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I SOUTH AMBOY
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GETTING ANXIOUS
People are just beginning to realize
that the article furnished by the
Evening News South Amboy corre
spondent and published in this paper
ahead of all others in the county, re
garding the Jersey Central Traction
Company deoidmg to go around the
borough instead of through it, is a
fact, and it is causing quite a commo
tion among certain ones who are very
eager to have the route laid out
through the borough instead of skirt
ing it.
At first the very idea was scoffed at
and certain parties said they were not
going to scare any as it was only a
bluff. Now, they are beginning to
squirm and think it timo some action
was taken. Hon. John Montgomerv
has been anxious from the first intona
tion made regarding the new move on
the part of the company and in an in
terview with the correspondent ex
pressed himself as a believer in it and
was very indignant with the borotagh
officials for not having granted the
franchise, when, as he expressed it,
everything had been done by the trac
tion company in a fair and sqtmre
manner and now the Oitizen states
that the Hon. John M. has pleaded
hard with Mr. Vandergrift, the presi
dent of the company, for a reconsider
ation and that they apply once more
to the council for a grant and that
Mr. Vandorgrift promised to bring
the matter before the airectors again.
The Oitizen thinks that if they should
send in another petition it will be for
the right of wav for only a few hun
dred yards between the southerly bor
ough line and Bordentown avenue on
Broadway and from that point will
run over the tracks of the M. and S.
traction company, and thinks it is up
to the council to act seriously and
promptly if they are again asked, as
it will be the last chance they will
have to aot. On the other hand, some
time ago, one of the councilmen in an
interview said that the oompany
should have filed a $50 bond with the
oounoil at the time of asking and said,
too, that the oompany ought to have
asked at once for a franchise when
the learned that it had been turned
down and it would have been granted
thum at once.
ALL ARE INVESTIGATED.
Some people appear to think that
newspapers can be made available by
them in the way of oarrying ont their
plana in the shape of malicious mis
chief or mean jokes on people and it
is well that thoy should learn their
mistake and, that the correspondents
of the paper, while willing to write
up weddings that have takon place,
in jnst as pleasing a manner as possi
ble, they are not willing to wrong
anyone by writing np or sending into
the office spurious articles in the way
of wedding notices, eto. , and that all
sncli will be investigated after being
received by mail before reported.
So yon are only wasting paper and
yonr time by sending snch notices if
nntrne. The notice received bv us,
or rather an account of a wedding of
a cortain conple on David street at the
Polish churoh, a wedding broaKfast
and trip to Florida, waB investigated,
found to be, as was thought, untrue
and done to torment a young lady
who said it was not the first or second
time suoh a report had been sent to
an office and even published. It
appears'that the Citizen has received
an unsigned notioe of a marriage
\ whioh it found to be untrue and did
| not publish. The announcement sent
?v\in to the News correspondent was
signed with the name of the brother
of the supposed groom, all of the
parties being residents of.tho borough,
but it failed in it's mission.
SUGGESTED BY THE RAIN.
%
Anyone who has a tendency towards
sentiment and romance h(id a chance
(if they were willing to stand in the
FOR SALE ? Horse, Wagon and Bot
tling Konte at low prioe, Inquire 85
First St. Sonth Amboy.
l?70-6-20-6t.
H. P ARISEN
201 David St. So. Amboy, N. I.
PIANOS and ORGANS
KADBURY, WEBSTER ana ,
' H.ENNING F I A N OS
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Organs from $10 up. Square Pianos from
$15 up. Cash or Installments.
V
rain) to watoh the tiny rivulets grad
ually develope into rushing, swirling
streams'and listen to their musical
ripples and anon to their thnnderoas
roar as they rushed madly down,
down the different streets and into
the sewers basins, Friday night as
the rain came down in torrents.
On the corner of Stockton and First
streets there was a miniature pond
and on Broadway at all the corners of
the streets were miniature rivers.
Finally the rain ceased up a little and
after ten o'clock people, who had been
made prisoners, began to travel home
ward. Some dry jokes (notwithstand
ing the moist atmosphere) were crack
ed, and it was said that we needed
this rain very much, there had been
such dry weather lately, it would do
lots of good.
Mr. Bernard Roddy thought it a
good ohance to get off one of his funny
stories. He said : Two Irishmen were
talking, one said: "Pat, what does
amphibious mean?" Pat became very
serious when replying and told the
other one that the meaning of the word
was something everybody should
know ; and after quite a preamble on
the necessity of people in good society,
eto., understanding it's meaning, he
told Mike that it meant a bird or an
animal that couldn't walk on land
and if they went into the water they
would drown.
