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VOLUME XXIII.—NO. 3. MORRISTOWN, N. J., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. __„ '.— - ■ -.----------- -- - . _ THE CHRONICLE MOST CORDIALLY SALUTES GOLF’S CONTESTANTS AND QUESTS, AND WELCOMES THEM TO MORRISTOWN. THE EVENT OF A WEEK. Amateur Golf Championship of the United States % in the Balance at Morris County Links. Who in the land hasn’t heard of Morristown? And who that has hasn’t heard of its salubrity and beauty, its historic ardency and its social charm, its cordial spirit and hospitality, its serenity and ele gance? And to be told of these is a refreshment to the senses, much as the portrayal of some placid stream imparts the realism of a pres ence whose fragrance one can fancy he is inhaling! But the touch stone of a critical experience of what there is best in Morristown, de nuded of all expectancies and of all prepossessions, was applied for and during the current week by the hosts of animated strangers who swarmed to town primarily to view the great golf championship con tests and incidentally to verify or deny the many times told tales of the excruciating glories that bless this bailiwick by abiding here. We have been wanting in the effrontery to inquire of these throngs as to their judgment of the unique merits of Morristown, but if there be virtue in the outward symbols of an inner consciousness we are vain enough to venture the belief that every visitor will be eager with praise for a Jersey town which is undoubtedly proud of itself. —oooooo— The hotels, the boarding houses and, withal, the homes of those of the city whose social friends made it the Mecca of their joyous pil grimage for the golf festivities, all bear plethoric testimony to the peculiar popularity of the game of golf, the growth of which in gene ral favor has been remarkable within the few past years. There is a positive cause for this popularity, apart from other probable causes, in the greater gentility of a sport which does not need to depart from humane and harmless limitations to advance its skill. Of late years a certain sort of degeneracy has overtaken some forms of scientific recreation and athletics because proficiency often demanded heroic risk and supremacy meant the chances of death. It is noticeable that while football in particular, baseball and other of the n*g/e rude or dangerous adult pastimes, professional and amateur, no ledger ex cite enthusiastic support except for collegiate or personal rivalries, the upward march of golf, tennis and like polite, painless and exhil arating tests of skill under organized rules has been rapid and unin terrupted. Golf is today a national favorite. And the growth of Morris County’s leading organization is typical of the rapidity with which the game has obtained its present vogue. The origin of the Morris County Golf Club is an old story of the links. In December, 1895, a few prominent residents of Morristown, foreseeing the popularity the game has achieved, decided to organize a club where they could meet and thoroughly enjoy the new sport. The capital stock was placed at $50,000, the par value of each share being $100. Nearly $100,000 has been expended for and upon the home and grounds. From its inception the club was the centre of social life in this city, including in its membership numbers of lead ing spirits in the refined circles and many especial patrons of health ful and skillful outdoor recreation. These were drawn not alone from Morristown, Morris County and their adjacencies, but from the Metropolis, the cordial resultant being seen in the throngs of enthu siastic participants that at their magnificent links are making this a week not only of golfing super-rivalry but of social resplendency. —<vrwvrwvr>— So greatly, indeed, has the interest in the organization widened that the active rolls embrace over four hundred names; and, as for the club’s quarters, its course, its links, and all the accessories, no stint of expense or tastefulness has ever intruded into the hearty de sign that every feature should be complete to the last degree, and thus at once commend itself to admiration and delight. Entirely in consonance, then, with the fitness of things that the Morris County Links should have been selected as the course upon which to contest and decide the amateur golf championship of the United States. In 1896, when the women’s championship contest was held, the present arena wras an 18-hole course, of 4,157 yards. This was increased to 5,064 yards for the open tournament of last October, and now a full circuit of 5,960 yards is provided. The greens are large, many nearly one hundred feet square, and they have been beautifully leveled. For several w'eeks the Greens Committee and the club’s energetic profes sional, Willie Weir, gave careful attention to the grounds; and seve ral of the present contestants pronounce the Morris County golf course to be the finest in the country. It is certain that in the lay ing out of the new links the club was guided by the expert views and advice of the highest authorities on the game. -0-00000— Nor can too much be said in*praise of the arrangements that have been made for both competitors and guests. The press, too, most numerously and capably represented, has been well provided for. The presence of metropolitan and other correspondents is