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Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-27
LOCAL ITEMS.

Mr.. and Mis-. John K. Sheehy and
Mrs. George Yepsen left today for
visit in Huguenot, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Huse, of New
York, are visiting Mrs. Huse' parents,
Captain and Mrs. James Parker, in
Water street.
Miss Ida Slone, of Newark, is
visiting Mrs. Rass Rasmussen, Of
Madison avenue.
Emil Waters, timekeeper at the
Raritan Copper works, is back at work
again after two weeks vacation.
William Gilman, of Woodbridge,
spent Sunday with Perth Amboy
friends.
August Lembcke, formerly of this
city. now of Jersey City, is in town.
William Campbell, of the American
Smelling & Refining company's cleri-
cal force, is on two weeks vacation.
John Tierney. of Kearney avenue,
has entered the employ of the Raritan
Copper works.
Andrew Hanson, of Brighton ave-
nue., has accepted position in the
plaster department. of the Rocky Hill
terra Gotta works.
Thomas CLARK, of Gordon street,
came home last night after pleasant
trip to his former home in Baltimore.
d. W. Blair is back from Pautucket,
K. l., where he spent several weeks
in the interest of the Raritan Copper
works.
Miss Annie Anderson, of 81 La
fayette street, Jersey City, is visiting
relatives on Prospect street. this city.
William Cassidy, of Mcclellan
street, is enjoying a brief vacation
from his duties as weigher at the
Raritan Copper Works.
Leroy Zellers, formerly of this city,
| but now of Troy, N. T., is In town
| renewing old acquaintances.
Ernest Sorenson, OF New York city,
| is spending his vacation with his
cousin, Frederick Ernst, of Division
street
Harold Roberts has returned to his
home in New York, after a week s
visit with mis- cousin, Harry Larson,
of this city.
Miss Agnes Mundy, OF Fords, is
visiting Mrs. Dudley Whitworth, of
Madison avenue.
James Mugford, of State street. will
leave on Wednesday for Buffalo,
N. Y.
Herbert Eyerkuss, of State street, is
spending the week in New York with
relatives.
Mrs. Williams and son Emanuel, of
Madison avenue, are visiting friends
in New York state for few weeks.
Harry Woglom, of State street, has
resigned his position in the plaster
department of the Perth Amboy terra
Gotta works. He will enter the en-
ploy of Graham, the State street
baker.
| Ramsay Crowell visited friends in
New York Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Laura Dixon, of Elizabeth, is
visiting Smith street friends this
week.
Mrs. John Wood, of Madison ave-
nue., is visiting friends in Elizabeth.
Harry White, of Centre street, has
resigned his position at tie BILE
works to enter the employ of the
Barber Asphalt Company at Maurer.
Edgar M. Gardner, chief yardmaster
at the Raritan Copper works, is back
at his duties again after week s
vacation.
ICON tjnued on page g.
Take home box of ice cream from
| Caxtonfs Drup Store 15ctE mint 3Octs
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-27
PAYMENT ON. l. !:
NEW CHURCH r.
Of the First $4,000 There Has
Been Collected $1,000
To Publish Slips.

In speaking of the amount of money
left to be collected for st. Mary's
new church, Father O'Connell, yes
Uerday, asked those who had promised
to help raise the SI5, 900 to hand in
their donation by tomorrow morning,
as the slip announcing the amount
given and the amount promised by
each person. would be sent to the
printers Tuesday night Thus far
about So, 900 has been collected and it
is expectedsthat the remaining $4,000
or more will be in by tomorrow morn
ing. When this is in the first pay
mention the new church will be able
to be made.
AS the church is TO cost $4,000.
collections in the neighborhood of
Sl5, 600 will be made from time to time
as necessary.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-27
Massachusetts, which will Ar
rive at GregOry's Any Day,
Was a Well Known Craft.
OTHER BOATS IN YARD.
Drew is Fast Being Torn Apart-The
Ferry Boats and Steamers Besides Tug
Boats. Will Soon be no MOre-What
Becomes of Junk-MetaI Sold by the
Ton.

