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PERTH AMBOY EVENING NEW VOL. XXV. NO. 84. PERTH AMBOY, N. J., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1903. FUNERAL 18 LARGELY ATTENDED. Thomas Mark Thickstun Buried in Mefuchen Yesterday Afternoon. FLORAL TRIBUTES. Services Conducted by Rev. Dr. i. G. Ma son—Body Taken to the Church—Ed ifice Filled with Many Friends and Rel atives—Music Very Touching—Young Man Died at Beginning of His Caree*. The funeral of Thomas Mark Tliick stun was held from his late homo in Motuchen at 2 o’olock yesterday after noon and later from the Presbyterian church. The services at the house were very brief. Rev. Dr. James G. Mason made a short prayer. He introduced some very appropriate verses from the Bible. In the church Dr. Mason preached a hflnntifnl Rpnnnn. .Tnrlcrn Adrian Lvon, of this city, gave a touching eulogy on the young man whoso prom ising career was so suddenly cut off. He spoke of the regret of tho young lawyers colleagues in Perth Amboy at tho loss of their friend. Prof. A. W. Marshall also made an impressive address. The flowers were of a large variety and ’ covered the casket. There were wreaths from Mrs. C. Kelly, Mrs. Andrew Clausen, Neilsen Broth ers and Mayor Litterest. of MetnchoD. Judge Lvcn, Frank Smith and John Stales sent roses, a sheaf of wheat and nntnmnal leaves. Tlio Christian En deavor, of Metuchen, sout a cross four feot in height. This was beauti ful in effect and testified the love of Mr. Thickstun’s fellow members of tho society. Lilies, chrysanthemums, roses and ferns were the decorations on the cross. At the foot were the lotters “C. E. ” in bluo. From the lawyers of Perth Amboy there was a largo wreath of autumnal leaves, chrysanthemums and lilies. Many other Powers wore sent as tokens of esteem by friends. Seldom has there been such a display of flora at a funeral in Metuchen. The church was decked with palms. Tho music was very appropriate, Mrs. E. L. Morris, Mrs. H. B. John son, sopranos, Mrs. Edith Clark and Miss Sadie Bonnet altos, Mr. EUvood Smith, and Charles Mundy, tenors, and Mr. T. Marshall, bass. Flossie VauSicklo was organist. The pall bearers were William Morris, W. T. Campbell, A. R. Camp bell, Lawson Ramsay, Benjamin Wittonbert and William Mook. Friends ana relatives were present from Plainfield, Chester, Westfield, Asbury Park, Perth Amboy, fords and Isclin. Interment was in the Presbyterian comotery. j Hot Chocolate j with Whipped ; Cream - Sc \ \ Hot Beef Tea \ I Hot Tomato j Bouillion - 5c I j AT. | SEXTON’S j j Soda Fountain, j j T'O-T'U Smith Street j ■ ■ ■ ■ : The winner of yesterday’s i • prize was Miss Mamie Hellyer, \ j 288 Smith St. ■ ■ [ The answer to yesterday’s puz- | : zle was Rubber. : ■ ■ ■ ■ o l ! ■ ■ ■ ■ CADETS POSTPONED THE OPEN MEETING Snail Attendanca of Visitors Last Night Caused Program to go Over for Two Weeks. The open meeting of the Westmin ster Cadets,'which was to have been held last night, was postponed for two weeks. The program was net complete and very few visitors were present. The debate, ‘‘Rosolved That foot ball is more Harmful than Baseball,” was, with the rest of the program, held over. The cadets drilled a short time and then dispersed. They were on hand today to clear off the ground uext the church for a'basket ball field. They will have a team and play games. CLEARED $265 FOR THE KINDERGARTEN. The Popular School for Little Folk now Has Practically All Expenses Raised. The management; of the Free Kind ergarten cleared 1265 by their play given in Wilder Hall, Monday night. They are greatly pleased over the re sult. The kindergarten is under State control tho same as the public schools, ana as a part of tho State school system it receives $20 monthly from the State. It was said today that with this monthly allowance, the money cleared by the entertainment and with the donations made by sev eral of the manufactories in this vicinity, tho expenses of the kinder garten for thia year had about been raised. THIEVES STEAL CARPENTERS’ TOOLS Carpenters Report $100 Worth of Tools Missing this Morning Empty Boxes Found. Last night some persons broke open a tool honse near the new building at Oortlandt and Huntington streets, and took over $100 worth of tools. No cine could be found to the robbers. It is thought