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to the foot of the hill on which the club is located for his sixth hole, then goes through the woods again. and then back to hole about 125 yards from the club house. The last hole is just to the right of the club steps, and within easy view of the porch.
 There are some difficult places on the links which will tax the best players to make a low score. There is slight change in the course which will enable the women to make the holes easier, and without the difficult drive up the hill to the second hole.
 Pretty Drive.
 There is a pretty drive of about mile
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is arranged for the convenience of the reader. Brilliant lights will be arranged throughout the room
 Just back of the reading room is the billiard room, where are to be found as handsome billiard and pool table as can be made in America. Even these follow the general style of the furniture of the house, and the cue and ball racks are made of the Flemish oak in the mis- sion style. Either the reading room or the billiard room can be reached from the long porch which runs around the house.
 Large Dining Room.
 On the right of the reception room is the large dining room, where there are
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Mrs. WInslow's soothinq syrup

The best remedy for DIARRHOEA- Sold by druggists in every part of the world Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup. and take no other kind. Has been used for over FIFTY YEARS by MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES the CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS. ALLAYS all PAIN, CURES WIND COLO. and is twenty-five cents a bottle
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thanks for your letter of the 11th of March, with enclosures which are ali of interest to me. I always look for news of my kindred of the southern states with great sympathy, having spent many happy days there.
 Believe me, yours faithfully,
 ARGYLL" Z
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MEETING TOMORROW.

There will be a meeting of the Orphans Home association Monday afternoon at s o'clock at St. Paul's Hall All members are requested to be present.
 MISS SUSIE FLEMING, President
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EASTER EGG HUNT.

Miss Minnie Collins gave a delightful Easter egg hunt yesterday morning from 9 to 12 o'clock at her home in Kingston A number of young people were present and the occasion was greatly enjoyed
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ST. VINCENT'S.

There will be meeting of St. Vincent 1 Auxiliary Monday. afternoon at 3:sO o'clock at St. Paul's Hall to complete ar engagements for the reception of graduate nurses Thursday, April |
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NOTES AND PERSONALS.

The sum of $l0 of the proceeds of the easter egg hunt given at the residence of MT. James A. Van Hoose yesterday afternoon by Kings Daughters of St.
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CARD CLUB,

The Young Matrons Card club will meet with Mrs. Charles A. Stilman at 1920 South Eighteenth street on Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock.
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q. o. FRIERMOOD,
VOCAL INSTRUCTOR,

VOCAL INSTRUCTOR, has severed his connection with Con servatory of Music.
 Private studio, Watts Building Room 23, 20th street and 3rd avenue.
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w. R. Movay keeps the finest liquors in town at reasonable prices. Call or phone. 2l2O 2d Ave. Bell phone 529.
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POLLOCk-STEPHENS INSTITUTE The following. is sonopss of the two dramas and opera to be given by the Poi
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The new club house Is situated on the top of the hill, just few feet higher than the place where the school, which burn ed several years ago. was located. It is on the Lakeview car line. and only about A mile and a half from the center of the city, with smooth streets leading to 1t. The club Is just near enough to the center of the city to be convenient, at
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1904-03-04
Disastrous Blaze Along Staten Island Sound this
Morning Was Small Plant Owned and 0per-
ated by P. White & Sons of the City--TWenty-
five Men Thrown Out Of Employment.
NO PRESSURE FOR WATER, TUCBOAT CALLED.