The sale of the Massachusetts by
the Marine Department of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Rail
road to John H. Gregory, of this CITY,
backed palaces of Long Island sound.
Designed and built by Henry Steers,
of Greenpoint, L. l., for the Provi.
dence and Stonipgton Steamboat
Company, and coming out in the
spring of 1877, the three TERED galleon
had picturesque feature in her lofty
paddle boxes, which were high and
narrow.
It was said of the Massachusetts that
she was like house whose builder,
after the plan and foundation had
been prepared, decided to add another
story. For this reason the boat was a
trife topheavy for her beam, which
made her somewhat cranky, Like
some individuals of the human race,
she was lacking in stability, but,
although her career was bit check
cred, she was a lucky boat
Capt. William NJ. Jones, who was
on the sound for about half century,
brought her out. Capt. Jones COM
manded her for several years. Then
Capt. Ray Allen took her. He was
followed by Capt. o. @. Griffin, now
in command of the Plymouth, who
was her master for twelve years.
The galleon, the second of her name
on the sound, is no longer adapted to
present requirements. and retires to
the iunkyard, to be survived only by
memories, of which the foregoing are
the chief.
When the Massachusetts, arrives In
this city, as it is expected she will
almost any day now, she will be tow
ed to the Gregory marine graveyard
at the foot of Madison avenue, where
she will find her last resting place
with such famous old boats as the big
Drew, of the Albany Steamboat line,
which is now fast being broken up
and will soon be no more. Every
Sunday crowds come down to the foot
Of the avenue to look at the vessels.
Among these there are the Staten
Island ferry boat Northfield and the
old Central Railroad annex boat the
Central The old Colonia, which took
many an excursion party out of New
York, and the old time treighter the
Chancellor, are about broken up and
little of them remains to be seen.
This week the harbor tug boat Amelia,
of New York, has been brought to
the place and today gang of men
are at work taking out her boilers and
engine. When the boats are all broken
apart, the iron is sold to junk
dealers at so much per ton and shipped
from this city by the carload. The
good wood is sold at so much per
wagon load to those who care TO buy
it.
On Saturday two big pieces of wood,
apparently the bottom of one of the
old crafts, were on the sand near the
drawbridge, when a number of bows
who were in bathing, managed to
push one of the pieces off into deep
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-27
CAPITALIZED AT sIOO, 600.

In the article in Saturdays News,
giving the first information in regard
to the new shipyard across the sound,
it was stated that the new company
would be capitalized at $1,000 The
correct figure is 500, 900, and of this
amount over 800, 900, more than half,
has been already subscribed.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-27
NEW SOCIAL CLUB.

A new club, to be known as the
Wednesday Night Social Club, has
Just been organized by seven young
men of this city, for social affairs.
They have decided to hold dance at
Boynton Beach on Wednesday night,
August 12th, and all their friends will
be invited to attend. The following
are the club members; Augustus
Deitche, Charles Peterson, Alfred
Crowell, Frederick Ort, Daniel
O'Brien, Hadden Seaman, s. Con-
quest.
Pal EntnA., n,I..,,,,, .,nn.o 0
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-27
PARTY Ar SEA BREEZE.

Mr.. and Mrs Menty, the Misses
Mollie and Anna Berger, Of New
York: Mr.. and Mrs. B. Goldman, Miss
Lena Goldman, Messrs. L. D. Banks,
Harry Mendel and Joseph Jaffee, OF
this city, made up merry party tina
spent yesterday afternoon and evening
at Sea Breeze.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-27
DRUM CORPS PICNIC.

