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Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28

1t is said that a large brick plant
will shortly be established near Cliff
wood.
Mrs. Van Tassslo, of Trenton, is the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Charles
Thomas, of Second street.
= Miss Alice Appellate, Miss Phillips
and Will Applegate, of Perth Amhoy,
we're Morgan visitors Sunday.
Miss Ollie Durham, of Mataw an,
spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs,
Walter Mundy, of Catharine street
The residence of Laurence Lamb, al
Lawrence Harbor, has received a new
coat of paint.
Mr.. William Ferguson, of Yonkers,
spent Sunday with relatives in Broad.
way; his niece, Helen Anderson. o
Yonkers, accompanied him to- heI
home after two weeks visit with her
grandmother in Broadway.
The superintendent of the new brick
works got four carpenters from out o1
town to work at the building.
About sixtv-five girls are now am
ployed at the Acme Underwear factory
and appear to be well pleased with
the work, etc.
Miss Emma Kane and Miss Annie
Hubbs, of this borough, enjoyed a
ride bv trolley to Red Bank Sunday.
Mrs. Charles Thomas entertained
Mr.. and Mrs. William Johnson and
son, of Cranbury, and William Flet-
cher, of New York.
Jacob Germs and a party OF friends
from Perth Amboy had a private
Clambake at Morgan Sunday.
Miss M. Lolly. of New York. city.
was in town Saturday night.
Mrs. Charles Thomas cut one OF
the blossoms of the night blooming
cereus when it opened Friday night
and sent it to Miss Susie Stephenson.
who was unable to go there to see III,
as she is an invalid.
The pipes are being laid from the
new artesian well at Lawrence Har'
Dor to Lambs residence for bringing
the water into the house.
Mr.. Charles Thomas, of Second
street. Snent Sunday at Elizabeth.
Miss Annie Hubbs. of this borough,
is assistant to Superintendent Gold
stein in the Acme factory.
A few gentlemen, with their wives
and children, from this borough,
visited Morgan Sunday and enjoyed
fishing from the beach. They caught
a number of cells and spots.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28
METUCHEN.
EXCITING GAME.

An Interesting game Of baseball was
played on Robins Field Saturday after
noon between the Morey Il LeRue Com
pany, of Elizabeth, and Metuchen, ending
disastrously for Metuchen. The score
stood A to 3 in Metuchen's favor till the
ninth inning when the Elizabeth boys
scored five runs, causing wild excitment,
and "a score of 8 to 4 in Elizabeth's favor.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28

About $50 o'clock Saturday night
Miss Elizabeth Grohe. of Bordentown
avenue, was pleasantly surprised by
a number of young lady friends in
honor of her birthday. Refreshments
were served and later in the evening
they all enjoyed a short trolley ride.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28
LEHIGH VALLEY R. R.

~" A~"W III CIocb Ni"J ~ iSNo
stations in New York foot of Cortlandt, Des
brossee and West @3rd streets, Penna.
r.. r.. Ferries.
TRAINS LEAvE STATE STREET STATION
FOR NEW YORK
6.10, 7.35 a. m, and 4.28 p. M, t.32 o.. m. daily
connects all way train for Bound Brook, MauCh
Chunk, Weatherly, Hazelton, Pottsville and in
termediate points.
FOR SOUTH P~LAINFtELD
6.i0, 7.35 a. m, 1872, 4.28 p. m. Sundayp SIS
a. m. 1.S2, 6.15p IN.
FOR OTHER POINTS
7.35 a. m. daily except Sunday connect with
express train for Easton. Bethlehem, Allentown.
pottsville, Buffalo. Niagara Falls, st. Louis,
Chicago. Parlor car Bethlehem to Buffalo. CON
meets with local train mt South plainfield for all
points east of Mauch Chunk.
8.15 n. m. Sundays only, Express train for Buff
falo, Niagara Falls, st. Louis and Chicago. Stops
at Pennington Junction.
4.2s p. m. daily except Sunday express for
Wilkes Barre, Scranton, Hazelton, and principal
stations.
G.15 p. m. Sundays only through train for But
falo, Niagara Falls, Suspension Bridge, st. Louis
and Chicago, connects for New York.
TRAINS LEAVE SOUTH P~LAINFIELD
FOR PERTH AMBOY.
$40 a. m. 3.A5, 800, T.d5 .. m. Sundays, 1915,
a. m, 500, T.45 p, IN. Trains arrive Perth Am
boy, 900 a. m, 4.05, 5.25, STOP. m, Sundays II .0i
a. m, 5.25, $40 p. M.
Tickets sold to all western points.
For further information apply to ticket agents
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28