that three tramps, seen go ing in that direction last night, may be the guilty ones. Tiie empty tool boxes were found in a gully some dis tance away this morning. The owners of the tool are Julius Ihricki, Soren Sorenson and Andrew Kornell. The tools are all marked. Children Go to Kempson. Mrs. H. A. Kempson, who is separ ated from her husband, St. George Kempson, has given her children into his custody. When Vice Chancellor Pitnoy declared Mr. Kempson’s divorce void, ho ordered 'Kempson to pay his wife $10 a week for the sup port of her children. He never paid this, it is said, and has since kept out of the State. Mrs. Kempson has found the strain upon her too much and has allowed the children to go, orwl hnc pnmn t n tliic fi Etr fc livo Danish Hundred Men’s Association. Tho mombers of the Danish Hundred Men’s Association No. 1, are request ed to meet in Dana Hall, Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock to attend the funeral of deceased wife of Peter Damm. By order of the Board of Trustees. Foila was Fined $5. John Foila, of Johnstone stroet, was arrested yesterday. He was charged with jumping on coal trains and one of several who took coal Irom the cars. Ho was fined §5 this morn ing. __ Pianos. Cash or time at the old stand. Peeler Olsen, 8fi Smitn st. 5526-9-ld-2t-e. w-tf George W. Rogers Walter A. Snow. Pyroprcphic Portraits a Specialty gyro-Jlrt Studios No> bltiks in Burned Leather and Water Color1!. Original Designs | Submitted and Executed. 15 Williard Plijce, Montclair, N. J. EFFORT MADE TO COLLECT $1 POLL TAX THIS YEAR. Citizens Received Bills Yesterday and the Matter is Being Thoroughly Dis cussed Throughout the City Today-Many Trying to Pick Flaws so as to Escape the Levy—Evening News Quotes the Law on the Subject That All May Read—Applies to All. BASEBALL MEN DANCE. Delta Baseball Team Give a Ball in Braga Hall Which Was Great Success. GRAND MARCH FEATURE The reputation of the Delta baseball team was upheld last night at their first ball which was given in Braga Hall. The fioor was crowded with the merry dancers who wore tlio colors of the Delta’s and danced to the strains of Steinhauser’s fnll orcdiestrp.. At 10.30 the grand march, led by Peter Smith and Miss Hattie AndersoD, with nbout fifty couples in lino, be gan. The dancers were led in such a way that the letters D. B. B. C. were formed. Thoso looking on applauded heartily. At 12 o’clock the prize waltz was started. The judges were Arthur Toft, Thomas Wilhelm, Charles W. Hilker and Peter Smith. They award ed the gentleman’s prize, a silk um brella, to Harry Larsen, and the lady’s prize, a bracelet, to Miss Clara Pedderson. At 12.30 supper was served. The committee in charge worked hard, and Albert Bram, the Deltas’ manager, was very busy. The committee of arrangements was as follows: Peter Smith, chairman; Gustav Stone, Manning Molleson, Renny Lind, Charles Hilker; floor manager, Niels Lindenberg; assistant, James Dunham. Before the ball started the Perth Amboy Independent Fife and Drum Corps and the Lenbnrt drum e-orp, of Tottenville, paraded the streets in the interest of the Deltas and afterward gave a few selections in the hall. Hunters had Great Luck. The following limiting party rcturn od from a gunning trip in Burlington county last night, wheru they have been for three days: Carl Dressier, Louis Hollander and James Dumpily. They brought home with them forty onejrabbits, seven German hares, one musk rat, four pigeons and two quail, l’be German bares they shot are said to have been the finest brought to Perth Amboy in many years. It is understood the first of them were brought from Germany and turned loose in the pines of Burlington county to breed. Sewing machines for sale by Peder Olsen, 86 Smith st. 3526a-9-19-2t-o. w. tf Stay With Us Eleven Years and Own Your Home Interest on $1,000 borrowed from an iDdividu! at 5 per cent, for eleven years. $550 Principal to lie repaid at end of eleven years. 