The Independent Fife and Drum
Corp, of this city, went to Kossville,
S. l., Saturday afternoon in body
were they attended picnic and dance
given by the members of Westfield
Fife and Drum Corps. The affair was
held IN, Pullman Grove and was well
attended.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-27
SAW SHAMROCK III.

d. ". Blair, Thomas johnson and
Louis Smith, all of the Raritan
Copper Works, went out in Mr.. Blair s
launch yesterday and had look at
Shamrock III. They had to go to Erie
Basin.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-27
NOTICE.

Special meeting of the Buildings
Trade Association will be held in
Dana Hall, Monday evening.
7-25-2t
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-27

Take your physicians prescriptions
to Sexton's Drug Store, it will be
carefully perpared at moderate
price. 7-24-tf
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-27

Take home a box of ice cream from
Sections Drug Store, 15cts pint, 30cts
quart, 3149-7-24-t If
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-27
Equitahles,

Two base hits, Hoffner, Lyons.
Tierney. Bases ON balls, off Hopper
3, off McPhillips 8. Struck out by
Hopper A. by MePhillips 6. Double
play, Kiernan to Hoffner, Stolen
bases, Kiernan 4, Moorehead, Calvin,
Lindeman, Reinacher, Sacrifice hits,
Moorehead, .ditohel, Bernard. Time
of game, hr. 40 min Umpire
Bradley,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-27
Grand Entertainment
BRAGA HALL,
A - -


MONDAY JULY AZ,
Assisted by
PETER FJEL5TRUP,
From '.Folbetheatretn Copenhagen, also anna
teu players from Brooklyn in En- Pokkers Tos.
Tickets,l 100 Cents. Reserved seats, 15c. extra.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-27

The forecast received at the local Signal
Station Is for fair and warmer.
The maximum temperature Saturday
was 8S and the minimum "a. Yester-
day SO and 66.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-27

Real Irish linen writing paper, 10cts
box. Sexton's Drug Store.
7.24-tf
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-07-07
Address at Gettysburg
Bye Col. JohnR Lane

ing words, Capt. McCreery. who has al
ways contended that the 10Th would tight
better than any other regimen IN the
brigade, SEXES the fallen flag, waves y
aIott and advancing to the front. II shot
through the heart and fails bathing the
flag IL his lies blood. Lieut.. George
Wilcox Of Company II, now PUSHES Tor
ward. and pulling the flag from under the
dead hero, advances with 1t. IN a lew
steps he also fans with two wounds-not
fatal-in his body.
The line hesitates: the crisis is reached.
the colors must advance. The gallant
Burgwyn leaps forward. takes them up
and again the line moves forward. Re
turning again from the right, Lieut.. Col.
Lane sees Col. BurgWyn advancing with
the colors. At this juncture. a brave pm
vate. Franklin Honeycutt, of Company b.
takes the colors and Burgwyn turns to
hear from the right. Col. Lane says: We
are in line on the right" Col. Burgwyn
delivers Pettigrew's message to Lieut..
Col. Lane. At that instant he falls with
a bullet through both lungs, and at the
same moment brave H~onneycutt falls dead
only a few steps IN advance. Then indeed
was our SITUATION desperate. The flag Is
down. the line is hating. the enemy are
strengthing their line and firing upon our
men with murderous effect, and more than
all the youthful commander has fallen, and
all the responsibility falls upon the
shoulders OF his successor. Bowling by the
side of the fallen youth, Lieut.. Col. Lane
stops for a moment to ask: MY dear
Colonel. are you severely hurt?" A bow
ed head and a motion to the left side and
a pressure of the hand IS the only re
sponse; but che looked as pleasant as
if victory were on his brow Reluctantly
leaving his dying commander to go where
duty calls him Lieut.. Col. Lane hastens
to the right. meets Capt. MCLAUGHLIN, OF
Company K. tells him of General Petit
Crews words of praise, but not of his
Colonels fan. He gives the order: "Closs
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-07-07