DOOh Hr
Miss Annie Mooney, of jamaica, L.
l., is the guest of Miss Hally, of
Princes Bay
Mr.. and Mrs. William O'Connor, oil
Hopping avenue, have been entertain
ing friends from out of town.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Henderson, oil
johnson avenue, will leave for Ocean
Grove this week, where they will
stay until Labor Day.
Miss Hally, TO Long Island, is visit
ing her parents at Princes Bay. Miss
Hally is Il recen graduate of the State
Normal school and has accepted a
position as teacher in Perth Amboy.
want" Ads, Tor the EVENING
NEWS received at f. Killenberger's
store, 247 Smith street.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28
SOUTH AMBOy.
BACKED INTO JETrY.

A party from Perth Amboy in a
naptha launch backed into a ietty
with the launch at C~heesequake or EEK
and knocked the propeller wheel and
lost it in the water. They wo ,ked
quite a while trying to get it, but the
launch was finally towed to Perth Am
boy by q sailboat.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28

ATLANTIC CITY, y. J.. Aug. 2S.-
A meeting here Of the New Jersey
tional Typographical union voted to
tender its assistance to any labor bod
les in the state c%ontending for the eight
hour working day. Allen Ball of Jer-
scy City, who was made chairman,
famed a committee Of three to act in
conjunction Wit! the New Jersey Fed
Grafton Of Labor in forcing the eight
hour issue.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28
TOTTENVILLE.
LAYING BALLAST ROCK.

The work of laying ballast of rock
on the bed of the Rapid Transit Rail-
road has been started on the South
Shore. AS soon as the work at that
end has been completed the road at
this end of the island will be treated
in the same way.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28
TOTTENvILLE.
ARE RETURNING HOME.

Nearly all Of the Tottenville and
Pleasant Plains people, who have been
visiting out of town, are returning
home. They all report having had an
excellent time. -
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28
HELD LAWN SOCIAL.

The entertainment which the mem
bers of the Ladies Guild, of st. Ste
phen's church, held Saturday night
on the lawn of Mrs. Johnson. OF
Slaight venue was a great success
A neat sum of money was cleared.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28

IHdrLldcyI MAIN street.
Miss Hunt, of New York, is visiting
Miss Florence Dixon.
Mrs. Schenck, of Newark, is the guest
Mrs. Scott b. Rathbun.
DR.. n Ms. j. NJ. McNulty have re-
turned from Pennsylvania.
Miss Sadie Harrison is visiting friends
in Connecticut.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen j. Ferris are visit
ing Mrs. Hamilton.
Miss Iuez Turner has been visiting
Miss Ida Auness, of Trenton.
Mr.. James Livingood and Mr.. Byron
Potter will entertain some friends at the
club house Monday night in honor OF
their birthday.
Rev. and Mrs. w. II. Jackson are enter
tanning friends from out of town.
Miss Helen Ensign is spending Il week
at Ocean Grove.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Breckenridge are
at Asbury Park.
Mrs. Henry Morris has been visiting
her daughter Mrs. Charles A. De Russy.
= Miss Mary Buffers, of this town, and
Mr.. Harry Seyler, of Perth Amboy, were
married Monday, by Rev. Father Grit
fin.
Mrs. Arthur LiddIe and Miss Florence
IIiddle are at East Branch, N. Y.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28
DANCE.