notably large and was judiciously anticipated, while the ample telephone and telegraph conveniences make a striking feature, pleasant and exclu sive quarters for uninterrupted writing being also thoughtfully sup plied. The fclub, with its corps of committees and auxiliaries, at tends to the multitudinous details of management with faultless om nipresence, and the officers of the United States Golf Association are at hand to afford suggestion or advice. Thus every possible provis ion of intelligent forethought has been invoked, to the end that tri umphant success shall crown the present contests in every part and particular. ooooo-o Two large tents, gayly ornate with bunting, occupy the lawns near the club house, where luncheon is served at all hours of the day and an .orchestra contributes to the gratifying interests of the situation. Here the scene is always alluring hnd animating and the throngs picturesque and preoccupied. To these, -here and elsewhere, the D., L. & W. trains hourly add their augmentation of guests, laying their precious burden at the club house front, while almost intermi nable lines of private vehicles doubly flank the 'waysides of the adja cent thoroughfares; and to these, again, whirling streams of wheelers # Continued, on Page 4. PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM Furloughed Convalescents Afforded Bess1 Care at a Banker's Mansion. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Kountze, in en tertaining a number of convalescent soldiers on their magnificent estate on theMendham road, are giving an exhibi tion of practical patriotism. During the entire war Mr. Kountze was active in caring for the men at the front in various ways, and as soon as the wounded and 6ick soldiers were brought North he became a frequent visitor and a liberal contributor at both hospital and camp. With large business interests in Texas, the soldiers from the Lone Star State naturally included many of the business acquaintances and friends of Mr. Kountze, to a number of whom was extended a cordial invitation to visit Morristown, as soon as furloughs could be obtained from the hospital authorities, as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Kountze. Among those now at “Camp Convales cence,” as the present headquarters is called, are Sergeant D. H. McLeod, Co. D, Third Texas Infantry; Private Jack Noguess, Private Andrew Chessie, Light Battery A, Second U. S. Artillery; Pri vate William Bluemer, Co. E, 21st U. S. Infantry; Private Jason J. Jackson, Co. F, 24th U. S. Infantry; Privates John Regan, Edward Dellahan, Horace John son, Troop H, Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Johnson is from Sabine Pass, Texas, Regan and Dellahan are from Beau mont, Texas. Sergeant McLeod is also from Beaumont and was at the time of his enlistment city editor of the Daily Enterprise, the leading Democratic daily of Southeast Texas. The Third Texas was enlisted on May 4, examined on the 11th, and mustered into service on the 12th. The regiment was first sent to FortClark, Texas, on the Mexican frontier, the most desolated post Uncle Sam owns. Two companies were sent to Galveston, two to Corpus Chrisd, one sent to Fort Mor gan, Alabama, two to Key West, guard ing coast defences, the balance remained at Fort Clark for garrison. The com panies of the Third doing duty at Key West suffered the same hardship as the boys at the front, and have, so they say, none of the glory. Jackson, Bluemer and Chessie were in the Santiago fight—the latter was gun ner No. 1, and his gun fired the first shot on the 2nd of July, the shell going through a priest’s house in the city, the range from the top of the hill to the city being about 3,000 yards. Jackson’s regiment landed after the Rough Riders at Baiquire, whom they supported, assisted by the 10th Regular Cavalry, also colored. Bluemer s regiment was from Platts burg, N. Y. On July 2nd they were on the firing line and when, after five j hours, General Shafter sent an aid-de camp with instructions to withdraw to j the rear, the Colonel, a Southerner, exclaimed: ' ‘By G-, sir! I lost a barrel of blood getting this position and I propose to hold it, sir ! ” which he did until the surrender. The visitors are loud in their praise of their host, who has thrown open a farm house furnished throughout with hospi tal cots, with Miss Graham, a trained nurse, in charge. Mr. McLeod says the bill of fare comprises everything onej could wish, while horses are always ready to take the boys out driving. Dr. Ubelacker has tendered his services without charge and makes daily visits to “Camp Convalescence." The stand of colors which surmount the porch was presented by Miss Annie Kountze. Field Club Bone Show. On Monday evening next at 8.30 the boxes for the second annual horse show of the Morristown Field Club will be sold at auction at the Field Club’s club house, and Thursday, the 22d, the en tries close. There will be a row of seventy-two boxes at the Driving Park, each commanding a fine view of the elliptical show ring. They are to be canopied and in front a spacious prome nade is to extend the full length of the row. The parking spaces for four-in hands and other traps are on the opposite side of the show ring about a hundred feet from the boxes. Entries are being received at a rate that assures a notable display of horses, and the competition