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Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
DEMOCRATS MEET SATURDAY.
City Convention will be Held in City Hall to
Name Candidates.

The date for the Democratic city
convention has been definitely fixed
for Saturday night. The Democrats
will then name candidates for alder
man-at-large, comptroller, excise COM
missioners and Commissioners of
Appeal.
At present there seems to be no one
person settled upon for the offices.
Alderman-at-large Eckert, it is said,
will probably be renominated and
William D. Voorhees, will run again
for comptroller.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09

the graduated dots, which are worked
solid in helios floss. This blouse, I'M
like most of its kind, fastens IN the
front, buttoning with small pearl
buttons in groups of three each, on
either side of which is a strap insert
ing and a ruff1e of narrow edglng to
match. This blouse would also be
pretty made in white crepe Decline,
with the dots worked in white silk.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
Her Swift eturn

Drummer-Let's see! There IS a
show of some kind in the town hall to-
night, isn't there?
Landlord Pettyville Tavern-Sure
thing! Miss Agnes Ammidon appeared
here in East Lynne" in 1874, and
pleased the people so we'll that she's
consented to play a return date tonight.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
A PRETTY LINGERIE BLOUSE.

A PRETTY LINTEhIE BIOUoE.
Lingerie blouses will be worn all
during the winter months for house
wear. A plain wash silk lining worn
underneath makes them warm enough,
and for the very chilly these may be
lined with white wash flannel.
The blouse illustrated here is COM
pa~ratively simple, having no tucks,
and the only hand embroidery being
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
POLICE COURT NEWS.

Thomas Harraty, who gave his
address as Brooklyn, was arrested last
night for being drunk and d~isorderly.
He was discharged.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08
HOTELS FOR WOMEN.

A. T. Stewart. the New York merchant,
planned for the building Of big hotel for
women. but his scheme was nsver put into
operation. The building was erected and
completed. as the Journal recalls. but be-
fore it was opened series OF rules and
regulations governing the future inmates
was issued. so exacting and hampering.
even insulting in character and so petty
that no self-respecting woman could accept
them. Whether these rules had been
formulated by Mr.. Stewart or were de-
vised by his executor, who. 1t was well
understood. was not in sympathy with his
plan. Is not known. but at all events the
woman's hotel was turned to other uses.
Since then business women have so greatly
increased in numbers that the need of suit
able quarters has been a standing
grievance Bachelor apartments adapted
to the wants or men OF moderate as well as
of large incomes are to be found on every
hand. but women were relegated to board
ms houses or TO such odd corners as they
might chance to ind. Finally. some ener'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08
DIR. pARkHuRsT,s MISTAKE.

Rev. Or. Parkhurst, OF New York who
has achieved wide reputation outside his
pulpit, is not pleased with the daily press
of the country; but. like other men who
criticise the newspapers. he is entirely con-
fident that he could edit an ideal daily
paper. He would not make his ideal paper
a professedly religious daily. He declares
that ne would print the facts without de-
duction or establishment. and print them
for just what they are worth if printable.
He would not suppress news; he would not
eliminate police court items; he would not
dignity trifies, nor would he minimize i'm
portant intelligence simply because it hap
pened TO be disagreeable or even shocking.
He would foster public interests and dis
courage sensation. DR.. Parkhurst intimates
that several wealthy New Workers are
willing to furnish the funds necessary for
the establishment of such paper.
DIR. Parkhurst's theory is commendable;
but in New York, where he lives, there are
now half a dozen such newspapers as he
describes. They print the news in exactly
the style he has prescribed; they are not
sensational; they do not magnify vice; they
do not seek to deny its existence. They
may not give the current intelligence it's
true value as Dr. Parkhurst would measure
it. as that is a matter of personal judg-
ment which those who manage a paper
must exercise. 1t may be that Dr. Park
hurst has a keener appreciation of the rel
alive Importance of events than have men
who have had years of training in the COL
lection and presenting of news. The news
paper must be made for patrons who have
very different tastes. If one class were
consulted there would be no record of
sports in the newspaper, while another
would have no abstracts of sermons. The
managers of newspapers must take into
consideration all these different classes of
patrons.
DR.. Parkhurst and many other men seem
to- see no other papers than those that are
sensational. There are enough others that
are not, they can be found in every city,
and men like DR.. Parkhurst should patron
ize and encourage them. AS matter of
fact, the nonsensational newspapers con-
stitute large majority of the papers pub
lished. The sensational paper is more in
evidence than are the newspapers which
do not make sensationalism a leading
feature; they sell more readily in the street
and at the news stands, but the other class
finds its readers in homes and among in
telligent people. The others prosper for a
time. but in the end the rational news
papers will hold the field, just as the every
day intelligent and conscientious preacher
has more influence and a better class of
listeners than has the sensational preach
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08
AN ABSURD PROPOSITION.