~ number of young people from
this end OF the island went to New
Brighton, Saturday night, where they
attended the dance and reception at
the Hotel Castleton. All had a fine
time.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28

Gardens drug store, 81 Hall av-
enue is a branch Office for the EV-
ENING NEWS where Want" Ads.
are received.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28
MI
NEW JERSEY CENTRAL
Corrected to Juno e5, 1905
TRAINS LEAVE PERTH AMBOY.

For New York, Newark and Elizabeth at G.33
III, Gas New York only 7.5S, SEQ, 9.01, o.5i,
Ills. 1t.59 a. m, l3.0a, Lilo, 3 ~, AZ, 300, G.23,
7.45, 800, (9.47 Saturday only, G1.01 p. m. New
York only Sundays, S.37, a. IN. b.20i 947 y. IN.
For Philadelphia and Trenton via Bound Brook
III, 9.0i, 11.5l u. m, Ito, 500, p. M Sundays
For Long Branch, Ocean Grove, ETC., 5.W,
10 a. m., 1879, 2.27, 1886, 7.l9 p. m, t2.4S
(Sundays excepted.) Sundays except Ocean
Grove) 9.55 a. m 2.2I, 4.54, 923 p. m.
For Freehold, 5.07, 1854, $40 a M, 1879, 2.N.
p. M.
Additional trains for Red Bank, Ell, sos, 6,S3
For South Amboy 5.O7. 6.H. I'll, 9.9O am
1886, 4.43, 5.15, 5.52, 0,D
TRAINS FOR PERTH AMBOY
Leave New York, 400, $50, G.i5, $50, s.3s
1000, II 80 II. m, 1.30, 200, 2.45, 3.41, 40, 5.t5,
5.38, $50, S.45, 1901 pm. Sundays ZOO, 300
Leaves Elizabeth 4.65, G,22,s.42, 0.Ot, 0.5G, 11.2S
a. m. 1.40, 207, 2.51, $40, 40, 5.52, G.5s, s.5S, l1.55
p. m. Sundays 8. -. n. m, 1.12, 400, S.37, p. m.
Leaves Newark 6.12, Csc, S.35, 9.42, f1.32 a. m,
leo, $40, 3.35, 49,, 5.3S, 6.13, S.45. 11.50 p. m
Sundays, no, 9.05 IA. M, 10, 3.55, $40 p. m.
Through tickets to all points at lowest rates
may be had on application in advance ut the
ticket agent at the station.
w. G. BEsLER, Vice-Pres. & General Manager
c.. M. BURT, General Passenger Agent
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28
PUBLIC SERVICE TIME .

Cars leave Railway Junction for Railway IL
formatory every 30 minutes from 8 10 Il. nj. until
l1.40 IN.
Cars leave Railway june on for Woodbridge
Creek every hour from +. 10 a. m. until II 10 p. nj.
connecting with New Brunswick ears If after
the hour. 9.10 p. m. car from Railway Junction
last ear that makes connections for New
Brunswick.
Cars leaving New Brunswick at 5,45 a. m. and
Sewaren, Woodbridge, Railway and Westfeld.
Cars leaving Perth Amboy ferry at 6.57 &. m
and every hour until 057 p. m. then 1919 p. m,
md 11.42 p. m. connect for Sewaren, Wood
bridge, Railway and Westield.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28
LOCAL ITEMS.

Want" Ads. for the EVENING
NEWS will be received at Gem Stud
TO-, G. M. Church, Broadway.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28
PERTH AMBOY POST OFFICE
SCHEDULE.