will be keen and exciting. Contests for tandems, four-in hands and jumpers will be exceptionally interesting, as will also the events in which ladies drives. All communica tions regarding entries should be ad dressed to the secretary, John M. Shaw, 80 Broad street, New York. Entertaining at the Golf Club. A large amount of entertaining was was done at the Golf Club this week and several small private dinners were given. Mrs. Twombly, Mrs. Tilden, Mrs. Catlin and Mrs. Tiers gave dinners, as well as several others. The dance to be given to night is really the social function of the season, and will be very largely attended. HUM IH Board Had a Discussion on the Merits of Drainage Pipes. Some Favored Cast Iron but a Majority Toted for the Steel Product—Activity In Koad Improvements — More Bridges Projected. There was an interesting controversy between several of the freeholders at the monthly meeting of the Board in the County Hall Wednesday, in which the relative merits of cast iron and plate steel were discussed. The debate for a time was animated, and while the parti cipants did not indulge in personalities that condition became almost a reality The incident followed the reading of four bids on pipe to be used by the coun ty for drainage during the fiscal year. The bids were: Warren Foundry and Machine Co. of Phillipsburg, 65 cents per foot for cast iron pipe; McNeal Pipe Foundry of Burlington, for the same product, 71X cents per foot; Tippett & Wood of Phillipsburg, $1.56 for steel pipe, and the Dover Boiler Works 69 cents for this quality of pipe. Such a pronounced difference in the price of the two kinds of pipe naturally prompted several members to ask about their relative merits. Freeholder Troxell said that a majority of water companies use the cast iron product and he would like to have some one demon strate that steel was better. Mr. Smith coincided with this remark. At this point Mr. Hoagland volunteered the in formation that the resolution did not prevent the Board from purchasing either kind of pipe it might desire. Mr. Van Winkle wanted to know how the prices compared to those of pipe pur chased heretofore. The “startling” information was given by Mr. Vreeland that the pipe formerly used by the county had been condemned at the foundry and was what is common ly known as “seconds,” being of inferior quality. Mr. Gillen here called for the question on the “ground that the con tractors had complied with the require ments and he incidentally remarked that the pipe would last 100 years—long after the present Board of Freeholders were here. Mr. Troxell said it looked to him as if the county would have to go in the scrap iron business. Mr. Gillen retorted that lots of pipe of the kind to which the Freeholder from Madison referred was to be found in that township. The motion to award the contract to the Pover Boiler Works prevailed, the vote being 11 ages to 7 nays. The pipe is to be delivered at the station nearest the point at which it is to be used for 69 cents per foot. Director M. B. Lum sent a letter ee pressing willingness to see any of the Board at his house, but owing to illness he could hot be present at the meeting. Major Henry M. Dalrymple was selected to serve pro tern. The absentees were William R. Cook of Passaic and Gustave A. Becker of the Third Ward, this city. Chairman Milledge of the Finance and Auditing Committee submitted a report which was accepted. The amounts are: For general county purposes, bal ance and receipts, $24,394.62; disburse ments, $22,208.11; balance, $2,141 51. Road account, receipts and balance, $2,315.79; disbursements, $2,979.66; bal ance, $236.13. Mr. Hoagland reported that the Com mittee on County Roads had paid for repairs on these thoroughfares during the month $966.53. The Mendham road has been entirely graded and the work is progressing rapidly. On the Chester road there still remains to be completed a portion covering about 2,000 feet, but the committee was informed that this would be finished by the end of the pres ent month. The Basking Ridge piece is rapidly nearing completion, though there is a large quantity of stone yet to be put on the surface. The Madison road will be finished by the end of September. Bills approved by the committee amounted to $9,584, with $3,935 for regular county construction. Three bills for engineers’ work amounting to $208.35 were ordered paid on the inci dental account pending reimbursement from State money. The work was on the New Vernon, Stirling and Budd’s Lake roads. A motion authorizing that a note be given for $8,000 in anticipation of reim bursement by the State Aid Fund in December was carried. Mr. Hoagland moved that engineers be authorized to forward specifications of six sections of roads to State Commissioner Budd. The motion prevailed. The roads are ex tending from Denville to Pine Hill; a section near Budd’s Lake; also a short section of Fox Hill and Chester high ways ; Sand Spring, near New Vernon; Continued on Fifth Page. FIRE LADDIES WIN Hot Time at Condon's Stables Last Night —Horses Rescued—Good Work Done. While Edward Condon, proprietor of the Maple avenue livery stables, wss conversing with friends at 7.45 o’clock last night in his office, Miss Lizzie Murphy rushed in asking that an alarm be turned in as Mulhall’s stable, located in the rear and adjoining Condon’s stables, was on fire. Mulhall’s