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BERRY CAUGHT
WITH THE GOODS
IN BANK DEAL
t#tReform’’ State Treasurer in Busi-
ness Along ‘Practical Lines.”’
BORROWS OF STATE DEPOSITORY
Startling Revelation of Tactics Worse
Than Those Which This ‘Good
Man” 8o Long Condemned In
Others. pi
William H. Berry, state treasurer,
professional reformer, has been caught
with the goods on him.
He has been found to be engaged in
borrowing money from a depository of
state funds for a private enterprise in
which he is heavily interested. He had
to admit this fact, but in trying to ex-
plain why he did it and how he did it,
he lied, deliberately lied, and he was
caught lying and the facts were prov-
en against his misrepresentation by the
records of Delaware county.
Mr. Berry, who is a sanctimonious,
“holier than thou individual,” who has
been making all sorts of charges
against Republican officials and who is
now on the stump for Emery and his
colleagues on the Democratic state
ticket, has been shown to be as prac-
tical as the most practical of the pro-
fessional politicians and he is, in the
vernacular of the machine politician,
“out for the stuff.”
Berry is a member of the state board
which designates the depositories of
state funds and besides has in his
power the right to draw from or add to
any deposit in any banking institution
which carries a deposit of state funds.
When Mr. Berry went into office as
state treasurer, the Harrisburg Trust
company carried a state deposit of
about $200,000. Since Berry has been
treasurer this sum has been jumped
to over $600,000.
Berry at first applied to a Baltimore
Surety company to go on his official
bond, but he discovered that it would
cost him about $2500 a year for a bond
which would have eaten up a good
portion of his salary. About this time
negotiations were opened with the
Harrisburg Trust company, which fin-
ally went on Berry's bond for $500,000
for a mere ‘nominal sum.”
Good Thing For Trust Company.
The trust company does not appear
to have lost anything by that opera-
tion.
Its deposits of state funds have
grown to great proportions, and it has
been honored by the state treasurer in
the capacity of a customer in the loan
department.
The Fields Brick company, of Ches-
ter, is a concern in which State Treas-
urer Berry is heavily interested.
The books show that the incorpo-
rators of the brick concern were Wil-
liam H. Berry, of Chester, 50 shares;
Holstein H. Fields, 25 shares, and John
W. Fields, 26 shares. William H. Ber-
ry appeared as treasurer. The charter
indicated that Mr. Berry's interest was
for cash invested, while that of the
Fields brothers was for real estate,
good will and personal property turned
over to the corporation.
Mr. Berry makes these admissions:
“The Field boys had a brick yard
in Chester, and were hard pressed for
money. I agreed to take hold of the
thing and put up $14,000 in cash
against their property, and we formed
a corporation with $50,000 capital, I
taking 50 per cent. of the stock.
“I found when I came to look the
plant over that a railroad siding was
necessary. To get this siding put in
it was necessary to buy a lot of land.
I did not feel like investing in any
more stock, but 1 was willing to buy
some bonds. Others were willing to
take bonds. So the $50,000 corporate
mortgage was executed to the Harris-
burg Trust Company as trustee of the
bonds.”
“How did you come to select the
Harrisburg Trust Compan in the
transaction?” ‘
“Well, that seems to me the only
thing in this transaction that may
seem peculiar. The fact is that I didn’t
want it to leak out that I was after
land. That is the only reason I did
not go to a Chester trust company.
The Harrisburg Trust Company agreed
to finance it, and I went ahead to get
my options. We bought 30 acres of
land, and we only intend to actually
issue $30,000 in bonds. , There will be
an acre of land behind every bond.”
Berry’s attempted explanation that
he went to Harrisburg to negotiate the
loan so that the fact would not be
known in Delaware county, and pos-
sibly raise the price of land which
he desired to purchase, fell very flat
when it was revealed that all of the
details of the transaction were attend-
ed to by the Delaware County Trust
Company and the recording fees were
paid by it.
Why Berry should finance his deal
from a Harrisburg state depository
because he wanted to keep it secret,
and then go to his own town and have
the searches made and the deeds re-
corded, is something that puzzles offi-
cials in Delaware county.
Moreover, the records show that this
Delaware County Trust Company is the
holder of an eriginal ironclad first
hrickyard.
