Peftf? flmbog Evening |^ews FOUNDED 1879 AS THE PERTH AMBOY REPUBLICAN. An Independent Newspaper published every afternoon, except Sundays, by the Perth Amboy Evening Newp Company, at 5 King Street, Peith Amboy, N. J. J. LOGAN CLEVfiNGER, Editor D. P. OLMSTEAD, ...... Business Manager TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Evening News is on sale at newstands and delivered by regular carrier in Perth Amboy, South Amboy, Woodbridge, Carteret, Totlenville and surrounding towns for 6c per week. By mail, postage prepaid, per year ..... $3.00 " " " six mouths - - - - - 1.50 BRANCH OFFICE: Newark, F. N. Sommer, 794 Broad St. Lgng Distance Telephone - - - - 98 Entered at Post-Office as second class matter. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1903. Alderman Gannon made an earnest effort to get the improvements for the Are department started at the meeting ?f' the aldermen Monday night and also to have a steam fire engine added to the equipment. It was to be ex pected that opposition wonld arise to the purchase of a steamer, but why the aldermen delay in carrying out what they themselves voted was neces aary, is hard to understand. Several weeks ago a program was fixed which included a new house for Washington Hose Company, a chemi cal eneine and general improvements. That would seem to be enough in structions for the Fire Committee. The aldermen were unanimous in the matter. It would be interesting to know what steps the Fire Committee has taken to ascertain the cost of the improvements thus passed upon and how soon before something will be done. It is to be hoped the city will not have to wait as long as it has for an improved water department. Street Commissioner Weirup has had ?everal flagstone sidewalks laid in Woodjf \Jjge road at the city's expense, the ^ ^ to be ir Heorod from the pro owners. "These sidewalks were favorably commented upon by a great many who visited the oemeterv Mem orial Day. Now if the commissioner will oast his eagle eye in some of the ? eider -sections of the city he might be able to find some more walks needing attention. The oity does not hesitate to make the property owner of ordin circumstances, who perhaps owns oaiy his own '^home, lay sidewalks, lmi< the apparently well-to-do in the more aristocratic [neighborhoods are left unmolested and people oontinue to stumble along over roots and through mud and sand whioh are to be found in front of some of the finest houses in the city. Judging from opinions expressed at the meeting of the Board of Aldermen last night, the effort to get a steam fire engine in Perth Amboy will be opposed to the last. There [^eems to be an opinion that the pressure from the new water main will be sufficient to fight all fires. The News maintains that in a manufacturing town, where factories are using suoh great volumes of water, sufficient pressure can be had but for a short time, if at all. A steamer is the only solution of the problem. As for paid firemen, a man will have to be paid to care for the horses the aldermen propose to buy and he can be depended upon to keep the steamer in (proper condition. As we have before pointed out, we may not need the steamer often, but when we do. we want it badly. Alderman Gannon's action was in the interest of the people and the manufactures particularly. ) The hospital will receive about $160 as a result of the sooiety circus. It is a small sum considering the time and energy given by local men, many I ^ of whom neglected their business to assist in the snocess of the affair. They did well afid deserve all the praise they are receiving. It is evi dent the hospital is popular. Perth Amboy is hard to beat in any line. Sinoe power boats have oome into vogue, the local builders have been turning out the best orafts and the best engines to be found. In sev eral raoes recently local yachts have won honors. Those who are to sur pass us have got to get up pretty early in the morning. Tiie Human Stomach. Mature seems to have provided thai no poiaoD which acts externally shall have any effect internally and vice versa. Thus the most deadly smrke venom can be swallowed with im punity, the juice of the stomach pre sumably decomposing it and rendering It harmless. ? Journal of Science. 