When a bill is presented to legislative
body by request" it should be understood.
that the member who offers it Is in no
vote for it should it by any possibility reach
the voting stage. 1t means that those who
are pushing a scheme desire to have 1t
considered in committee in the hope that
something may come from it, Recently a
bill providing for the pensioning of all ne
groes freed by the proclamation of Abra-
ham Lincoln was presented in the Senate
by request. Senator Hanna, who presented
the bill, by request, is reported as saying
that he did not even read it,
1t should be stated clearly that such
a bill will not receive the votes of five
senators should 1t be reported by the PEN
sion committee. There is no reason why
it should receive any votes, since it is in
violation of every theory upon which pen
sons have been issued, namely that the
recipient of such gratuity has rendered the
government a service. No service was rem
dered the United States by the giving of
freedom to the negro in slavery. Indeed, at
the time freedom was regarded as a boon
which the colored people eagerly sought
The man who was set free can have no
claim against the United States unless he is
prepared to set up the claim that his eman-
cipation was damage rather than a bene-
fit to him. If emancipation was blessing
rather than curse, then the United States
might ask the ex-slave TO pay something
for the advantage derived from the act of
Abraham Lincoln.
For years class of colored shysters have
been collecting money of ignorant negroes
under the promise that ii will be used to OBJ
tain pensions for ex-slaves. The Journal
has from time to time warned colored men
that whatever money they have contrib
The fact that a bill has been offered in
the Senate does not change the case a
particle No such pensions will ever be
voted by Congress because there is not the
fiimsiest reason in favor of it. Doubtless
the sharks who are behind the scheme will
ask the ex-slave or his heirs for fresh con-
trbutions. and many ignorant negroes will
be duped into contributing dimes and quar-
ters. possibly. so much month, until the
bill shall be passed.
The friends of the colored men. and par
ticularly intelligent colored men who must
see the absurdity of the proposition to pen
sion ex-slaves because they were given their
freedom. should warn the Ignorant ex-
slaves that there Is not the slightest prob
ability that any pension will be granted to
them-not the least-and thus save them
from those sharks who viii soon be asking
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08

getic woman \ took hold of the hotel
scheme. and with such success that a ten
story building on Twenty-ninth street is
now equipped and ready for occupancy,
and five hundred unmarried women are ex-
pected to be installed in it before March l.
1t was announced at the outset that no
other restrictions would be laid upon the
inmates than those which govern all high
class hotels. but the rule is now laid down
that no male visitors, even the fathers
and brothers of the guests, shall be al
lowed above the second floor. AS the rules
are presumably made by the women man
ayers they seem to indicate a certain dis
trust of their sisters which is likely to
be resented. Still. it must be acknowledged
that any management which undertakes to
look after the welfare of five or six hundred
women under one roof assumes great re-
sponsibility, and perhaps few extra regu-
lations are needed as sort of moral sup
port to those In charge.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08
The vesetarian's Confession.
Mail and EXPRESS.

