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Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-08-21
Joint Committee Met.

A meeting of the joint committee
of Court Amboy, No. 5S, and Court
Standard, No. Ill, Foresters of
America, was held in Foresters' Hall
last night for the purpose of organic
ing and discussing plans for the dis
trict meeting to be held in this city.
Thomas Lucas was elected chairman
and A. F. Deitz secretary. No def
mite action was taken in regard TO the
district meeting, but it was decided to
wait until after the meeting of Court
Standard next Wednesday,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-08-21
NOTICE.

A meeting of the republican vot-
ers of the first pole of the first ward
will be held in the Garfield Battery
rooms Friday, Aug. 23, at $40 p. m,
for the purpose of comforting as to
delegates to attend the city, county
and state conventions. George j.
Haney, County Committeeman.
10S34-S-21-3t*
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-08-21
Candidate Is Initiated.

One candidate was initiated at the
meeting of Alpha Council, Loyal As
sociation, in Odd Fellows hall last
night. Following the short business
session, an adjournment was taken
to Alchin's. in Smith streetf where
refreshments were served.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-08-21

All times are the fright times
with bargain hunters. They are busy
as you read this-and they make
business active in all sorts of wea-
ther, pretty nearly abolishing dull
days"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-08-21
SCHOOL BOARD WANTS
IMPROVEMENTS MADE,

President Crowell has called a spe-
cial meeting of the Board of Educa-
tiOn for tonight.
The meeting is called for the pur-
pose of awarding contracts for a
stone wall on the south side of school
No. 1 and for building flag walk
around school No. G.. When bids
were advertised for before, only one
was received for these two contracts.
The building committee has solicited
bids since that time and the con-
tracts are expected to be awarded at
tOnight's meeting.
Other business relative to the open
ing of school may be transacted at to-
nights meeting, as the board may not
meet again before school opens.
To Go to Atlantic City.
The Central railroad will run an
excursion to Atlantic City tomorrow.
The train will leave this city at 1880
o'clock. The return trip will start at
s o'clock.
Subscribe for the NEWS,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-08-21

More than 10000 people in this
vicinity read the EVENING NEWS.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-08-21

Patronize advertisers.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-08-21
To Go to Atlantic City.

Subscribe for the NEWS.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-30
HALF A MILLION A DAY.
That Is the Amount Which Chicago
Puts Into Stimulants.

Chicago's consumption of stimulants is
amazing, according to a correspondent.
The money spent in saloons alone totals
up between $120,000,000 and $130,OO0,-
600 annually. At least $10000,000 more
is spent for stimulating drugs in the 800
drug stores in the city.
If tobacco can be classed as stimu-
liant it may be said that there are between
$4,000 and 10000 places in the city
where cigars and tobacco are sold. Proba-
bly, 100000 per day is not an exagger-
ated estimate for Chicago's smoking bill.
At the lowest estimate, taking alcoholic
beverages, tobaccos, and all manner OF
drugs into account, it is impossible to fig
ure that Chicago spends less than $780,
600 per day on stimulants of various
kinds, and the chances are the amount is
considerably higher.
OF this enormous sum, how much does
the worker spend? Fully Is per cent, il
all business men, officers of corporations,
and all men who work with hand or brain,
are included But for the worker, the
saloonkeepers themselves say, they would
have to close up shop in a few days. The
remaining % per cent of the 100000
must be set aside between women who
lead domestic lives and non-workers of all
kinds. Women perhaps are the heaviest
of all users of drugs.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-30
Is CREMATED IN A NEW YORK
CITY TENEMENT FIRE.
Arson Plot Suspected as Cause of
Deadly Blaze in Crowded
Italian Quarter.

Thirteen persons are dead and seven
Injured In a fire that swept through
the five-story tenement, 2121 Second
avenue, near One Hundred and Ninth
street, New York. Flames shot through
the roof and caused an outpouring of
all the people in the neighboring tene-
ments. The fire started in the liquor
store on the ground floor, shot up
through the air shaft and stairways
and trapped all the families in the up
per part of the building. Despite all
the gremen could do, they were unable
to reach the victims.
The persons killed lived on the fourth
and fifth floors. The narrow stairways,
filled will smoke, prevented them going
down with the speed necessary and
crowded together, men, women and
children sank to the floor, choked with
smoke and were unconscious when the
flames reached them. Firemen climbed
TO the roofs of adjoining buildings from
which the tenants had been driven and
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-30
WORK AT PANAMA.
Great Ditch May Be Finished Before
The Stipulated Time.