, your men quickly to the left, 1 am going
to give them the bayonet." Gallant Capt.
MCLAUGHLIN IN a few moments is so
seriously wounded that his services to
the Confederacy are lost. Col. Lane hur-
ries to the left and gives similar orders
and returns to the center. During this
time the battle has been raging fiercely.
Our captains have been coolly giving
their orders. "Shoot low men," and the
men have been busy, but they have suf-
fered d~readfully. After the battle General
Heath saw the line of those who fell at
this time, and remarked that the fallen
were IN line as II on dress parade. When
Col. Lane returns he finds the colors still
down. Col. Burgwyn and the brave prl-
vate, Franklin Honeycutt, lying by them.
Now or never the regiment must adj
vance. He raises the flag. Lieut.. Blair,
Company |, rushes out saying: mo
man can take these colors and live" Lane
replies: 1T Is my time to take them
now and shouting at the top of his
voice while advancing with the flag says:
"26th, follow me-" The men answer with
a yell and press forward. Several lines of
the enemy have given away, but a most
formidable Inc yet remains, which seems
determined to hold its position. Nolleys
OF musketry are fast thinning out those
left; only a skeleton line now remains.
To add to the horrors Of the scene. the
battle smoke has settled down over the
combatants making it almost as dark as
night. But these men are ~undaunted
They never tire, their muscles are made
OF IRON. With a cheer they greet every
order to advance; they rush on and up
ward: now they reach the summit Of the
hill: the last line of the enemy gives way
and suddenly ~retires.
just as the last shots are firing, a SER
geant III the oath Michigan, now Presi-
dent OF the Iron Brigade Veteran ASsocia-
ton. MIR. Charles H. Mcconnell. Of Chi
cago, says that attracted by the com
handing figure of Col. Lane CARRYING the
colors. he fingers to take a farewell shot
with his last cartridge. and resting his
musket on a tree he awaits his opportuni-
ty. When about thirty steps distant, as
Col. Lane turns to cheer his regiment. a
ball fired by his brave and resolute ad-
versary, strikes him in the back of the
neck, just below the brain. crashes
through his jaw and mouth
and for the fourteenth and
last time the colors are down. They are
taken from the hand Of tn, fallen Lane
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-07-07

mouse 10 our Ilsht- 'ol bufe"9h ordsitu
d man sent IoiNdfd 70 tdhe iheHI d""H'
"heh Lieut.. >. a. l-o"e, Oh 'ohhp'hy -
Voluhteefed' creeping lof"dIu dlohs /"
renee uhtl he got d position from "hlch
ne could see the men behIhd the chimney
VINO were dolhS the shoollils' he soon
sliehced theli- Duflilg al TINS lIihe We
supposed tnat hi was bringing up ms
corps and placing 1t IN position. Col. Bur
sWyh became quite impatient =" engage
the enemy, saying we were losing pfeci-
Gus time- but mn dld not come anu
we had nothing 70 90 but 10 want LOT ms
ARRIVAL on the held. However, we were
keeping our men as quiet and comtorta-
BILE a. possible, sending details to the rear
tor water, and watching the movements OF
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-07-07
Lme Burgwyn Vance.
VANCE, M LANE
The Three Famous Colonies of the Famous Twenty
Sixth North Carolina Regiment.

