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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.
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j 288 Smith St.
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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^
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“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
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‘ 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.
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