Horticultural Society. The twenty-seventh annual meet ing of the State Horticultural Society convened in the court room of the State House on Wednesday of last week. The opening session was given to reports of officers and committees. The address of President Hale was brief, and referred mainly to the re sponsibilities of members and the work of the society in the future. The important suggestion in the report of the Secretary, Henry Budd, was for the formation of local improvement societies for cleaning up and beautifying the roadsides, the lanes and the grounds around the dwellings along the improved highways.

The Fruit Committee's report held no reference to the San Jose scale. but had a tale of woe to tell of the ravages of the "tent caterpillar and the fall webworm. These pests, in such numbers as they appeared last season, were new to the State, and many growers gave up fighting them. The more there were killed, the more came, saia Dr. wara.

it was suggested that the defoliation of the rees would injure the fruit buds and effect the coming season's crop, but this was questioned. J. B. Rogers, in his report for the Vegetable Committee, passed the weather of the spring and early summer in review, and, with the average for temperature and humidity for some forty years, showed how far out of the ordinary the prevailing conditions had been. For several weeks, he said, the supplies came almost entirely from irrigated land.

Taking the year through, there had been almost complete failure in some crops somewhere through the State, while others had unusuaTTy large yields, and the unusual combination of large prices for them. Dr. Ward, his report for the Fruit Committee, deprecated the in crease of new varieties. The society, ue said, should keep the standard high by reporting only such as will stand the test of time. David Baird called attention to the fact that all new peaches are chance seedlings.

There has been no systematic work in hybridizing, no working for a defi nite purpose. ntil this is done the product must remain a chance. The Legislative Committee report concerned only the efforts to secure an appropriation for a suitable dis play of the State's at Buffalo. Franklin Dye, who had stretched out the meagre appropriation for the agricultural interests to cover the horticultural as well, reported the awards for the latter of a silver medal and seven bronze med als. The papers of the day were by H.

W. Collingwood, giving his experience in setting out peach trees by the Stringfellow method, and by Profes sor John B. Smith, State Entomolo gist, upon methods of studying the insect pests of horticulture. In Europe, Professor Smith said, they work for one vear for the results they desire for the next, but in Amer ica everything is done in the day of it. In Europe preventive measures are faithfully carried out, but the American grower waits until the pests have increased to numbers worth fighting.

The gain of the past year, he said, was in finding out how to contol the insect that has caused such loss to the cranberry growers The subject for the evening was landscape gardening. The lecture was by Miss L. K. Miller, with illus trations shown upon the screen. Cave Turns Into Gold Mine.

The cave recently discovered Phillip Todd's limestone quarry at Peapack. X. promises to be a gold mine to him. C. Ledyard Blair, of Xew York, who owns a fine summer residence near the natural wonder has offered him $10,000 for the cavern It is believed Mr.

Blair will fit it up for sightseers. A new chamber has been found that contains a pretty minature lake. Cranberry Crop at Farmingdale Several thousand bushels of eran berries are yet held by the bog own ers at armingdale. It is reported that in some places where the berries were cleaned that have rotted badly, especially when stoed where the ventilation was imperfect. There has been a slump in the market and prices have rapidly declined from $2.10 to $1.50 per bushel wholesale, and there is practically no demand at the latter price.

Gen. Stryker's Portrait A portrait of the late Adjutant General William S. Stryker has been hung in the central corridor of the State house just beyond the racks of old flags of the New Jersey regiments In the civil war. It is expected that a portrait of General Wiiuam J. Sewell will.

ultimately occupy a similar position on the opposite side of the corridor. Don't Waste Your money on fake hair tonics. Dr. White's Electric Comb patented Feb. 2, 1899, is the only safe, certain protection against baldness, dandruff and all diseases of the scalp.

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N. Rose, Gen. Deeatur, 111. B. Ayers, Dr.

Waddington, Dr. Duf- field, E. J. Gaynor, T. G.

Dunn, Rev. J. II. Boyd, pastor of the First Church, J. D.

Long, William X. Shoemaker, J. F. Gosling, Samuel Wildermuth, Mor- rn McCorson and F. R.

Parvin. Speaking generally, the churches throughout the bounds of the Con- ference have enjoyed a year of pros- perity. Zealous efforts have been made in many localities to round out the first year of the new century in all departments of the church with a record of achievements at which to point with pride, and while it is early for reports, the statements from va- of the churches have made special efforts along the line of reducing the church indebtedness, and pastors re port cheerful generosity on the part duction in the column of church in- debtedness. Spiritually, the churches have been doing a splendid work. Gracious re- vivalg have been in progress in many or the churches for weeks, and hun- areas have professed conversion and united with the churches on proba- tlon.