ORDINATION SERVICE.
On Tuesday, June 23rd, will occur
the ordination of William E. Baker at
the Baptist church. At 2.80 occurs
the examination of the candidate by
the Monmouth Baptist Association,
and at 7.30 the ordination exercises at
the same plaoe. The [program is as
follows : ,
Opening prayer, Rev. J. Q. Dyer,
Tottenville.
Scripture, Rev. M. N. Merrith,
Rah way.
Sermon, Rev. O. P. Eaches, D. D.
Hightstown.
Muiso, by choir.
Oharge to Candidate, Rev. J. Y.
Irwin, South Amboy.
Hand of Fellowship, Rev. J. F.
Ooote, Keyport.
Benediction, William E. Bakor.
MAY SELL OUT.
Mr. Harry Brown, grooer, is having
an inventory made of the goods in his
store and after that it will be decided
as to whether he sells ont to Mr. John
Rue or not. As Mr. Brown has been
offered a fine position with Davis &
Silvers at Oranbury, it is probable
the sale will be made. Mr. Brown
and Mr. Rue deny that the business
has changed hands yet and the busi
ness still comes nnder the head of Mr.
H. Brown, proprietor, and Mr. A./
Rue, clerk.
NEWS ITEMS.
Street Commissioner Qninlin need
the rond scraper on Broadway and
Bordontown avenne Friday and the
clean streets gladdened the eves of
thu podestrians, bnt the great down
pour has brought down the sand and
mnd again and as it is of a clinging
nature, the mnd, the streets are as
muddy as before he scraped them.
Mrs. Gross, of Now York City, is
the guest of Mrs. Eollisch, of Broad
way. Mrs. Gross was a former resi
dent of this borongh and a member of
the "Rebeccas." She visited the
meeting of the lodge Friday evening
as a surprise to the members.
They shipped a soow load of sand
from the new sand nits Thursday and
are expecting three more scows to
load next week.
The block signal system through
this borough, on the Central railroad
tracks, are almost oompleted.
Superintendent Walsh, of the M. &
S. Traction Company, was a borough
visitor Thursday.
"Ourley" Marshal has his new
water boat in commission. He has
had two six horse power gasolino en
ginos placed in it by the Acker Engine
Company, of Tottenville. Mr. Mar
shal has a contract with Joseph Fiigen
to fill the large cisterns at Sua Breeze
with water.
Wheeler Brothers are thinking of
placing their merry-go-round on the
end of the borough dock it is said.
Lem, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wal
ter Compton, of First stroet, has been
quito ill, but is improving.
Miss Carrie Martin, of Brooklyn, is
visiting her parents on Bordentown
avenue.
Mrs. Charles Thomas' family oircle
has been lessened by three in number,
Mr. John Rue, Mr. William Wood
ward and Mr. Hilton Smith.
TOTTENYILLE.
The Evoning News is on sale at Ost
burgs' 44 Main street, and at John
Boss' Hotel, formerly John Kail's
stand. Extra conios of the News and
all NewYork papers can always be se
cured.
NEWPOUCE SYSTEM
GOES INTO EFFECT.
Tottenville now has six Mounted
Policemen? The Forced Enlarg
ed and Improved
The new police systom went into
effect at 8 o'clock this morning The
present forco of eighteen men were
called up to the Sergeant's desk this
morning. The new system was thor
oughly explained to them. Nine were(
sent out on duty. They will stay out
eight hours. Then for four hours they
will be on reserve. The next twolve
hours they will be home. The hours
of schedule will be changed evory
day. Some days they will be on re
serve only four hours and again they
will be on twelve hours reserve.
Today twenty more policemen and
ono more rdundman are expected for
Tottenvillo. Six will be mounted.
The others regular patrolmen. They
will come from Now York City. In
the 3,000 who tooK the examination
the other day for patrolmen, six Tot
tenville candidates passed out of the
eleven who took the examination.
They expect to be appointed right
away. It is not known whethor they
will be assigned to Staten Island or
New York.
REPAIRING THE ESTELLA.
L. J. Callanans' schooner yacht
Estella, which capsized off Larchmont
Harbor a week ago, has been put in
dry dock at Cold Spring Harbor. She
will be in shape for the Atlantic
Yacht Club's next ocean race on In
dependence day, in which she is ox
pooted to participate.
