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I Ten Years Ago Tomorrow the Maine , | Was Blown Up in Havania Harbor. __ I REMEMBER, too, THE EVENING STAR tomorrow with its Illustrate d Saturday Magazine! FEATURES FOR WOMEN! Features for Men! Features for Everybody! Things you don’t knaw about Newark! Things yo C— " ': ' " " . ’’ | HOME !;1 j EDITION || ESTABLISHED 1832. NEWARK. N. J.. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1908.—14 PAGES. RAIN AND FOG TONIGHT AND SATURDAY; WARMER. CHIEF KRUGER DIES LEADING MEN IN BIG NEW YORK EIRE 1 Scores of Firemen Overcome Saving Lives of Seven Comrades Who Sought to Rescue Crokcr’s Deputy From Fumes in Flooded Pit into Which He Had Toppled. ‘ GRAND OLD MAN OF DEPARTMENT” HAD BEGGED FOR DANGEROUS TASK THAT ENDED LONG CAREER NEW TOOK, Feb. 14 — In an effort to lessen the peril In which his men were placed, Deputy Fife Chief Charles V. Kruger, "the grand old man of the department," lost ills life in a turning factory building, :a5 Canal street, today ainl seven firemen were only sav.-d from death by the bravery of their fellows. The tire hud been brought partly un der control, but in the rear of the. building, which was almost inaccessi ble, the blaze still burned stubbornly. Chief t’roker had warned his men to keep Out of the building, which was an ’ old one, and Kruger, with difficulty, obtained his permission to take seven men with him to try to find some way of getting at the. lire with lines of hose from the rear. While working his way cautiously through a cellar filled with smoke and gases, Kruger plungfed through a trap door into a sub-bfisement -filled with water and fumes fr<»m broken gaspipcs. ((rubbed Driver's Leg, Hergenrother, the driver, why was at Kruger's heels, also slipped partly * through the opening.1 The chief, drown ing i'n the sub-cellar pit, grabbed the ■ noirjinc- on 10 you. Water which had beefi poured onto the fire filled the basement to a depth of six feet. Other fircniv.n in the base men* laid flat on their stciniachs around the hole. But none could reach Krtiger. “Hold on. chief. The men or com ing with ropes and ladders." But the chief relaxed his grip and slipped back Into (he cater, and his almost frantic drbf i tried to follow him. When Battalion Cltief Galvan, sprang into the sub-basement beside Kruger, he held to Herge Brother's leg. Then firemen got hold of (Galvan and with great effort managed to lift him and Kruger out. All the time tin y were fighting off the effects* of flic gat? fumes. ( rokrr'n Fruutle »;rl* f. When finally lifted out Kruger was, unconscious. There may have been a spark of life left in his body, but that is doubtful. They carried hSm out to the street, where they took off their coats to make a bed for hilin. Doc tors of the fire department and St. Vincent's Hospital went to 'work at once. Fire Chief Croker, who was a warm friend of Kruger, was almost, i frantic. Fire Hero 3<l Yrnrs. Kruger was 57 years old. and had been a member of tile department for thirty-six years. C'H ASKS COURT Wants Pennsylvania Tracks at Elizabeth Avenue Lowered or Elevated. BILL FOR FRELINGHUYSEN AVENUE RELIEF ALSO READY Collisions at Both Points Averted Recently Only by Narrow Margins. A bill was filed today in chancery by Joscfph Coult, special counsel for the city of Newark, asking for the abolish ment of the Pennsylvania Railroad grade crossing on Elizabeth avenue. It is set forth in the bill that the crossing in its present condition is dangerous, and the complainant asks I hat the tracks be either elevated or lowered at this point. A similar bill is lo be filed shortly by the city asking for the abolishment of the grade crossing on P’rellnghuysen avenue. In this bill the Lehigh Valley and Pennsylvania Railroad companies are named as defendants. Several collisions between locomo tives and street cars have been averted recently by narrow margins on both , crossings. A short time ago a trolley j car was struck by a train at the Eliza- j both crossing, and the rear platform j splintered and strewn along the tracks j for a short distance. The car was full ! of passengers, but op one was seri- j ously injured. I ' ^ow **iven *o: ^ Penny LillSt WlCVi^ Whiehjs Yet Unfound. | ^ ., ■■■—,■■ ■■■■„, . . , ^ THAT ONE-CENT piece 'forth g20 in gold is still missing 1 Five clews have teen given by THE EVENING STAR to its readers ai»d yet