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CROWDS WERE
AT BOYNTON'S
Popular Resort on Staten Island
Sound Opened for the Season
on Saturday.
EVERYBODY pleased.
The Place hat taken on a New Appearance
and all who] Visited there Commented
Favorablyl upon it? Dancing 'Pavilion
Attracted Much Attention and was
Crowded.
The summer season in this vicinity
may now be considered in full swing.
All the resorts, which have been un
dergoing repairs for the past few
weeks, were thrown open to the
pleasure -seekers and everybody made
happy.
At Boynton Beach the crowd was
unusually large although the weather
was not as favorable as it might have
been. In the evening when the moon
came ont the throng increased and
the famous old resort took on its usaal
mid-summer appearance. The oooling
breeze whioh somewhat disturbed
some of the other resorts w?s hardly
notioeable at Boyntons because it is
sheltered by Staten Island and no one
had anv complaint to make. Every
one wasjdelighted with the appearance
of things and all that had been prom
ised was carried out to a letter. The
danoing pavilion was favorably com
mented upon by all present and the
mnsio was up to the usual good stand
ard at Boynton 's.
The trolleys did a good business in
?pite of the faot that peoDle had to
walk from the bridge to the beach.
The little teameis Trenton
brought down a merry crowd from
the connty seat and the season at
Boyntons was launohed most success
tally.
The eleotrical display, while it last
ed, was admired by all and about 9. 30
o'olook, when [the lights went out,
the Carteret Electrio Light and Power
Company, whioh furnished the light
for. the resort, sent out two gangs of
linemen to looate the trouble. This
was soon discovered but the damage
oould mrfrbft-tepaired until daylight.
At Pj(ft Reading At Jwas found that
some one had j twisted two copper
wires across the primary mains lead
ing to Sewaren and Woodbridge so as
to short oirouit the line. Attached to
the oopper wires was an old shoe to
hold it down and make good the con
tact.
This is not the first time an effort
has been made to cripple the servioe
of the Carteret Companv. About a
year ago Boynton Beach was treated
to a similar experience as Saturday
night. The company has offered $500
reward for information on the matter.
Children in Peril.
Some of the most anxious hours of a
mother'u life are those when the little
ones have the oroup. Foley's Honey
and Tar is a safe and effective remedy
that never fails. "My boy would have
died from membraneous croup if it had
not been for Foley's Honey and Tar,"
waites C. W. Lynch of Winchester, Ind.
Sexton's Pharmacy 70 Smith St.
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News Office,
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We bave soini fine lots on William
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Amboy
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JUST THINK OF IT!
A House and Lot ina desirable
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Evening News.
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SEA BREEZE
WAS BREEZY.
Grand Opening of that Resort
Attracted Crowds in Spite of
Cooi Weather.
BOAT IS RUNNING.
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Little Steamer was Kept Busy Carrying
Passengers over the Sound and Bay
Many from South Amboy, Sayerville and
South River ? Dancing was T xcellent?
Good Music.
Sen Breeze was all that its name
implies on Decoration Day when the
grand opening of that resort took
place 'And hundreds of guests crossed
the sound and bay to enjoy the attrac
tions which Manager Fiigen had pre
pared for the summer visitors. Doubt
less if it had not been for so much
sea breeze &ud sea air, hundreds of
more would have spent a few hours at
this delightful little spot on the ex
treme end of Staten Island.
There was plenty of good mnsic,
however, and the floor in the im
proved dancing pavilion was all that
could be desired. Those who did get
a little chilly soon warmed up again
and no one wanted to go home. The
olouds hung low.all day, but the little
steamer, which went into commission
for the first time this year, was kept
busy and at night the resort was in
full blast.
South Amboy people and many from
Sayreville, South River and New
Brunswick made trolley journeys to
the water front and enjoyed the little
oruise over the bay to Sea Breeze. It
was a very merry occasion, and at
night, when the moon came out on
the water the trip was delightful.
Sea Breeze, without a doubt, is com
mencing the most prosperous year of
its existence.
Amusements.
Foremost among Coney Island's
legitimate amnsements this year and
emphasizing to a marked degree the
wholesome ohracter of the resort's re
generation is the presence there, now
at Sea Beach Palace, of Frank O.