If, as Berry says, there are 30 acres
of ground behind the $30,000 in bonds
which Berry says will be issued under
the $50,000 mortgage, the records do
not show it. They do show that the
original yard of Field Bros, comprised
eight acres. Against this is the $16,000
mortgage.
The other new purchase besides the
five acres from Laidlaw, as shown by
the records, is five acres from Evelyn
Sibley. The total value of the land
acquired since State Treasurer Berry
turned the concern into a stock com-
pany and then placed his $50,000 mort-
gage, is $8750.
This is all the land holdings of “Ber-
ry’s brickyard” that are disclosed hy
the books of the Recorder of Deeds’
affice in Delaware county.
Trust companies do not usually take
$50,000 corporate mortgages on things
not a matter of official record.
Skeptical as to Explanation.
Delaware county officials who were
familiar with these facts were, there-
fore, skeptical as to the explanation
as to why the State Treasurer chose the
largest state depositor in Pennsylvania
to finance this business venture. The
news that this same trust company
which Berry has favored his more
than $600,000 in the general funds of
the state was also a surprise to those
who knew him as an ardent reformer.
This surprise was not lessened by Ber-
ry’s admission that for his bond for
$500,000 he was only compelled to pay
a nominal fee.
The usual fee of security companies
for taking such a bond is $2500 a year.
It was not considered remarkable
that the State Treasurer should look
with kindly eye on the Harrisburg
Trust Company.
Those who read of the transaction
were startled when they recalled the
strong demand for treasury reform in
last Democratic platform and the veh-
ement speeches which Berry and Ho-
mer Castle made con 1ing politicians
who horrowed money from banks which
hold state funfs.
Although Berry's entry into brick
making did not begin until after he
became State Treasurer, his friends in
Chester are confident that it will be a
successful venture. Berry is known in
his home town as a shrewd business
man.
But what is causing no end of gossip,
especially in “reform circles,” {is the
fact that Berry should so soon after
his election engage in transactions of
a character which he and his associ-
ates have for years denounced.
“Old Timers” Put to Shame.
The fact is that he went further than
any of his predecessors.
The reformers did not have an op-
portunity to criticise any state treas-
urer for borrowing from state deposi-
tories. There is no record of such a
condition of affairs in the history of
the state Treasury under Republican
administration.
There have been criticisms from time
to time of politicians supporting the
party in power for borrowing from
banking institutions having deposits
of state funds.
When the Enterprise Bank failed in
Allegheny it was Mr. Berry and his
Democratic colleagues who went up
and down the state frantically decry-
ing a system which would permit poli-
ticians borrowing from banks carry-
ing deposits of state funds.
But there never was a charge that
a state treasurer was engaged in that
line of business until Mr. Berry, “the
reformer,” was .elected.
The state did not lose a dollar hy
the failure of the Enterprise Bank,
which afforded so much political capi-
tal for Mr. Berry last fall, as every
penny of state fuads deposited in that
bank has been paid back, with inter-
est, into the state treasury.
The late Senator Quay, while having
no connection with the state treasury,
borrowed money from the People’s
Bank in Philadelphia upon approved
collateral, such as any other citizen
might do, but the Berrys and the Em-
ery and the other “reformers” set up
a hue and cry throughout the common-
wealth, and painted him as a law
breaker and an enimy of the people.
Mr. Berry, as State Treasurer, is
now discovered to be a large borrower
from an institution from which he can
draw large sums of money any day,
might cripple the trust company finan-
cially in case of a run, and yet he was
chosen as a “reform” candidate for
State Treasurer, and he is still nightly
upon the stump demanding the election
of a ‘reform candidate for Governor”
in the person of that eminent ‘“‘refor-
mer,” Lewis Emery, Jr., of Pure Oil
fame, of “Brewery and Church” no
toriety, and of other scandalous condi-
tions that are now the subject of gen-
eral criticism.
EVIL IN THE COMICS.
In a paper on comic supplements, W:
S. Darby of the Toronto Mail, says:
“If the comic supplements fell only
into the hands of adults, their influence
might be perceptible, but would not be
so markedly bad, as in the case when
they are pored over by children. If
the unbiased opinion of parents and
teachers could be obtained, it is prob-
able that there could be traced directly
to the comic supplement much of the
disobedience, impertinence, bad man-
ners and dangerous mischievousness of
the children of the day.