New York Mail and Express.
In a downtown store where vegetarians
are supplied with nut meats the proprie-
tors son is himself devotee OF the cult.
He has been living on vegetables. fruit and
nuts for nine months and is an enthusiast
Before / adopted my present mode OF
living" he said to a Mail and Express re-
porter. 81 was bothered with headaches and
felt bad-sluggish and stupid. worked
daily in a gymnasium. but couldn't shake
that feeling on Then changed 10 vege-
tables and nut meat. and felt like olner-
ent being. My headaches left me; L fsit
bright and became more active. round 1
could bear greater physical strain IN the
gymnasium. Why. can dance all night
without fatigue. And some of the men who
live as do can stand the greatest amount
of cold without discomfort They come IN
here for nut meat on the coolest days wear
ing no overcoat vest or undershirt. It's
just fine" He drew himself Up as be spoke,
his eyes sparkling. He was enthusiastic;
was rather an ancient person OF portiy
habit. much given TO the flesh pots through
defective early training. possibly. ana
withal inclined 10 scof. So with diaDoncai
intent the reporter said TO the glowing
youth:
Don't you ever experience a meat hum
ger? For Instance. a nice. thick STEAK
deep brown on the outside, the inside a
robust red. the steaming juice running out
OF II, fried potatoes and
Alas for frail humanity. IL was too much
The youth bent forward. the corners or his
toner to get no further than the potatoes
"Oh. yes" he interrupted. II eat a steak
occasionally. but / always feel the worse
for IL the next day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08

Have you carefully examined the new
2-cent postage stamp and compared it with
the stamp just discarded? Or did you
know that we had a new stamp? "R. w.
c." Orchard Watson GilderD has been
studying it and makes these disappearing
inquiries Of the New York Post: Can you
throw any light on the somewhat Sinking
Washington that appears on the new 2-cent
postage stamp? Is it intended to substi-
tute permanently this failure for the adj
mirable profile shown the preceding
stamp?" This additional query might be
propounded: Why does the government
issue new series of stamps when the old
ones are quite satisfactory and the new
ones not an artistic Improvement? Is it
working in the interest of philatelic cranks
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08

Now that Dr. Harper has established the
segregation system In his coaloil university,
the idea is spreading to other fields. The
owners of a new skyscraper building In
Pittsburg have decided that no women Will
be admitted as tenants under its roof. and
assert that the rule will be adhered to, even
though half the rooms remain vacant. No
woman physician, no dentist. no manicur-
list, no dressmaker or other business woman
having a large feminine clientele will be
able to secure quarters in this most select
block. And why? Because. say the owners.
women create confusion in elevators and
annoy other tenants with inquiries for this
or that person. and this nuisance Is TO be
avoided If possible. Obviously this Is not
the real objection. Women patronize male
doctors and dentists; they are clients OF
lawyers, they have occasion frequently to
deal with insurance and real estate men,
they patrcnize the popular ladies' tailor-in
short, they transact business with most
men who have offices. Nothing Is said
about barring these women out of the Pitts
burg block, and nothing can be said, else
the male tenants would lose half their
business and would move out. But do not
these women crowd the elevators and
make inquiries for this and that person?"
Certainly they do. and so do men who have
business in the building. Go to, owners of
the Pittsburg block. You are insincere.
You wish to segregate women for the same
reason that DR.. Harper segregates them,
and If any one can find out precisely what
that is from anything DR.. Harper has said
he deserves prize, DR.. Harper, too, being
| far from frank.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08
SALARIES. PENSIONS AND CRAFTS