Fire at 6.45 O'Clock this morning
destroyed the Perth Amboy Smelling
q Refining Company's plant, causing
$l0,0 damage and throwing twenty
five men out of employment tempor-
arily. One of the men, who had just
arrived to begin work, happened to
go into the furnace department and
found the interior ablaze. The other
employees were quickly summoned
and while one ran to the fire alarm
box, No. 81, at Wayne and State
streets, the others started to battle
with the flames.
The fire department. was quickly on
the scene, but there was hardly suffi-
cient water pressure to force a stream
out OF the hose nozzle One of the
firemen placed his fingers on the ond
in an effort to make it squirt further.
They could not get stream near
the building and were forced to stand
by and watch the buildings burn.
Word was sent to the Lehigh Val :
lev with request that they send a
tug. The Allentown, in charge of
Captain James O'Toole, was dis
patched About 1000 feet of hose
was laid and the tug was soon forcing
a good sized stream on the burning
buildings.
So much tims had been lost, how
ever, that the fire was beyond control
and the plant was practically ruined.
The fire Is supposed to have started
from one of the refining furnaces.
Richard White, of p White & Sons
who control the company said this
morning that the damage would be at
least $4,000. Mr.. White was Bit
ter in denounoing the poor supply of
water. "We are compelled to pay a
big price for water out in this place, :"
he said "and it is shame that we
cannot have it when it is needed"
The Perth Amboy Smelling & Rein
ing Company is small plant along
the Staten Island sound just north of
the Lehigh Valley docks. 1t is owned
and operated by p. White & Sons, of
tbs city. 1t had four refining fur
naces ana blast furnace. 1t will pro-
badly be rebuilt.
The ruins burned all the morn ing
and while the apparatus returned to
their houses, the tugboat continued to
play stream. Back taps were
sounded at .45 O'Clock
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1904-03-04
Many Pretty Costumes Seen in
Wilder Hall Last Night at
Annual Event.
THE PRIZE WINNERS.
Two Awarded to the Ladies' land Two for
the Men-March Started at Midnight
and Dancing was Afterward Resumed
Affair was Great Success Given by
Sick and Death Benefit Fund.

The second ANNUAL masquerade ball
of the Work Sick and Death
Benefit Fund, of the United States OF
America, Branch No 1ls, of Perth
Amboy. was held in Wilder Hall last
night. The costumes were numerous
and pretty. The grand march took
place at 10 o o'clock. The judges were
Bert Redwood, Albert DeLeon,
Louis Smith, Hans Olerigh, and John
French. About 100 couple passed be-
fore them and the prizes were awarded
as follows: Ladies' first prize, Mrs.
Wardell,, comb and brush set; gen.
tlemen's first prize, Thovala Sorenson,
a shaving set; John Smith, dressed as
q woman, was awarded ladies second
prize, work box. Henry Jaeger re-
ceived gentlemen's second prize, a
pine.
The committee of arrangements was
MS follows: Charles Albert, chairman ;
Chr. GottstieD, Neils Lybeck, Fred
Roever, X. Nommerson. Frederick
Roever was floor manager. He was
assisted by Joseph Dammits and
Franz Dudasko.
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IN FOG IN NEW
] YORK HARBOR.
Barge from Port Reading Sunk
The FerybOat Westfield
Runs Down a Schooner.

While the fog was til ickest in New
York harbor yesterday, the Pennsyl-
vania ferryboat Chicago, with 800
passengers, crashed into the heavily
laden coal barge Eliza, which was in
a tow bound from Port Reading to
New York. Captain Bernard Larsen,
of the Eliza, and his wife and mother
were just sitting down to breakfast
in the little cabin in tho stern when
the crash came. None were fully
dressed.
AS the family reached the deck Il Q
barge, which had been cut complete
ly through by the ferryboat, careened,
and the two women and baby were
thrown into the water Capt. Lar
sen went overheard after them in
stantly and got them to the inclined
side of the barge, up which they
climbed. while the passengers held
their breath till the little company
reached the level of the ChicaRo's
deck and were. dragged to the Terry
boat, the mother still clinging to her
baby.
Soon after this the Staten Island
ferryboat West6eld, while feeling her
way off Liberty Island, came within
five feet of crashing into the Robert
Garrett of the same line, and q few
minutes later she struck O schooner.
The bowsprit of the schooner caught
the Westfield's upper works we'll for
ward OH the starboard side and ripped
q hole along the mems cabin for Il
quarter of its length. None of the
passengers were hurt, bnt there was
u panic, in which several women
tainted.
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freehOlders Met in South AmhOy
Yesterday and Viewed the
Bridge from that Side.
NO FURTHER DAMAGE.
About 800 Feet of the Structure will Need
Repairing and Fully Sesenty-five feet
will Have to be Rebullt-Freeholders
Had Been Warned What Would Happen
and Fault is Not Contractors.

