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Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1907-12-10
J. E. STRickER JOINS
RANKS OF MOTORISTS

Joseph E. Stricken purchased Al
1908 Mitchell automobile last night
from the F. L. c. Martin Automobile
Company, of Plainfield. The ma
chine will be here in a week or so. 1t
has four cylinders.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1907-12-10
Mechanical and architectural draw
ing taught at Trainers Night School.
.TuTh. .Sat*

About the only place r free punf'
could be of any uss would be in the pa
pers that wont print II
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Mechanical and architectural draw
ing taught at Trainers Night, School.
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Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1907-12-10

A meeting Of Algonquin Lodge,
Knights of Pythias, was held in Odd
Fellows hall last night. The cleo
tion will be held Monday, December
23.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1907-12-10

Tile second event of the high school
course Will be given in the auditorium
tomorrow night. DR.. r. A. OFT will de-
liver lecture and he will have for his
subject Sour Grapes
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1907-12-10

Arcanum Election Tonight.
The annual election of Middlesex
Council, Royal Arcanum, will be held
at .tonight's meeting.
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Mechanical and architectural draw
ing taught at Trainers Night School.
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Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1907-12-10

More than 10000 people in this
vicinity read the EVENING NEWS.
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An anchor to windwar1- an ad In
the EVENING NEWS,
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Let The NEWS fiji your wants.
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-27

the fund or are still under investiga-
ton, the agents have passed upon sixty
three cases of undoubted brilliant hero
ism. In every one of these slxty-three
cases the agents got the testimony OF
eyewitnesses and sifted their evidence
by means of the most rigorous tests.
These cases are distributed as follows;
One each in Georgia. Iowa, Kentucky
Michigan, South Carolina and Virginia;
two each in Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana
and Maine; three each In Idaho and
Massachusetts; five each in New York and
Wisconsin; eight each in New Jersey and
Chic; thirteen in Pennsylvania, two In
Ontario, one in Quebec and one in Sas-
katchewan.
In fcrty-six cases the rescue was from
drowning. or the remaining seventeen
cases two were rescues from electroeu-
ton, one from a fire (the case of zone
Eyed Mike O'Brien of New York, who
beat the firemen into a burning tenement
by crawling along a narrow coping three
stories above the pavement and rescued
a sick woman and her children, four
from mine disasters, one from a rattle
snaxe bite, six from suffocation, two
from trains and one from an explosion.
Not ali were successful in their attempts
to rescue; and in some cases the rescuer
lost his own life in the effort.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-27
ZaIaya and BaniIIa

Costa RIGA and Guatemala have kept
out of the ruction in Central America.
The fighting, or rather the skirmish-
ing, has been between the forces of
President Zelaya of Nicaragua and
those of President Bonilla of Hon
duras. To some extent Honduras was
aided by Salvador. Both stand whipped
by Nicaragua, and the war is at least
temporarily quieted.
The battles have not materially less
ened the population They were not
devised for that purpose. Central
American battles chiefly consist of
noise and preparation, and there is
ever minimum Of actual fighting
The war eliminated at Choluteca,
where the Honduran forces were
routed. President Bonilla and por-
ton of his army fled to an island, and
the Nicaraguan minister of foreign af
fairs telegraphed to Paris, "Our ships
have sailed to capture them" The
size of "our ships" is not stated.
No one knows what the rumpus is
really about, although 1t is surmised
that President Zelaya desires to con-
troll all Central America. He will,
however, prove amenable to bit of
tactful discipline administered by Mex
Eco and the United States, and the
chances are that grim-visaged war will
soon smooth his wrinkled front among
the warning republics of Central
America.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-27