1 Strawberry Mound. Crush a pint of line ripe strawberries with two cupsful of sugar. Beat the whites of three eggs until stiff, add them to the strawberries, and whip all to gether until it will stund alone. Pile in a mound in a glass dish, and serve very cold with whipped cream. ? Home Magazine. MORE THAN FIVE SENSES. The If amber Fmumc4 by Man Ex ceeded by Those of the Lower Animals. Many of our scientists, until quite recently have been reluctant to adroit that a number of the lower animals possibly possess other senses than ours. So much new and undeniably aftirmatory evidence is. however, now being offered on this point, that there can be no longer any substan tial reason for doubting that the five senses inan imperfectly exercises are by no menus all that are possible to sentient creatures, says the Scientific American. ^nt: such sense not possessed by human beings, but to a greater or less degree almost universally pres ent in mammals, birds, rtptiles. fish and insects, is what perhaps may be called the sense of localization. It enables its possessor, apparently bv its sole use, to find a desired spot. It is evidently closely connected with an instinctive and perfect memory of distance and direction. That the homing pigeon excrcises it to some extent, though undoubtedly nided by the landmarks it recognizes, is In disputable; that the honey bee has it in its fullness and perfection can not, after the careful experiments of Albreclit Bethe in Germany. be doubted. Examples of insects that possess an X-ray sense, not only among Eu ropean but our own hymenoptera, can be multiplied indefinitely. Only one or two of the senses peculiar to the lower animals are here noticed. Lubheck suggests that "there may be 50 of them." MARTYRS TO VANITY. Engtlah Women Knf Starch to tilve Their Karen an Attractive I'allolC Modern martyrs to vanity are Northumbrian women. The acquisi tion of the pale, ethereal complexion so much admired by their men leads them to the practice of a form of beant-y culture which has lately re sulted in the death of Jane Mold, who succumbed the other day to an ill ness induced by the habitual con sumption of raw starch and uncooked rice, says lllack and White. It is a well-known practice in the north, and hundreds of women who work in the fields have the w.hite magnolia complexion resulting from this treatment. The Northumbrian women hdve an other agd to beauty In the shape of ?'uglc.V--a variety of large cotton scoop bonnet made on whalebones like an umbrella. This they wear as a protection from the sun and wind when working out of doors in the hot sun. Most of these pallid females, if one goes up close to them, are observed to be nibbling starch, thus preserv ing this doubtful advantage of e?m plexion by inward and outward pre cautions. "No uncooked rice" once appeared Id a doctor's dietary prescribed for an ailing north country servant, puz zling the mistress exceedingly until she was enlightened as to the habits of the Northumbrian peasantry. * Christening; a Railway. Engineers are, as a rule, sternly utili tarian, but there are occasions on which they indulge in sentimental practices. One of these occurred the other day on the completion of the first transcontinental railway in Africa. When the plate-laying gangs from llu luwayo and Salisbury, respectively, :ame within 20 chains of each other.a telegram was sent to the contractors and engineers, who at once arrived on the scene. The rails were joined and two engines proceeded slowly toward each other from each side. Attached to the drawhead of the engine from