There were eight members of the
County Board of Freeholders who
met at Michael Welsh Is Hotel, South
Amboy, yesterday af ternoon, leaving
here about 2 O'Clock to go on an in
spection of the new Rari tan river
bridge. The condition of the struc-
ture was carefully gone into and the
extent of the damage estimated. The
census of opinion was that 300
feet of the new bridge is damaged,
and that section of at least 70 feet
will have to be entirely rebuilt. The
ice is piled in some places on the floes
to a height of fifteen feet and the alb
sence of ice breakers makes the dan
ger much greater than it would other
wise be.
Tho majority of the freeholders,
contrary to report, expressed them
selves as believing that the blame
for the disaster rests with the county
aud not with the contractors 1t is
claimed that an appropriation should
have been made with which to pro-
vide suitable protection for the struc-
ture.
Speaking with News reporter,
Freeholder James M. Glenn, chair
man of the bridge committee, said !:
"I sounded note of warning, of
what has happened, some time ago. l
said that the board should provide
suitable protection for the bridge it
il building, and yet the suggestion of
an appropriation with which to pro.
vide the ice breakers was not needed.
The fall of the bridge was predicted
by competent engineers secured by me
and by the contractors themselves.
Nothing will be done towards the re-
pairs until the builders ask for an
appropriation for that purpose, which
they will probably do" Two other
freeholders expressed themselves in
similar terms.
In regard to the complaint of the
Ostrander Brick COMPANY, that nnvi-
cation is impeded, the members say
that nothing can be done as far as can
be seen. The bridge has not been
damaged further than it was yester-
day morning.
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Beth MOrdeCai School Observe
Feast Of "Purm' with
Masquerade Ball.
HANDSOME COSTUMES.
Was Merry Scene and all Thoroughly En-.
ioyed Themselves Several Prizes were
0ffered-The Characters were Unique
and Attracted Much Attentiun-Ch Children
Took their Parts Well.

The masquerade ball of the children
of the congregation Beth Mordecai,
last night, in Braga Hall, in celebra-
tion of the "Purim" festival, was one
ofIthe most delightful social affairs of
the present season in this city. The
children and their parents, about 100
in number, were present and the pret-
ty and elaborate costumes excelled
those seen at any similar affair this
winter. The hall presented beauti-
full appearance, the gay costumes
making charming scene.
The grand march was led by Mau-
rice and Irene Bruck. The first prize
for the girls was awarded to Beatrice
Fels, who gave q striking imitation of
Mr.. Pee wee. She received copy of
Leeser's Bible. The second prize,
with Flintlock and Rifie, !" was won
by Lille Schwartz, who was dressed
as an Indian maiden. The third,
book of Bible stories, went to Rose
Philo, The American Beauty" The
first boys prize, Leeser's Bible, was
won by William Kline and John
Tyroler, who were dressed ms the
Roger Brothers, the famous German
comedians. Tho partners drew for
the prize, which went to the first.
named of the two Jack Klein, an
Irish hod :ier, took the second
prize, Justice to the jew" The
third was carried off by Maurice
Bruck, who represented swell coon.
The judges were Mrs. Leo Schwartz,
Jeppe Sondergaard and Max Gibbien.
About II o'clock a cakewalk was
held. The children took their parts
in an excellent manner and the cake
finally was awarded to Flossie Kreiels-
heimer and Beatrice Fels.
Refreshments were served and
ABOUT midnight the children and their
elders departed for home, the young
sters having enjoyed themselves to
the utmost. The ball was given by
the officials of tho school to the chill
dren. The committee In charge con-
listed of Jacob Goldberger, chairman;
Leo Schwartz, secretary; Kassel Fin
klestein, Herman Philo and M. Cor
don. Music was furnished by Esberg's
orchestra.
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EVERYBODY
is TALKING
OF CONTEST.
The Race Now Being Conducted
by the Evening News is
ArOusiug Enthusiasm.
ALLCOLLECT|NC BALLOTS

Two new names have been added to
the Evening News contest today.
They are Henry Balderston, of the
Royal Arcanum and L. Steffener, of
the FL. S. L. S. The ballots are in
great demand and the contest has
grown to be the talk of the town.
Following are the votes TO date:
John J. Deveny, P. A. 1889
Peter Poulson, P. A. 997
J. Howard Hope, P. A. 564
Capt Thomas McElroy, Wood 'ge 29y
Mrs. f. E. Bachman, Tottenville 23s
Martin J. Olsen, P. A. 1919
ALEX. Conquest, p. A. 144
Jack Klein, P. A. 80
D. W. Blair, p A. 70
George Gillis 80
P. j. Smith, p. A. 81
Mrs. Katherine Burke, P. A. 28
Joseph G. Burns, P. A. J5
Anne Mintz, P. A. II
DIR. Frank Crowther P. A. 10
Henry Balderston, P. A. 5
L. Steffener, p A 4
W. McDonough, P. A.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1904-03-04
Ladies' Auxiliary Held Annual
Meeting at Home Of
President.
HAVE RAISED S99O.47.
Annual Report Of the Treasurer Read at
Meeting Showing Work for the Year
$3.50 Turned Over to the Governors
VIII Hold an Easter Cake Sale Carol
Club will Give a Concert.