“From the standpoint of circulation
the comic supplement may justify
itself, but the fact that a few hundred
more papers are sold does not neces-
sarily serve as a valid reason for its
continuance. A large circulation of a
certain kind might perhaps be obtained
by the printing of immoral stories, or
giving away lewd pictures, but no
member of this association, nor any
| reputable newspaper man, would toler-
mortgage for $16,000 on Fields’ Bros.’ | > pa :
ate such a proposal. :
“If it is recognized that the comic
supplement while not absolutely per-
nicious in its effects, is, nevertheless,
harmful in its general influence, then
the difference between its retention
and the untenable proposition cited is |
one not so much of kind, but merely of
degree.”
CANNOT BE JUGGLED.
The contortions of the Democratic
candidates in their efforts to manufac-
ture campaign sensations are remark-
ably exemplified.
Both Lewis Emery, Jr., and William
T. Creasy have made savage attacks on
corporations of Pennsylvania, alleging
that they escaped taxation and that the
average citizen has had his burden of
taxation increased as a result of this.
It was further asserted by Mr. Emery
that the only way to rectify these con-
ditions was by electing the Democratic
State ticket.
Here are some facts, known to Mr.
Emery and his chief supporters, but
overlooked (?) in preparing campaign
sensations :—
fF Pennsylvania in 1905 had a gross
revenue from all sources of $24,269,
119.72.
Of this enormous sum, corporations
paid $15,606,541, or 64 3-10 per cent.
Liquor licenses yielded $1,702,306, or
7 per cent.
Mercantile and other license taxes
produced $1,208,835, or 5 per cent.
Tax on collateral inheritance yielded
$1,677,185, or 6 8-10 per cent.
Personal property tax brought in
$3,446,906, or 14 3-10 per cent.
The remaining 2 6-10 per cent. came
from documentary taxes, fines and
other sources.
Not a dollar of revenues was levied
upon the individual or upon property,
other than wealth invested in mort-
gages, bonds, ete.
The Republican State convention
stands pledged to enact laws returning
to the various counties all the proceeds
of the personal property and license
taxes. It also has emphatically ex-
pressed its intention to expand the
good-roads movement and increase the
appropriation therefor. Furthermore,
it is firmly obligated by platform dec-
laration to increase the annual appro-
priations for public schools and support
of charitable institutions. It has a
record in these matters that neither
the Democracy nor the “I-am-holier-
than-thou” reformer dare question.
Inheriting in 1861 from a Democratic
government a bonded State debt of ap-
proximately $40,000,000, under Repub-
lican rule this debt is to-day $4,131,
867.02. To satisfy this indebtedness
the sinking fund holds $4,008,908.93,
leaving the net bonded obligations of
the state $122,958.09.
During the period when this great
debt was being discharged, Pennsylva-
nia expended $53,968,200 in charitable
work ; devoted $1,405,846 to caring for
soldier and sailor veterans of the Civil
War; spent $10,527,474.14 in educating
and rearing soldiers’ orphans.
This great state in the same period
supplied $110,825,711 to establish and
maintain the best public school system
in the Union, and added recently $2,-
804,500 in support of normal schools,
township high schools, etc., or a total
for education of $115,970,211.
Democratic financial management is
well understood in Pennsylvania. It
added to the bonded debt of the nation
in time of peace (1892-96) and brought
with it soup kitchens in this great
state. Mr. Emery, running on the
Bryan platform, cannot contort the
present financial condition of Pennsyl-
vania to Democratic uses, nor can he
efface the miserable record of the Dem-
ocratic party in both Pennsylvania and
the nation, when it was entrusted with
the management of the public finances.
As to corporations, Pennsylvania in
1905 collected $15,606,541 from corpora-
tions.
Other great states received the fol-
lowing revenues from tax on corpora-
tions :—
New York.............. ... $6,974,810
Town... . cicibivscinss 2,288,099
ORIG Laid. Leni aus 2,108,454
Missouri... i... ...---.. 1,971,961
Now Jersey... J. ....0..... 3,810,964
Massachusetts . ............. 3,523,654
Misrepresentations such as those
used in behalf of reform by Messrs.
