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Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
HYDE WAS
DICTATOR.
Former Director SChiff's Startl-
ing Testimony in Insur-
anCe Matter.

NEW YORK, Sept. 80. Declaring
that in these times the directors of
great corporations and institutions are
to all intents and purposes no more
than dummies, jacob IL. Schiff, senior
member of the international banking
house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and for
merly a member of the finance COM
mittee and a director of the Equitable
Life Assurance society, to which his
firm has sold millions of dollars in Sc
curities, vas on the stand some hours
before the legislative insurance COM
mittee.
He repudiated the system under
which modern life insurance societies
nre controlled, said he had learned by
experience not to figure as a dummy
again, acknowledged that although a
member of the Equitable finance COM
mittee he did not know of the So
ciety's contribution to the last Repub-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
FREQUENT ~REHEARSALS.

Rehearsals for "Alice in Wonder
land' we're held all day today under
the direction of Miss Scott and the
young folks are making rapid pro-
gress.
Rehearsals will be held about three
times a week until the last week,
when they will be held every day.
The rehearsals are held in the
Peterson building in King street, an
ideal place, as the room is long and
narrow.
The ipano has been loaned by the
Ludwig Music store and with Miss
Ida Noe as ac%companist the young
members of the cast have learned their
parts in a remarkably short time.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
PROPOSALS.

Sealed bids and proposals will be
received at the Council Chamber III
the City of Perth Amboy, N. J., at
$50 p. m. October 16, 1905 for the
construction of a "a inch salt glazed
vitrified clay pipe sewer in Sayre
ave, and Mattano Place to connect
with sewer in Washington Street.
Approximate quantities of mater
ial necessary:
1900 lin. 1T. 24inch Wit. clay pipe
with 106, 6 inch taps 8 brick man
holes complete; 4 standard catch
basins complete with connections;
Average cut is IL it s inches.
Certified check for $4,000 must
accompany each bid.
A bond in the sum of $2,0O0.OO
will be required of the successful
bidder. so
Work must be finished by the 10th
of December, 1905.
The Council reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
William H. Fullerton,
Street Commissioner.
1926 Ct 9-23-26-3O 10-3-7-1O
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
SUIT CASE
Victim May BE Monte Dixon, a New
York Girl,

Victim May &c Monte Dixon, a New
York Girl,
NEW YORK, Sept. 30.-The dismem-
bered body of the girl found in a suit
case floating in Boston harbor Is nov
thought to be that of Monte Dixon, the
pretty nineteen-year-old daughter OF
Mrs. Frank Dixon of Brooklyn.
Her disappearance and the events
leading up to it, which reveal almost
n year of domestic trouble, were all
told by Mrs. Dixon, and she is now
awaiting more news from Boston that
will enable her to say whether the body
Is that of her daughter or not.
Monte Dixon, her mother says, either
eloped or was carried away by hel
stepfather, Frank Dixon, and Mrs
Dixon was left penniless. The mar
has been attentive to his stepdaughtel
in spite of his wife's protests for al
most a year, and his infatuation, ac
cording to the elder woman. reached
the point where he threatened to kill
the girl If she made the acquaintance
of any other man. The mother has an
intuition which she says she cannot
explain that the murdered girl Is hei
daughter.
Monte had no marks on her body
save Il small blrthmark on her left
hip. The headless torso in Boston was
without a mark, and the mother is now
in a frenzy of anxiety to find If the
body has not been mutllated too much
to disclose that one mark by which she
could be identified.
Miss Nathan, daughter of Mrs. Louis
Nathan of Baltimore. came here last
night and requested the police to show
her the torso of the murdered woman.
The coming of Miss Nathan has n
possible bearing on the winthrop mys-
terry, although the police do not at
tach great Importance 70 it. Miss Ma
than is Il sister of Mrs. Maurice Scha-
plro, who has been missing for nearly
three weeks.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30