Bostook, the animal king, with his
amazing congress of familiar and
strange beasts and zoologioal interests,
whose performances created suoh a
fnror of favor all last fall at the St.
Nioholas Rink, in the heart of Man
hattan itself.
Critical New York then conoeded to
this entertainment unique merit with
out parallel every newspaper of the
big oity admitting that at no time in
the history of New York had amuse
ment seekers been sd zoologically in
formed orjgenninel.v thrilled.
Two strikingly new features of the
Bostook exhibit are Consul, a new
cnimpanzee from the Congo country,
and Mile. Aurora, a fair young Russ
ian with a troupe of polar bears.
Consul is admittedly the nearest ap
proach to human intelligence ever
discovered.
Their S*a?l Plight.
"Now there is talk of another strike
in sympathy with the sympathetic
strikers."
"Indeed! Are they entitled to sym
pathy?"
"Well, it's considered hard luck
that they have no grievances of their
own." ? Puck.
Fairy Tales In Danger.
If that long-distance wireless elec
tric photography proves a succeis,
says the Chicago Record-Herald, many
a choice stock of fairy tales will be
put out of business.
EnKllih Workmen Gamble.
Gambling among American work
men is almost unknown as compared
with the same evil in Great Britain,
says the Mosely commissioners.
A Physician Healed.
Dr. Geo. Ewing, a practicing physi
cian of Smith's Grove, Ky.. for over thir
ty years, writes liis personal experience
with Foley's Kidney cure: "For years I
had been greatly bothered with kidney
and bladder trouble and enlarged pros
tate gland. I used everything known to
the brofession without relief, until I com
menced to use Foley's kidney Cure. Af
ter taking thiee bottles I was entirely
relieved and cured. I prescribe it now
daily in my practice and heartily recom
mend its use to all physicians for such
troubles. I have prescribed it in hun
dreds of cases with perfect suocess. Sex
ton's Pharmacy 70 Smith St.
Tide-Water Trans. Co.
Executive Offices: 31 Broadway.
NEW YORK, AMBOY
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PUBLIC OPINION
Editor Evening News:
Having read several articles in re
oent issues of your valuable paper, on
the subjeot of proposed steamer for
the Fire Department, I beg to present
you with a few facts which are not
commonly knbwn in connection with
this subjeot.
I am heartily in favor of the pur
chase of a steamer, but the majority
of our citizens think that, with the
acquisition of such an apparatus, our
lire department will be completely
equipped, and that a steamer is all we
require to fight any or all fires.
From a practical standpoint, a steam
fire entrine would be of very little
benefit to this city at present, unless
other necessary improvements are
made to accomodate the same. With
a steamer, all the hose companies will
require new hose, as the hose at pres
ent in use will not stand a pressure
of over 60 pounds at the nozzle. Also,
in making connections from the hy
drant to the steamer, a double couneo
tion will have to be made; i. e., the
suction pipe of the fire engine to the
hydrant, and then, probably, we
would not be able to make more than
three hose connections from the steam
er to the fire, as our fire hydrants are
made for only 2% inch connections,
with only two connections to each
hydrant, and an engine could not
pump the water fast enough from two
such connections to supply more than
three lines of hose with the required
pressure.
Most of the above facts are not
oommonly known, but I feel it is to
the interest of the community that
they should all be carefully taken into
consideration, before any improve
ments are made. The kind of apparat
us to be installed should so be care
fully considered, as many people con
sider a second-hand machine good
enough for the present. My opinion
in this matter is that it would be
small economy to expend money on
inferior apparatus, whioh will event
ually prove inadequate to the needs of
the city when it will only be a short
time that the fast growing industries
of the city will require the best fire
fighting apparatus manufactured to
insure their confidence in the fire de
partment's capability to protect their
interests in case of emergency.
Yours, etc.,
VOLUNTEER FIREMAN.
Best Way to Travel.
The New Jersey Central Railroad
has arranged to sell specially low rate
tickets to the conventions ~ to be
held in Jaly and August next. A
choice of two delightful routes to
Chicago or St. Louis is given and of
ten lines west of those points for the
?. A. R. Encampment. The rate to
this event is $66.35 for the round trip.