1,000 ,-$1,550 00 total amount paid the Citizens Build ing and Loan Ass’ll on $1,000 bor rowed cn weekly payments of $2.'0 each. $1,430 00 _ $120 00 JOIN US ANYTIME. Don’t have to Wait for a Series to Open. LOANS MADE PROMPTLY. CITIZENS BUILDING & LOAN ASS’N, 1IU IIIkU Street, Ofiico always open. * Au effort is to bo made to collect* the poll tax iu Perth Amboy this year. The State law provides that a poll tax of $1 shall be levied and as the assess ors announced in the beginning that they have lived np to the strict ruling of the law the poll tax necessarily followed. The bills for the poll tax were re ceived by nearly every voter yesterday and today they are the principal topic of conversation. Some are angry and declare they will never pay. They pick flaws in their bills because their names are spelled wrong, some who are not citizens have received bills. 1 MaDy declare they are exempt, for getting that the law allowing auy ex emption has recently been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. This is said to be the first time in twenty-five years that an effort hast been made here to collect poll tax. | For the benefit of those who are not thoroughly satisfied abont the law in this regard the Evening News has in vestigated the matter. It finds in the laws of 1903 Chapter 208, Article 1, section 1, of an act for the assessment and collection of taxes, the follow Id g. “A poll tax of one dollar shall be nBtafiBQnrT nnnn ornrr mo'o i 11 a V»i f a n f of this State of tiie age of twenty-ouo i years and upwards except paupers, 1 idiots and insane persons, subject to the exemptions hereinafter provided.” In section 4 of this same chapter is the provisions for exemptions which includes volunteer firemen, exernot firomen, honorably discharged soldiers of the civil war, and tneir widows and all members of the national guard. By a recent decision of the Snpreine Court the law providing for this exemption has been declared un constitutional and therefore there is now no one exempt from the poll tax as fixed in section 1. In article fi section 43 of this same act the penalty for not paying the tax is fixed. It reads as follows: ‘‘And it shall be the duty of the collector in person or by deputy, forthwith after the twentieth day of December to enforce the payment of all taxes by distress and sale of any of the goods and chattels of the delin quent in the county; where the tax is upon real estate the person assessed • Mn T» Vm 1 iiM'O/l f llA 1 AT’ C hr showing that he was not the owner at the time when the tax became a lien; if goods and chattels of the delinquent cannot be fonnd or not sufficient to make all the money required to pay taxes or personal property and poll tax and dog tax, then it shall be the duty of the collector in person or by deputy to take the body of the delin quent, and unless the tax is at once paid with costs to deliver the same to the sheriff or jailer of the county to be kept in close and safe custody until payment he made of the amounts due on said taxes with cost#.” Read the classified ads. on page 2. or—. . a Owing to tlie demand for Red Star Stamps by our patrons, we have decided to give them with all purchases. As an extra in ducement we will gife for one week, beginning to day, DOUBLE STAMPS With each purchase. J. Slobsdien & Bro. Popular Shoe House 126 Smith Street. MAY APPEAL THE DECISION. Executive Committee of Exempt Firemen s Association will Meet in Jersey City. C. A. B. WILL HELP. Joseph G. Burns, president of the State Fireman's Exempt Association, has called a meeting of the Executive Committee of that organization for Tuesday afternoon in Jersey City. The committee will discuss the Supreme Court decision in cfeclaring the exempt law unconstitutional and decide whether or not to take the case to the court of Errors and Appeals. Mr. Burns thinks thlBWfy.. be do&e^ _ ~ _■* “The Exempt Association can pm np a strong case. In conjunction with the Grand Army who are includ ed in the decision I think we will win. ’’ The best lawyers in the State will be procured to look after the interests of these associations and it promises to be a warm fight. Tl ie Perth Amboy Fireman’s Exempt Association will hold a meeting Wed nesday. Mr. Burns requests that all mem hers he nresent. CHEMIST SAYS COPPER IS IN LOCAL OYSTERS. Newark Man Tells Board of Health of the Result of the Test He Has Made. Herbert B. Baldwin, chemist of the Newark Board of Health, reported to that body Thursday night the result of tests he had made at the suggestion of Health Officer Chandler of a num ber of oysters sold to him by a Newark dealer and which were said to have come from Keyport. According to Mr. Baldwin’s investigation, the oysters had come into contact with copper to such an extent that sickness and the symptoms of metallic poison ing in a mild form following the eat ing of them in a raw state, and also after they had been fried. In the one oyster which was saved Mr. Baldwin says he found about one quarter grain of copper. Lehigh Valley Surgeons Meet. Dr. G. W. 