in some accountable man ner the mysterious an d elusive penny still remains in circulation. Tire five letters marked on the coin having failed to aid in its discover THE EVENING STAR now supplies the sixth and final 1 Otter. It has given the position of the letters R, A, and Son head side of the copper piece, and of the'letters H and O on the reverse side. Today it tells of the location of the letter T which is clearly marked near the bottom of the revets e side of the coin. Thousands are searching; for the penny, scores and scores have thought the coin was in their individual possession— j' only to be mistaken. Hav» YOU looked for it ? If not, why not ? But, of course, if a penny that is interchangeable at the offices of THE EVEN! NG STAR for a shining golden eagle affords no interest to mm, don’t search for it. If you , feel so inclined, you are one .of a rapidly increasing minority in Newark. The relative positions of the markings are displayed below: , • ” '!: Somewhere- in Newark or its environs that missing pennv is in circulation. Being a penny* it may have gone ;1 for the purchase of a comic valentine. It’s a great joke on i , the buyer if that $20 penny got away from him. r . S i! Vigilance May Mean a New Bonnet or Season Ball Ticket, j | One Tip: Watch, Look, Search. Don’t let it Escape Youi L ini—j—rr. ■■■——1"I mm mim—mmmmmnimmmmmmmmmmmmJ 1 1 : .... [ '~'Vfffitetrfr'* ti-i ..i.v.!-*. LAND Farmer Has Not Been Seen for a Week—He Wrote Not to Worry. GEORGE LENTZ’S FAMILY SEEKS NEWS OF HIM North Arlington Truck Gardener Last Seen by His Son at Centre Market. The mysterious absence or George Lentz, a prosperous, middle aged, truck gardener, of North Arlington, was made public today, after a search of nearly a week by relatives and friends to obtain some trace of him. Several days ago. It is said, he re ceived about $28,000 for twenty-six acres of land, purchased by the Newark Catholic diocese, part of the 203-acre plot intended for a cemetery. The last seen of him by his family was last Friday at noon. At that time he bade his son, Frederick, good-by In the Cen tre Market, in this city, after they had disposed of a load of garden truck. He said that he was going to see a local real estate dealer. rje mu nut return umt nigui. i inn worried his wife und family, and early the next morning they mude inquiries of some of the neighbors. At noon Mrs. Lentz received a postal card from him, postmarked New York, upon which was written: “I’m all right. Don't worry.” On Wednesday*it is said that she re ceived a letter, also postmarked Now York, written on a lettor-hcad of a steamship company, a-dvistng hew that ' he w'as going to parts unknown, and concluded with some advice regarding the disposition of some of the prop erly. Mrs. Lehtz is said to have con sulted some of the neighbors for advice, at the same time feeling confident that he would return. When the diocese purchased the land from Mr. Lentz it included the house, and it is said that he made an arrange ment to buy the house back and have it moved across the road on a twenty acre plot still left of his farm. To as certain whether he had paid for the[ house. Borough Collector Frank Eck ardt and John Paffendorf accompanied i Mrs. Lentz to Jersey City, where they learned that the sale had not been consummated. Mrs. Lentz, when seen today, ex pressed confidence in her husband to that extent that she believed he would return home. "He lias a good home here and good children,*• said she, "and there was not a happier family anywhere. Ho has suffered considerably lately with se vere headaches, and in one of those spells he might have decided to go away for a rest., as he had talked of going to Florida for a few weeks.” Their son Fred told how' lie bad ac companied Ills parent to this city and had observed nothing strange in his actions. Mr. Lentz has resided in the borough tor the past twelve years, and at the formation of file borough was elected councilman. He ran twice against Mayor George Bayllss, but was defeat ed both times. — SEVEN ARE HURT ! WREN GARS MEET IN A THICK FOG Motorman Michael Egan's In* juries Will Probably Prove Fatal. HACKENSACK, Feb. 14.