Emery and Creasy cannot fail to be
found out. It seems to be chronic and
always designed to mislead the people,
and at the same time blacken the good
name of this great state.
A YOUNG MOTHER AT 70.
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young at 70. Twenty years of intense
suffering from dyspepsia had entirely
disabled her, until six months ago,
when she began taking Electric Bitters,
which have completely cured her and,
restored the strength and activity she
had in the prime of life,” writes Mrs.
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Ladies Are Learning to Aim
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Using firearms does not necessarily
mean to hunt game, kill and destroy.
Target practice is a sport the fascina-
tions of which are rapidly becoming
more appreciated and can be enjoyed
by young and old of either sex.
There are a number of excellent
bowlers, golfers, tennis players, ete.
among the fair sex—in fact, the mascu- |
line province of outdoor sport is more |
and more invaded by the
young lady of the period. It isa grat-
ifying sign of the times that “hitting
the bull’s eye” at target practice is
athletic |
‘
now claiming the attention of the out-
door girl, and there is certainly no
more beneficent sport or exercise.
“Looking for new worlds to conquer”
and the persistent efforts made by the
J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co., Chicopee
Falls, Mass., makers of the famous
Stevens Firearms, in advocating this
delightful recreation, are main factors
for the extraordinary interest among
the fair sex in target shooting. To be
properly equipped means the adoption
of Stevens Rifles and Pistols—these
arms hold more records than all other
makes combined. and cost no more.
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JUVENILE COURT OF DENVER.
A Great Judge Who Has Introdueed
Into this Institution the Spirit
of Humanity.
“A decent town of decent kids,” is
what Ben B. Lindsey, the “just judge,”
is trying to make out of Denver. Lin-
coln Steffens, in the October McClure’s,
tells how Judge Lindsey founded his
Juvenile Court, the most remarkable
institution of its kind in the world, and
of how he evolved a new and more hu-
man method of dealing with child
“criminals,” encounters with the bad
boys of Denver—stories full of pathos
and humor. which throw a revealing
light on the thoughts and motives of
children. Judge Lindsey won the con-
fidence of the “tough kids.” He came
down off the bench to the boy, and got
the boy to tell his side of the case:
And the children who lied to their
teacher and their parents told the truth
to the Judge.
“As they begin to tell him things bit
by bit, he expresses no horror, only un-
derstanding,” writes Mr. Steffens; “he
sympathizes with a feller. If a kid de-
scribes how he saw an easy chance to
steal and not get caught, the Judge ex-
claims: ' ‘Gee, that was a chance.
That’s certain. But ’taint square,
Hank.’ ‘Mistake’ after ‘mistake’ is con-
fessed, ‘weakness’ after ‘weakness’; no
crimes, you understand, for the kid and
the Judge, they see things through the
kid’s eyes, with all the mitigating cir-
cumstances.”
Mr. Steffens declares that the Judge
is the leader of most of the gangs of
Denver, and that the boys do not wait
to be summoned before him ; they come
of their own accord when they are in
trouble or want advice.
“One afternoon, a boy of about ten
years stuck his head into the door of
the Judge’s private room.
“ ‘Is the Judge in?’ he asked.
“ “Yes, said the Judge.
“Is this him?’ the boy asked.
“ ‘Yes, my boy. I’m the Judge.’
“Well, Pm Johnny Rosenbaum, and
I came down to see you.
“Yes? I'm glad you've come, John,
but what did you come for?’
“ ‘Well, he said, ‘Joe Rosenthal, he
used to come down here, and he ‘swip-
ed’ things once. And I ‘swiped’ some-
thing, and he said I better come down
here and see you about it.
“ ‘All right, but what have you come
to me about it for?’
“The tears started. ‘Well he said,
‘I came down here to tell you I'd cut
it out, and never do it again. And I
thought I better get here before the
cop did. Joe said the cop ‘ud ditch a
kid that swiped things, but that you’d
help a feller to ditch the swipin’; ”
This is undoubtedly tke leading mag-
azine article of the month. No such
constructive treatment of the juvenile
arime, its causes, and its cure, has ap-
peared in an American magazine. Mr.