Iican national committee, but suppos-
ed that it had been made by James
Hazen Hyde personally and repudiat-
ed all knowledge of the yellow dog
fund.
Mr.. Schiff said:
''The Equitable was at the mercy
of one man-either Alexander or Hyde.
1t seems to me it was all Hyde. Ev-
erything was Hyde.
1.-THE vice of the entire insurance
situation has been irresponsible power.
after the last election Cornelius N.
Bliss told me that Mr.. Hyde had con-
tributed to the Republican campaign
fund.
II presumed that the Equitable's
money had not been spent.
Responsibility for the scandalous
conditions in the Equitable lies with
the state insurance department. Do
you suppose the directors of corpora
tons can go after the superintendent
of insurance and be his bookkeepers?
81 want to say here" continued the
banker, that under the prevailing sys-
tenn of directorships in New York Il d.
rector is at the mercy of his executive
officers. They ask for advice and then
do as they please.
I'm the Equitable the control of the
society was exclusively held by the ex-
ecutive officers.
ut has been my practice to believe
that every man in this world is honest
until / find out that he has been dis
honest, and in going through this
world l do not suppose that any man is
dishonest until l find out that he is not
honest. That has been my practice in
dividually and has been my practice as
a director of the Equitable.
mo law which you may frame and
which the legislature of this or any
other state may enact-no law, how
ever close it may be-will protect you
against dishonest actions or dishonest
measures
Alfred w. Mayne. associate auditor
of the Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety testified that Judge" Andrew
Hamilton. legislative representative
and handler of the New York Life In
surance company's ''yellow dog fund.-"
acted in the same capacity for the
Equitable Life Assurance society.
Mayne said President Alexander of
the Equitable had introduced Hamilton
to him and said they We're to work in
conjunction as far as possible.
All told, in 1897. Hamilton received
upward of $4,000 from the Equitable.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
SINGER LOOT
AT 100000
Confession Of EmpIOye of Sew
Ing Machine Company Shows
Stealing on Big Scale.

ELIZABETH, Sept. 30.-It is now
believed that the daring thieves who
robbed the Singer Sewing Machine
works, succeeded in carrying of at
least 100000 worth of booty.
These thefts covered a period of
years and were engineered by inside
men, thoroughly organized for the
work. They Systematically robbed
the company's great store-room day
by day and forwarding the booty to
selling agencies of their own, estab-
lished in Boston, New York. Chicago,
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Cleveland,
Denver and San Francisco.
Frederick Merker, of Newark, who
is under arrest in Elizabeth, charged
with completely in the amazing rob-
berries, has made a full confession.
1t is said he has given the names of
at least a dozen members of the gang
to the police. They are the names
of trusted employees of the company.
Pinkerton detectives are shadow
ing these men, and the police of half
a dozen cities are aiding in the prep
aration for a general roundup.
An ingentory of the company's
storeroom stock reveals the fact that
carloads of property have been stol-
en-. The thieves, thoroughly famil-
lar with the market value of goods,
showed the greatest care in the Sc
lection of booty. They took mostly
small things, like %button-hole need
les, that retail at 35 cents each, and
minor furnishings for sewing ma
chimes that find an ever ready mar
ket at good prices.
In his confession, Merker tells of
store-room, carrying away hundreds
of dollars worth at a time in the
pockets of his vest.
But Merker was one of the least
important of the robber gang. Where
he stole in small quantities, others
of the band drained the company's
store-room on a vast scale. No ac-
curate estimate can be formed of the
cash amount realized by the thieves.
Although Meriar c~onfesses to the
individual theft of property worth
$4,000, the police are convinced
that he personally realized less than
$4,000.
Bernard Erich, of this city, is also
said to have confessed to the hand
ling of $4,000 worth of property
stolen from the Singer Company
within the last three years. Whole
sale arrests within the next forty
eight hours are virtually assured.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
5000 TEMPLARS
GOING To SHORE.
Temple COmmandery,Of New Bruins
wick, Will Have a Part in Big
Parade There.

NEW BRUNSWICK, Sept. 30:-
Preparations are under way for a
turnout of about 5000 persons, re-
presenting Communicates in eighteen
cities of the state, at the annual field
day of the Grand Commandery of New
Jersey, Knights Templar, to be held
in Atlantic City, October II. The
days observance will consist of Il
parade on the boardwalk, receptions
and banouets.
Atlantic Commandery, the youngest
branch in the state, which was insti-
tuted last May, is making extensive
preparations to entertain the guests,
and especial attention will be given to
the reception of the knights families.
Temple C~ommandery, of this city,
will take a good sized delegation to
the shore and the members will par
ticipate in the big parade.
a special train leaving from the
Broad street station, Newark, of the
Central railroad at s o'clock, will con
vey the delegations from Morristown,
Washington, Paterson and Newark.
At Elizabethport the delegations from
Elizabeth and Plaintield will join the
party in two special cars; at Peril
Amboy the New Brunswick represen.
tatives will be taken on the train, ant
at Red Bank the Asbury Park com
mandery will he picked up. The other
Communicates will make up the tril
to Atlantic City in individual excur
sions.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30