Tickets first-class, allowing stop-off
privileges. Tickets sold July 31st to
August 13th, inclusive, good to return
till pctober 15th, 1903.
Rate to Denver and return account
0. E. "Convention is $42.00 first class.
Routes either via Niagara Falls or
Washington, D. O. , including stop-off
at either point named. Return limit
leaving Denver August 31st, 1903.
Tickets are sold going July 6th, 7th
and 8th.
Tickets will be sold to the Ep worth
League Convention, July 14th and
15th, good to return till August 15th,
1903. Excursion fare is $13.75. The
route is via Niagara Falls with privil
ege of stopover at that point.
The rate to B. Y. P. U. Convention
is one fare for round trip plus one
dollar, riokets on sale going July
6th, 7th 8th and 9th, and good to re
turn till July 15th, but may be ex
tended till August 15th on payment of
50 oents at Atlanta. Route is via
Washington. Stop-off permitted at
the place and two others. The New
Jersey Central is the official route for
New Jersey delegates.
Tickets to all these occasions will
be on sale at your home station.
For any other information see or
write, Ira E. Whyte, District Passen
ger agent, Asbury Park, N. J.
2383-6-1-lt
Suburban Limits.
To interest the thousands of hived
up Gothamites who ought to be "Sub
uibanites, " the New Jersey Central
has prepared a booklet of 48 pages en
titled, "Within the Suburban Limits. "
The book is printed on the best of
paper and has over fifty half-tone en
gravings. The territory described is
all within 35 miles of New York, and
the information contained includes
rates of fare, train information and
details regarding sohools, churches,
sooial environs, health advantages,
and in fact, no details are lacking
suoh as are demanded by , the home
seeker. The book will be forwarded
to your address upon receipt of 4 cents
in stamps Dv O. M. Burt, Gen'l Pass
enger Agent, |New ?Jeresy Central,
New York City. 2282-6-1-lt
"When he first began io call," she ex
..j Woudered if I could love
"Well, when he began calling on that
Johes girl I wondered if I 9611 Id make
him love me."? Chicago t.
! ORGANIZED LABOR.
At Milwaukee, Wis., 'the members
of the Amalgamated Leather Workers'
Union of America went on strike in
nine of the tanneries in Milwankee.
Between 2,600 and 3,000 men are
affected.
Organized labor at Kansas City,
Mo., will fight the temporary injunc
tion issued by Judge Phillips last
week, which was directed against
union organizers, enjoining them from
boycotting a non-union restaurant.
The firm of Smith & Wesson, makers
of revolvers, has closed its faotory at
Springfield for an indefinite period.
This step is taken presumably on
account of labor troubles, the men
having signified their intention of
forming a union ^despite the opposition
of the firm. \
The Boston & Albany Railroad
Companv in reply to the requests of
engineers and trainmen for increased
wages and reduced hours, has drawn
up new schedules reducing the work
ing day from twelve to eleven hours
and equalizing wages. It is to take
effect on June 1. Wages are increased
slightly.
A general strike of cement floor
worsers has taken place in Mnnhattan.
The cement floor workers in Brooklyn
had made demands which they were
trying to enforce in one shop at a
time. A lockout was then ordered by
the employers in Brooklyn.' Hearing
of this the cement workers in Man
hattan went on strike. About 4,000
men are affected.
At St. Louis it iB alleged that the
settlement of the strike of porters,
packers and freight handlers of the
wholesale^grocerv firm in the Oupples
Station district, oarries with it the
assurance of the winding up of the
strike of the railroad freight handlers
and the prevention of a general strike
of the teamsters of the international
organizations, who were on the point
of going out.
Racine Blaze CoNtx $315,000.
RACINE, Wis., June 1.? Fire has
swept the southern manufacturing dis
trict of the city, doing about $300,000
damage. The fire started in the boiler
room of the Racine Boat Manufactur
ing company, and before^the firemen
arrived a tank of gasoline exploded. A
tower of flame 300 feet high shot up
into the air. The loss is estimated at
$315,000. One of the losses in the fire
was the destruction of a $05,000 steam
yacht which was almost completed for
John W. Gates, the Wall street finan
cier.
