Perth Amboy Evening News Publlohed dally except Sunday by the PERTH AMBOT EVENINQ NEWS COMPANY, 284 State St.. Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Phone 400. J. LOGAN CLEVENGER - - - Editor. D. P. OLMSTEAD - - Business Manager. Subscription Price—By mall, one month, 10 cents; one year, $(.00. De livered by carrier—12 cent· a week. Branch Offices—New York: F. R Northrup, 226 Fifth Ave Chlca*o:8ulte 1610, Association Building:. THE EVENING NEWS It a member of the American Newspaper Publisher»· Association, Audit Bureau of Circulation, and of the United Preet Associations. Entered at the Perth Amboy Poet Office aa Second Claee Matter. PERTH Α. M Β OV ACEMAKING OIT X Population 40,000. 28 miles from New York. Tax rate 2.50. Or Staten Inland Sound, at th· mouth of the Rarltan Hiver and at the head of Rarltan Bay. Ocean steamers can dock In from 86 to 40 feet of water. Channel 21 feet deep at )ow water leading· up from Sandy Hook. Dally steamer service to New York. Four Railroads — The Pennsyl vania, Central Railroad of New Jer sey. Lehigh Valley and the Staten Island Rapid Transit. Branche· run ning In ail directions, affording an almost unlimited number of excel lent factory sites. Has two telegraph and two tele phone companies. Electric light and gas companies Federal postofflce building. Public Library. $120,000 Y. M. C. A. Ten grammar schools and one high school which Is on the ap proved list of all the leading uni versities in the country, four pa rochial schools and a business col lege. Churches of all denominations. City Hospital. Municipal electric light and water work·. Prominent center for trolley to all parts of the state. Richest clay deposits In the coun try In the Immediate vicinity. Splendid theatrical advantages. Some of the leading Industries ere: American Smelting & Refining Company's smelter; Rarltan Copper Work® refinery: Barber Asphalt Works; United Lead Works; United States Cartridge Co.; Amorlcan En caustic Tiling Co.. Ltd.; C. Pardee Steel and Tile Works; Atlantic Terra Cotta Co.; Federal Terra Cotta Co.; New Jersey Terra Cotta Co.; three plants of the National Flreprooflng Co., and other similar Industries within *he immediate vicinity; Cer amlo Works; Che se b rough Vaeellne Works; Marcy fltove Works; two dry dock companies, together with shipyards and marine railways; Standard Underground Cable Com pany; Roessler & Hasslacher Chem ical Works; Bakellte manufacturing concern; Castle's Ice cream plant; window shade and cigar factories; cement stone works; coal shipping piers, handkerchief factory; chemi cal laboratories; machine shops and Iron foundries. The Whistle Nuisance Perth Amboy has a good ease against the railroads in the mat ter of blowing whistles. The companies would find it very hard to justify such a racket as is made by the locomotives drilling or passing through the city. In these days of block signals, safety devices, towermen, guards at crossings and watchmen on bridges there is really little need for whistles except in the open country where ther are still many un guarded crossings, or in the event of someone being on the track. Whistles and bells are relics of the early days when a railroad train was a novelty, the operation of a railroad was crude, and peo ple were unfamiliar with railroading in general. Today, with the railroads highly developed, the barbarous practice of the screeching of whistles and clanging of bells continues as if we were still in the infancy of railroads and had to be told that if we didn't look out the "choo choo cars" would run over us. Today the EVENING NEWS publishes a second communica tion from a resident of this city on the nuisance of the blowing of whistles within the city limits. This letter was inspired by the one that appeared in these columns a few days ago. Both letters point out the annoyance of the continual blowing of whistles, and refer to other places where the nuisance has been abated. It is quite reasonable that if other cities can obtain relief, so can Perth Amboy. The way the whistles are blown in this city is a reflection on the railroads themselves. It indicates that they do not employ men whom they can trust. In the first place, every crossing in the city is guarded by safety gates. It is the duty of the men in charge of these gates to lower them when a train approaches, and the shanties in which these men