—A head-on j ollislon of two trolley cars here today i •aused severe injuries to six and per laps fatal injuries to the motorman of ;ne of the cars. The two cars met on lie bridge of the New Jersey and New • fork Railroad. Tile injured arc: Michael Egan, motorman, of Hncken iaok; body crushed badly and both legs ! >rokon. Fred Ritter, of Hackensack, cut by j lying glass. Falvalorl Bonl. head and face cut by l llass. John Kausholdt, of Lodi, face and j1 tody cut. Thomas Russo, of Garfield, cut by i : ;lass. j, John Marino, of Garfield, face and | , lody cut and scratched. -- Saplln, motorman, knees in- ' ured. bruised. The accident is supposed to have ‘een the result of the fog obscuring • he red signal, which should have held i he car bound west for Nev.ark. It ’ net and telescoped with a fast-moving 1 ast-bound car on tile bridge, 1 The injured were taken to the local 1 ospital and their wounds dressed. It ,-as some time before Egan was ejttri-i < ated from the wreck. j: __ ■ - FORMER GOVERNOR VOORHEES INDICTED FOR PERJURY BY NEW YORK GRAND JURY SNOW, ACCUSED OF $154,000 SHORTAGE, ESCAPES THE POLICE Former New York and New Jersey Telephone Treasurer Indictee on Specific Charge of Stealing $30,000 From Company to Recoup Speculative Losses. NEW’ YORK. Feb. 14.—Henry S. Snow, who was forced lo resign as treasurer of the New York and New J orecy Telephone Company because ot' alleged discrepancies of $154,0(10 in his accounts with the company, the Grand Jury today indicted him for grand larceny. The police, who have had Mr. Snow under surveillance all this week, watched his home in Brooklyn all night to make sure that he did not disappear, but when they tried to servo a warrant today they learned he had not been home since yesterday after noon. Detectives were sent to search for him. - « The bench warrant was based on the allegation that $30,000 worth or bonds, which he had purchased for the tele phone company's sinking fund, are missing. rrii'uilM to Rescue. Mr. Snow's friends are said to have promised to come to Ids aid and make good obligations said to Have been in curred by speculating In Wall Street. The statement that there is a dis crepancy thus far shown of $154,000 is said to havo been made by Janies Robb, secretary to President U. N. Bethel!. t'oniimuy'H Statement. On belrnlf of the company this state ment was made: "Mr. Snow made use of stock which he certified as full paid for purposes of making loans, lie had subscribed for tills stock, but had not paid for it. By vlrtuo of Ills place In the company he was able to arrange matters so the! certificates made u appear that the stock had been paid up in full. On this stock he arranged and negotiated loans. The sum involved here Is about $120,000. “Sonic of the bonds purchased for the company by Mr. Snow for the sinking I fund cannot be found where they should be. The sum of these is about I thirty thousand dollars. There is no j Irregularity In the matter of outstand ing bonds of the company. "It Is impossible to say what action will be taken in the ease after the tudlt, which is now going on, has been completed. The company has not yet tonic to a decision in the matter.” JERSEY COMMUTERS ARE DELAYED BY DENSE EOQ. !;erries Half an Hour or More! Behind Schedule—Even Trains Held Up. JERSEY CITY, Feb. 14.—Fog made ho.early Jersey commuters sigh this morning for the completion of tho Hudson River tunnel, and the boring if additional tubes. The ferries, in nany instances, were half an hour or: nore behind their schedules. It was j he heaviest fog of the winter. One. Jersey Central ferryboat, leaving! lerscy City at 7:lt» o'clock, did not i ’each Manhattan slip until 8 o'clock.! rhero were cases of even greater de-! ny than this, and travelers by the Erie, Vest shore uml Lackawanna were slow n getting to business. , Many of the early Jersey trains were lelayed by heavy fog In the Hackeu lack meadows. _• SEEKS RECEIVER FOR SOUTH JERSEY TROLLEY COMPANY $1,750,000 Traction Concern Losing Money, Declares Stockholder. [Special to the Keening Stal'd TRENTON, Eel). 14.