The growth of official salaries and the
extension of the pension system in both
national and State governments is charac-
teristic of recent times. At the beginning
of the national government there were
obvious and paramount reasons for
adopting a policy of strict economy in
public affairs. Salaries were made low,
but for that period not niggardly. Under
the Articles OF Confederation. which was
the form of government until the Consti-
tuition Was adopted, each State paid it's
own members of Congress and fixed their
salaries. The Constitution put them on
uniform basis and provided that they should
be paid out of the United States treasury
The first Congress voted that its members
be paid S. per day during the session and
IS for each twenty miles of travel going and
coming. Travelling was expensive in those
days but then as now and always mileage
was an abuse. From 17s9 to ISIS represent
atives and senators were paid S. per day
during the session; from 1915 to 1917, $3.50
a year; from 1917 to 1855. IS per day: from
1855 to 1855. 5000 per year; from 1866 to
1871. 5000 per year: from 1871 to 1874 $500
per year. and since 1874. 5000 per year.
The accents mileage has not been changed
since IL was fixed in 1859.
The first Congress fixed the salary of the
President at $4,000 a year and 1t remained
at that figure until 1873. when it was in
creased to $4,000. There is talk of increas-
ing it to 100000. and this will probably be
done before long. Washington did not draw
cent OF pay during his two terms as
President. nor did he as commander of
the army during the revolutionary war.
In his inaugural address as President he
made delicate and dignified reference TO
the matter and concluded: 81 must accord
ingly pray that the pecuniary estimates for
the station in which am placed may. dur
ing my continuance in II. be limited to such
actual expenditures as the public good
may be thought TO require" There was
only one Washington. Thomas Jefferson
was obliged to draw the salary Of every
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08

Some weeks ago the Journal called atten-
ton TO the case of Mr.. Adair Welcker, of
San Francisco. who had made known by
means OF a circular letter his grievance
against the publishers of the Century
Magazine Mr. Welcker had published a
book which he was willing to sell at the
moderate rate of so cents copy. He ad-
vertised the book in the Century Magazine,
paying $40 for the privilege. but he re-
ceived only one 50-cent order in return he
counted the cost and felt that his money
had been secured under false pretenses.
Consequently. he issued his letter de-
nouncing the Century publishers and claim
ing that they were under moral obligation
to pay him back his money. This was evi-
IDENTIFY the expression of haste. Since then
Mr.. Welcker has thought the matter over.
with the result that he issues another re-
markable letter, this time direct TO the
Journal in acknowledgment of its former
comment and inclosing a copy of a COM
munication by him TO the Century. In the
latter he makes the amende honorable. He
admits that the failure Of the book TO sell
was his fault and not the fault or the
magazine; he can see now that to announce
himself as the Sacramento Shakespeare.
the American Shakespeare" the "Shaks-
peare of the century was to repel rather
than to attract buyers. Seeing matters as
he dees now he frankly confesses that his
only surprise is that the advertisement
brought him much ii did.
What could be more honest and ingenious
than this? But consider too. what travail
of spirit must have been endured by writ
er in the process of learning that he was
not the Shakespeare he had thought him
self. To learn the truth and to acknowledge
it are achievements almost SUFFICIENT in
themselves to make Mr.. Welcker great. His
course is commended 20 all advertisers who
are not satisfied with the returns from their
investments Advertising will do wonders
under proper conditions. but. in the words
of the vaudeville poet, you've got to have
the goods"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08
A FORTUNATE CONCLUSION.

That the mine operators and the miners
have made a wage scale for the next year
is cause for congratulation, even if the re-
suit will make coal little higher. The
miners get an advance equivalent to about
IA per cent. They demanded 20 per cent.
but it is not probable they expected to
get such an increase after the advances
of the past two three years. There were
periods in the conference when ii looked
as if there would be no agreement, as both
sides seemed not only determined to make
no concession, but were showing temper
about it.
OF course, the result will enhance the
price of soft coal something like 20 cents
ton. but this is far better than a strike,
which would have closed all the mines in
four or five States, closing every factory
using steam. and turning workmen idle
by hundreds of thousands. The usual pro-
tracted conflict would have followed, in
greater calamity could have been con-
ceived than general strike in the soft
coal industry. The result is a greater vic
tory for the principle involved in en-
ployer and employee getting together and
agreeing upon scale of wages than has
before been won, because one party at
least came to the conference full of the
spirit to insist upon extravagant demands,
while the other side was equally deter
mined not to yield very much. Both have
yielded something, and both will be gamers
where both would have been losers if the
conference had broken up without having
made an agreement, while to the business
of the country the prospect of a coal strike
would have been well-nigh disastrous. 1t
Is fortunate conclusion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08