jgtyft&tioBflci.MWifW imjfcwimtftt the gatetender can. readily see when ^Pfrain is coming. It being his dtVn; t0 look out ΐφ·ι Wifne-jj/IJowej. ^nc gates when they approach, it ought not'tu'fie necessary for the engineer to let out such loud screeches as he does in order to warn the gatetender. Λβ was stated in ine communication puDiisned on this subject a few days ago, trains going south usually begin to blow at the Lehigh Valley crossing or before, and keep up a continual whistle all the way through the city. Apparently, in the opinion of the engi neer, this serves a double purpose. It clears the crossings through the city, which are supposed to be cleared anyway by the man operat ing the safety gates, and it warns the men on the drawbridge over the river that he is coming. But why should it be necessary to make such a racket upon ap proaching- the bridge? Can't the men working on the draw be trusted to do their duty? What are all tho signals for and every other precaution that is taken to guard the approach to the bridge? There are five or six men working 011 the bridge all the time; there are towermen and signal operators. Don't these men know their business Î With all this elaborate system for protecting the bridge, why should a noise sufficient to wake the dead be made through this city at all hours of the day and night? In tho olden days when the system of signals was not so perfect as it is today, there might have been some excuse, but there is absolutely none today unless the men in charge of the signals cannot be trusted. If they cannot be trusted why are they employed! For trains going north it is the same thing, only in that ease the whistle begins blowing as soon as the train leaves the bridge and keeps it up all the way through the city to notify the man in charge of the signals at the Lehigh Valley crossing of its approach. Here again we would like to know whether or not the man in the tower at the Lehigh Valley crossing cannot be trusted to set the right signals without such a noise on the part of the approaching train? Every railroad man on guard duty or in charge of signals is continually on the watch for trains, or ought to be, and he is sup posed to set his signals or lower his gates accordingly, without the approaching engine making a sound, or at least a short blast should be sufficient upon entering the city. Then, too, there is the drilling. Every time an engineman gets a signal from a trainman to back up or to go ahead he feels duty botind to blow a couple of blasts on the whistle. Why? It is force of habit more than anything else. It is the same as if the engine would say, "All right, I'm coming." But why is it necessary to say anything? If the signal is to come on back, why not go back and make 110 fuss about it. The trainman, when he sees the train back ing, knows that the engineer got his signal and that is all there is to it. The same thing applies to going ahead or any other order that may be given. The engiiy»ers are so in the habit of blowing the whistle at every little thing that it comes second nature to them, although there is absolutely no excuse for half the noise that is made day and night in this city. It is almost impossible to sleep anywhere within four or five blocks of the railroad because of the almost continual noise of the trains. That there can be a great improvement in this matter there is no doubt. We have not mentioned the boat whistles which are all too numerous. The practice of a boat captain summoning the members of his crew who happen to be on shore by long and continuous blasts of his whistle is an outrage. If a few arrests were made for this perhaps it would have a salutary effect. By the way, did you know that it now requires eight or nine whistles for a boat to get through the drawbridge? Four long blasts by the boat, then the draw answers with three or four, and then the boat responds with one. Foolish, isn't it? Think of what a waste of steam, not to mention the annoyance to the people living near the water. It is time we took this matter in hand and gave the people some relief. The railroads certainly should be brought to time. Othef pities do it, why not Perth Amboyl Public Opinion IXX'OMOTIVE WHISTLES. Editor EVENING NEWS: In your issue of recent date, there was a letter complaining about the continual blowing of locomotive whist les. No dotrbt