There is getting to be certain mo-
notony, which, however, is quite well
come, In news of work on the isthmian
canal. Every month we may expect
to get statistics Of the work done in
the month before, and it is practically
a foregone conclusion that 1t will ex-
coed the record Of the month before
that. Thus last July a new record was
made, with 1,O5S,776 cubic yards exca-
waited. That, as some persons rashly
assumed, was the high water mark,
which never could be exceeded and
which We could scarcely hope perman-
emily to maintain. But in August that
record was surpassed, with 1,247, 404
yards, and people said that surely was
the climax Of efficiency. When another
month came around, however, Septem-
Der bobbed up sererenry with the new
record of 1,4S1,307 yards, Gaping the
climax in fine style. And now here
comes the October record of 1,S44,471
yards, which puts, as Kipling says, the
gilded dome on the cap Of the climax.
And October is the rainiest month Of
all the year!
Just how much further this climax
Gaping business is to 60 it would be
rash to estimate. Scarcely any degree
Of progress seems impossible or even
improbable under the present efficient
and inspiring administration. Last
month there was excavated about
twice as much as in the whole year
1906, and more than half as much as
in the whole year 1906. Moreover, this
achievement has been made i'm the rain
lest part of the year, in cuttings where
the proportion OF rock is increasing
there is now 20 per cent Of rock and
only 30 of earth-and without any COM
mensurate increase in the number of
workmen employed Thus this October
record was made with force of only
23,607 men on the canal all told, so
that there was excavated an amount of
rock and earth equal to more than IS
cubic yards for each employee, or a
small fraction less than three cubic
yards day for each person employed
In any capacity. That Is efficiency
such as was not dreamed Of year or
two ago. When Mr.. Wallace was chief
engineer and was doing what seemed,
and indeed was, fine work, there was
talk about the necessity of employing
from 10000 to $4,000 men. One third
Of that number is now doing the work
far more rapidly than it was supposed
the whole great army could do It.
In the presence of suck performances
criticism is disarmed and doubt is put
to shame. We may have to revise our
forecasts Of canal completion, but it
will probably be in the direction of
shortening the time required and Of de-
cIaring the most optimistic estimates
Of few years ago to have been unduly
cautious and diffident.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-30
THOSE CONCRETE HOUSES.
Eminent Philanthropist Will Build
City of Edison Homes.

Working together, Thomas A. Edison,
wizard Of East Orange, N. j., and
Henry Phipps, New York millionaire,
believe they can solve the tenement
house problem.
They plan to do this by erecting an
entire city of concrete houses, Mr.. Edi-
son having perfected plans recently
whereby, he says, he can build within
II hours and at cost of from 81 900 to
81 200 beautiful nineroom house,
suitable for two families. Zach apart
ment of these double houses can be-
rented probably at $3.50 month, &C
cordlng to Mr.. Edison, thus saving to
the working man now paying $40
month for two-room home In the tene-
ments, enough money each rnonth to
cover his carfare expenses to and from
his work.
Mr.. Phipps, who in 1906 gave $1,000
600 for the erection of model tenements
in New York City, recently spent an
afternoon In Mr.. Edison's laboratory at
East Orange, discussing with him the
possibilities of the cement or concrets
house. The steel manufacturer was ac-
companied by corps of architects
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-30
LOVELY. View Of Mars.

Prof. Percival Lowell, the noted as.
ironomer, in his first paper for the Cen
fury on Mars as the Abode of Life"
points out that modern astronomy deals
largely with the physical branch of the
subject, and says that the study of the
evolution of the planets as worlds consti-
tutes the connecting link in the long chain
of evolution from the nebular hypothe-
sis TO the Darwinian theory. He refers
TO the collision of two suns, which was
the beginning of our solar -ystem, and
shows how the meteorites which fall upon
our earth have been found to contain
many known elements, and not one Of
these new, thus showing their constitu-
tion cognate to that of the earth. Mars,
he says, is the fundamental factor in
the whole process of planet evolution.
Though all planets were the same in es-
sence at the start, difference in their
size would change their quality as time
went on In each case evolution began
only when the heat of the body decreased.
Prof. Lowell says that at the maximum
heat each planet was peculiar. Some
may have been white hot, some were REQ
hot and somc darkly warm. At first the
keas gained by contraction surpassed that
lost by radiation. The life history of
planet was long or short in proportion to
its size. Mars has been found to be al
most devoid of irregularity, and close
calculations show that there are M
mountains, and that the maximum eleva.
tons are about 1000 or 5000 feet. In
explanation of this is cited the computa-
ton of the internal heat of Mars at 1000
degrees, as compared with 10000 degrees
for the internal heat of the earth. This
means that Mars has very little volcanic
action, and but little crinkling Of the
crust.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-30