WESTFIELD, N. Y, Sept. 30
Speaker s.. Fred Nixon is II little bet
ter. While the danger line has moi
been passed, every one feels encour.
aged by the good progress made. No
operation will be necessary to remove
the serum from the lung cavity if he
gets 40 worse. DR.. Willis Macdonald
of Albany, the speakers physician at
the capital, joined DR.. Rood, the fam
lily physician, and Drs. Eugene Smith
and Nelson G. Russell of Buffalo in
consultation, Mr.. Nixon had a good
night and told the doctors that he felt
better.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
PLANS FOR FAIR.

The Ladies auxiliary of Simpson M.
E. church held their first business
meeting Thursday..night at the parson-
age.
The fair to be held December 5, {
and 7 was arranged for. The first and
second nights a supper will be II fea'
ture of the affair and the third even
ing an entertainment will be given.
The first night a hot turkey dinner
will be served and the second night d
cold turkey supper will be given.
The ladies of the auxiliary expect
the fair to be a pronounced success.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30

NEW YORK, Sept. 30.-Hydraulic
pressure applied to a solid brick wall,
which for twenty-five years has held
back the waters of the Hudson river,
broke down the last barrier and open
ed the second of the two tubes of the
New York and New Jersey Railroad
company. Charles NJ. Jacobs, chief en-
gineer. explained that the twin tunnels
are the longest water tubes in the
world. From shaft to shaft the dis
lance is $3.50 feet. or one mile and SOC
feet. The tubes are fifty feet apart
in the middle of the river, but are close
together at the ends.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
PROPOSALS.

Proposals for furnishing Cast Iron
Bell and Spigot Waite Pipe for the
City of Perth Amboy, N. j..
Sealed bids will be received by the
Board of Water Commissioners OF
the City of Perth Amboy, N. j., at
their office in the City Hall, on We'd
nesday, October 4th, 1905, at $50
p. M, for furnishing and delivering,
f. o. b., cars at Runyon, N. J.
About 1000 feet 80 inch
500 feet 10 inch
500 feet 8 inch
500 feet 6 inch
Standard, Coated Water Pipe to-
gether with necessary special.
The Commissioners reserve the
RICH to reject any or all bids.
BY order of the Board of Water
Commissions.
Adam Eekert
Dated Sept. 13, 1906. ClerI
1868 9-16 til 1O-4 w
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
BIG GAME TODAY.
Local Fans Have Gone TO Pleasant
Plains TO See Contest.

A number of fans of this city went
to Pleasant Plains this afternoon to
see the baseball game between the
crack Excelsiors of Pleasant Plains,
and the Tottenville A. G 1t is said
that this will be one of the best
games played on the island this sea-
son. Fitzpatrick, of this city, is
playing with the Excelsiors.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
Burglars wounded an Officer.

HARTFORD, Conn, Sept S0.-A pis-
tol duel betwet Two burglars who had
blown G en- n sGfe in the p~ostoffice in
Glastonbury early in the morning and
two Hartford policemen was fought on
the East Hartford bridge. One of the
officers, Edward Hayes, was slightly
wounded twice. The burglars escaped
into the woods in Windsor, pursued by
a deputy sheriff's posse.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30


