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Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19
POLITICS IN LOCAL AFFAIRS.

The Newark Advertiser gets right
down to the fine points of a munich
pal election in the following editor
ial:
1t is high time for Newark to
shake itself free from the backwoods
idea of choosing municipal servants
because of their opinions on protec-
ton, Tree trade or simplified spelling.
The people of this city don't elect a
mayor, street and water commission
ers, aldermen or school commission
ers to make laws. These officials are
selected to perform certain well-de-
fined duties in the management of
the city's affairs, and their views on
political problems, religion or the fine
arts should have nothing to do with
the case.
Just for a change, let us eliminate
every consideration except that of fit
ness. Let us ask ourselves where,
for this or that particular Office, we
can get the man BEST qualified by
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10.
"TALK 1T OVER"

That speech made by Senator La
Toilette and the ones that followed
him last night, are enough to to keep
every honest citizen of Middlesex
county talking eagerly for the next
week. Seldom has a man spoken
with more earnestness in this city
than did the great reformer from
wisconsin and hsimmpSfessedhis hear
ers with the fa{fs That he brought
out.
Senator La Toilette showed that
the same conditions that Senator
Colby has been describing at Trenton
are I'm existence at Washington.
1t is the same old trick. WHEN
THE PEOPLE DEMAND SOME
THING THE CORPORATIONS
HAVE A BILL DRAWN WHICH
APPEARS TO REMEDY THE EVIL
IN A GENERALpWAY, BUT WHEN
SOME REAL REPRESENTATIVE
OF THE PEOPLE ATTEMPTS TO
AMEND 1T so THAT 1T WILL BE
OF SOME USE, THE CORPORA
TION MEN VOTE DOWN THE
AMENDMENT AND THE PEOPLE
GET A GOLD BRICK.
That is what happened in the case
of the railroad rate bill at Washing
ton; that is what happened with the
equal taxation bill at Trenton.
THAT IS WHAT THE INA
CHINE" NOW IN CONTROL OF
THE STATE WILL CONTINUE TO
GIVE THE PEOPLE UNLESS MEN
ARE SENT TO LEGISLATIVE
HALLS WHO WILL SERVE THE
PEOPLE AND NOT THE CORPORA
TIONS.
Talk this matter over and go TO
the primaries next Tuesday and vote
for the delegates to the county con-
vention whose names are opposite
tina of Alexander II. Fordycc, Jr.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19
AT THE CHARITY BAZAAR.

I did not kiss her, though her face
Was very beautiful to see;
l did not kiss her, though she said,
With modest bushes that | might;
I'd thought l would, but hung my head
And hurried to get out of sight.
That orphans might AVE bread and
meat,
h sold the kiss that l had bought;
Her lips looked very, very sweet,
And I'd been forced to bid a lot.
She stood there in her booth prepared
To let her lips by mine he pressed;
l had the right. If l had cared,
To catch her warmly to my breast.
Would fame to any man be sweet
If for the asking it were had?
If wealth were laid at all mems feet,
Would money ever make us glad?
Let fools buy kisses, If they will,
From maidens who are fair to see;
The kiss that must be fought for still
Is all that seems worth while to me.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19
M5II|dlN Electricity
4 Is Still
UndevelOped
By CHARLES FRANCIS BRUSH. One of tn.
Inventors of Electric
Lighting

NLECTRICITY is a conundrum. Some scientists "a it Is
- a mode of motion in the ether, as is light, for instance.
y Others believe that it is composed of corpuscles or sub
atoms, each of these minute particles being endowed with
a definite electric charge N~SEPARABLE FROM 1T.
A third group hold that the corpusce is wholly electric and consti-
tues a material atom of electricity. So far, however, we have nothing
better than THEORIES. The truth itself has not been established
Electricity, like gravity, is one of the unexplained phenomena of
nature. Who can define gravity?
Discoveries in electricity will continue. Ten thousand able men
are investigating and experimenting in all parts of the world. We
may have no important discoveries for ten years. That happens some
times. Then they follow in quick succession and STARTLE MAN
KIND. I believe the telephone to be the greatest discovery of the
age. We could use steam for power and gas for lighting, but there is
no substitute for the telephone. Radium, a marvellous revelation of
one of the secrets of nature, may help to clear up the mysteries which
now conceal the truth concerning electricity and gravity and work
other wonders of which we little dream, 4
The inventors lot is not always a happy one. In defending nv
patents at first there was spent from $4,000 to 100000 a year, and
| paid half of it out Of my own pocket. AS it happened we ran right
into a most extraordinary period of patent litigation and decisions.
Patent rights had been shamefuny abused in all directions. Farmers
especially had suffered. A churn agent would come along, to be fol-
lowed in a little while by a man who THE
FARMER into paying damages for Infringement. Accordingly, the|
judges of the United States courts went to the other extreme, and forl
ten years, so far as / know, not a single patent was sustained on a trial
of the case. - \
THE BRUSH COMPANY GOT INTO THE VERY MIDST OF THIsI
ORGY OF INJUSTICE, AND WE HAD TO FIGHT lNFRNcEMENTss
EVERY INCH OF THE WAY.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19
THAT STATEN ISLAND BRIDGE