the new railroad legislation for about
two years seems to be inevitable. It
is scarcely probable that the big legal
battle can be fought out in less time.
In plain terms, the railroads claim that
the Conner bills are confscatory, TAX
ing their property without due pro-
cess of law" This, they say, makes
the new laws unconstitutional, but this
charge calls for a sitting of complex
mass of figures, and a jury trial Is
necessarily involved When the mat
ter is looked at from all sides much
litigation appears without any definite
assurance that it can be rounded up
in less than two years.
But there is this comfort in sight
the new laws will be enforced If they
are held to be constitutional, and the
railroads will have to obey them as
well as the humblest citizen. The era
of the disregard of law has passed
never to return. The railroads cannot
afford to be lawbreakers, nor will they
be permitted to assume that attitude.
4ney naturally seek, therefore, to know
where they stand, legally speaking.
I his is the just and res sonable object
of the litigation in Judge Jones court
and many difficult and complex PROB
lens are sure to present themselves
before a final decision in the court OF
last resort is obtained.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-27
Let the Gulf States Act

Although New Orleans or Mobile IS
600 miles nearer the canal zone than
New York, and although all supplies
can he hauled at low rates down hill
to the gulf yet the Roosevelt admin
istration favors New York and cuts
out the gulf ports altogether. The
government maintains steamers and
steamship line between New York and
Colon. but it starts no steamer be-
tween New Orleans and Colon-not
one.
All supplies are purchased in New
York and other eastern cities, thus
favoring the distant eastern ports and
states at the expense of the southern
ports and states. The effect, If not
object, of the New York diversion Is
to establish habits of trade, so that
when the canal is completed there Will
be no interference from the south.
1t is idle to appeal TO THIS ADMINS
tration for fair play. 1t is a New York
administration, and it is conducted by
New York for New York, and it will
continue to be conducted in that way,
New Orleans and the rest of the south
should get together and establish semi
weekly sailings between New Orleans
and Colon. The injustice of the gov
eminent will ranlxle, but what cannot
he cured should be endured, and the
discrimination against the south is one
of those things that can not be cured
while the present administration re-
mains in power.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-27
HEROES OF 1906.
Statistics of a Crop OF Which This
Country Is Proud.

From the New York Sun.
The crop of american heries for 1906
was bumper one Beginning with the
HE saving service a writer in the World $
Work gives some figures which stir one $
faith liz human nature to an agreeable
thrill of admiration.
During the twelve months ending June
80 1875, $50 vessels flew the signal of
distress within sight of our coasts That
= one disaster or every day of the
year.
OF 4CS! persons whose lives were thus
ieopardizc6 by shipwreck and fire, in
summer gales and winter blzzards, all
but twonty-scven were saved by the SER
vice Furthermore, 400 smaller craft were
al1ed. containing $500 persons, only ten
of whom were lost
During the year 1906 nine members of
the Nov York fire department were killed
and 15G injured. Fortunately not all
the heroes of the department were killed
or injured. as these figures do not cover
the question.
From the beginning of the operation
of the Carnegie hero funa, April 10, 1904
to December 81, 1906, its agents have in
vestigated 1924 cases that were reported
to it, Eliminating $40 cases in which the
act was performed as duty, 269 cases
in which the act was performed before
the fund became operative and 800 cases
that either were not within the scope of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
VIII Omen Office Here.

Loyal A. Osborne of Pittsburg, second
vice president of the Westinghouse Elec-
trio and Manufacturing Co.; S. l.. Mich
olson of Pittsburg. manager Of the In
dustrial and Power Department of the
same company and j. r. Gordon, man.
ager of the Atlanta office, spent yester-
day in Birmingham. The Westinghouse
is one of the largest concerns in the
country and sells its products in every
city. Mr.. Osborne stated last night "a
the I1illman that the company would,
within the next few weeks, open an Of
fee in this city.
This is my first visit to Birmingham,
said Mr.. Osborne, and | have been much
interested in what | have seem In view
of the fact that this city is only thirty
five years of age, its size and metropol-
tan style must impress every stranger.
Birmingham growth has been indeed
amazing.
we have been handling orr Birming-
ham trade from Atlanta. but the time
has come when we must open an office
here. The Birmingham district has
great future and we must keep up with
it,"
Mr.. Osborne Is accompanied on his trip
south by his wife. The party will leave
this morning for Chattanooga The
Westinghouse Electric and Manufactur-
ing company owns and operates about
twenty-five plants and 1t is believed in
local industrial circles that before great
while 1t will build plant here.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-27
Looking Ahead.