At the fourth annual meeting of.
the Ladies Auxiliary of the Hospital
Association, held at the home of the
president, Mrs. George D. Runyon,
Yesterday afternoon, the annual re-
port of the treasurer was read, show
ing total of 1890. AZ raised during
the year. 1t was decided to turn over
$7O0 of this to the treasurer of the.
Hospital Association. The rece ipts
for the year have been balance last
year S54 rs; individual contributions,
SAG. 80; donation day, s3g45: Easter
cake sale, $31.5l; spring rummage
sale, $173.s7; May cake sale, $si. .06;
membership dues, $40. 30: sale Of
towels, $40 So; baseball game, s52 20;
fall rummage sale, $153. 3d., Thanks
giving Day collection, $ss. AZ EIks
minstrels, 1885. 30.
Of the disbui sements, Sickles Bros.
500; J. ]. Dietche, 2.1O; treasurer
of Hospital Association, $3.50, making
total of S257. 81. Balance on hand
is $7sy. 35. .,,,--,,,--.. ..-.s4 -
1t was decided " hold an Easter
cake sale. The Carol Club will also
give concert during the spring The
annual election of officers will be held
Thursday, March II, at the home Of
the president.
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ANNUAL REPORT OF
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Chief Burke Closes the Year with
Record Breaking Figures
764 Arrests

The annual report of the police de-
partment shows that there have been
since March J., 1908, 764 arrests and
6O2Nlodgers. $1.349. 80 has been col
lected in fines. These figures show
decided increases over those of the
previous year.
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Bryan Eas Tried For a Year.
LINCOLN, Neb., March 4.-W. j.
Bryan is quoted as saying that he op-
poses Judge Parker on the ground that
he has been trying for Il year to lind
out what his views are on public ques-
tions and has failed.
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SIGNED A BOND FOR
$500 THIS MORNING.

John Maciniak this morning ap-
peared in the police court to sign his
bond for $500. He and John Finn,
the alleged assailants of Edward Hy.
man, were released yesterday. Finn
ball is $500.
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Men, cravenette rain coats in black
and gray. 81. 48 at Cannon g Sheehy 8
S-4-5-6-8t.
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New stock of Columbia records re
ceived from factory today. d. V.
Rush, State st.
5235-3 Alt
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Another lot of Men s 25c suspen-
ders 15o pair at Cannon & Sheehy s.
5237.3-4-5-2t.
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Another lot of men S 25c suspenders
15c pair at Cannon & Sheehy's.
3-4.5-6-3s
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Pianos. Cash or time at the old
stand. Peder Olsen. SO Smith st.
5526-9-19-2t-e. WITT
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The Evening News makes special
ty of real estate.
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WEATHER.

The New York Herald forecast Is: fdr
Saturday.fair with fresh uorihwesterIy 10
westerly winds with continued low but
s'owly rising temperature.
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Mems cravenette rain coats in black
and grey, 81. 48 at Cannon & Sheehy's.
5237-3-4-5 ct
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Sewing machines for sale by Peder
Olsen, So Smith ST.
3526a. 10 -2t.e. W. If
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classified ads. on page 8.
The Rice belt journal., 1904-04-08
I'll RoO NQi nrHss5hss

Pa, says: For two years l had KID
ney trouble and there was such
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limbs that could not stoop or
straighten up without great pain, mad
difficulty in getting about and was
unable to rest at night, arising In
the morning tired and worn out me
kidney secretions were irregular and
deposited a heavy sediment. Doctors
treated me for rheumatism, but failed
to help me. l lost all confidence In
medicine and began to feel as II life
were not worth living. Doan's kidney
Pills. however, relieved me so quickly
and SO thoroughly that 1 gladly made
a statement to that effect for publica-
tion. This was in 1898. and during the
six years which have elapsed | have
never known Doan's Kidney Pills to
fail. They cured my wife OF a severe
case of backache in the same thor
ough manner.
A FREE TRIAL of this great kid
ney medicine which cured Mr.. Bier
bach will be mailed on application to
any part of the United States. Ad'
dress Foster -Milburn Co., Buffalo, N
Y. For sale by all druggists, price 5o
cents per box.
The Rice belt journal., 1904-04-08