WEATHER INTERFERRED
The bad weather and muddy fields
mado it impossible for the Tottenville
A. C. to play the Arbutus baseball
team of Giffords on Saturday.
Major Pond la Dcail.
NEW YOKK, June 22? Major .Tamos
B. Pond, the well known manager of
lecturers and singers, is dead at his
home In Jersey City as the result of an
operation in which his right leg was
amputated. Major Pond was born ttt
Cuba, N. Y., June 11, 183S.
SODTH AMBOY
Miss Ethel Heath, who lias been
very ill for several weeks, is convales
cent.
Some of our citizens are praising
Mr. G. Straub's beautiful garden out
on the Heights. The roso ramblers
are "a thing of beauty" and in one
sense "a joy forever," for after view
ing them, one oan sit and close ones
eyes and seo them again in all their
splendid loveliness, ever reaching
heavenward as they climb up the porch
and beyond it, still up to the the sec-,
ond story windows and so on, full of
great clusters of the bright red roses.
It is to be regretted that they should
ever droop and die.
Mr. Harry Perrine's steam yaoht
Haddassah, is at tho Perth Amboy dry
dock to be overhauled and repaired.
She will also be repainted. Mr. Per
rine expects to take a trip south in
the near future.
Mr. Oanpion has finished unloading
the canal boat Lester, which was at
the borough dock loadod with ice and
the boat left on Saturday for another
load.
ROYNTON REACH
Full Orchestra of 6 pieces,
daily.
Dancing FREE every af
ternoon.
Hops ? Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday evenings, 7:30
to 11:30
Concer ts? Monday , W ed nes
nesday and Friday evenings.
Special Concert Sunday after
noons.
All attractions open, and
many new ones.
A MEDAL CONTEST.
The Young Woman's Christian
Temperance Union of this place will
hold a modal contest tomorrow night.
It will he held in Bethel M. E. church,
Amboy avenue. Ice cream and cake
will be for sale. The judges of the
contest will be Ira K. Morris, of Port
Richmond, Qeorge L. Egbert, of
Tompkinsville, and W. H. Garden, of
Tottenville. A small admission will
be charged. Half of the money clear
ed will go to the Bothel M. E. church
trustees.
HELD THE FESTIVAL.
The wet weather did not dampen
tho spirits of the Young People's So
ciety of St. Stephens church of Totten
ville, on Saturday night. Everything
had been arranged for them to hold
their lawn festival of the lawn of Mrs.
Whitehnrst, of Sleight avenue, but
the weather was bad. They did not
want to disappoint their friends, how
ever, so they hold it in Mrs. White
liursts's house. It was a grand suc
cess.
AN ASSURED SUCCESS.
The twenty-five mile road race,
which is to be ran under the auspices
of the Riohmond County Road Racing
Association, Saturday, July 4th, over
the South Beach-Tottenville course,
is an assured success. Entries are
now being taken by any of the road
racing committee of the Century Road
Club Association, No. 310 West Fifty
third street, New York City, and R.
H. Hancer, West Brighton, S. I.,
chairman of the racing committee.
TO HOLD PICNIC.
The members of Staten Island Lodge,
No. 560, Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen, which consists of the Staten
Island Rapid Transit Railroad brake
men, have deoided to hold a picnic.
It will be held on August 28th at
Silver Lake Park. The committee of
arrangements are Richard R. Paxter,
James McDonald, and William Lyon.
SHIPYARDS BUSY.
Work is now very brisk at the Ellis
shipyard. The steamer Lottie B. is
being overhauled. Two new tugs are
being built. The sohooners Elimia,
E. F. Mead, and Black well are being
repaired.
WAS VISITOR'S DAY.
Yesterday was visitors day at the
Father Drumgoole Institute. The
Staten Island Railroad ran an extra
train. Large crowds from Now York
and Staten Island visited the place.
NEWS ITEMS.
Milton Meshrow, ot Centre street,
was a Rah way visitor Sunday.
Mrs. William Snyder, of Pleasant
Plains, is ill.
Mrs. D. J. William and daughter
Helen are back in Tottenvillo after a
short sojourn with friends in Penn
sylvania.
The Loval Temperance Legion will
hold a meeting at the home of Miss
Smith tomorrow afternoon.