The regular Sunday services will
be held at st. Stephens Danish Luth-
eran church tomorrow.
In the Danish NJ 4. church the
morning and evening service and
Sunday school will be held as usual,
Tomorrow morning the text for the
sermon in the Presbyterian church
will be taken from Second Corinth-
ans, 4-l6, The subject for the even
ing service will be Choosing the
things
The mid-week service will pe a pre-
paratory service for communion,
which will be held next Sunday.
Adrian Lyons Bible class will re-
sumo its meetings at 8 30 o clock to-
morrow morning in the ladies parlor.
The Session will meet Immediately
after the evening service tomorrow
to receive candidates for admittance
into the church. Candidates will also
be received after the mid week meet
ing Wednesday night.
Next Friday night the reception to
the parents of the Sunday school
scholars will be held. There will be
lantern slides and au address illus
trating Sunday school work.
The subject for the morning service
in Simpson NJ. f. church is "Life's
R~efusals;'' that for the evening SER
vice is Golden Walls full of Odors. .
Next Sunday will be rally day in
TIE church. There will be special
sessions morning, afternoon and even
ing.
The children of the primary depart
ment of the Sunday school are res
quested to meet at $3.50 Tuesday and
Thursday afternoons to rehearse for
rally day.
Monday night the Mercy and Help
department of the Epworth League
will meet at the home of Mrs. Charles
Seguine, 19l Elm street.
Tuesday night a cobweb and must
cal hunt will be held by the Epworth
League after the regular business
meeting.
The affair is the beginning of many
pleasant socials which the league plan
to hold throughout the winter.
..Rev. William Torkess, of Richfield
Park, will preach at both services in
the Baptist church tomorrow.
!. At Grace English Lutheran church
holy communion will be administered
tomorrow morning at 1890 o'clock.
Preparatory service to communion
will begin at 1915 O'Clock. In the
evening, at 7:45 O'Clock, the pastor
will preach on the Conversion of the
Ethiopian" Sunday school at 2:30
o'clock. C~atechetical classes will
meet Wednesday night a I O'Clock
and Friday afternoon at 4 O'Clock.
Junior League meets Friday after
moor at $3.50 o'clock.
Cake sale this afternoon in vestry of
the church.
At. ST. Paul's G erman church the
services will be held at 3 O'Clock to-
morrow afternoon, Rev. DR.. j. Ganss
officiating. Sunday school will start
at 2 O'Clock.
Tomorrow morning communion will
be celebrated in Our Saviour's Danish
Lutheran church, The evening SER
vice will be as usual.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
nrooklxn Girl Drowned.

MIDDLETOWN. n. Y, Sept. 3d.
Miss Carrie Meyer. aged seventeen, of
Brooklyn was drowned in Shawan-
gunk kill, Pine Bush, by the upsetting
of a boat into which she had stepped
10 get an oar.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30

WASHINGTON. Sept. Bottle pres
ident has named the following dele
gates to represent the United States at
the tuberculosis congress in Paris,
which meets Oct. 2 to Z, inclusive: DR..
Lawrence f. Flick, director Of the
Henry Phlpps institute of Philadel-
phia; Henry Barton Jacobs of Balti-
more and S. A Knopf of New York.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
To save President Hnrper,s Life

CHICAGO, Sept. 30.-It has been de-
cided by physicians in attendance up
on William K. Harper, president of
Chicago university. that nothing Will
save his life but a surgical operation
&c heroic character. 1t is admitted
that there is practically no chance of
saving his life unless the cancer which
is killing him can be. checked by the
removal CT a portion of the large intes-
tine.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
PERSONAL.

Mrs. George Moore is visiting
friends in Metuchen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Post, of Hob
art street, + the proud parents of a
baby girl.
. Mrs Charles Seguine has returned
from a weeks viist in New York and
Jersey City.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30

CLEVELAND, o.. Sept. 30. The
crown sheet on a locomotive hauling a
westbound freight IN the Pennsylvania
railroad blew out neal here and badly
scalded the engineer, j.. II. Blackburn;
the fireman. s. T. Brennan, and the
brakeman, j. S. Flaze, all of Cleve-
land
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
MEETING.

At the meeting of the Building
Trades Council, last night, a matter
of great Importance was discussed
and another meeting will be held
within a short time to consider the
same matter.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
STATUE COMMITTEE.
Good Progress Reported at Com
mittee Meeting Last Night.

The committee of Scandinavian
citizens in charge of the erection of
the new statue of George Washington
met last night will a good atten-
dance. The collectors submitted re-
ports and all is going well. The com
mittee will meet two weeks from last
night in Dana hall. -
The pressers are now at work on the
terra Gotta for the statue.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30

ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 30.-The
reforms commission, of which Count
Solsky is president, has decided to rec
ommend the nomination of NJ. White
as premier of Russia, with the right
of selecting all his ministers.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30

Next General Election
November z, 'O6
SECOND MEETING
The said
Boards of Registery
and Election
Will meet on
tuesday, Oct. 81, 1905
SECOND MEETING

At the places of their former meeting,
at | O'Clock in the afternoon, and re-
main in session until o o'clock in the
evening for the purpose of revising and
correcting the Original Register, and
of adding thereto the names Of all per-
sons entitled to the rights of suffrage
in the Election District at the next
election, who shall appear in person
before them or shall be shown by writ
ten affidavit of some voter in such E1ec
ton District to be a legal voter therin,
and of erasing therefrom the name of
any person who, after a fair opportun-
ity to be heard, shall be shown not to
be entitled to a vote therin by reason Of
non-residence or otherwise.
H. H. BROWN,
Chairman Middlesex County Board
of Election.
/. L. SUYDAM,
Secretary.
Dated August 20. 1905.
1892 90 lit wed sat
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
a for Supper.

