Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-21
GOVERNOR HAS
ENDORSED IT.
Governor Stokes Patron Of
Teachers Bazaar TO be Held
in Newark Dec. Hi.

NEWARK, Nov. 21:-The follow
ing correspondence between Cover
nor Stokes and the chairman of the
Christmas Market the Newark
teachers are organizing in aid of the
movement to increase the permanent
endowment of the retirement fund
TO a hundred thousand dollars be-
fore January first, will be greeted
with enthusiasm by retirement fund
workers throughout the state.
State of New Jersey
Executive Department.
November IA, 1905.
my Dear Miss Duffy beg
leave to acknowledge clipping from
the New York World giving an ac-
count of the work in which you are
engaged to swell the Teachers Re-
tirement Fund. | appreciate your
courtesy in remembering me In this
connection and am glad of the cam
paign you have laid out,-a cam
paign which | trust will be as sue
cessful as it is c~ommendable and
courageous. With best wishes, l
am,
Every sincerely yours,
(Signed) "E. c. Stokes"
Hon. Edward c. Stokes,
Governor of the State of New
Jersey, Trenton, N. j.
November IA, 1905.
MY Dear Governor Stokes:-Di-
rectly due to your kind and wise sug-
gestion to our committee of ladies
last Spring, is the movement now I'M
der way to raise the Permanent En-
dowment of the Retirement Fund to
a round hundred thousand before
January first. Already, the organi-
cation of bazaars and other money
making enterprises is well advanced
in Newark, Jersey City, Trenton,
Camden. Bridgeton, Bayonne, Ho-
boken, West Hoboken, Elizabeth,
Railway, New Brunswick and other
places, and the response of school Of
ticials, principals, teachers and citi-
zens is so cordial that we feel as
sured of brilliant success.
LAS the movement has now as
sumed State proportions, and is some
thing directly connected with the
State Government, may | not venture
to ask you-our Governor-to per-
init us to place your name at the
head of our list of Patrons? While
the use of your name as Patron
would involve no responsibility or
duty whatever, it would quadruple
the strength and breadth of this
beneficient movement, and contrib
ute immensely to it's success.
May we not also indulge the hope
that you will consent to open our
Bazaar on the evening OF December
18th?
II MAJ add that the President of
our Board. Mr.. David A. Mcintyre,
has most cordially consented to serve
as Honorary President, and that DR..
Poland and the members of the
Board have as cordially consented to
serve as Honorary Vive Presidents;
while the Hon. James l.. Hays, Pres
ident of the State Board of Educa-
ton, is not only serving as an Hon.
orary Vice President, but is assisting
us actively and practically along var
ious lines-in fact, in every direction
we request.
Our Patrons include the best
men and women in Essex County.
Among them are Mr.. and Mrs. John
F.. Dryden, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
Frelinghuysen, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Coult, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Bal
bach, Jr., Rev. DR.. Frazer, MI. and
Mrs. Bernard M. Stanley, Jr.,-but l
will not tire you by naming more.
Begging you to pardon the in
formality of a letter when, properly,
a committee should wait on you at
the Capitol, am, with thanks In an
ticipation of your generous compli-
ance with request,
Very sincerely,
(Signed) Grace M. Duffy, I,
Chairman"
estate of New Jersey
Executive Department.