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Santa Barbara Train Wrecked.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal., June 1.?
A Southern Pacific passenger train,
south bound, was ditched at Rincon.
Four cars plunged down an embank
ment forty feet high, two of them be
ing partly submerged in the sea. Forty
persons were injured. Mrs. J. C. Smith
of Los Angeles had both arms crushed.
The injured were brought here to the
Cottage hospital, and every physician
in the city was summoned. Among the
injured was Mrs. Alice Stebbens of
Ithaca, N. Y., who was cut and bruised.
Rion Sentenced to Death.
MANILA, June 1.? Ruperto Itios, the
fanatical Filipino leader In the prov
ince of Tayaba who was captured
about a month ago, has been convicted
of murder and sentenced to death.
Twenty-seven of his followers were
also convicted and were sentenced to
various terms of imprisonment. A de
tachment of scouts has defeated a,nd
scattered the Canlguf island insur
gents, killing eighteen of them. This,
it is believed, will end the opposition
to the government in that locality.
Followed Act reus; Needed Money.
CHICAGO, June 1.? Frank J. Tul
lidge of Cincinnati, registered at the
Saratoga hotel as Charles Adams, has
been arrested and locked up charged
with stealing a diamond brooch valued
at $1,500 from his mother. Tullidge
left Cincinnati and followed an actress
to Chicago. His mother missed the
brooch, and the Chicago police were
sent a description of him. Tullidge ad
mitted taking the diamond, but said he
had need of money and did not think
his mother would object.
Champion Killed on Cycle Track.
BOSTON, June 1. ? Harry Elkes,
champion middle distance bicycle rider,
was instantly killed at Charles Rivet
Jrnrk. In a motor paced race miles were
being reeled off when Elkes' chain
broke. He fell and then rolled down on
the track. Along came F. A. Gately,
Stinson's pacer, on a motor machine
which ran over Elkes like an express
train, breaking his arm, his ribs and al
most severing the head from the body
He died on the way to the hospital.
A $40,000 Fire at 1'renque Iale.
PRESQUE ISLE, Me., June l.-A
fire that threatened at one time to de
stroy the town broke out in the large
building of Freeman fy Co., occupied
as a storehouse, and before It was con
trolled had burned teti or a doze
wooden buildings, most of them use
as potato storehouses, and caused a to
tal loss of from $35,000 to $40,000. Tha
Bangor and Aroostock railroad passen
ger station caught Are several times,
out was saved.
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KANSAS CITY FLOOD
Many Perish by the Rising
Waters.
INUNDATION STOPS ALL TRAINS.
Entire District* Are Submerged ? All
Trolley Linen and Cable Cars
Shut Dunn-Vlctluu' llodies
Afloat In the Missouri.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Junr> 1.? The
greatest flood in the history of Kansas
City, Kan., and the bottoms of Kansas
City, Mo., prevails hero, t.:id millions
it dollars' loss will result.
Twelve bodies were counted as they
floated past during the day. In nearly
every instance tliey were lying across
pieces of wreckage. On the roof of a
cabin that came swirling down could
be seen the body of a woman and her
child.
A great body of water coming from
the west swelled the Kansas river at
Kansas City, Kan., causing a most
ajarming rise. Waters rushed with ter
rific force ovei\ the outlying railroad
tracks and the crowdH) wholesale dis
tricts of the west bottoms and finally
into the Union depot. At 10 o'clock a
mile of wholesale houses, elevators and
freight depots were entirely surround
ed, basements were soon brimful, and
water began to reach the first floors.
Within fifteen minutes the tracks en
tering the western end of the Union
depot were entirely submerged, and at
11 o'clock the water had risen at such a
rapid rate that the thousands of de
layed passengers were making prepa
rations to leave for the high grounds
up Union avenue. Union avenue, on
which the Blossom House and numer
ous smaller hotels, restaurants and
stores are located, is a running stream.
The water ros*> so fast in the vicinity
of the depot that many persons were
forced to remove to second floors, and
preparations were made hurriedly to
remove the passengers uptown. Trains
that have been waiting in the depot for
hours for an opportunity to start west
and south stand a foot deep in water.