are nearly perpendicular to the rest
of the straw, thus making a three or
four-spoked wheel attached to short
tube.
If these tubes are then slipped over
a smaller straw, with the spokes fac
ing each other and interlocking, they
will hold together well enough to
form windmill with six or eight
vanes, turning easily on its straw
axle The ends of this axle are in
serted into Sits made very carefully
in the middle of two long coarse
straws, which are fastened together
The Rice belt journal., 1904-04-08
Rexond EXPRESSION.

G. w. Farlowe, East Florence, Ala,
writes: For nearly seven years
was afflicted with form of skin dls-
ease which caused an almost unbear-
able itching. 1 neit-er work, rest or
sleep in peace. Nothing gave me per-
manent relief until l tried Hunts
Cure. One application relieved me;
one box cured me, an, though year
has passed, 1 have stayed cured.
am grateful beyond expression"
Hunts Cure is a guaranteed remedy
for all itching diseases of the skin.
Price soc.
The Rice belt journal., 1904-04-08
FRUIT AND TRUCK NEWS
FOR TRUCK FARMERS.
How to Plant and Save Watermelon
Seed.

(Rv Mr.. n. L. Willett of Georgia.
The SHINING of melons north be
gan in 1867 at Augusta. The sandy
lands of Southern Georgia, on paref
lei with Augusta, makes the pest nieF
ems in the world Melon vines grown
farther north often produce from SIN
To eight melons to the vine, but they
are all small. No southern grower ol
melons saves seeds from more tnan
two melons per vine. 1t takes about
eight melons to make a pound. Colo
rado and Oklahoma melon seed VIII
prove failures in Georgia. Florld1
sells large amounts of melon seed;
but this peninsular is between Two
salt oceans, with salt winds in the
air over all portions of it. Salt air
means death to the quality OF melons
Sandy soil, with it's strata OF clay un-
derneath, is best. Plant six seeds 10
hill and hills eight by twelve. work
only the wide way. A good fertilizer
meal, one hundred pounds acid phos-
phate, one hundred pounds kainit, per
acre About four hundred good mel
ons per acre, or one-third of car.
may be obtained. In saving seed,
every melon under twenty pounds
should be rejected. One or two care
full hands go ahead in the field and
with large butcher knives cut open
the melons from which seed are to be
taken. They turn the cut sides up II
the melon shows UP all right, and turn
them down upon the ground, if they
wish to reject them. Other hands
follow with buckets and scrape the
! seeds, Juice and pulp, into them. These
buckets are emptied into barrels con
| veniently placed in the field. To sep
arate the seeds, use screen two by
| three feet, No. II wire, with mesh -
| inch. The barrel contents are poured
| into the screens and rubbed until al
goes through except the seeds. SEEDS
| are then dried and sacked. Some
years ago advised a grower near Au
| gusta to advertise under his name
genuine Rattlesnake in the northern
press. His farm adioined the farm
upon which this melon originated. HI
accepted my advice and today he SELL
annually about three thousand pounds
in a retail way, all over the Unttet
States, at double the usual price.
The Rice belt journal., 1904-04-08
WINDMILL OF sTRAWs.

by two short and smaller straws in-
serted near their ends in the same
way. =
This makes an oblong frame. Or
the frame may be. made of a single
very long straw bent into narrow
triangle with the small end stuck into
q 1itaaear the big end. In either case
another crosspiece must be put in
near the windmill and long straw
passed through Sits in the crosspiece
and the end of the frame. This long
straw is to blow through. 1t must be
in lire with the windmill and it's top
must be bent upward slightly and
very carefully. Now, if you hold the
The Rice belt journal., 1904-04-08

This is a pretty though fragile toy.
and the making of it will be both in
teresting and easy, unless you have
Clumsy fingers. If you have, it will
be a good exercise for the purpose of
making them less clumsy.
The whole machine is made entirely
of straw-there isn't even a drop of
glue or wax to hold it together You
must have good, sound rye straw, I'M
threshed, or at least unbroken. The
wheel is made of two three-inch
pieces of coarse straw. Slit each
piece for rather more thc1 half it's
length into either three or four strips
and bend these strips out until they