COPENHAGEN, June 22.? Emigra
tion figures to date show that more
than twice as many persons emigrated
from Denmark to America this year as
(luring the same period las^year, and
the "American fever" shows no signs
of abating. It is shown, however, that
the money sent back by Scandinavian
settlers in the United States offsets to
a large degree the loss to the country
caused by the emigration of so many
of its beat citizens.
The Department of Clay
Working and Ceramics
Established by the
Legislature, at
The State College,
New Brunswick, N. J.,
hag a modern and complete equipment for
practical and theoretical instruction in
the clay working industries, Two oourses
have been provided ? the regular course
of four yeirs, leading to the degree of
15. 8c ; a short course of two years, de
signed for young men who liavfe had
practical experience in clay working.
For further information and catalogues
apply to C. W. PAR MELEE, Depart
ment of Ce ram ios, or IRVING 8. UPSON
Registrar. AUSTIN SCOTT, PreB.
FOLEYSHONEY^TAR
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WOODBRIDCE TOWNSHIP.
Wo ODBRIDGE
NEWS ITEMS.
There were no electric lights on
commencement night.
Miss Leoni Stryker, of Avenel, is
still under the doctor's care, bat is
greatly improved.
Mr. Oscar Miller has had awnings
put on bis front porch which will add
greatly to his comfort wh?n the sun
continues to shine onco more.
Mrs. Hannah Crane, Mrs. Freeman
Rowlaud and Mrs. Henrietta Jaques
were the guests of Mrs. D. S. Voor
hees on Wednesday of this week.
Mr. F. E. Oraig, of Brooklyn, was
in town this week.
Mr. Albert B. Boynton has returned
from his visit to Boston.
Mr. Fred J. Cox, a 1903 graduate of
Brown University, has come to Perth
Amboy and will go in business with
Boynton Bros.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Eddy are to be
congratulated on the birth of a little
Kirl.
Mrs. F. Robinson, Mrs. B. C. Edgar
and Master Jack Edgar spent Friday
with Mrs. J. Blanchard Edgar, of
Avenel.
Miss Gertrude Edgar is visiting
friends in North Adams, Mass.
Miss Genevieve V. Butler, of San
Francisco, Oal. , is visiting Miss Ida
Lockwood.
DEFENDED FINANCIAL LEADERS.
President Bnckhnm Comparm Them
to the Hero Jean Vuljran,
BURLINGTON, Vt., June 22.? Presi
dent M. H. Buckham of the University
of Vermont in ills baccalaureate ser
mon before the graduating class warm
ly defended the great leaders in the
financial and mercantile world. He
compared them (o Jean Valjean, the
hero of Hugo's "Les Miserables,'' "who
comes into a community in which idle
ness and wretchedness and discontent
abound and by a *?rocess which social
ism calls exploiting and of which a
fairer name is management, organiza
tion, creates industry, thrift, comforts,
luxuries, in which the whole communi
ty shares."
The captains of industry were the
Jean Valjeans of today. "Our own
country has them and knows them and
honors them. They are among the fin
est products of our Christian civiliza
tion. The press and the pulpit of our
country do a grievous wrong to social
thinking when they imply, as they so
often do, putting the exception for the
rule, that our great merchants, our
captains of industry, our great manu
facturers and financiers, are, as a rule,
controlled by a lust for gain. No sen
sible man wants to go back to an
earlier civilization or dreams that we
can dispense with our capable men.
Only we must swear them to fidelity
to their high trusts. We must remind
them that they are trustees of certain
rare qualities which they hold for the
common good and not let them forget
what manner of men they are thereby
called to be."
President Buckham had taken for
his text Luke iii, 23, "And Jesus him
self when he began to teach us was
about thirty years of age." The ap
parent desire of the speaker was to
impress upon his hearers the necessity
of thorough preparation for the oattle
of life. He asked them to reflect upon
the fact that the Saviour was thirty
years in preparation for three years of
public service and let it have some
bearing on the discipline of life.
Sandford Northrop Kill* Hiiunelf.
ST. LOUIS. June 22. ? Sand ford
Northrop* until recently secretary and
general manager t>f the American Re
frigerator Transit company, has com
mitted suicide at the home of Claude
Kennorly, vice president of the Repub
1c Railway Appliance company, where
he was stopping. Mr. Northrop, who
was about thirty-five years of nge,
leaves a widow and one child. He was
a cousin of George Gould and stood
high in social and financial circles.
About six weeks ago he resigned his
position with the American Refrigera
tor Transit company. No cause for the
deed is known.