There seems to be no movement on
foot to call the attention of the inter-
state bridge commission to the adj
vantages of a bridge across Staten
Island sound between this city and
Tottenville. This is a sad mistake
and Perth Amboy is letting slip a
valuable opportunity.
That there are plenty of good ar
guments why a bridge should be
erected at this point has been pointed
out in these columns before. We
need the bridge and SO does Staten
Island If for no other reason than to
make a fitting outlet for the hand
some boulevard which is now being
built on the island.
TottenviHe and the southern end
of Staten Island are more closely al
lied with Perth Amboy than are some
of our New Jersey neighbors. This
relation is to grow nearer every year.
Means COT communication is now
limited to a slow ferry. The develop
ment of. Staten Island and the prog
ress of Perth Amboy demand a
bridge. The matter should be taken
in hand at once.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19
THE POLICE

The Board of Aldermen has done
well in passing the resolution allow
ing the people to vote on the subject
of increasing the salaries of the mem
bers of the police department. No
harm can be done in putting the mat
ter up to the citizens of the city. II
is the public that will have to bear
the extra expense, and ii they are
willing, there is no reason why any
n should complain.
1t would be well if every question
OF Importance, such as this one, were
put before the people for them to
decide. This is a government of the
people and by the people, and no one
has a right to go against the will of
the majority, honestly expressed.
Before voting, however, every man
should thoroughly understand the
subject. There should be no voting
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19
Cannon 4 Shelby
Look for sign &c. & S."

in favor of a measure that will in
crease taxes and then object to pay
ing more tax or more rent when the
increased bill comes in.
The question of increasing the sal
aries of the policemen is easily IN
derstood. The average salary of the
policemen of this city is $3.50 per
year. If any of these men are now
serving their first year, their salary
will be reduced to $3.50, according
to a general Interpretation of the
law. All policemen who have served
two years will have their salaries re-
duced to $500 per year, and all po-
licemen who have served three years
will receive $3.50 per year
In this city all policemen who have
served -four years will have their sal
aries increased tt $1,000. This will
include even the oldest men on the
force who are now ordinary patrol
men.
This means that no patrolman in
this city will receive over $1,000 a
year for the next two years, after
which time the salaries will increase
at the rate of 5 per cent, until they
are receiving $1,000 a year,
1t is thus evident that none of the
local patrolmen will receive $1,000
for some time yet, and some of then
will not ever receive $1,000 per year
The sergeants and roundsman nee
essarily are raised TO a salary higher
than the ordinary patrolman and tho
chief should receive the highest. Tho
men are worthy of their hire, how
ever, and the salaries fixed by law
are none too high.
If the law is adopted, it would
be well to do away with a few of the
hangers-on in the city marshaTs Of
flee and have the policemen serve all
warrants. BY putting warrants into
the hands of special officers, as is
done now, each one served costs the
city just that much more money,
whereas the police are receiving an
annual salary and could just as well
as not serve these warrants while on
their beats and thus save the city
that expense.
The system now in vogue is not
only expensive to the city, but it
takes much of the police business out
of the hands of the chief of police
marshal.
Increase the salaries of the police
and then have them do the work of
the department.
The money now paid the city mar
shall and his assistants, for doing
work that policemen could easily do,
would go Il long ways toward making
up the proposed increased cost of the
police department.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19
Dumping Into the Unexpected.