SaJi? bury was a bottle of champagne and as the two engines met it was broken and the new railway was named in the orthodox manner.? London Telegraph. BOGART PIANOS Highest Grade in Tone, Quality, Finish. High Grade, Serviceable, PIANOS - Dependable, Reasonable. ISOVOORAFBS The Best of All Talking Machines. Music Boxes, Mandolins, Guitars, Violins, Strings. Latest Popular Sheet Music and Records. TOUH CREDIT ZS GOOD AT THE 387 State Street, PERTH AMBOY, N. J. OLYMPIA MUSICAL AUTOMATON COMPANY. H,??. Hollenbero, ? MEAGER. / i C A. SEXTON SUCCESSFUL. Induced Dr. Howard Company to Make Special Price. After a gn at deal of effort and corre spondence C. A. Sextou the popular druggiut, lias succeeded in getting the Dr. Howard Co., to make a special half price introductory offer on the regular tifty cent size of their celebrated specific for the cure of oonstipatiou and dyspepsia. Dr. Howard's e peoific has been so re markably successful iu curing constipa tion, dyspepsia and all liver troubles, that C. A. Sexton is willing to return the price paid in every case where it does not give relief. So great is the demand for this specific, that C. A. Sexton lias* been able to se cure only a limited supply, and every one who is troubled with dyspepsia, oonsti patiou or liver trouble should call upon him at once, or send him 25c ceuts, and get sixty doees of the best medicine ever made, on this speoial half-price offer with his personal guarantee to refund the mouey if it does not cute. Needed a Rnt. "Rest is not quitting the busy career," says the poet. The truth of the saying was impressed on an Ar kansas family by Lulu, their colored cook. She was fat, lazy and "notion al," but her cooking was perfect, and Mr. and Mrs. Law ton ignored her whims and reduced her work {o mini mum. Oood cooks were so hard to get that the question of adding a feather's weight to Lula's duties was discussed in a subdued whisper. One day LuLa resigned her position. "Why, Lula," asked Mrs. Lawton, "what is the matter? Is the work too hard for you?" "Well, ma'am," replied Lula, "I'm all tired out. I'm going home and take in washing, and rest up." ? Harper's Magazine. An Idealist. The lady who was addressing the leavyweight culture club on the lervant question and its inadequate answer approached the peroration of her remarks. "In short," she said, "we should en deavor to make our servants fear us as much as we fear them." Here she was interrupted by the president, who told her that It was not the purpose of the club to at? tempt the impossible. ? Judge. NOTICE. Notioe is hereby given that the prelim inary Assessment map and the Estimat ed cost of the pwiug of Rector Street with Creo-Re8inate Wooden paving Blocks was filed in the office of the City Clerk on May 29 1903. All persons de airing to remonstrate against euoh pro poned improvement should do so within twenty days from the date ot said filing. Dated June 1st 1903. John F, Rielley, City Clerk. 2905-6-l-10t. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that on Tnea dy, the ninth day of June in the year one thousand nine hundred and three at the hoar of half past ten o'clock in the forenoon of that day or as soon thereafter as the court can attend tQ the same, I will apply to the Cireuit Oourt of the County of Middlesex at the Court- House in the City of New Brunswick, for the appointment of three Commissioners, freeholders and residents of the City of Perth Am boy, to estimate and assess the benefits to lands in the vicinity of the sewer laid in Barclay street from Cornell street and connecting with the sewer already laid in Wood bridge road in the City of Perth Amboy and State of New Jersey. Dated May, 38, A. D. 1908. CHARLES C. HOMMANN, Att'y. of the City of Perth Amboy. 