"scrimmages'' and downs" have paid
the yearly tribute to the game.
"Debrutalized" football, declared
sport even for children, has listed but
one less victim in the forty-two days
of the present season than last year.
The record year was in 1905, when
public cutlery arose against the sport
that had killed twenty-four and in
jured 200 players.
The death list of 1907 cannot be
computed until month or more after
the season has ended. Internal inju-
ries, partial paralysis and other causes
haze always added a gloomy chapter
to the football post season. Concus-
sion of the brain and fractured skulls
disabled six of the victims now listed
only in the injured column. Spinal in
juries not now deemed serious ended
the football career of others. Not for
many years may the final tabulation
be made upon the football victims of
1907
The revised rules of the game have
not fulfilled the hopes of their franz
ers. While the deadly mass plays have
been eliminated they have been sue
ceeded by evolutions in which the
speed and combination plays have
proved almost as hazardous to the an
tagonists.
In the uncertain imitation of high
school boys and other amateurs the
rapid work has wrought havoc to the
players. Broken and dislocated bones
have become common incidents Of the
field, which in many cases have not
even been made public by the players
who have left the gridirons for the
surgeons table.
In the university teams the list of
injured has decreased but slightly by
the reformed" rules. Swarthmore,
Princeton, Yale and other universities
have contributed scores to the list of
injured, and many with broken bones.
The reformed" game has been
abruptly ended in several smaller cit
les in which players have been serious
ly injured Or killed. Mayor Cochrane
of Columbus, Ind, took the lead when
he ordered football in any form pro-
hibited after Earl Ruddell, a high
school player, had been killed. The
precedent has been followed by other
city officials who have been unable to
discern the "debrutalizing" of the pas
time. ~
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-30
PkTICCS%akz,
@PLITIcLANyS

Representative Sims of Tennessee has
indicated his intention of introducing at
the coming session Of Congress resolu-
ton of inquiry by what authority Secre-
tary of the Treasury Cortelyou went to
the aid Of the banks with the govern
ment's money. Other southern members
are said to share Mr.. Sims hostile atti-
tude toward this policy of the govern
ment.
Postmaster General George Won L..
Myer, at the Philadelphia Union League
meeting, outlined three plans for postal
progress, which will be recommended to
the next Congress, as follows: First, the
postage rate on packages to be reduced
from 16 to IL cents pound; second, that
limitation of weight of packages to be
increased from to IL pounds; third, a
parcels post to be authorized from the
point at which the rural delivery route
originates, with rates of cents for the
first pound, and cents for each addi-
tional pound to IL pounds.
As the guest and principal speaker at
the banquet of the Jefferson Club of Mil
waulzee, w. J. Bryan made speech re-
for the Democratic party on which he
would be willing to run for President
next year. He said he favored immediate
revision OF the tariff Oh all goods in com
petition with trust-made articles as
means of striking down monopoly. He
opposed the national Incorporation of
railroads as advocated by President
Roosevelt, saying that the railroads
would be only too glad to get out of State
jurisdiction. He would demand laws pro-
viding for the valuation of the railroads,
to reduce rates and to prevent stocb vat
ering. His idea of a reasonable rate was
such as would let companies keep their
stock at par on honest capitalization. He
would prevent corporate monopolies by
applying the license system to concerns
controlling more than % per cent of the
output of given industry. lie thought
the money stringency began with specu-
laticn at New York. bat that the western
banks we're souLd.
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The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-30

poured streams Of water into the burn
ing tenement.
That the fire was this work of incen-
diaries who sought revenge is the opin-
ion of the police and firemen. Three
weeks ago three Italians were caught
attempting to rob a safe in the saloon
Of Giuseppe Cudano on the ground
floor. The safe contained more than
$1,000 which the saloonkeeper's friends
had withdrawn from banks during the
money furry. The would-be robbers
were arrested and are awaiting trial.
The fire started in Cudano's saloon and
the police believe 1t may have been the
work of friends of the prisoners
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-30
SUBSCRIBING CUPID.
chicago Women Unionists Are In
Favor Of Marriage Dowry.