there are hundreds of others that endorse Mr. Llngle's com plaint of this nuisance and should make It known. If brought to the at tention of the city officials, no doubt a remedy would be found not only for whistles, but the continual ten min ute ringing of church bells. Why should people be annoyed and upset by these things 7 The Pacemaking City should not be behind other cities along this line. New York city found the whistle nuisance so bad' some years before the advent of the electric motor. The city officials took steps to stop the whist les within its limits, αβ other cities have done. Perth Amboy can and should do the same. I hope others will voice their opinion of this nuis ance. READER. Today lie Celebrate Italy's Great Patriotic Holiday. What the Fourth of July is to the United States, and the Fourteenth of July to France, the twentieth of Sep tember is to Italy, and her loyal sons will celebrate today with enthusiasm the greatest patriotic holiday In the Italian calendar. It was forty-seven years ago today on September 20, 1870, that the Italian troops stormed the Porta Pla and made their trium phant entrance into Rome, thus mak ing the Eternal City the capital of United Italy. Yet that glorious con clusion to a remarkable campaign — a United Italy—left one great ambi tion of the Italian people unrealized, for hundreds of thousands of their countrymen in "Italian Irrendenta" were left beyond tho pale, still under the yoke of Austria. It was General Count Rafaelo Ca dorna who led the brave troops into Rome on September 20, 1870, and it Is his son, General Count Lulgl Ca dorna, who is today battering the Austrian strongholds in the Alps and sweeping before him the beaten Haps burg troops. The capture of Rome was accomplished by the elder Ca dorna almost without bloodshed. The French troops had been withdrawn on account of the Franco-Prussian war, and Rome was defended only by the force of the pope. Plus IX refused to compromise with the Italian king, who offered him the sovereignity of the Leonine city and the retention of his income. When Cadorna ap proached the city he met with some opposition from the papal Zuaves, and in a skirmish several were kill ed. The Pope directed Gen. Kanzlor, commander of his armed forces, to make only a formal resistance. On September 20, when Cadorna's army was before Porta Pia, the foreign pa pal troops manifested an Inclination to contest the entrance of the Italians, but they were called off by the Pope. Cadorna's men then took possession of the city. In spite of the protests of the Pope, whose predecessors for ages had held sway over Rome and ίβ,ΟΟΟ square miles of territory in central Italy the capital or the kingdom was remove·, from Turin to the Eternal City. The Vatican continued to regard Itself as the temporal power, which had been despoiled of Its lands, but not con quered, by the Italian King. Tho Pope refused to acquiesce In the arrange ment of tho Italian Parliament, by which Plus IX and his successors for ever wore allowed to occupy the Vat ican and Its dependencies rent free. The Italian government, also pledite^_ to the Pope^.*n arfnuttl irtne»a#ity ol iJi45JWM>*Cbut this has never been (claimed by the Vatican and now amounts to over $80,000,000. t. Daily Horoscope Thursday, September 20, 1017 (Copyright, 1917, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate) This Is an unfortunate day, accord ing to the reading of the stars. Nep tune, Saturn and Mars are all ad verso while Mercury and the Sun are In threatening aspect. It Is α tlmo In which on both land and sea dangers may be expected. Mars Is In a place that Is certainly unpromising for pcaco and It looks as If the remainder of the month would be a period of great military activity. While Mars rules for army clashes, battles and unusual movements, Nep tune gives warning of perils of an un usual character on the sea. A great storm appears to be Indicated. Under this sway the greatest pains will be necessary to preserve secrecy concerning any matter of Importance, as the stars Indicate that what Is cov ered Is more easily revealed than at ordinary times. There le a warning that spies and traitors will bo found at such sources of Information as telegraph offices and telephone Bwltoh'boards In Wash ington, D. C. For the benefit of those Interested In Russian affairs, the seers foretell that December