Taking erect May. 10, 1903.
Opens at Z A. M. Closes at Z p. IA.
Mails Arrive;
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28
ITEMS,

Miss Edna Johnson has a position
in New York as stenographer and
bookkeeper.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28
Woodbridge
LOCAL ITEMS.

want" Ads. for the EVENING
NEWS will be received at brakes
Pharmacy, Main street.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28

Other South Ansboy News on Page 4.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-28

"y' stops only to take on or lei
for or from Perth Amboy ON not,
Conductor.
For further information see
Tickets for all points on the Penr'
road and connections. Pullman acdt
&C, ut ticket'oflca, Perth Amboy.
W. w ATTERBURY, General
] r. WOOD, Pass'r Traffic Manal
GEO. W. BOYD, Genl Pass. Ag't. a
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less. Her daughter, Edith King, was
sent as child TO the Convent of
Notre Dame, and when she left there
with no practical education. but
many accomplishments. she found
herself face to face with the problem
of earning her own living and taking
care of her mother.
Mother and daughter came TO Phil
adelphia. and after weary search
for work Edith finally found employ
ment in a small candy shop II
meant standing ali day long. and it
wore the girl out Her feet were so
swollen she could scarcely stand. and
her back felt ready to break IN two.
A customer noticed the girls exhaus-
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all her heart and soul. and it is this
fiattering attention to the story of
each mans life-or rather to the
version of 1t that he has prepared
for publication-that has made so
many men talk sentiment to their
peril, and confide secrets to their Ill
innate undoing.
II she could be persuaded to tell
the story of the last five or six years.
as they really were. she would tum-
BILE out an even more confused heap
of memories, of failures, of successes,
of laughter and tears than most wo
men who told truly of the five years
that lie between twenty ana twenty-
Ave. But for the salvation OF the
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race. most women are afflicted with
more human compassion for human
ity's unwisdom than has ever. trou-
bled Edith King-and. that without
describing most women as angels of
tenderness, or adorably soft foolish
ness. Only there are things that
most women would balk at. They
would be. appalled, ct the tale of the
careers she has blighted in her mat
ter-of-fact. remorseless, unregretting
way. They would expect TO find one
or two-only enc or Two in the thou
sand odd-to whom she gave some
return of sympathy just one or two
cases in which duty cost a pang in
the doing. But. no-simply. When
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people do wrong they have to take
the consequences; it's not my fun
eral."
She says as to her choice of pro-
fession, it was case of had to-"
According to her own account of
herself she comes of a Baltimore
family. Her mother was a Miss
Hartford, whose father at one time
owned most of Hartford county, Md,
and who was at her fathers death
regarded as a great heiress. She
married and was soon widowed.
Knowing nothing about the manage
ment of property, it was not many
years before through one bad invest
ment after another she was penni-
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ed work desperately and was willing
to try anything. He told her TO go
home and take Off that finery and
report to him in the afternoon and
he'd see what he could do.
She was put to work in the coring
and pairing department Utterly I'M
familiar with the machinery she
soon had her fingers sliced and cut in
every direction. Almost incapaeitat-
ed. less attention was paid to her
chatting with her fellow-workmen
than would otherwise have been
She soon had the confidence Of the
men she was looking for. with all the
necessary details. Mr.. Miller had
told her she might keep whatever she
earned in the factory, and she and
her mother planned joyously what
they would buy with it. At the end
Of the week she had earned just SO
cents at the factory. but her two
men were safe in Uncle Sans keep
ing.
That was the beginning, and since
then Sir. Miller, who makes spe-
cialty of deserters, has used her al
most entirely and always success
fully on cases of this sort. She is
given a description. of every man
who deserts from any army post in
the country, or from any vessel in
the service, and in general way
she is on the lookout for all of them,
while in a special way she is track
Continued on Page Five. this Section,
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CHARLES A. g. MILLER,
Special Detective.