"The telephone business is increasing
rapidly in every part of the country and
in Birmingham it is growing rapidly"
said F. L. Woodruff. superintendent of
the Southern Bell Telephone District, No.
4, embracing Alabama and western Flor
ida.
"Our new Birmingham exchange will
be completed some time in July Our
electrical machinery here is not only
so up to date in the country. We now
operate from the local exchange about
6000 telephones, but our plant is con-
structed on scale sufficient to accom-
modate 10000. Our statistcians have
made calculation showing that at the
rate Birmingham is growing just now
10000 phones will be In use here inside
of ten years. They estimate further that
by 1920 the number of telephones in Bir-
mngham will be about 10000. Before
that time comes we will have to build
new exchange. The reason we are not
building now plant that would be ade
quate for 1920 is because no one can tell
in a new, rapidly growing city, just
where the center of traffic will be few
years hence. In old cities like Richmond
and Charleston the laws of development
are fixed Expansion goes in a certain
groove But in towns like Atlanta and
Birmingham we cannot figure out in
which direction the business section will
extend"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-27
THE WAGE-WORkER.

From the National Harness Review.
The honest employee brings to his work
the best effort of which he is capable
and begrudges nothing when the inter-
ests of his employer are at stake. He
works without the supervision of a fore
man, or time clock. If he becomes dis
satisfied with his position he quits cheer
fully and promptly without stirring up
dissatisfaction among the rest of the
force. A man OF this stamp minds his
own business, is faithful to every trust
and possesse a clear and intene vision of
what is at issue in the great battle of
life. To such an employe the square
deal' means something and he will do
his very best, even if employed at work
that is not at all to his liking. He acts
under the firm conviction that for him
there is no approach to victory except
by the faithful doing day by day of the
work which is nearest to hand. That his
kind may increase as the days are going
by is the wish of the National Harness
Review
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-27
VOTING MACHINE TO GO.

Trenton Dispatch to New York Times.
The passage by the state senate yes
terday of the voting machine local option
bill is supposed to mark the Punishment
of the machines from the state. 1t is ex-
pected to pass the house without serious
opposition.
For five years the state has purchased
these machines In lots, until now there ia
about $4,000 invested in 800 of them. The
people found 1t hard to 'get the hang
of them. and voters have stayed away
from the polls rather than exhibit their
inability to comprehend them.
Besides, it was brought out in the de-
bate yesterday that the clicking of the
machine under the manipulation of the
voter tells those near whether he Is reg
isterins straight or split ticket. In
many OF the districts they registered
more votes than were names on the reg
istry lists.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-27
THE DEWEYS MOVE.
Don't Like the Home Presented BY
the American People.

From the Washington Post.
Admiral George Dewey and his wife are
leaving the home in Rhode Island avenue
presented to them by the contribution of
the American people to live in future at
1901 x street, the home of Mrs. Dewey
before her marriage. After her marriage
to Admiral Dewey the X street house
was leased first to the late Senator AL
ger and later to Secretary Hitchcock. Mr..
Hitchcock has given up the place. and
yesterday worlImen began making re-
pairs and alterations. Their orders were
so imperative that they worked far into
the night and continued today. Yester-
day some of the personal belongings of
Admiral and Mrs Dewey were trans
ferred from the Rhode Island avenue
house to the X street home.
II is understood that none of the fur
nishings of the Rhode Island avenue
house will be moved. Mrs. Dewey's home
in X street is magni1cently furnished
and 1T is said that the Rhode Island ave-
nue. place will be leased furnished. The
X street house was the home of Mrs
Dewey during the lifetime of her first
husband, General Hazen, of the signal
service Mrs. Dewey is said to be re-
sponsible for the abandonment of their
nome. Her X street house is much near
err the residence of her mother, and she
likes that location better than the house
presented by the American people to her
husband. The title to the Rhode Island
avenue house stands in Mrs. Dewey's
name
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-27
Alabama Laws in Court