—On application of Henry V. Massey, of Philadelphia, Vice Chancellor Edwin Robert Walker today granted an order to show cauoc why a receiver should not he appointed for the Camden and Trenton Railway Co. The order is returnable at the State House next Tuesday. In the bill filed by Massey it is al leged that the company is insolvent and that the company has been oper ated for a long time at a loss which has resulted in a floating indebtedness Df $20,000. Massey nlleges that lie is the owner of ten shares of the capital stock nt the company, besides having control and power of attorney for 349 other shares; also that lie is a creditor, in that he bolds $25,000 worth of bonds of the New York-Philadelphla Company, Which Is the holding corporation con trolling the Trenton and Camden Com pany. The company was capitalized at $1. JOO.OftO at the time of Its organization md later increased its capitalization 1750,000, and during 1399 the company issued $750,000 of gold bonds, which : were secured by a mortgage given to i the Provident Life and Trust Company, | )f Philadelphia. In 1901 a further issue i if $1,750,000 of gold bonds was au- j Iiorized. Ill 1905 William A. Stern and Isaac j H. Silverman organized the New York- j Philadelphia Company, and acquired he stock of the Trenton and New 1 Brunswick Railway, the New Jersey 1 ihort Line Railway Company, and the j Hamden and Trenton Railway Com- j juny, and according to the allegation nade by Massey the new company dodged its stock of the Camden and 1’renton Company, as well as some of he stock of the other two companies, ogether with 10.000 shares of Its own itoek of the par value Of $1,000,000 with he Guaranty Trust Company of New' fork to secure an issue of first col ateral i per cent, gold bonds. >yV..2 i,, 4i .viHcY'i; 2* 'r-xok - Ill Ml 111 llll—IS I’M innocent; says VOORHEES, INDICTED ON PERJURY CHARGE f i Former Governor of New Jersey Emphatically Disclaims That He Certified Report of Bankers’ Life Insurance Company With Knowledge of Wrongdoing or Intent to Deceive. SAYS HE WILL APPEAR WITH BONDSMEN AND LAWYERS AND NOT AWAIT EXTRADITION a ^ w DISCLAIM all Intention of wrongdoing or criminal intent and I shall I ■ welcome investigation of the charges against me to the fullest • extent,” declared former Governor Foster M. Voorhee* today when asked for a statement in regard to Ills indictment by n New York city grand jury for perjury in connection with his administration as president of the Bankers' Insurance Company, of that city. This statement was made ir. the former Governor's suite of law offices in the Union County Trust Company building at Elizabeth, of which Institution lie is a director. The former chief executive of Nctv Jersey hud just left a meeting of the Union County Trust Company when seen my an EVENING STAR reporter. "Well, really, I can’t make any fur ther statement,” added Mr. Voorhees. "until l am notified of the spe ific charges against me.” "When are you going to New York to plead'.”' he was asked. "Not until 1 arrange for counsel and bondsmen fully able to qualify in tny amount. Then I must see Mr. Combes. Wo will probably apponr together, and I do not propose to go to New York before." "Hut you will appeur without requisi tion proceedings?” Kvf rnriltlon >ot \cee»»«ry. "Oh, certainly, and (even if I didn't Governor Fort would have no alterna tive but to honor the demand of Gov ernor Hughes for my body. But nil such embarrassment for Governor Fort will be avoided, as I fully intend to voluntarily appear and face whatever rharges are brought against me.” "But you will first arrange for your bail?" The former Governor laughed as light-heartedly as a schoolboy, itfid his eyes twinkled as he replied: “I certainly do Intend to be prepared for bull when I appear In Now York, ror the prospect of sojourning In the rombs while my counsel hustled for sureties satisfactory to the court does tot appeal an alluring picture to me. Would it to you? There is no initne liato hurry, as a few days will make to material difference In the matter.’’ Then Mr. Voorhees entered Into a llscusslon, interspersed with reeollec ions of his term as Governor. Signed Many 1'npcrs, He Snys. "I can't for the life of me see w'herj in indictment was returned,” he said, ‘but should know soon. "As president of the Bankers' Life, I Igned many papers presented me by > lubordlnates. Maybe I signed the pa irr concerning which the perjury barge is made, but, if so, I did not lave any criminal intent. A president, if a concern dally signs many papers iresented him by clerks or heads of de lartments, on the supposition tho state nents contained therein are proper." "It has been hinted that you signed lie statement about that $?0,000 pay nent of dividends to stockholders be auso to admit it had not been paid muld have shown the insolvency of he company.” Many Offers of llonUniucn. ■'Nothing of the kind, to my