La several of the churches the spe- ctal meetings will continue until with- ln short time before Conference opens. While the chief interest of the Conference will centre in the ap- pointments of the ministers, as yet there is little talk on probable changes. Many of the pastors are on their first or second year at their present charges, and it is likely that the changes will not be as numerous aa some previous years. The pastors in the, regular connec- tlo outside of the supplies, are divi- dea to the term of service at their present charges, as rollows: lhree re closing up their fifth year, three are rounding out four years, thirty are completing the third year, sixty- e'ffht are on their second year and eignty-one are serving their first year. According to the laat report of the statistical Secretary, Rev.

John H. Boswell, there were on the church rolls 51886 ful1 members, 4,309 proba- doners and 248 local preachers. The ounaay-scnoois naa a membership or scnoiars, witn omcers ana teachers. The total support for pas- lor8 i resiaing r.iuers ana uisnops "us mere as reponta wo annn rt rri i i nn churches in the Conference at a pi-ob- aule OI WW, ana is par- sonages at a prooaoie value oi 0ver 76-000 was Vnt on building and improvements, while $64,259 was Paid on church indebtedness, still a cnurcn maeoteaness oi $518,066. The sum of $272,988 is cred- 1 1 1 tne iwenuein v-eniury iumu Offering.

Kditor Claimant of Fortune. -a. uh I Coa8t Democrat, says he is a direct descendant of Ichabod Norton. The fact that Mr. Hoskins ia a descendant of Ichabod was announced in his paper last week, coupled with the rath- er startling announcement that the editop Wft- lso vei.

to T-hoW. nnn flAA 11 "en growing out of the confisca- tion of his ships and cargoes (for he wealthV shin ownerl drinr TT1" iJ the Revolution. Editor Hoskins' co-claimant to the $4,000,000 indemnity is Madame Nor who had filed omas W. A. Norton of Ocean Grove, is also a relative of Madame Noraica.

Mr. Hoskins says his claim has been approved by the court of claims at Washington, but the money ia still jn the treasury. um 01 a uiock. I Mlscs Helen Gould, of New York black onyx clock for the reception room or its tire house. Miss Gould has frequently visited Ocean City.

There are hundreds of steel I smokestacks to one of brick. The I life of a brick stack is twenty times I that of one of steel, but the steel stack costs far less to begin with, it can be far more easily transported, lt can be put up in practically no time at til, and, for that matter, if it should be desirable, it can be as readily taken down. "Chimneys of the smaller diame- ters are kept in stock, like merchan-1 dise, and the material for the larger chimneys is kept on hand in such a forward state of preparation that chimneys of these sizes may be sup- plied in very short order. Probably the steel smokestack most familiar to the eye when seen, is in many situations, supported by guy wires, but there are now erected many big steel chimneys that are 8elf-supporting. Some of these big steel chimneys are built straight sided.

They are big cylinders of uni- form diameter, set on end, and others have a slight taper. Such steel chim- nevs as these stand upon solid ma sonry foundations, and the chimneys themselves are lined with firebrick. It is a curious and interesting fact that while the modern big steel chimney is lined with firebrick these are now sometimes built, in modern city buildings, brick flues lined with steel, the object being to make a mie that shall be safe while occupy- ing the least possible space." Civil War Obligation Handed Over. The last installment of Civil War debt has just been paid by the State Comptroller, amounting to $71,000. The State could not have settled the debt any sooner and the time for the pav'ment was fixed and has been in progress since 1892.

In the payment of the fixed amounts, $10,000 was ta ken annually from the sinking fund and the rest came from the general fund. This does not wipe out the total debt, but it does as far as the State is legally able to do. It still holds the certificate issued to the commis sioners of the Agricultural College, but it cannot dispose of the certifi- cate under the condition of the Uni- ted States statute. The State pays me niiercsu uut ine amount is cureu oy me ox uu.veu xvan- road Companies of New Jersey. Fire In a Coal Pile, A fire that has caused much anx iety has been burning at Moore Brothers' glass works at Clayton, N.

for some days. A pile of soft coal containing about 4,000 tons, caught fire from spontaneous combustion, and in spite of the fact that a stream pite of tne tact that a stream oi water js conuimaiiy piaycu uu, 1 -J IA. tne nre continues, jc onunu tei it is in a portion or tne yara mat causes no danger that is apparent Gloucester's Large Tree. Probably the larereat tree in Glou cester county, if not in South Jersey, I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 1 I I I I not excepting the famous oak in the on a written guarantee to give per- has presented the Ocean City Volun-Salem Friends' Burying Ground, feet "satisfaction in every respect, teer Fire Company vith a handsome stands in the yard of William Ogden, at Mickleton. It is 19 feet around the bottom and is 200 years old..