will be α month of extraordinary anxiety and of new ρβτΐΐβ. Next month may be a time of men ace for Washington, New York and Philadelphia as explosions are appar ently foreshadowed. These have been long prophesied. Astrologers foretell for manufac turers of whiskey profit through the use of their plants for new purposes that will be extraordinary gainful. The death of a noted suffrage lead er Is foretold and a woman philan thropist, also, will pass on before Thanksgiving. Better sure than sorry—in finitely so when your children are concerned. There is no possible excuse for the risk in unclean, impure milk with your children's health at stake. Be SURE. Use only CERTIFIED milk. If you don't know why, it's high time you found out. Wood Brook Farms believes in saving the babies. Wood Brook milk is CERTIFIED milk. PRICE 18c PER QUART WOOD BROOK FARMS METUCHEN, N. J. Phone Metuchen 179 —— — I Bits of By-Play By LUKE! McLUKF. Copyrlubt 1(1·. ta· Cincinnati Bnqulrar. Always Borrowed. It makes £ fellow fuss and frown, When he must take a trip, To have to send to Smith or Brown And borrow back his grip. The Wise Fool. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," quoted the Sage. "Yes, agreed the Fool. "And it costs a whole lot less." Oh! Some men have trouble with their vision and have to have their optics examined. But I. C. Plane lives in Independence, Iowa. Fact. He's almost certain to go bust, And you're sure to get stuck, If you are fool enough to trust The man who trusts to luck. Paw Knows Everything. Willie—Paw, what is the difference between a gentleman and a gent? Paw—A gent always gets his hair cut on Saturday night, my son. Worry Much So. Once in a while you will find the right man in the right job. F'rinstanco, Isn't It appropriate that John Gas, of New Lexington, Ohio, should be a gasfltter. FooejI "You may think this Joke Is a crime," Said smart Band Leader Millet; "But, while I'm always beating time, I do not want to kill it." Huh! "That fellow Smith is an awful pest," said Brown. "But he 1b so per sistent that you can't rattle him." "Rattle him," replied Jones, "why, you can't even shake him." Come On, Be a (iootl Fellow! Will E. Treat runs the Hub Cafe In Portsmouth, Ohio. Correct. It le a fact, as you will learn, You'll find there Is no con to it; That when a man has coin to burn, You'll find he freezes on to It. Only Way To Square It. A woman will never forgive a man If he doesn't apologize to her every time she insults him.—Luke McLuke. And promise her that he'll never be so cruel or mean again.—Wilmington News. v Bet She Ain't η Corn Fed. Miss Lena Shanks lives in Waverly, Ohio, according to Dusty Miller. Rang! Of course they never feel that way when you are riding In a flivver. But what we started to say was that W .Downey Rhodes lives at Cambridge, Ohio. Firms Is Firms. Albright and Llghtcap manufacture toy marbles at Itavenna, Ohio. lot's Wife. His friend heard poor Lot blubber! "It was my wife's own fault, For she first turned to rubber. And then she turned to salt." •—Luke McLuke. To Lot, the poor old lubber, She said as she exp.ired: "You see I turned to rubber Because I was so tired." —Newark nntr* to act n?^ laBy, but MI la Snow, o: _ . will have to keep away from this Club | until next winter. Notice! , Fropty Hall, of Cambridge, Ohio, will bo refused admittance when we have | a lecture in the Club auditorium. Bless You, My Children! There is α young lady In Cincin nati who has been a bride for α week, | and when her husband asks her who she loves she merely mentions her] husband's name. Her husband sells tickets on the C., M. and L. road at Madisonvllle, and his name Is Timothy | Only. juinRs To Worry About. The sausage eaten In this country In one year would encircle the earth more than seven times. Names Is Jrnmes. A. Roast lives in Dayton, Ohio. Our Dally Special. It Is A Wise Man Who Knows When He Has Said Enough. Jjiiko McLiike Says The old fashioned man who could remember dates In history now has a son who gets them mixed up with telephone numbers. Boys are getting better. Tou may have noticed that they no longer re gard a coat sleeve as α combined mop, towel and handkerchief. Art Is misleading. We get the Idea from Japanese art that the women do nothing but drink tea among the blos soms, and that the men do nothing but carry fierce-looking swords and look cross-eyed. And