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Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10

Fund for ldcOnvention Of B. P. o.
E. Next July in Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 10.-A
fund of n hundred thousand dol
lars has been subscribed by the bust
ness men of Philadelphia, for the
purpose of entertaining the Elks,
when they hold their annual reunion
and convention next July.
This is the largest amount of mon
ey that has ever been raised in Phila-
delphia for convention purposes, and
is, therefore, a magnificent tribute to
the popularity of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks.
In addition to the above amount, it
is expected that city councils will
take official recognition of the con
vention, by appropriating twenty-five
thousand dollars, for decorating and
Illuminating the principal business
streets of this city during reunion
week.
1t Is freely predicted by the Elks,
who have visited the city during the
past few weeks, that the coming con-
vention will be the largest and most
successful ver held by the order.
There is every indication that the
high water mark" of Elkdom will
be attained in Philadelphia, during
the week beginning July 18th.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
LIFE RAREBLT DREAM
Artist Chittenden Seals His Room
and Arranges Suicide.

NEW YORK, Jan. 10.-Wlth a note
lying near by, in which lie had written
that life is a rarebit dream the body
of Albert A. C%hittendcn, an artist oil
some note, was found in his luxurious
ly furnished apartments on West
Twenty-ninth street here.
Chittenden had committed suicide by
inhaling gas and had been dead at
least three days.
lie had first pasted heavy wrapping
paper over every window and crevice
in the apartment and had then lain
down on the floor, with a gas tube at
tached TO a jet hanging over him.
With paper he had formed a cone to
fit over his mouth and attached one
end of the tube to a cord suspended
from the ceiling. so that the cone
should rest directly over his face. Pin
ned on his waistcoat was the following
note:
Life is a rarebit dream. Ia. ha.
Such a funny dream, but enough. am
ready to awake to something less ri
diculous."
a letter addressed to G. II. Knau-
blauch, 30 Broadway, was taken in
charge by the police and later. upon an
order from the coroner, turned over t.
Mr.. Knaublauch. The latter said that
the communication was evidently the
message of a man crippled mentally
and physically. The letter was said to
be a rambling comment on certain
Wall street transactions.
Chittenden, who was about forty
years of age, was of a retiring dispo-
sition and had few intimate acquaint-
ances. He was last seen alive Satur-
day. The janitor's fears being arous-
ed, he forced al entrance to the apart
ments and found the artist dead.
Six months ago he inherited n for
tune reported to have been rs much
as S350,O00, and only six weeks ago,
when another inheritance of 100000
fell to him, the first was gone
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
BARGE BROKE AWAY
FROM TOW; Is AGRoUND

VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass, Jan
10:-Barge Woodbury., which was
the last of a tow of three barges be-
hind tug Paoli, all bound from Bos-
ton to South NAmboy, broke away
yesterday while passing through
Quicks hole and went ashore on the
west end of Pasque Island. She was
still aground at dark last night. The
Paoli took her other barges, the Ok
ford and Malvern, to a safe anchor
age in Buzzards Bay and then re-
turned to assist the Woodbury.. The
Woodbury. was light, and it is thought
there will be considerable difficulty
in floating her. A heavy westerly
gale was blowing last night, but the
stranded barge was well protected by
Nashawena Island. The crew is not
in danger.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
STEAMER MARACAS MAY
Be TOWING THE PONCE
Vessel Which Comes Here Frequent.
" from Trinidad Is Four
Days Overdue.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1O:-The con-
tinued absence of the steamship Mar
acas of the Trinidad Trading e. Ship
ping Company, which runs to New
York and Perth Amboy, lends color
to the belief that the vessel is towing
the missing steamship Ponce to some
port. 1t is now believed that the
Maracas is rendering the Ponce assist
ance or is in trouble herself. The
Ponce is now nine days overdue,
while the Maracas is four days late
from Port of Spain.
Her ours falls in with that Of
the Ponce, about six hundred miles
south of Sandy Hook. The stiff head
winds that have been prevailing down
the coast in the last few days would
result In rather slow Roadway so far
as towing is concerned.
The Maracas is a stout vessel of
1878 tons, and, according to her
owners, has never been overdue at
this port before. This argues well
for the opinion that she has fallen
in with the Ponce and that she is
towing her, if not to this port, at
least to some place where safety will
be assured.
Franklin Mooney, general manager
of the Porto Rico line, takes strong
hope from the tardy Trinidad boat
and feels reasonably certain that the
fact that two liners plying a similar
course are overdue is an argument in
favor of the safety of both vessels.
The steamship Siberia, a fruiter,
which arrived yesterday from Jamai-
ca, covering the course of the Porto
Rico liners, reported that one hun
dred miles south of Sandy Hook she
ploughed through a mass of wreck
age, pieces of scantling, Christmas
trees, a table and a cabinet, all Of
which, except, of course, the trees,
suggested the furnishings of some
vessel.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
HOLD WRECK INQUEST
Eight Railroad Men Blamed for Dis
aster at Terra Gotta.