recollac ion. I simply signed the report like natty others unrl deny any criminal in ent.” was the former Governor's most mpliatlc statement. Then he added ie had nothing further to say, except hat already ho has received numerous (Tors of bondsmen and the best of legal alent. The friends of Mr. Voorhees today iso deny any criminality on his part i connection with his administration s president of the Bankers’ Life r*i uranee Company of New York. I’ll) idictment of Mr. Voorhees was by special New York Grand Jury which as been investigating insurance com an les. Frank G. Combes, now of Phiindol hia, former secretary of the insuran~« )mpany, who was also indicted yester ay on a similar cliarge, has entered a rnial of guilt. The perjuries named in the indiel icnt arc alleged to have been commit - d in 1904. and the indictments ire lid to have been made upon informs on furnished by Otto Kelsey, ,-tiper itondonl of insurance of New York, his information is based upon a ro >rt submitted to the Insurance ue irtnient of the Empire .State, sworn > by tlie president and secretary, hich Kelsey claims to be an erroneous ic. in that report no mention was ade of dividends, amounting to $2>\ 0. which were due certain stock hold 's. Kelsey alleges this amount was ie and should have been noted on the vorn statement. The Armstrong legislative committee Usance investigation in New York vealed the fact that the Bankers' Life suranro Company was ill bad shape elsey alleges that he has information if irporting to show that an impairment ” the capital of the company had :en concealed for several years b J? lse entries made in the reports su' ‘ ittod .o the State Insurance Depa PtltX rhe Grand Jury began Us lime* - - — WHITMORE MAY BE INDICTED TODAY The Grand Jury, Sitting in Jer* sey City, Hears Many Witnesses. i STRONG CIRCUMSTANTIAL j f EVIDENCE, SAYS VICKERS ! Prosecutor Declares Only Clear* ly Proven Alibi Will Save the Prisoner. — [Special to the Evening Star.] : JERSEY CITY, Feb. 14.-The Grand I Jury, now in session, is expected, to re turn Indictments today against Theo ! (lore Whitmore, whose wife, Helena, was found murdered In I.ampblack Swamp, near Harrison, December 2t> last. Chief or Police Michael Rodger i. Policeman Andrew Walsh. Town Clerk Edward P. Walsh and Police Judge Joseph M. Branegan, all of Harrison, were in Jersey City today to t II the grand jurors what they know of the case. In all, fifteen witnesses received sum- 1 montes to appear before the Grand Jury. Their testimony, Prosecutor Vickers declares, Hxes the crime upon : Whitmore so Inevitably that the Grand : I Jury will lvuve no alternative but to 1 hold him for the murder of his wife. "We do not intend to present all the 1 evidence we have against the prisoner < nt this time," said (ho prosecutor, "but I those witnesess who will appear before 1 the Grand Jury will tell a story that i cannot fail to result in Whitmore's be ing held for trial. 1 “The case as it will be presented is < purely a circumstantial one. However, < tile chain of evidence will be so strong ' that Whitmore must prove a clear alibi, 1 to escape conviction." The Grand Jury is to hear the stories i of Detectives Roddy and Murray, of too ( Brooklyn Bureau: Mrs. Georgie Dlekiit- i son, to whom it is alleged that Whit- t more had been devoted for a long time < prior to the tragic death of his wife; I "Billy” Bartlett, alias Foster, alias Cur- t tis, a Bowery character, who was c taken into custody by the Harrison t police after he had identified the body at the morgue; Lillie Heidol, a friend a of Sirs. Whitmore, who knew of 're- I quent quarrels between the couple, tnd a who had heard the accused threaten to kill his wife; Toney Crane, who Uiseov- I cred the body in the swamp, and a' number of others, not excepting Miss Emma Belber, who is expected to tes tify to the presence of the accused in Jersey at the time of the murder. p WOMEN PREFER f PRISON TO GOOD !| BEHAVIOR PLEDGE^ _ i 01 in London Suffragist Leader andj^ Delegates Begin Six Weeks' j **■ Sentence. - n LONDON, Feb. H.—Mrs. Parkhurst, ^ the well-known leader of the woman k luffraglsts, and the other delegates of p, the organization- who were arrested ol i rsterday when they atempted to make b< * demonstration in the House of Com noris. all Went to jail today for a term nl ’o six weeks rather than give sureties m ;or their good behavior.