The pale, scholarly looking man
from the interior was watching SO or
100 dock laborers loading cases of
fruit into m of the great lake steam.
ers.
stand to one side there!" grufly
ordered the burly boss who seemed
to be overseeing the work. What
do you want to get in the way of
these men for, you blanked Junk
head?" 81
do you own this dock?" asked the
pale, scholarly looking man, quietly,
but with a dangerous CLEAN in his
eye.
Il dol" said the burly boss, kicking
him out Of the way.-Chicago Trib-
une.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19
The Unreasonable Demands
Of Labor ORGANIZATIONS
By j. w. Al CLEAvE, Pre-

By J. ". VAN CLEAVE. President of the National Association of Manufacturers
VA E have seen that many attempts by organized labor to pro-
cure CLASS PRIVILEGE, whether by peaceful nego-
violence against principle which cannot be abandoned,
have failed in the last few years, owing, naturally, to the ever present
fact that what is fair and right FOR ONE must in the very nature
of things be fair and right FOR ALI.
We now see that it is proposed by one of the organizations of labor
to seek to secure these ends by political activity.
til even defanty announced that those public men who have sim
ply dared to do THEIR PLAIN DUTY in resisting the demands Of
one of the organizations of labor are to be retired to private life o n &C
count of their contumacy.
THE A5suRDTY AND THE IMPossiHLITY OF THIS PROPOSED
COURSE OF ACTION ARE PATENT UPON THEIR FACE.
Moreover, a moral wrong as well as a political imposabIity is in
volved in supposng that we shall tolerate in this kind Of country the
proposition that a government within a government N SUPE-
ROR TO 1T is an easy and a pleasant thing to contemplate.
Take another instance, holder even than the other. 1t naturally
takes a lawyer to appreciate fully the change
which would be involved in our system of administering the law if the
power of the courts to grant injunctions were removed. q
If it were removed l might go and dig a trench under the wall Of
your 100000 building and NOTHING could dissuade me o stop
me. 4
You might do an almost rreparabledamage to my business, which,
let us say for the sake of argument, pays its bills, including wages, and,
SO far as the statute and the moral law are concerned, may be per-
mitted to continue. zeGe7
You might do it by preventing me from employing men who wish
to work for me.
YOU MIGHT DO IT BY SURROUNDING THE MILL OR THE
WORKSHOP BY "PEAcEFUL" PICKET LINES AND BY AssAuLTINo
OR FRIGHTENING THOSE WHOSE PERFECT RIGHT 1T WAS TO
COME TO ME TO WORK.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19
FIRE ALARM BOXES.

23--Rarltan Copper Works.
26-iIlgh and Lewis streets.
III Madison avenue and Paterson street
28-Market and First streets.
S5-Smith and High streets.
S7-State and Smith streets.
Standardization ave. and Hartford st
4~5-Commerce and Front streets.
47-High and Washington streets.
64-State st. and Buckingham ave.
b6-Hayy avenue and Charles street.
b7-State and Wayne streets.
g2-Washington and First streets.
B3--New Brunswick ave. and Elm st.
H-Smith street and Watson avenue.
65--Commerce and State streets.
72-Front and Smith streets.
73-Water and Gordon streets.
74-Kearny avenue and Gordon street.
82-Smith and Herbert streets.
S3-WOodbridge road n washington ST
34-Lehigh avenue n Stanford street.
To send in an alarm, open the door OF
the box and pull dow the lever and let
go, once only. Stay at box until hremen
arrive.
SPECIAL CALLS.
l tap-Break in circuit. 2 taps-Drill
and fire alarm test. 3 taps-Eire out. b
taps-Police call. 12-Calls. for LINCOLN
ton Hose. 14-Call for Mcclellan Engine
Company. 15-Cal1 for Protection Hook
and Ladder. 16-Call for Eagle Hose
Company.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19

Mr.. Hans-Doc, | ain'd got much
money. Vim you dake my bill oud in
drade?
Dr.. GaAs-..hy, l might. What's
your business?
Mr.. Haas-I'm der leader off der
liddle Cherman band. Ven play in
front off your house effry efening.-
Cleveland Leader.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19
NEW YORK HERALD WEATHER
FORECAST.