The railroads of this state, acting
nnitedly, have begun proceedings in
the federal courts by asking for an in
junction restraining the state railroad
commission from putting into effect
the commodity rate law, the maximum
rate law and two-and-a-half-cent rate
law. Judge Jones will on Saturday
next give both sides a hearing, and on
that hearing he will decide whether or
not the temporary injunction shall be
made perpetual.
1t matters little which way Judge
Jones decides, for his decision will be
utilized by either side for the purpose
of carrying the issue before the United
States supreme court, and the quicker
the matter is laid before that court the
quicker we will know where we are at
This is why all should be glad that
the contention has been brought be-
fore the federal courts. 1t is to the
advantage of all to know just what the
legal status of the state is in relation
to the regulation of the railroads. The
state should do nothing to delay a
anal hearing and final decision.
The railroads can no longer ignore
valid and constitutional laws. They
know this. and a general tying-up Of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-27
Mob Law at Florence

The guilt of the negro who was shot
near Florence seems beyond doubt.
His crime was brutal, but so was the
manner of his taking-off. Two hun
dred pistols held by two hundred law
breakers were emptied into his body.
There was no reason in the world
why the governor of the state should
not have been appealed to to convene
special term of the circuit court, for
the negro could probably have been
indicted, tried, sentenced and hanged
in twenty-four hours. The lesson would
have been more impressive, and the
state would not have suffered the stain
of mob action.
Governor Conner will have to show
in the Florence case some desire to
say the least of bringing the two hun
dred executioners near Florence to
trial unless he proposes to let mob law
regain the strength 1t had before Gov
ernor Jelks sat down on it. Governor
Jelks sat down on 1t hard, and he very
nearly crushed the life out Of it.
The handling of the Florence case
will be regarded as an indication Of
the manner In which the new admins
tration will deal with Judge Lynch.
1t will be so regarded in all the coun-
ties of the state, and that is why all
are looking for action that will keep
Judge Lynch quiet in this state in the
next four years.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-27
Starting a Now Crop

A mild winter has undoubtedly facil
itated blowing and other crop prepare
tons, especially in Texas. A good
start has been secured in every part
of the cotton belt An early start does
not insure big crop, but 1t certainly
leans that way. The only drawback
has been lack of moisture, but in
March a lack of moisture is not ma
terial Planting in Texas and Louis
lana Is we'll advanced, and in many
places the plants are in sight and
growing finely.
The general belief is that the farm
ers are planting as much cotton as
they can see a chance to cultivate and
pick out-possibly in many instances
even more than they can reasonably
expect to handle well under the pres
ent conditions of the labor market
The acreage will almost certainly be
pushed up because all see that the
consumptive demand is great and is
yearly increasing.
Fortunate would it be if our farmer;
would accept the advice of the Brook
haven South Mississippan when i
says: "The farmer that takes care
each year to provide a support for his
family, food and shelter for his stock
needs no advice whatever as to hi
cotton acreage. He has solved tina
problem in his own way by figuring
out the results of his sound and intel
ligent management. 1t is true tina
many of our farmers are yet handi
capped by debt, but the same remed,
is applicable to all. Hard down econ
omy, self-denial and hard work, Will
a determination to make what you liv'
on and live on what you make, will
soon make the average farmer thu
most independent man on EARTH
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-27
LWAYsWRECKERS' WORK.