No trains have l^ft Kansas City for
the west or south, and none will leave
for several days. Trains from the east
also are late, many apparently having
met the flood now being caused by the
rise in the Missouri river east of here.
The losses in the wholesale district will
aggregate well into the millions, and
the losses to the various packing houses
nearer the river will be tremendous.
The street directly in front of the big
Armour packing plant is under five feet
of water. Armour & Co. have a force
of 200 men working at the pumps try
ing to keep the rising water out of the
buildings.
All night the forces of the stock yard
men were at work Rescuing live stock.
Hundreds of head were brought up
into town.
All trolley lines in both cities have
been shut down, the power at River
view being under water, and only one
or two cable lines on the Missouri side
are running. All freight houses of
the various roads entering Kansas
City which are located in the west
bottoms on a level with the Union
depot are flooded, and the loss from
this source alone must be great! Be
cause of the delayed trafBc west of
Kansas City during the past week a
great amount of freight has accumu
lated here, and now that the railway
yards are under water it will be ii^- j
possible to move this save by boaft. 1
As practically all the boats to be hah j
are being used to rescue people, much
frelrr1' Mil be damaged. All telef!
phone communication with the Hooded
district is shut off, making it difficult
to accurately estimate the damage.
At 12:30 the water in Union avenue
was three feet deep, and people were
being taken out of the Blossom House
and adjacent buildings in wagons,
which will soon be forced to quit. The
water will at the present rate be in the
Union depot' main waiting room within
an hour.
The packing houses on the Kansas
river were entirely surrounded, and
fifteen feet of water surrounded the
Schwarzschild & Sulzburger and Swift
packing plants. The Kansas City po
lice spent all night rescuing persons,
and at noon no deaths had been report- \
ed. The police have thirty-five boats in 1
service. At Schwarzschlld's plant twen- \
ty-five persons, employees and peoplt
in the vicinity who had been driven
from their homes, are imprisoned. They
are safe from harm, but will not be re
moved until those in greater danger In
the low lying ground near Armourdale
and Argentine have been taken to ?
places of safety.
A steady rain has fallen here and
west and still continues, and all
streams in the stricken territory were
rising at an alarming rate. The prop
erty loss in the wholesale district of the
west bottoms will be tremendous. Both
Kansas cities are co-operating in the
matter of relief, and the great audito
rium of Convention hall, on the Mis
souri side, capable of seating 20,000
persons, was turned into a relief camp
and the unfortunates brought' there
from the Kansas side.
Eight distinct fires are burning in the
flood district between three blocks west
of the Union depot and Toad-a-Loup,
the latter a settlement near Armour
dale. It is impossible to reach any of
the fires, as communication is cut off.
All the fires appear to be isolated ex
cept one at Eleventh and Bluff streets,
which started in a lime warehouse and
spread to a fruit warehouse. Close to
the fruit house, which is still burning,
Is a shed containing thirty barrels of
oil.
At Toad-a-Loup three blocks of small
buildings appear to he burning, while
nt another point a string of box cars is
pn fire.
The only outlet now Is over the Santa
Fe, Missouri Pacific. Alton. Burlington
and Wabash tracks In the eastern part
of the city, but as little switching cam
be done outside the depot all trains ^
finally will be stalled. All Inconiingj^
trains from the east are laid out, andjl
the wires being down, It is impossible^!
to state the railway condition east
here. M
The Missouri is higher at Boonevil^^H
than It has been in years. It went*
over the banks on the Howard county^^
side, and the lowlands are being snb- 1
merged. The inhabitants on Islands ?
west and east of Booneville are being ?J
removed by steamboats to places of
safety. The damage to crops In the
lowlands along the Missouri river In
Cooper county will go into the thou
sands of dollars.
The militiamen and police of both
cities are working together to protect
property, and citizens universally are
aiding in the relief of the sufferers.
, Ambiguoua.
Miss Crochet ? Yes, Mr. Sqcesicks
items to be a very nice sort of
man; but sometimes he says things
that are so queer.
Miss Pedaler ? For example?
? Miss Crochet ? I was saying to hij
that my Cousin Tom came to Ue
me play alinoBt every evening, and
that Tom was very fond of music,
und he said: '"And yet he contin
ues to come." I wonder what he
could have meant? ? Boston Trau