Steffens will follow up this study with
others, equally illuminating, of the
same subject.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Anthony Hendle to Anna Hendle, in
Somerset township, $1.
Alice McLaughlin, et al, to David
Silbaugh, in Confluence, $350.
David Silbaughk to H. R. Watson, in
Confluence, $225.
M. C. Talbot to Morris
Somerset borough, $425.
M. C. Talbot to Henry F. Barron, in
Somerset borough, $410.
Wm. H. Koontz to Manufacturers’
Water Co., in Quomahoning, $2,388.
M. C. Talbot to Ada F. Lowry, in
Somerset borough, $150.
M. C. Talbot to Emanuel Glessner, in
Somerset borough, $775.
M: C. Talbot to H. F. Barron, et al.,
in Somerset borough, $425.
M. C. Talbot to A. W. Bauman, in
Somerset borough, $1125.
Henry M. Meyers, to Thomas J. Cut-
ler, in Windber, $40.
Joseph Berkebile to Wm. Berkebile,
in Paint township, $1200.
M. C. Talbot to Somerset Telephone
Co., in Somerset borough, $350.
Norman Speicher to Alexander
Speicher, in Elk Lick, $200.
B. F. Cuppett et ux., to Mary Turney,
in Lower Turkeyfoot, $1450.
Thomas B. Dean, et ux., to James L.
Ream, in Confluence, $50.
M. C. Talbot to Ira G. McDowell, in
Somerset borough, $500.
Fred Rowe to Augusta Harding, in
Summitt, $100.
Harvey T. Friedline to Frederick An-
keny, in Jefferson, $223.
Adam Kreitzburg to Julia Domer, in
Summit, $150.
M. C. Talbot to Reuben Knupp, in
299
Cohen, in
W. H. Meyers to Franklin L. Hostet-
ler,in Meyersdale, $505.
F. A. Domer to Julia Domer,
ersdale, $1.
in Mey-
RERKEY & SHAVER,
Attorneys-at-Liaw,
SOMERSKT, PA.
Coffroth & Ruppel Building.
ERNEST 0. KOOSER,
Attorney-At-Law,
SOMERSET, PA.
R. E. MEYERS, DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Attorney-at-T.aw,
SOMERSET, PA.
Office in Court House.
W.H. KOONTZ.
KOONTZ & OGLE
Attorneys-At-L.aw,
J. G. OGLE
SOMERSET, PENN’A
office opposite Court House.
VIRGIL R. SAYLOR,
Attorney-at-T.aw,
SOMERSET, PA.
Office in Mammoth Block.
DR. E. HUNTER PERRY,
Physician and Surgeon,
EL LICK, PA.
Special attention paid to diseases of the eye
E.C. SAYLOR, D.D. 8,
SALISBURY, PA.
Office in Henry DeHaven Residence, Union
Street.
Special attention given to the preserva-
tion of the natural teeth. Artificial sets in-
serted in the best possible manner.
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Hair Brushes,
Tooth Brushes,
Cloth Brushes,
Shaving Brushes,
Nail Brushes.
A large lot
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See our window
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THE ELK LICKSDRUG STORE.
Spoons,
Serving
4 Forks, Pieces
i Knives Ete,
, Stamped
“BAT ROGERS BROS:
+ lways combine the desirable features
of silver plate—artistic designs with
highest glade of plate. Remember the
stamp of the genuine Rogers. Sold by
leading dealers. Send for Catalogue
“C.-L” to the makers.
International Silver Co., Meriden, Conn.
Smooth Swindler.
A number of people bave recently
been the victims of about as slick a
swindler as travels the roads. He vie-
timized a number of families. He is
described as being a man of 30 of more
years of age, of light complexion, sandy
hair and mustache, of pleasant address
and a very glib talker. He represents
himself as an agent for the Woodberry
Soap Company, and stated that his
company was trying -to undersell the
Larkin firm and others of the like na-
ture. As a premium for a $12 order he
| advance.
| der in a family, but in
ling away $24. Of
was offering a forty-yard roll of Brus-
| sels carpet, a sample of which he show-
| ed, handsome in design and quality.
| With every order he received cash in
He was taking only one or-
one home gra-
ciously consented to receive an order
from both mother and daughter, tak-
$2 course, the soap
never arrives and the agent never re-
| turns.
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