Everything is now in order for the
supper which the employees of the
American Smelling and Refining
works will tender to the baseball
team at Loeser's Excelsior Grove, at
Maurer tonight and from all reports
it Will be a great affair.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
Two Pieces of Coral.

Leo Donehue, of State street, is
the proud possessor of two hand
some pieces of coral, which were pre-
sented to him this morning by the
fourth engineer of the big steamer
Grenada, which is unloading a cargo
of asphalt at the Barber Asphalt
Works.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
Boards of Registry
and Election
oh
Tuesday, Sept. IL, 1905

From / P. NJ, and continuing in ses-
sion until . O'CLOCK in the evening, for
the purpose of registering the names
of all persons in their respective Elec-
ton Districts entitled to the rights Of
suffrage therin. A primary election of
delegates to conventions of political par
ties. or for making nominations, or for
both, as the case may be, will be held
on the same day.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30

BUDAPEST, Hungary. Sept. 30.-A
tin box filed with powder was found
under the staircase of Il hotel in which
the coalition leaders were meeting
hara
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
lave stock Markets.

CATTLE-Supply light; market steady;
choice, S.. s0G5.60; prime, $5.1595.30: veal
calves, $.50q8.z5.
HOGs-Receipts light market higher;
prime heavies, S .90n5. 9E mediilm, S5.9Sm6;
heavy Workers, $5.g5; light Workers, S. .8O0
$50; pigs. t.G0a5.75; ropghs. S44bA
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30

ROCHESTER,, n. Y, Sept. 30.-The
Republicans of the Third assembly dis
trict of Monroe county last night nom
mated Robert Ayerill for member Of
the assembly to succeed Charles Gala
han
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
r,s,v cases of Cholera In Poland.

81. PETERSBUKG, Sept. 3O.-It Is
officially announced that fifty cases Of
cholera. of which t~wenty-eight resulted
fataEy. occurred i'll Poland between
Sept 20 and y.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
Thousandr Made Homeless.

NAPLES, Sept. 30.-More than 10000
houses We're destroyed by the earth
quakes in Calabria, and 10000 PEG
pie were rendered homeless.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
Arahic word.

Alcohol is the English form of the
Arabic "alkohl,' spirit or ssence- In
the original the word corresponds ex-
actly with our word ethereal"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30

NATCHEZ, Miss, Sept. 30. Two
new cases and one death, a negro, are
reported. The fever Is assuming a
more malignant form.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
Town In Rnina.

CAPE TOWN, Sept. 3O.-A cyclone
has laid the town of Malmesbury,
about fifty miles from here, in ruins.
Many persons were killed.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30

WANT Ads. left at EVENING
NEWS branch offices receive prompt
attention.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30
Legal Notices.
Of Registry
and Election

In and for each and every Election
District or Voting Precinct in the Coun-
ty of Middlesex, will hold their first
meeting as
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-30

want" Ads. left at EVENING
NEWS branch Offices receive prompt
attention.
Newport daily independent., 1905-09-29
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 John Hencke is on the sick HSI.. s' .;'
 Jack Rabbit Flour, at Bowen's Cash Store. =, :" 28btf
 Storage room for rent. Bow ep's Cash Store. > 6dtf
 Try Invincible four at: the Standard Grocer Go. ::.O0dtf
 Mrs. J. o. Taylor is still con- fined to her bed quite ill, ,..' i!.;t Dr. R. B. Willis is attending |thestate Presbytery at',Lonoke thisweek. ...
 For Rent-A furnished front room Apply to Mrs. E. John son, Hazel street. 31d6t..
 The Reuter- Hub and Spoke Company have closed deal with Batesville parties for a fac tory site in that city.
Newport daily independent., 1905-09-29
THE EXCLUSIVE SHOE HOUSE

of Newport has received the most com plete stock of the latest Men'S Ladies and Children s Shoes on the market. We have any size. any number, any width any color.