command "Attention!" The time for this
command could not have been more mop
perfume. Our line had Inspected the
enemy and we knew the desperateness OF
the charge we were to make. But with
the greatest quickneSs the regiment
obeyed. All the men were up at once and
ready, every officer at his post, Col. Bur
gwyn in the centre, Lieut.. Col. Lane on
the right, Major Jones on the left. Our
gallant standard-bearer Mr.. ]. b. Mans
field, at once stepped to his position
four PAGES to the front, and the eight
color guards to their proper places. At
the command Forward March, all to
a man stepped off, apparently as Wiling
ly and as proudly as if they were on re
view. The enemy at once opened fire,
killing and wounding some, but their aim
was rather too high to be effective. All
kept the step and made as pretty and per
feet Il line as regiment ever made, every
man e~ndeavoring to keep dressed on the
colors. We opened fire on the enemy.
On. on we went, our men yet in perfect
line, until we reached the branch
CWilloughby's RUM in the ravine. Here
the briers, reeds and underbrush made it
difficult to pass. There was some crowd
llS III llc CeilleI, Dul IlG IISll anu lei
crossed the branch where they struck it.
The enemy's artillery, (Cooper's Battery,
on our right got an enfilade fire. Our
loss was %frightful. But our men crossed
in good order and Immediately We're in
proper position again, and up the hill we
went firing now with better execution.
The engagement was becoming desper
ate. 1t seemed as if the bullets were as
thick as hallstones IN a storm. At his
post on the right OF the regiment and
ignorant as to what was taking place OF
the left, Lieut.. Col. Lane hurries to the
centre. He is met by Col. Burgwyu, who
informs him 1T i all right in the centre
| and on the left; we have broken the first
line of the enemy" The reply comes:
we are III line on the right. Colonel
At this time the colors nave been cut
down ten times. the color guard all killed
or wounded. We have now struck the
second line of thg enemy where the fight
ing is the fiercest and the killing the
deadliest. Suddenly Captain w. w. Nc
Creecy. Assistant Inspector General OF
the Brigade. rusheS forward and speaks
to Col. Rurgwyn. He bears him Il mes
sage. Tell him says General Pettigrew
"his regiment has covered itself Will
glory today Delivering these encourag
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-07-07
Hester's Cotton Statement,

New Orleans, La, July 3.-Secretary
Hester's statement of the worlds visible
supply OF cotton, issued today, shows tie
total visible to be 2,213, so. against 2.2S5,.
1872 last week and 2,373. Gel last year. OF
this the total of American cotton is l.
24,979, against 1892, 432 last week and
1882 ,661 last year and of all other kinds.
including Egypt, Brazil. India, etc, L.
OS9,OOO, against 1, JOB, 600 last week and
SAL 600 last year.
OF the worlds visible supply of cotton
there Is now afoat and held in Great
Britain and Continental Europe 1,243, 900,
against l,401 eco last year: IN Egypt 81
600, against 1900 last year; in India
660, 600, against 4G5, 900 last year, and in
the United States $50, 600, against 427 900
last year.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-07-07
TESTIMONY THAT IS CONFLICTING
The Hood Idea. The Mythical Battle. Strength OF
the AssauIting Column. The Evil Genius OF
the ConfederaCy.

much a. twelve thousand from one ol Tor
~ thousand
In real truth the victory he gAned A.
ChancellorSxalle Vas one over 1ehFFAl
Hooker and not oyer the army q the
Potomac. Tor though a part 81 that aIus
had been badly beaten two !aIl yutps h@d
been held m reserve ana had not htci a
shot. one OF these. the First. Va y
far the best corps ia At army. IL iAsi.
Il wl~ the equal u ans dtNlsluu n oar
army. When General Lee arrlNed n Get
tv-burg on the afternoon 81 the tret day :
hattie. he saw two Federal corps ~ r.
treat-(a part Of them IA very great DIS
ordeD-making for the ridge back OF the
town. Both of these organizations hai
suffered very severely. one of them. IN"
first. had been almost destroyed. but be-
lore retreating it had inflicted a greater
numerical los upon hls people than 4
had itself sustained.
This General Lee did not know tll al
ter the battle. II then. the next day.
Iongstrect. with three divisions. had
fought IA drawn battle with what he sup
posed to be the whole Federal army. With
only these lights -,iore him, he, on the
third day, stlked all on a single throw
and lost.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-07-07