2877-5-28-lOt NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that on Tues day, the ninth day of June, in the year one thousand nine hundred and three at the hour of half past ten o'clock in the forenoon of that day or as soon thereafter as the court can attend to the same, I will apply to the Circuit Court of the County of Middlesex at the Oourt House in the City of New Brunswick, for the appointment of three Commissioners, freeholders and residents of the City of Perth Amboy to estimate and aBsess the benefits to lands in the vicinity of the new sewer laid in Woodbridge Road and'oonnecting with the sewer already laid in Neville street and Woodbridge road in the City of Perth Amboy, County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey. Dated, May 28, A. D. 1903. CHARLES O. HOMMANN, Att'y. of the City of Perth Amboy. 2876-6-28-10t NOTICE of Intention to Construct a Sewer in Rahway Avenue, Carteret. Notice is hereby given that a peti tion has been presented to the Town ship Committee of the Township of Woodbridge in the County of Middle sex, asking for the construction of a sewer on Rahway avenue, Carteret, and that it is the intention of said Township Committee to cause a twelve inch sewer to be constructed ou said avenue from the northwest terminus of the existing sewer westerly five hundred feet more or less, to drain the territory along said avenue, for the length of said proposed sewer and extending four hundred feet more or less to eaoh side thereof; and the owners of land within the area .to be drained by said sewer are requested to present their objections, if any, in writing at a meeting of the Township Committee to be held at the Township Hall on Thursday, the eleventh day of June, Nineteen hundred and three, at eight o'olook, in the evening, at which time and place a hearing will be held. upon said objections. M. IRVING DEMAREST, 2784-5 20.8w.8t.a.w.TOWDShiP ?lerk' ft A I jpurt ? (| Ar I AAA I rurUTC CALtPDAH Or LOCAL EVCffro ? ? ?...*? i 1 1 .in' ?? ? m JME JULY 7 M 21 28 6 ?3 ao k 5 12 ?9| 26 4 11 18 25 June 4 -Oonoert, Ohnroh, Olnb. Simpson M. B. Lyric Mandolin June 10 ? Strawberry Festival, Grace Lutheran church. Jane 11 ? Strawberry Festival, St. Stephen's Danish Lutheran church. Jane 11* -Festival, Ladies of St. Steph en's Danish Lutheran church j on Y. P. Therkelsen's lawn, Rector street. June 11 ? Ioe cream Festival, St. Paul's German church, South First street. June 28? Picnio, Original Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Society, Pulaski Park. June 25? Picnio and festival St. Paul's German church, Exoelstor Grove. Aug. 18? Excursion auspices Court | Amboy F. of A. Aug. 27? Excursion to Ocean Grove, Simpson M. E. Sunday School. Nov. 18, 19, 20? Fair, Chapel. Presbyterian THOMAS M. THICK8TUN Attorney-at-Law 122 Smith Street, Scheuer"B tiding PBBTH AM HOY, N. J. Forrest L. Smith CITY SURVEY OB, fcasuER Building . L J Frbd Lufton. Herbert A. Bonnu. LUPTON & BUSHNELL successors to Lupton & Lupton ..Granite and Marble.. Monuments Headstones and Fencing. Tour Patronage Solicited. New Bruns'k Av. & Central R. R. PROPOSALS FOR Voting Machines. The State Board of Voting Machine Commissioners hearby gives notice that pursuant to and in aooordance with the provisions and conditions of an act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey entitled "An Aot authorizing the State Board of Voting Machine Commissioners to purchase voting machines for um at elections to be held in this State, and pro viding for the location, use and care of suoli machines," approved April 8, 1908; they iutend to purchase eighty-one (8,1) voting machines In accordance with the following specifications: All machines must be of a kind, style or pattern, which has been or may heieifter be approved by the State Board of Voting Mtchine Commiseioners, iu conformity with the laws of this State. All machines must conform to and meet all the requirements of an act of the Leg islature entitled, "An Aot to authorize the use of voting machiues at elections hereafter to be held in this State or iu any subvision thereof, and