I'm railroad wreck the cost of the dis
aster is not confined to the actual dam
age to rolling stock which occure at the
time of the accident writes Herbert
Lawrence Stone in The Technical World
Magazine for April aside from possible
sacrifice of life, often the greatest loss
is occasioned by the tying up of traffic
after the event Hurry is not a word
that sounds well in the mouth of a rail-
road man, but is nevertheless, one of
the most important words in his vocabu-
larry, whether he ever speaks it or not
And never is its application as goad to
strenuous effort better illustrated than
when it becomes necessary to open the
road speedily after wreck.
while the railroads in this country
have made wonderful advances in the
adoption and perfection of appliances for
the safeguarding of their trains, and while
the percentage of accidents to the num-
Der of trains run is less than formerly,
yet with the enormous increase in the
volume of business the actual number of
wrecks does not seem in any way d.
minished.
with the growth in the size OF loco
motives and cars the operating men have
had to revolutionize the methods of hand
ling them when off the track or broken
up. The old hand-derrick built on fat
car, which was formely a part of every
wrecking outfit and which could, per-
haps, lift one end of a fifteen or twenty
ton freight car so that pair of trucks
could be slipped under it, and which could
not handle the small fifty-tone engines
of the past was useless when it came
to moving locomotive Weighing ! go tons
or more, on its side in a ditch or at the
bottom of FILL And not only was 1t
necessary to get something that could
handle these heavy weights. but addi-
tonal speed had also to be gained. With
the amount of traffic now hauled on any
large system, a delay of a day in clear
ing a wreck which was common under
the old system would moan a freight
blockade that would take a week to
straighten out. to say nothing of the train
loads of chatting passengers held up by the
Il oil
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-27
TRAFFIC IN SKELETONS

an adjoining room, where the entire skel-
eton is put together and finally mounted
on a stand or attached to an iron rod.
Others, again, have ring inserted into
the skull so that they may be suspended
from the ceiling.
Next comes the packing room, where
the skeletons ara carefully boxed and
despatched to their destination, while
others are placed in stock for selection
by intending purchasers. The showroom
here Is a fine, large, light apartment.
lined with glass cases that show speci-
men skeletons Of giants and dwarfs, ne
groes and yellow men, as well as GRIM
ina1s that have their name, date of exc
cution and record of crime on attached
labels,
There are skeletons of men and women
and children of all ages In great chests
of drawers in the center of the showroom
are skulls of every age and variety, as
well as wired hands and feet
Naturally strange stories attach to
some of these things. One skeleton was
that of fine young fellow who had
only been married a few months when
he met with an accident and was taken
to the hospital. One leg was amputated,
but he had besides received very severe
internal injuries that made his case hope
less.
On being informed that he could not
live, he sold his body for so, which sum
was handed over to his wife, who came
from Brittany to say farewell, and after
an affecting parting. left the hospital
with the price of her husbands body in
her hand. As matter of fact this sell
ing OF bodies by the living is far more
common than one might think.
In England, since the passing of the
Anatomy acts OF 1882 and 1881, the bod
les of persons dying unclaimed in aims
houses and hospitals are said to have
proved quite sufficient for the needs of
the medical and surgical professions. A
skeleton factory or two existed some
years ago in London, but little appears
to be known of such institutions now
To all Inquiries the evasve reply IL re-
turned: 1--WE get our bones from
abroad
The French factory, by the way. Ia
said to have been in existence more than
40 years. and all the Workmen engaged
there must have served at least FIVE years
In the dissecting schools of the French
metropolis.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-27
Runner Fruit Crop.

Georgia will have a bumper fruit crop
if this good weather holds on, said W.
W. Riner of Columbia last night at the
Birmingham. Prospects were never bet
ter and the people Of the south part Of
that state at least will have their peck
cts full of money this year
The section south of Macon and
around Fort Valley is the greatest peach
growing section of the state and from
what | have observed lately the fruit
is far enough advanced to be almost be-
yond danger from frost. | sec your
weather man says that the earth is thor
oughly warmed this spring. / agree with
him and believe that we will hardly SUI
fer any damage from "a cold spell.
We raise a great quantity of water
melons and cantaloupes around Column
bus and in southeast Georgia and the
crop will be big one this year. You
people in Birmingham have a crop that
is not dependent upon the weather and
you are growing some | tell you. We,
over in Georgia are not far behind and
the growth of Columbus and other cities
is also remarkable.