In the Middle States and New Eng
land today, fair and continued warm
weather will prevail, with light and
fresh southwesterly to s%outherly
winds. On Thursday fair to partly
overcast weather will prevail, with
slight temperature changes and fresh
southerly winds, becoming variable,
and on Friday partly overcast wealth
er, with slightly lower temperatures.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19

wonder why it's so easy for a fell
low to get engaged at a summer re-
sort?"
Ever look into one of these sum-
mer hotel mirrors?"
"Yes."
well when a girl sees herself in
one of those, she's ready to accept al
most anybody Leader.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19
Mo Time 70 Lose.

Ralph-Yes, she is pretty and
sweet, but she has no accomplish
ments.
Rupert-No?
mo; she can neither play the pi
ano, sing, nor dance"
"Then how does she pass her
timer"
"Oh, she does all the cooking and
homework at home"
"Come alongF INTRODUCES me, quick!'
-Cassell's Journal.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19
He Married II,

Gyer-That man at the bar cele
brated his golden wedding last week
Myer-His golden wedding! Why
he doesn't look to be more than 81
years old.
Gyer-He isn't: but he married an
heiress.-Chicago Daily News.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19
/ KELVIN. One Of the Worlds Greatest ,scientist.

By ord KELVIN. One of tn Worlds GratesttSchentss
WISH to remark that an isolated experimental discovery by
Sir William Ramsay and Professor Soddy, brilliantly inter-
- esing as It is and soidly instructive as it is toward the theory
OF radum, suggests nothing more toward any modification
OF the ATOMIC DOCTRINE, proposed some $500 years ago by
Democrtns and universally adopted by chemists and other philoso-
phHts IN the nineteenth century, than does Sir William Ramsays orgi
nal discovery of heium as an emanation from the mineral cevte.
The obvious conclusion from the two discoveries is that clevite and
radrum both contain helum. I cannot refer thus publicly to the dis
cn@ions of radium In the British association meeting WITHOUT
PROTESTING against the hypothesis that the heat of the sun, the
earth or other bodies Of the universe is due to radium.
BELIEVE 1T is MAINLY DUE TO GRAviTATloN AND BE-
LtEvE THAT THE EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS ON WHICH THE
RADIuM HYPOTHESIS HAS BEEN BUILT GIVE NO FOUNDATION
UPON WHICH 1T CAN REST.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19
Envy.

The poor man says: ooh man of gold,
Your wondrous wealth 1 fain would
holdi"
The rich. man says: with what delight
Would 1 possess your appetite!"
Washington Star.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19

Might as Well Have Married Him.
What is she mad at him for?"
He said he'd kill himself If she
refused him."
And she did and he didn't, eh?"
Austin Post.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19

81 hear you are engaged to Ethel
Knobs. / don't wish to alarm you,
but she said the other day that she
had absolutely no wish to know how
to cook"
Il know it. | proposed to her as
soon as / heard it."-Brooklyn Eagle.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19
Fortunatus.

Knicker-Has Jones got luck?
Bocker-Yes, he is the kind of fel.
low who can SOW the wind and rear a
cyclone cellaf.-N. Y. Sun.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19
Explained.

Jones-Why did you give that won.
an on the car your seat and leave
your wife standing?
B~rowne-Great Scott, man! that
was our cook!-.IuGge.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19
o Testimony.

Dottie-I wonder if o blonde is more
attractive to men than a brunette?
Lottie-Ask Tottie-she's been
both.-Cleveland Leader.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-19

The EVENING NEWS is read by
more people than any other news
yaper published in this county.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
FAIR PLAY A JEWEL.