'iyrrell, local physician for the Lehigh Valley Railroad, attended a meeting of the company’s surgeons in Westminster Hotel, New York, yesterday. A banquet was served. Several prominent men spoke. Dr. Weaver read the principal paper and Dr. W. S. Estes, of Bethlehem, Pa., the principal discussion. All store keepers, merchants, or any person, are hereby warned against ashing any pay-roll checks dated November 14th, the same having been Lost. Federal Clay Manufacturing Company. 11-14-1 p Tnygreen, Succe&sor^to L. Albert & Co. ...Photographic Studio... Everything in Portrait. Lindscape and Interior Photography. P. O. Building. Perth Amboy, N. J. POLICE FIND MORE OF BROWN’S PLUNDER Search of his Home Brings to Light Carpenters Tools of Much Value. Yesterday Chief Burke nnd Detec tive Huff drove to the home of John Brown for the purpose of searching for more stolen articles. Brown, as was stated in yesterday’s News, is the man who was canght Thursday night at 9 o’clock after an exciting chase np State street. He had taken a pair of shoeB’trom Kaufmann’s store and was detected. After a search, more stolen articles were fonnd in the Pennsyl vania yard. The owners had lost them on the same night. At Brown’s house some rings and a coat were also found and yesterday the chief and his assistant found a large number of carpenters’ tools. John Mnndy recognized several of the tools as those stolen from him nearly a year ago. The total value of his loss was $20. This noon Max Hasowitz appeared to make still another charge against Brown. It lsl that lie stole fifteen fence posts and a pair of wire snips. This is the seventh charge; making the bail $400. Brown has engaged a counsel and will try to get bail. EACLE A. C. WILL HAVE WHOLE HOUSE At Special Meeting Last Night it was Decided to Move from Present Quarters. At the special meeting of the Eagle Athletic Club, last night, it was de cided to move their home to the building in the southwest corner of Smith and Hobart streets, until re Cjntly^ or.qppif-d Raritan resfanrant. The uJ.-ireT _y iiloV^ has been placed in the hands of the trustees and the officers of the Odd Fellows will be notified at once of the decision of the members. The clnb now has rooms in the Odd Fel low's building. The new place is large and the club will occupy the whole house. They will have a first class gymnasium and all other conveniences which go to make up a clnb house. At present the Eagles have pleasant rooms, bnt the organization has grown to such an extent in the last ten years that the rooms are now too small. MANY EPWORTHIANS CO TO TOTTENVILLE. About twenty Epworthians from here attended a group rally in Bethel M. E. church, Totteuville, last night. Groups from Plainfield, Woodbridge, Perth Amboy and Staten Island towns were present, aggregating 300 persons. After business was over, a social hour was held. Mr. W. B. Fleming, of Bayonne, spoke on Evangelism. Will iam Kinsey, of rotteuville, spoke on Spiritual! Work. Sarinus Rechnitz er, of this place, also made a short address _ i ‘ CITIZEN” ,CHANGES] HANDS. lohn H. Donehue Purchases Weekly Paper —Interest of Young People. J When the Perth Amboy Citizen conies onf today it will announce a change in ownership, J. H. Donehue, jf State street, formerly a member of the Chronicle staff, has purchased it, ind his name will hereafter appear at the head of the editorial column. Mr. Donehue will continue the sheet as an up-to-date newsy weekly. It will be devoted almost entirely to the L t rest of the young people. F.J. LARKIN, 357 STATE Street, will do plumbing, steam, hot water and hot air heating on monthly pay ments. Miss Lizzie Seel has returned home after a week’s visit with her sister, Mrs. William O'Brien, of Newark. Mattetucks. Blue Points and Hock away Oysters, Lobsters. Quail, Parti idge Woodcock, Rabbits and Wild Duck. WORRELL’S, 46 Smith St. Tell SCO L 2. I I I s Ci i