bam burned like a tinder box and it was with difficulty that the horses, nine in num ber, were removed. An opening of less than three feet' separated this barn from Condon’s extensive two story building to which the flames had communicated when the department arrived, making a blaze that lighted up that section of the city. The fire department scored another big victory over the fire by confining the flames to the rear of Condon’s stables, extinguishing the flames in what was left of Mulhall's barn and saving the Ambrose house, and several dwellings in the rear. Mr. Condon had twenty-nine horses in his stables, twenty boarders and'nine belonging to him, all of which were safely removed, though with con siderable difficulty. The avenue was filled with carriages of every description, harness and horse clothing which had been hurriedly removed. The heat was intense, blistering the faces and hands of the firemen and several lengths of hose. After twenty minutes hard work the flames were under control, and by 9 o’clock the fire was out. Ex-Foreman Pierson of Independent Hose was slightly injured by a falling beam. Condon’s loss on building and contents will probably reach $5,000; insured, Mulhall’s loss is also covered by insur I ance. The origin of the fire is a mystery. FIRE MONDAY NIGHT. Dr. XJebelacker’a Barn on South Street Burned to the Ground. The fire department was called out at 10 o’clock Monday night when the barn of Dr. A. Uebelacker on South street was discovered to be in flames. Although the firemen responded prompt ly the building could not be saved. There was a good water supply and the department through hard work pre vented the fire from communicating to the barn of John Thatcher, which was immediately adjoining. The blaze was discovered by Dr. Uebelacker’s coachman, who was sitting in the barn reading. As the fire started in the top of the building there is no theory of its origin. A quantity of grain and hay and straw was destroyed. The horses and carriages wqj^saved. It is thought that $3,000 will cover the loss. This and other fires have prompted citizens to ask why the Independent hose carriage is not brought into use. It can get the quickest stream without the aid of an engine, and might be the means some time of preventing a big conflagra tion. UNIQUE ART GALLERY. Interesting Collection of War Pictures on Air, -Cihlar’s Walls. Doubtless there are many persons in Morristown as patriotic as Frank Cihlar, whose place of business is at 27 Washing ton street, but none followed the move ments of the army and navy in the war with Spain more closely, nor took a more lively interest in events relating thereto than this gentleman. Mr. Cihlar was not satisfied to read the various stories that appeared in print, but occupied the nights with arranging on the walls of his establishment a series of war pictures and those of the leading commanders in the army and navy. • The idea is certainly a novel one and has caused Considerable comment by Mr. Cihlar’s patrons and others, as well as afforded them some pleasure. When in doubt as to the location of some particu lar part of the province of Santiago, or the waters in which American or Spanish vessels were cruising, a visit to this unique art gallery would result in -giving the information desired, in a manner perhaps as conclusive as might have been obtained from the Strategy Board at Washington. Mr. Cihlar is an admirer of Admiral Dewey particularly, and while the like ness of every commanding officer of any importance claims a place on the walls, pictures of the hero of Manila Bay are to be seen showing him in various atti tudes and at almost every age since his birth. Conspicuously displayed near the entrance is a copy of the Chkonicle extra, which announced to Morristown people the victory in the Philippines. When the walls of Mr. Cihlar’s place are varnished, as he purposes to have done, the pictures will stand in years to come as a realistic reminder of the war in which our soldiers and sailors ac quitted themselves with great credit, to the utter humiliation of the Spanish army and navy. Mr. Cihlar was a soldier himself, having served six years in the Austrian army. He was in the Austria-Prussian war of 1866 and saw a year of hard service. He came to this country twenty-seven years ago and since that time has lived in Morristown. JUST A SORT OF SALAD. Some Casual Personages, Things and Themes that Serve Anon for a Piquant Entremet. For a period of clean cut, unimpeachable and satisfying cool tem perature equalling in duration a generous week and working wonders in comfort and relief for us all and especially for the poor fellows in camp and hospital, we should intone a national thank offering. Less than a little fortnight past, and our panting fancies, steeped in piping - heat, were conjuring images of a wintry bygone, glad for the cooling memory of a melted icicle; and now, presto! we are pleading in chill ed and chattering accents for an extra coverlet! If a man is selfish— and no man ever admitted it—he gets all his joys through a process of antithesis, or contrast. To contemplate the hunger of another is to provoke in himself a keen relish for food; and in the bleakest of polar winters he can envelop his corporeal personality with a velvet and a magic warmth by merely recalling the anguish of an ill-clad gold-climber