providiug that the votes oast at any suoh electious must be registered or recorded and counted, and the result of such elections ascertain ed by such machines," Approved April 9, 1902, and the umendments thereof aud the supplements thereto. All machines shall provide facilities for voting for candidates of at least seveu(7) different parties or organizations, . aud for not less thau thirty (30) candidates of each party organization*, and for and against at least fifteen (15) different ques tions or amendments. All machines shall be oapable of regis tering uine hundred and ninety-nine (999) votes for each and evety candidate. All machines must be supplied with a booth, canopy, curtain or other contri vance so arranged or affixed as to iiibure secrecy when used and must be suitably encased and delive ed at any place with in the State of New Jersey as directed by the Commissioners on or before the 15th day of September, 1908. - v The person or persons if any, whose proposals may be accepted must comply with all the provisions of the Aot pursu ant to which this notice >is given, and give a bond in the penal sum of Five hundred dollars ($500) for each machine purchased with sureties to be approved by the Commissioners for the faithful performance of the terms of the contract when executed. Proposals for the above are hearby In vited; said proposals to state the style or kind of machine proposed to be furnished and the price, both for the entire eighty one (81) machiues, and for any number less thau eighty one machiues which price in no case shall be more than Five hundred dollars ($500) for each machine. The commissioners reserve the right to reject any or all proposals. Proposals should be addressed to The State Board of Voting Machine Voptmis sionerst Seward Davin, 8ecreta{ef P. O. Box 263, Upper Montciair, New "feisey, and must be received on or before the 1st day of July, 19J8. \ JOSEPH A. BROTHEL, ^ SEWARD DAVIS, t EDWARD L. PHILLIPS. I The State Board of Voting Machine Cto 88a8-5-^8<80i # CITY DIRECTORY. CHUItCHES. Beth Mordecai, Hobart Street. Pastor Dr. M. Kopfstein. Friday, 8.15 p. t Saturday, 10.00 a. m. Hebrew Sell Saturday 1 p. m. Sunday School 9.30 a. Congregational (Swedish) ? Gort on st ? Paator, Theodore Hnglund ? Sunday Ser ! vices 10.30 a. m. 7.30 p. m. Sunday School ' 9.30 a. m. First Perth Amboy, Hebrew Mutual Aid Society, Elm Street, P. Joselson, Trustee. Services, Friday 6 to 7 p. m. Saturday 8.30 a. m., 4.30 p. m. First Baptist ? Fayette st. ? Pastor. Rev. Percy K. Ferris ? Sunday Services, 10 and and 10.30 a. m, and 7.30 p. m. Sunday school 2. 30 p. m. B. Y. P. U. Friday 3. 45 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday 7.45 p. m. First Presbyterian, Market st and City Hall Park, Pastor, Rev. Harlan G. Men denhall L). D. Sunday services, 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday School 9.30 a. m,, 2.30 p. m.. Junior C. E. 3.30 p. m. Y. P. S. C. E. 6.40 p. m. .Prayer meeting Wednesday 7.45 p. m. Graoe English Lutheran. Smith Street Pastor, Rev. E. J. Keuling. Sunday Ser vices 10.30 a. m., 7.30 p. m. Sunday School 2. So p. m, Methodist (Danish) Madison Ave and Jefferson St., Pastor, Rev. A. Hanson. Sunday Services, 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Epworth League, 3.45 p. m., Sunday School, 2.30 p, m. Class meeting, Wed nesday and Friday at 7.45 p. in. Holy Cross Episcopal ? Washington and Johnstone sts. ? Rev.D. A. Willes, priest in charge ? Sunday Services to. 30 a. m. and 7.30 p in Sunday School 9.30 a. m. Our Savior's Lutheran (Danish) State St. Rev. V. B. Skov, pastor. Sunday services 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday School 2.30 p. m. Simpson Methodist ? High and Jefferson Sts. Pastor, Rev. S. Trevena Jackson, A.M. Sunday services 9.30 and 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. ; Sunday school, 2.30 p, m.; Epworth League, 6.30 p. m. ; Prayei meeting, Wednesday, 7.45 p. m. ; Bible training class, Friday, 7.30 p. m. ; Young Gleaneip, Friday, 4.30 p. m,; Junior Ep worth League, Friday, 7.00 p. m. St. Mary's Roman Catholic, Center St. Rev. B. T. O'Connell, pastor; Rev. S. A. Mitchell and Rev. T. F. Blake, assistants.