regret of the local situation
and the reaction has disposition IN certain quarters
advantage of the and stir agitation and dscord
which extremely detrimental to the best interests OF the
community.
The present hardly the proper
time bring sweeping charges graft general
people appointed by bodies to pilot the city through
sudden and extraordinary crisis.
be denied that taken the whole the Mayor Super
municipal bodies have made excellent records dur
past thirty The has been
this equally prompt and broadmnded enough bestow
regardless of their individual political
Except certain radical and disgrned quarters
there has been disposition there today charge
municipal graft and the public which
placed them Office by majority decided to leave doubt
to the will of the
We find enough do repairing local injuries without
stepping path officials who rendered
city mudthrowng only exhb
of depreciation and ingratud but If reward
officials who have toed early and late through the trying
bring order out of chaos and place the
comfortable progressive basis with nvectve downright
abuse what nducment does public service extend worthy
citizen?
any
Of the municipal administration corporation body of
public private of the unfortunate events of the
weeks Certain have been found for the
public
disasters parayzed the community these might have
been found The best proof that adopting them the
authorities have acted wisely that the public has them
its unqualified Endorsement Times change and change with
them What do peace do do Sudden
pected events make correspondngly sudden changes.
The Spanish have saying The wise changes his mind
but the fool never 1t here we'll Circumstances alter
We forget this old adage.
Whenever public official rayS from the straight and
path and does what he ought do The Call will be the first
TO call public attention his deecon but when such public Of
fetal doing the best he The Call accordance
with the principle, will him the appreciation he deserves
Honor to whom honor is due
refrain from public
when they clearly within the lines of their duty
attention instead to rehabtating shattered homes
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
REPORTS CAUSE
ANXIOUS DAYS
Minister Merry Hears
the Exaggerated
Accounts.

At least one Minister of the United
States accredited to foreign lands had
an anxious time during the period i'm
mediately following April Is. That
person is William Lawrence Merry,
Minister to Costa Rica, Nicaragua and
Salvador. Minister Merry arrived in
this city two days ago and his ap-
pearance indicated the great strain
through which he had passed.
On April Is Merry was at San Jose.
his official residence in Central Amer
lea, the capital of Costa Rica. His
family was in San Francisco. Early
on April Is exaggerated reports, such
as Mortified the people of all points
that could be reached by rumors
speedily, were received in Costa Rica.
1t was alleged that San Francisco had
been practically obliterated. 1t was
stated that 10000 people had been
swept away by tidal wave which
also had submerged the eastern coast
of the Bay of San Francisco and car
ried away the most of Berkeley, Ala
media and Oakland.
AS soon as Minister Merry heard
the news that there had been a dis
aster in San Francisco he tried to
communicate by wire with this city.
He became convinced. after several
trials, that this was not possible and
he then had recourse to other means
to secure Information concerning his
own family that finally brought COM
fort to him. He appealed to the
State Department at Washington to
institute an inquiry through the mill
tary officers at San Francisco.
General Funston was accordingly
requested by the State Department to
make inquiry. In the confusion of
the time this was done as speedily as
possible After going through some
hours of agony the wire brought to
the American Minister the substance
of response from General Funston,
via the Department of State.
1t was a terrible strain" said Min
lister Merry yesterday There was
no other way to get facts. l shall
always be grateful for the assistance
furnished to me in great emer-
gency."
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
OPPOSE REMOVAL
TO NEW SITES
Former Downtown Busi-
ness Men Against
Changing,

Many business men have expressed
themselves as antagOnistic TO the
moving Of the business section of the
town to the Western Addition. They
believe that many retailers have been
too hasty in securing leases for
periods of one and two years away
from the former business center of
the city. Commercial men are desir-
Gus of seeing the wholesale district
take its former position near the
water front. Naturally il is conceded
that the retailer and consumer will
follow the wholesaler. Prominent
business men believe in the immediate
establishment of the business sec
ton on the old site
G n. Cole. manager of the Sterling
Furniture Company, said yesterday:
4 believe that our downtown business
men are acting unwisely in their
asagerness 10 secure West End busi-
ness sites Not that 1 am at all an
tsgonistic to the Western Addition.
but because the predopinance Of this
city lies In the excellent facilities af-
forded by our water front
when the captain of fOGr-Tnas ster
sails his ship up 10 a wharf he wants
10 feel the pulsation Of city life at
his very ships side. Personally, /
admire the artistic side Of the Burn
ham plans for the Identification OF
San Francisco, but / fear that to ap-
ply them in spite Of widespread op-
position would severely handicap the
city's commercial growth
Commercial activity crystallizes
around the water front by a natural
law The shipbuilder. ironmolder,
foundryman. steYedore, coaiheaver.
lumberman and seaboard laborer does
not generally look Cor a Partisan
boulevard but wants convenient
economical home People appreciate
the efforts Of our business men To
start work in the old accustomed
channels.
The business section must of ne
cessity remain where it Was before
the fire."