the Japanese must get the Idea from American art that the women do nothing but pose around the house In envelope combina tions, and that the men do nothing but pull off athletic stunts while garbed in kneelength and sleeveless under wear. The only new things In the fashion pattern books for July are overalls for the dear things. They are supposed to wear the overalls while hoeing the crops In the gardens. The overalls are worn over a white silk blouse, and, of course the blouso is left open In front, the top button being located about as far south as the wishbone. What doth It profit a man to have an aim In life if he never hits what he alms at? Many a man who tosses restlessly on a $100 bed would give a good deal to be able to pound his ear the way he used to when he was α boy and slept on a lumpy corn shuck mattress. A man thinks he is surprising a girl when he proposes to her. Why. if the poor boob only knew It, she lrnd her wedding gown selected and talk ed the plans over with her bridesmaid months before he asked her to be hls'n. Once In a while α jury won't convict on clrcum tantlal evidence. But It Is different tth a wife. What has become of the old fashion ed woman who used to nee that her baby got his lunch no matte»· who was looking? Most of us know what not to say. But few of us have sense enough not to eay It. It was all right to be gallant to α strange lady when knighthood was in NEW JERSEY CETTHAI, Train· Leave Perth Ambojr. For New York. Newark aril Bllia Îeth at 6:26, 7:10, *7:88, 7:52, 8:27, :42. 10:11, 11:83, 11:68 a. m.; 1:06, 3:1*. :2β, 4:45, 5:04. 6:63, 7:60, 9:09, 8:40 p. m. Sundays—fr:S2, 9:28 a- m.) 2:01, 1:04, 6:62, 8:51. 9:34 p. m. For Long Branen, Asbury Park. Ocean Urove, Eto.—12:84, B:0S, 9:14 a. αι.; 12:08, 2:23, 4:66, 6:25, 6:38, 10:04 p. m. Sundays—12:64, 4:50, 9:12 a. m.·, 6:08. 9:52 p. m. For Atlantic City—6:08, 8:14 a. m.; 2:23 p. m. Sundays—9:12 a. m. For Philadelphia and Trenton via Bound Brook — 6:86. 7:10, 7:51, 9:42, [0:11, 11:33 a. m.j 1 Οβ. 6:04. 7ι60 p. m. Sundays—8:22, 9:28 fc. m.; 8:01, 6:04. é;W. 9:14 P.m. χ—New Tork only. ■—Saturday only. Ma Happens To Discover Why Willie Seldom Kicks On Being; Sent To Bring Home A Loaf Of French Bread I 1 * " ' III.». j|M| ... - ,.I ι «I (Copyright, 1S17. by the "Wheeler Syndicate, lnc.y ower. But if a man tries to be cour ions to a strange woman nowadays he would have him arretted Xor eet ng fresh. It Is a good thing that women do ot chew tobacco. If they did, and or· those decollete waists, their chests rould always look freckled. Fire Alarm Boxes t—Ran tan Coppei· Work*. I—Market and Sheridan Btraeta, I—Smith Street and Central K. R. I—Market and Flrat Street*. r-x-Madloon Ave. and Pateraon St. S—High and Lewi· St·. \—Smith and High Street· I—New Brunewlok -Αν*. an ?—Smith and I—/ ♦ SHI _ .. late and Wayne St.re ίβ—Near United Lead Work·. 9—Maurer. 2—Washington and First Street·. β—Now Brunswick Ave, and Elm Street 4—Smith Street and Wataon Avenue. 8—Commerce and State Slreeta. 2—Front and Smith Streeta. 5—Water and Gordon Streets. i—Kearny Ave. and Gordon Street 1—Brace and Hanaon Avenue·. 2—Smith amd Herbert Btreeta. S—Amboy Ave. and Washington Street· 14—Lehigh Ave. and Stanford Street* 5—Near City Hospital. Λ—Cleveland and Brace Avenue·. 7—Amboy *nd Hall Avenue·. 12—Amboy Ave. and Insleo Street. —Lawrence and Francis Stroeta. —Neville and Johnstone Street·. ELECTRICALrCONTRACTOR HANS J. WURGLER, 327 Elm St. Phone 1825 flUARANTEBD WORKMANSHIP LEARN ^hUe^^Yo^ EARN Attend Night School -at TRAINER'S BUSINESS COLLEGE American Building Tel. 509 Perth Amboy, N. J. STATE!* ISLAND ItAPID TRANSIT. Fan to Ν·π Yerk >ne way · .40 tound Trip eg 0-ïrip Ticket u.oi Lonthly Commutation 7,0» Time Table In Elect May It, 1»1Χ, KJCW V OH Κ TO PKRTH AM HOY Dally except Saturdaya, Sundays and olldaya (May 10. July 4. Sept. 3)—6*30 :10. 7.00.1:00, β:00, 10:00, 11:00 a.m.: 1» oon; 1:00, 1:00, 8:00, 4:00, 4:40. δ-00 :15, 5:30·, β:4β, β:ϊΐ. «:1ο! 7:00 S:00' :00, 10:00. 11:00 p. m.; 11 night; l oi . m. Saturday only—IJ:20, 11:40. 1:00 lit ■M 2 00. 2:10, 3:1», 4:00, 4:4t», vJo' ;00. 6:40. 7:10. 1:00, 1:40, 1:20 p. m. υ p. Ο.ου, ι ,«v, » 'TT' ,*·»»· ··■»! 0B 10:0i, 11:00 p. m.i it nlght. Saturday only—11:68 a. In.j 11:40, M, 1:4». 1:08, 1:13, ï:0Ç 8:30, 4:10, 86 S:i5, 7:10, 1:18. 8:60, 9:65. 11:00 p.m. Bundaya and holidays (May 10. July Sept. 8)—-7:0