Inside there are generally half
dozen men sitting around. of the
stuff of which one imagines ward
heelers are made. The air is blue
eyes become accustomed to 1t, loom
dimly a table buried under cash
books and ledgers, and one big black
book that belongs to neither class,
and a desk Uttered untidily with
clippings and letters. Beyond this
is bleak. commonplace, disorderly
private Office for consultation. and
this is Edith Kings headquarters.
II is here that she is most frequently
to be found during her transient Wis
its to 1.-THE Office" for instructions or
advice.
She is a pretty girl, this Edith
King. At least one would think her
so If one could overcome ones nat
ural repulsion to her business. She
is about twenty-five now. with an
almost Greek profile. and the sort
of mouth Burne Jones likes to paint
She is graceful, has golden hair and
hazel eyes, a delicately modelled nose,
and not a great deal of color. She
is rather quiet as to manner, not at
all of the hail-fellow-well-met type
that one would expect; but rather of
that sort OF reserve that does not
suggest secretiveness and rather in
spires confidence by not seeming to
force IL.
She has the air OF listening with
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It's a toast that
thousand odd men who
once wore Uncle Sans uniform, ana
now look through the bars OF Uncle
Sans military prisons and from the
decks of Uncle Sans prison briSs
might drink together-if they only
knew it. Some of them do, but more
of them have never guessed that they
owe their incarceration to the fact
that they fell victim to Edith King
twhom they probably knew by quite
a different naine). beaux yeuX-
Edith King is Philadelphia de-
tectiye girl who for the past five or
six years has made speciality OF ar
resting deserters from the army and
navy. She is just pretty, gracefui
little woman. not at all of the con-
ouering. Amazon type; but for nearly
six years now she has waged what
would appear to be the most I'M
equal battle in the worlds history
that of one frail woman on the one
side against hundreds and hundreds
of stalwart, men, men whose physical
condition has passed the examina-
tion of the surgeons appointed to- the
task. and admitted them to Uncle
Sans military or naval service
And yet the woman has won in
every case the man has eventually
surrendered. and in only one or two
has she hauled up the flag OF truce
and temporarily abandoned the rur-
suit
She is credited--or otherwise, as
one happens to view Twin the
canture of enough marines ana
tackles to man several battlesnlpS,
and enough army deserters TO FORM
a dozen companies She has placed
il is estimated. not very far from
. 600 ex-soldiers and sailors IN
ignobIe confinement-and she boasts
that the majority are SO far from
suspecting her instrumentality thaC
they write her the friendiiest SORT
Of letters from their prison cells
II was only about a month ago
that New York-little old blase
New York, that rarely pays The trib-
ute of a secono glance 10 anything
actually stared at the vision of
iaunty. businesslike young woman,
in a glazed sailor hat. and a white
duck suit, with big blue beads
around her neck. with a soldier in
a brand new uniform handcuffed to
her. This was Edith King. and her
soldier was not her sweetheart
though he may have shared a day
or two before the popular delusion
on that subject-but her prisoner.
the captive Of her bow and spear. of
her womanly. sympathetic way. and
her good looks. Just behind her
came her employer. Charles Miller.
of Philadelphia. and with him, SINH
larly attached. were two more of
her victims-Robert McCullom and
Benjamin Stein.
1t is certainly an unusual voca-
ton that fate has shaped for pref
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ty girl in this workaday twentieth
century She plies 1t attired some
times as woman of fashion, some
times in rags, most frequently prob
ably IN the tawdry finery affected
by a certain class. Indeed, the re-
who have had to do with her every
now and then in the course of the
days work, assert bluntly that she
gets her men by posing as woman
of the streets. She probably does
when she can't get them any other
way. She gets them by Irritation.
woman's strongest weapon in the
unequal fight against mankind She
y has wit and beauty and invention
and she gets them" in a dozen diff
ferent ways, adapting herself to the
circumstances of the case, but al
ways getting them. Why does she
. do it? Because-most potent of all
No. q Juniper street, Philadel
phia, does not present an imposing
front. 1t is one of the little, old
rdmshackled buildings that have
taken refuge under the shadow of
Philadelphia city hall. 1t lies
about midway between the great
Broad street station of the Pennsyl-