Favor Of q Marriage Dowry.
A capitalistic cupid, with love darts in
the form of $500 dowries and working
girls as his targets, is the latest sugges-
ton as an antidote for race suicide. Cupid
is to be an agent for labor unions If
these ideas are carried out. 1t was ad-
vocated by eighty women workers belong
ing to unions, who assembled at Hull
House, in Chicago, few days ago.
The gathering was one of the first
three, held simultaneously, in this coun-
try. Another was at New York and the
third at Boston. 1t was Miss s. p.
Breckenridge, assistant dean of women at
the University of Chicago, who suggested
the dowry idea.
1--WE believe in this plan," declared
Miss Breckenridge. 1T places the mar
riage question upon serious basis.
Unions have their death and sick benefits
and a marriage benefit or dowry would be
in order. If woman unionist is going
to be married she must be taught it is a
serious undertaking, but, at the same
time, plan that is favored by the or
ganization to which she belongs.
THE experience she acquires by being
a unionist and wage Garner will enable
her to spend money wisely after she is
married. She will also learn that when
her husband works and brings his wages
home to her she must also bear her share
of the burden. 1t has been suggested here
that women workers who marry, some
times return to their old tasks. 1t would
appear to me that if matrimony is not
gainful employment it ought to be-"
!, ''The plan of giving dowry to wom-
an when she marries is now in vogue
among English and German unions" de-
clared Mrs. Raymond Robins, who acted
as chairman of the conference.
There were others present who thought
that stipulated sum of 500 or $500
should be given to woman wage Garner
when she becomes matron by the labor
organization with which she has been
identified.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-30
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The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-30

builders and concrete experts, who
made a careful investigation of ths
Edison plans When they left they
were enthusiastic over It's possibilities.
Mr.. Edison purposes to build these
houses by forcing concrete mixture
into cast iron molds. which are to b
set up after the excavation for the
basement Is complete.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-30
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The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-30
Cunard Liner. for CANADA.

The Grand Trunk railroad Is said b
have made deal with the Cunard Steam
ship Company for line of steamers from
Liverpool to Canada 80 as to afford an
all-British route for passenger and freighs
traffic between England and the Orient.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-30
Gridiron Season Comes Within One
of EquaIing Last Years
Record.
SPORT EXACTS DEADLY TOLL.
Total Lis. of Deaths Cannot Be Com
puted for Months After Sea-
sons Close.

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claimed its annu-
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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-07-10
Theft Gases Heard.

In the criminal superior court yes
terday afternoon James Roche, charg-
ed with the theft of watch from Will
liam ]. Sullivan on June 10, was found
guilty by jury. Sentence was de-
! ferred.
The cases against Joseph Murray
and John Mccarthy both charged with
theft Of $17 from svente soderston, a
swede, Of S79 Orchard street, were next
called. The affair occurred in Fair
street on the night Of May 10. Sober
ston was induced to display roll
amounting to SIS and the two men are
accused of separating him from $17 OF
this. Mccarthy pleaded guilty. Sem
tence in his case was deferred. Tes-
tfmony on the charge against Joseph
Murray was being heard when court
adjourned until this morning.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-07-10
| CIORDANO Given
FIVE months Sentence
Jury Omitted "Intent to
Kill Phrase in Making
It's Report.
CAPELLO SENTENCED
Account Filed in Curtis Es-
tate Shows a Value of
$50, 5o4.41.

Arguments were completed early In
the afternoon session of the criminal
superior court in the case of Antonio
Giordano, charged with assault with
intent to kill Giuseppe Capello on April
81 last, and the jury was sent out to
consider the case. The jury returned
with a verdict of guilty Of simple as
sault, emitting the intent to kilr
phrase. Judge Wheeler sentenced Gior-
dano to five months in jail
Joseph Capello, who pleaded guilty
when the court opened last week and
whose sentence was deferred until aft
er the trial of the other case, was CIV
en- Jail sentence of four months for
assault with intent to kill.
John Giordano a third party in the
case, charged with the same offense,
had his case continued until the next
term Of court.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-07-10
RIFLE RANGE VETOED.
Governor objects to Forced Sale OF
State Prouerty


Hartford, July 9.-Governor woodruff
this afternoon sent to the house a veto
of the resolution making an appropri-
alton for a state rifle range in in East
Haven. In the message he says:
TT does not appear to me that 1t is
fair to the state or that 1t will be a
good stroke of business to enforce Sec
ton one, inasmuch as it instructs the
adjutant general to sell by public sale
before q specified date, less than sixty
d~''S hence the land under consider
alton, 1t requires but little reflection
/. icetliAe thai d IUrced sale amounting
bly, not give back to the state anything
like a fair price. 1t would be possible
for an interested person to secure that
land at a price that would be clearly a
dead loss to the commonwealth.
May suggest that If this rife range
is to be sold 1t would be more advisa-
BILE to empower the adjutant general to
make the sale publicly or privately,
subject to the approval of the board Of
control at such time and in such man.
ner as may be deemed to be for the
best interests of the state of Connect
lieut. | am therefore, of the opinion
that this bill should not pass, and there
fore return ie to you without my APP
proval, and ask that you further con-
slider It."
The section objected to by the gov
ernor Is that one which provides for
the sale of the old range. The veto
message and bill were tabled.