* Sunday services 7.00 8.30, 9.30 and 10.45 a. m. 7.30 p. m. Sunday School 2.30 p. n>. St. Paul's German Church ? South First street ? Pastor Rev. Jacob Ganns. Services every rst and 3rd Sunday of the month. Sunday School every Sunday at 2 o'clock. St. Stephens Roman Catholic (Polish)? State St. Rev. J. Zielinsk, pastor. Sun day services, 8.00, 10.30 a. m. Vespers, 4.00 p. m. Sunday School 3. 30 p. m. St. Stephens Lutheran (DaniBh) Broad St. Pastor Rev. J. Christiansen. Sunday services 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sun day School 3 p. m. St. Peters Episcopal ? Rector St. Rector, Rev. J. L. Lancaster. Sunday services 10,30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday School 2.30 p. m. W. C. T. U. ? Meets at 27 Smith st. ev ery Sunday at 4 p. m. nan Wil- ^ son, J 61. LODGES. A. O. U. W. Meets Odd Fellows Hall, \ Smith Street 1st. and 3d. Mondays. I. B. ) Manderilie, M. W.; J. S. Phillips, Sec'y., 7 Kearney Ave. B. P. O. E. No. 784. Meets K. of C. Hall, corner Smith and Rector Street ist? and 3rd. Tuesdays. Dr. Frank Crowther, E. R.; W. A. Crowell, Sec'y., Gordon Street. C. L. B. Fatljer *Quinn Council .No. 88. meets 2d and 4th Tuesdays every Montn in K. of C. Hall. William Hallahan, sec retary. D. orL. Meet in City Hall, every Mon day evening. Counsellor Mrs. Maggie Herbert, High street. Secretary Charles Cluney 444 State st. Degree of Pocohontas ? I. 0. R. M. ?Meets every 2d and 4th Fnday at City Hall Mrs. H. Smith, Pocohontas. Mrs. Wil liam Greenleaf, C. of R. Mrs. P. Erickson, C. of W. F. and A M. Raritan Lodge No. Regular Communications 2nd. and 4th. Thursdays, Odd Fellow* Hall, Smith Street C. F. Hall, W. M.J C. K. Seaman. Scc'y., High Street. G- A. R. Major James H. Dandy Post No. 43. S. G. Garretson, Commander; Adjt. Rev. E. B. French, Westminster. Imp'd O. R. M. Po Ambo Tribe No. 65 Council Sleep every Thursday. Phillip ' Schwartz, Sachem, Hans S. Smith, C. of R. Andrew Jensen C. of W. I. O. of F., Court Keastiey, No. 3367. Meets last Thursday of every month, K. of C . Hall, corner Smith and Rector, streets. G. W. FithiaA, Chief Ranger H. E. Pickersgill, Secretary, 77 Lewis St. I. O. O. F. Lawrence Lodge. No. 62 Meets Odd Fellows Hall, Smith Street every Friday night. Dr. Frank Crowther, N. G. ; F. L. Herrington, Sec'y., Madison Ave. Jr. O. U. A. M. Middlesex Council No. 63. Meets every 2d and 4th Wednesday in. City Hall. Charles Cluney, Counsellor, |J5. M. Adair, Recording Secretary 201 1 Madison Av. K. of P. Algonquin Lodge, No. _ Meets every Monday K. of P. Hall Sm| and High Streets. Harvey Stetson, C. Chris Meshrow, K. of R. and S. K. of C. San Salvadore Council. Mei every 2d and 4th Wednesday in K. of Hall, Smith , and Rector Street. W Orowney, G. K.; Recording Sec'y. Richard A. Bolger, 124 Market Street. I. O. ofF. Court Perth Amboy, No? 3043. Meets K. ot P. Hall, High and Smith Streets, every 1st and 3rd Tuesdays. John. K. Sheehy, C. R, Peter Poulaen, R. S., 165 Elm Street R. A. Middlesex Council No. 1100. Meets Odd Fellows Hall, Smith Street every second and fourth Tuesday. Henry McCullough Regent, N. H. Moore, Secre tary, 60 Jefferson Street. u /j" E- Meet8 in 0(14 Fellows' Hall, Smith street, every Tuesday night George Bath, Noble Grand; Frank B. Reed, Keeper of Records, 129 Mechanic Street. P. O. S. of A., Washington Camp, No 79- Meets every second and fourth Thurs day K. of P. Hall, cor. High and Smith street Fred Waters, President; J. M. Secretary, aio Oak street. Washington Literary Club ... ion Hall Adalaide Building, on n Sunday of Each Month at 3 o'cl< John Clark, President. Bargains in real estate are to found in the real estate column wu?ea.