giment, none of them We're fresh and that
most Of them had been heavily engaged,
and badly cut up two days before.
This is known: That in the assault they
We're subjected to a severer fire than
those on the right. and that their loss was
much more than twenty-eight per cent.
can be proved.
Well done. expresses the deed on the
right. excellently done, the deed on the
LETT.
CHARACTER OF TROOPS COM
PARED.
From the battle of Malvern Hill to
the Pennsylvania campaign, the three
brlgades composing Pickett's division. lost
III killed and wounded, only seven hun
dred and s~eventy-two. In the same twelve
months the men who did the real fighting
Tor the army and as a rule got little credit
for doing it. lost three or four times as
much. For instance. there were the three
brigades, Lanes. Scales and Archer's. OF
the Light Division and for that period
their loss was three thousand six hundred
and ten. The brigades in the army which
lost most heavily in killed and wounds
at Gettysburg were "a Pettigrew's North
Carolina. CD Davis Mississippi and North
Carolina, CD Daniels North Carolina, 4)
Rarksdale's Mississippi. These four had
an average of eight hundred and thirty
seven killed and wounded. Picketts
three brigades had an average of four
hundred and ffty-five. When the insig-
nificance of their loss in so many battles
was mentioned to the men of Armistead's,
CARROTS and Kemper's brigades, they
would say that this fact was owing to
the small size OF their regiments. This
reply might have had some weight had
they not made SO poor a show on the per
centage tables and umbers nave nothing
to do with that test of courage and eff
fciency. Then. too, there was no reason
why these organizations should have been
small. for when the battles around Rich
mond in 1862 began. they were large
enough to average for duty four hundred
and sixteen per regiment. At that time
enthusiasm abounded and war was looked
upon as not much more than a picnic.
A GREAT SOLDIER AND A GOOD
MAN.
General Lee was too great a soldier not
to realize before the assault was over
that he had made a fearful mistake. and
when the broken fragments of the brigade
he had ordered to almost certain death
drifted back to his line. he was too grand
and generous not to assume to the full
all the responsibility. For years II
was believed by many that he
did not mean exactly what he said 1T that
time. but that his purpose was to shield
some one who had Numbered. All now
know that his was a frank and truthful
confession Of the mistake that he, and not
another. had made.
Why SO good a soldier should have thus
erred IN Judgments not 80 well known.
The probable cause of it Is that he was
laboring under 4 misrepresentation as to
the morale of the Federal army.
Only two months before he had gained
a brilliant victory over this army which
was more than twice as numerous as his
own when the battle opened, and much
more than twice as numerous at It's close.
Seventeen thousand. from an army of one
hundred thousand. does not count for as
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-07-07

Probably there il no other historical
event IN which the testimony OF paril-
cipants has been SO conflicting a. TINS al
fair on the afternoon oi the thlrd day at
Gettysburg.
When this l. the case With witnesses
nesses is a matter of prime Importance
In the court OF history the military char
acter OF the different organizations. prior.
ana subsequent to the event investigated.
viii have to be studied before a just decl-
sion can be arrived at. Having marched
Though such u ire ar they were called
upon to face. up 70 the time they we're
forced TO halt and lie down 10 prevent an
initiation, every brigade appeared 70 90
equally well, but 4 few minutes later
when detachments oi the enemy marched
out upon their flank and they were forced
either to surrender or retreat, all did not
equally We'll, for IN Their dlsorganlzed con
dItion, rendering any resistance hopeless,
it was their duty when ordered 10 sur
render to refuse to do SO and 70 incur
some risk IN an effort To rejom Their own
people. This, many OF them at the salient
and nearly all TO the lett OF 1t, proceeded
to DO. The right OF the line. when com
handed to surrender, obeyed the order
almost to a man. and for any good they
afterwards did the ContederaCy, they all
might as well have been dead.
The men who ran away III preference
to surrender. rejoined their friends, and
from that time to Appomattox, continued
to reflect honor upon the grand old army
OF Northern Virginia.
PETTIGREW'S n TRIMBIES
MEN EXCEL THOSE OF GEN.
PICKETT.
This equality OF well-doing up to the
time of lying down in the field. was only
apparent.
Pickett's division, a body of fresh men.
in continuing to advance. till 1t had lost
tWenty-eight per cent. Of its members.
did well. AS to the other troops, it Is
known that with the exception oil one re-