Hebrewn Protest KflnhinefY.
LONDON, June 22.? A demonstration
of thousands of east end Hebrews
was held ^n Hyde park to protest
against tnpvishtneff massacre. Speech
es violently denouncing the Russian
government were delivered in Yiddish
simultaneously from a number of plat
forms. Resolutions expressing sympa
thy with the sufferers and "indignation
and abhorrence of the Russian govern
ment" were adopted unanimously.
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PRESIDENT TAKE8 CHARGE.
No More Premature innoanrtatiti
'In Poatal Matters Will Coxae Fortl.
WASHINGTON, June 22.? Prmrtddnt
Roosevelt has taken personal charge of
the postal investigation, and no an
nouncement of results will be made an
til he authorizes it. The law officer* of
the government who are charged wtth
the indictment and prosecution of per
sons caught in wrongdoing were sum
moned to the White House and In
formed of this determination.
Mr. Roosevelt himself made the An
nouncement to callers that he had de
termined to take general supervision of
the investigation, and he also an
nounced that he will not permit any
more talking about the investigation
on the part of officials. Whatever is
to be given out will be given out when
the ense against an official is finished,
and the course of officials in procarihg
evidence will not be minutely de
scril>ed in the newspapers, as bat been
the case.
BOMB EXPLODES IN CHICAGO*
Twenty IVrtona Were Sort w LMa
Injured.
CHICAGO, June 22.-By the explo
lion of a bomb twenty persona were In
lured. seven of them severely, and the
front of a building destroyed ta front
of I -'red Cummings' saloon, 054 <%
bourn avenue. John Laxner, who found
ihe bomb, was arrested.
A wagon load of the bombs was ?n
loaded at the city dump by a strange
teamster. Laxner, an employee at the
lump, on his way home found one of
the missiles at Western and Meirdse
avenues, where it had been dropped
from the wagon. He carried it to
Cummings' saloon, where he told Jotkn
McNally to give a fireworks display.
? McNally drilled a bole in the bonft>,
inserted a match and the fireirocka
arrived at once. McNally lost an eye
And was burned so badly he may die.
Van Oott Sara HtdiraloM.
NEW YORK, June 22.-Postmas?fer
Van Cott at his desk in the genenl
post office said that he had received no
communications from Washington ?e
garding postal scandals. Th -^atge
that he had forced the \dte
post office to contribute tn % fcrt
fund through the saedium of u
coin club, of which he was pirn
the postmaster characterized as rn ,
ulous. Inspectors who have
working on the so called promotie,
syndicate and oth?r alleged irregulart^
ties of the New Cirk office are said to
be in the city still.
To Command la Somalilamd.
SIMLA, India, June 22. -Major Gteto
eral Charles Comyn Egerton, who has
been in command of the Punjab fron
tier force since 1899, has been appoint
ed to the command of the SomaHJuad
expeditionary force which la operating
against the Mad Mollah, superseding
Brigadier General W. H. Manning.
General Manning, who took command
of the British expedition in SomalllaM
after a reverse suffered by Colonel
Swayne, has not proved successful la
his campaign. One of the causes of tile
nonsuc cess of the expedition has be?a
the cowardice of the native Somali reg
iment, of which so much was hopod
when it was recently formed.
Electric Shock Kills Printer.
TJTICA, N. Y., June 22.? Ivan K.
Wlllard, foreman in the composing
room of the Clinton Courier and a
young man prominent in the affairs of
the village, was Instantly killed by A
electric shock in the office In Clinton.
o no spitz,
Sanitary Plumber.
8TOVES, 11ANGRH, HEATERS.
Rahway A ' e.
Shop near C R Depot, CaftOr&t, N- J
JOSEPH SHERWOOD
Carpenter and Builder
Estimates given. Jobbing promptly attended to
carteret, N, J,
Main st & Haxelwood aVe.. Rahway, K. J.
CONRAD BROS.
SANITARY PLUMBING
TINNING and HEATING
1UHWAY AVE. Oartwat, N. J.
Next to Engine House.
JOHN THOMPSO*
Carpenter and Builder
Jobbing promptly attended to. Estimates given
PORT READING, N.J.
ch^bles TSi^rjEcrtTS
Painter and Paperhanger
All orders by mill promptly atteodel to.
CARTERET N.J.
M. PETERSON,
Mason and Contractor
Carteret k Port Reading, H J.
Residence ? John Thompsons Boom, Port
Reading