in the Chilkoot Pass. The same person would freeze next midsummer on ruminating upon the pale cold solitude of the late moon on these stark September nights. -00-0000— Do you know that a town may be as easily reputable for originality as an individual, and that it might come about with naturalness and without effort or constraint? Of course, any person can do an origi nal thing, by simply doing unlike any one else. But acts that are profitable and valuable to others, and original in conception and car rying out, are produced by an uninvited but kindly and timely im pulse. All through the late war Morristown was fertile of original and consecrated methods for encouraging a soldierly patriotism and at the same time for alleviating the wounds of battle and the rigors of camp and hospital. We could name several of these and other unique means and objects that had their inspiration, their rise and their maintenance in the hearts and labors of Morristown women; and so many were these active spirits, and so many were their deeds and successes, that sequentially their fame and glory have fallen to the lot of a city that rejoices in the heritage. And now comes the proffer and the grateful acceptance of a gorgeous Morristown summer estate, rich in the treasures of rest and peace and ripe in the fertili ties of ease and convenience—these for as many returned Santiago veterans as the capacious mansion and accessories will accommodate. Here not less than twenty of Uncle Sam’s peculiarly fortunate volun teer lads will regale themselves, recounting their war experiences and reflecting that not every soldier can inhabit a princely estate. wvwv After a season of destructive conflagrations extending through six eventful months we have been forced to the reluctant view that the generic barn, in its propensity for igniting and being consumed by fire, has in this vicinage justified the casual suspicion that it is afflict ed with an acute form of hoodoo. We are never at a loss to diagnoses the inclination of a powder mill to explode, because we perceive its^ relevancy to violent combustion and know that its brief career is enveloped in the elements of love, adventure and war. A powder mill that wouldn’t blow up on the slightest provocation, or without provocation, would probably disappoint all the other manufactories that grind out military death-germs for man’s destruction. But it is not the same with the barn—sombre, unobtrusive, undemonstratively occupying the background and never having much to say on worldly themes. The barn has in all history been famed for docility and civ ility—a lovers’ some time tryst, maybe, or the hermitage of a retired farm mule, or the granary of the estate. And yet we have recently known of barns that were bent on their own destruction and would not be deterred, comforted or extinguished; and when a barn takes fire under the impression that it was born to be burned to the ground pouring water on its temples won’t help it. It has got to go—and it goes. -OOOOOO New Jersey’s war contingent, it is supposed, or reported, will soon have been all mustered out of the service and returned to their seve ral homes. Some of them have already passed this stage as individ uals, and the Second Regiment of Volunteers is believed to have re ceived their discharge at Pablo Beach a week ago. This relieves the only organized representatives (in Company M) that Morristown has had at the front. They, with the others in the army from this State, were not assigned to the fighting line, but they have been in readi ness for any demand and have borne the heat and burden of contin ual encampment, drill and guard duty, far more trying to a soldier than the tests of deadly action. But they will be welcomed heartily and sincerely, entitled to whole-souled plaudit for what they would have done and were eager to do. After a few days, however, or a few weeks at best, the Jersey soldier, fallen in at his former place in the ranks of peace, will easily fuse with the mass and move with the mul titude, forgetting, like the others, that there was a great war fought and settled in eight weeks from start to finish. That’s what it is to belong to a whirling republic in a wondrous age. -oooooo— This is the preliminary epoch that is supposed to terminate with the autumnal equinox, and the autumnal equinox is expected by all respectable almanacs to illustrate its entree, somewhat after the cir cus parade idea, with a great show of the best it has iu stock. That annually means the unbottling of bad weather and the unbridling of the winds. If the schedules are properly oiled all this ought to ar rive about the middle of the coming week. On Wednesday the night and the day will be precisely equal in their duration—it will occupy exactly twelve hours for the sun to cover the links along his course from east to west, and the same for him to get back at night. But why that should excite the elements to lightning and tears, we do not affect to know. But we do know that yearly this festival of the me teorological gods is celebrated somewhere in the expanses, and that general pickles happens to the crockery at that point. It is not on the bills that this is to be the seat of the equinox’s annual jubilee, but we should advise to shorten sail hereabout, for a royal blow just here and now would knock out our vaunted vernality and glory.