vania road and the. Reading ter
minal., One enters directly from the
sidewalk. into. a hall. dark. narrow,
and diGgy. At the far end thereof
the light filters dimly through the
dusty glass and faded curtain which
makes the upper half of :. narrow
door. On this glass is painted
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ton and after talking to her bit
volunteered to try and find her some
easier work. A day or two later she
came back full of the detective idea
But Miss King told her it was out of
the question Finally, however, she
promised to go and call on Mr.. Mil
Ter.
She didn't do it, though. She talk
ed it over with her mother, and her
mother agreed with her, that she
couldn't possibly do il But the
friendly customer was very much an
noyed at her. And eventually, since
Miss King would not call on Mr..
Miller, Mr. Miller called on Miss
King-and talked so convincingIy
that she promised most reluctantly
to try it. The next day she reported
10 him for duty-dnd it was, accord
ing to her own testimony, "a day of
horrors"
Her first assignment was to find
two deserters from the United States
army. She was told that they were
believed to be employed in a certain
factory in Philadelphia, and she was
instructed TO apply for a job in this
same factory and TO shadow the men
and try if possible to gain their con-
fidence Believing firmly in the
moral effect OF clothes. she mt on
her Sunday best before applying for
work-with the result that the fore
man looked at her in amazement and
asked her what she thought she
could do in a place of that sort.
Then noting her white hands. ask
ed if she thought she had sense
enough to pare apples. Almost in
tears she assured him that she need
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Continued on Page Five. this seetior,
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to the front. 1 know that the
congressional representatives of the
people of the Pacific states share in
this feeling, and the movement to bring
the Pacific states together through an
alliance of the commercial organiza-
lions will open the way for this spirit
of, cooperation to find results through
we'll defined channels"
1t is believed by those now actively
interested in the project that this
united action will greatly add to the
prestige of the Pacific states in national
affairs. While the commercial organ
izations of the Pacific states will advo-
cate after careful consideration certain
necessary Pacific public improvements
in the various states to consummate
which government appropriations are
desired, and will lend moral support to
the movement, they will in no way en-
ter into political issues, but will work
for all the Pacific states.
No other region has obtained less
from congress than that vast area EN-
braced in the Pacific states, and this is
not because there is opposition to the
growth Of this great section. but be-
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cause there has never been a united
effort in its behalf. When the Pacific
matters that make for the welfare of
the whole coast, everyone will be glad
to help along the great movement. The
people of the Pacific coast are already
united: they realize that the prosecu-
ton of great public Improvement in
one section will be of advantage to the
whole coast. Their motto Is zone for
all and all for one" No Pacific state
can hope for aid from the government
when it's request is opposed by it's
sister states, but with the Pacific coast
united and all states helping one an
other, the results will be sure to come
and if not all that is asked shall be
done, at least more will be accomplish
ed than could be attained by discon-
nected effort.
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cihc coast states. The circular is as

cifc coast states. The circular is as
follows:
The movement to bring the CONNER
cial organizations of the Pacific states
into central cooperative body will
go long way toward carrying into eff
fectiye action the friendly spirit that
already prevails in the west. One of
the greatest benefits that may come
from such united action among the Pa
cific states is the fact that the senators
and congressman who represent the Pa
ciiie states at Washington will be
greatly reinforced by a united public
sentiment.
well known congressman in dis
cussing the fact that such united
spirit would be great help to him in
MS work at Washington, said: al have
had eastern congressman say to me,
why don't you fellows out west get to-
gether. If you stand together out in
the Pacific states you can have pretty
near everything you want | think
this represents the general sentiment
at Washington. l am sure then people
of the Pacific states are as one in their
desire to see the whole region forge