The friction in the Red Cross Society
plainly grows out of the fact that Miss
Clara Barton. head of the society, benevo-
lent and predetermined though she is, is
not business woman and has but little
conception of the importance of business
methods and of a strict accounting of
funds. Perfectly honest and incorruptible
and feeling that she is an entirely COM
petent judge as to the best methods of
using the money at her disposal, she is
probably too much inclined to resent the
insistence CT other members of the society
that its affairs be conducted in the Gus
tomary way with such organizations, and
paid in, all paid out" or something to that
effect-answer all purposes as we'll as sys-
tematic bookkeeping. The fact that she
regarded money sent direct to Miss Clara
Barton at Galveston, without mention of
the Red Cross, as a personal fund to be
used at her discretion for the relief Of
sufferers without regard to the society
shows her righteousness. To most persons
her name is synonymous with that of the
society," and it is unlikely that dollar was
sent her which was meant to be used other
than in connection with that organization.
She has held herself somewhat above rules
and regulations, and where the outlay of
money is involved such a course will in
evitably cause friction other officers of
the body are seemingly under the i'm
preston that she is too much under the
influence of certain persons close TO her,
and who may or may not be loyal to the
society. 1t is unfortunate that the dis
agreement has occurred. but it is better
that the affairs of the organization be adj
justed now than that the wrangling go on
until the public becomes distrustful.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08

When Hon. Leopold Levy became state
treasurer, Feb. 10. 1899, the state debt was
s., 400,6l5.12. When Mr.. Levy retires from the
office tomorrow the state debt will be 81
GS7, 6l5. 12-more than half having been paid
while he has been the keeper and dispenser
fund s1,572. $50 was raised, while war claim
amounting to $685., $500 was collected. The
remainder of the amount paid, 5O4,69l.o6,
was derived from the general fund-totai.
ss,7I3,OOO. The s5Oi69l.O6 represents the
amount of money saved in four years by
the business-like management OF the
States affairs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08

Henry l.. Dawes was one of the most
useful public men who has served the coun-
try during the last half century. He en-
tered the House in 1857 and. served contin-
uously until 1875, when he was elected to
the Senate to succeed Charles Sumner.
He was not an orator, but worker along
progressive lines. During thei years Mr..
Blaine was speaker he was chairman Of
the committee on appropriations. He was
eight years in the Senate He gave much
attention to Indian affairs and the present
system of allotment of lands to the tribes
was one of his achievements. He did
much to establish the present weather bu-
reau. His industry. ripe Judgment and
spotless character made him an influential
man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08

Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beresford
continues to express friendly sentiments to-
wards the United States. In speech at a
banquet given him few nights ago in New
York he declared that the British people
are in full sympathy with the Monroe doc
trine. II have said" he added, that IL I
was an American citizen 1 would fight for
the Monroe doctrine. AS British subject
] support II. II is quite as important for
Great Britain to support it, for reasons of
trade and commerce, as for America"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08

The Jou hal published a day or two ago
q communication from Mr.. Philip Kappa
port protesting against the attempt of the
ministers to influence the action of the
Legislature on the blanket remonstrance''
bill. The communication was in good tenn
per and form. but it failed to take notice
of the fact that ministers are citizens be-
fore they are preachers. and that they have
the same right to use their influence for or
against a measure that the brewers have.
We must try and be fair as we go along.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08

The success of the profit-sharing plan
proposed by the United States Steel Cor
pcration Is likely to lead to other similar
experiments The fact that SLIPS shares
were subscribed by 1883 employees of the
corporation is one of the strongest argu-
ments ever made in favor of the profit
sharing plan. Aside from any question OF
dividends II has the obvious merit of max
ing employees interested in the success of
the concern. and thereby tending to secure
more faithful service.