WASHINGTON, Jan. -10.-The coro-
ner's inquest over the. Terra Gotta
wreck of Sunday night. Dec. 30, last
night held for the action of the grand
jury Harry H.. IIilderbrand, engineer
of the dead" train, 2120: Frank II.
Hoffmeier, conductor of that train; ~
Il. Dent, night train dispatcher at Bal
tlmore; William Il. McCaulley, division
operator of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad; b. l.. yermillion, engineer Of
local train &c. into which 2120 crash
ed; George w. Nagle, conductor of
train 66; ]. w. Kelly, Jr., trainmaster
of the Baltimore and Ohio, and Will
liam NJ. Dutrow, the telegraph opera
tor at Silver Spring.
All the men held, except Dent, Nc
Caulley and Kelly, were in the build
ing where the inquest was held and
were placed under arrest.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
CONTRACT SIGNED FOR
NEW NORMAL SCHOOL

TRENTO, Jan. 10:-The contract
for the building of the new state
normal school, which is to be erected
at Montclair Heights, in Essex county,
was signed at a meeting of the COM
mittee in charge of the work, at the
state house yesterday.
Frederick Kingus, of Newark, who
has the contract for the building,
stated that he would have the $780,
600 bond ready within a few days
AS soon as this Is done the contract
will be sent to Governor Stokes for
his signature.
DR.. George B. Wight, commissioner
of charities and corrections, approved
the contract, as is required by law,
and Superintendent Charles ]. Bax-
ter, of the state department of in
struction, attested the document.
The signers were: President James
l.. Hays, of the State Board of Edu-
cation; Edward Russ, C. e. Surdam,
Judge Francis Scott, J. B. Woodward
and S. r. Morse.
1t was decided that the committee
should visit Montclair Heights in the
near future for the purpose of fixing
the exact location of the proposed
school building.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
OPPORTUNITIES IN MOTORING.

There were $50, 900 worth of
motor cars manufactured and sold
this season in the United States, ac-
cording to David Beecroft, who writes
on Motoring Opportunities in the
Technical World for December. 10
put out this tremendous caravan OF
automobiles, there are 1876 factories
entirely devoted to the manufacture
of motor cars, and ESQ more which
make automobile parts and accessor-
les. AT the factories a score OF hrms
employ 1900 men all the year round;
and in every case they are young men,,
generally under thirty; and 1t is sur
prising, in visiting a factory employ
ing 1900 men, to find the head en-
gineer a man but three or o u years
out of college, who has not yet COM
pleted his quarter-century, and VINO
frequently has not entered h Dene-
dict stage. Here is an infant industry
which has become a prodigy in pro-
portions, and which offers untold OPP
portunities to young men. Not only
does the manufacturing end OF the IN
dustry deserve consideration, but the
selling part is equally important. Ev-
cry city in the United States of over
ten thousand population contains
agencies and branches of many or all
of the automobile manufacturing
companies. Each salesroom or
branch has its force of statesmen.
demonstrators, repairmen, and clerl-
cal staff, aggregating in all from a
dozen to a score of employees.
The problem of the motor car has
yet to be worked out. Properly COM
bining maximum strength with mini
mum weight, is the problem coupled
with that of selecting grades of met
al equal to the vibration and the
strain. Entrants into motoring must
first of all study what has been done
the achievements of a decade are
northumberland, after that, continue
the work. 1t is a great, expanding
field for wide-awake, resourceful
iyoung men.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
STOPPED
Names Substituted on Permits, (which We're
Revoked by The Police.

Sergeant Durham yesterday after
loon revoked four bill-distributing
permits. Early in the afternoon a
man called at the police station and,
giving the names of four boys who,
he said, were to distribute bills for
him, obtained the necessary permits.
Later, Sergeant Durham, noticing a
number of youths with hand bills,
passing city hall, went outside and,
as a matter of form, examined their
permits, which he found had been
tempered with. The former names of
the boys had been erased and others
written in their places. Upon MAX
ing this discovery the sergeant forbid
the passing of any more bills under
those permits.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
AMBOY MAN TAKES
T~OTTENvILLE BRIDE.
Frederick Jefferson SofieId Weds
Miss jamie Elizabeth Taylor at
Brides Sisters Home.
Special to the EVENING VIEWS:

TOTTENVILLE, Jan. 10:-The
residence of Mr.. and Mrs. D. H. Pep
per, sc Bentley street, was the scene
of a pretty holly wedding at S.45
O'Clock last night when Mrs. Peppers
sister, Miss jamie Elizabeth Taylor,
became the wife of Frederick Jeffer-
son Sofield, of Perth Amboy. The
ceremony was performed by Rev.
William Powell Hill, pastor of the
First Baptist church in Perth Amboy.
The bridal party stood under a bower
of holly and green's. The bride was
becomingly gowned in a white crepe
de chine dress and carried a large
bouquet of white bridal roses. She
was attended by her sister, Mrs. D.
H. Pepper, who acted as matron of
honor. Mrs. Pepper wore white crepe
de chine and carried a bouquet of
pink loses
D. H. Pepper, brother-in-law of the
bride, was best man. Miss Ruth
Nichols, of Newark, was flower girl.
She carried a bouquet of pink roses.
Miss Bernice Journey and Marie
Brown were ribbon. girls, and they
each carried a bouquet of holly tied
with red ribbon. The wedding march
was played by Miss Anna Mcdonald.
The bride entered the parlor on the
arm of her sister, the matron of
honor, and the groom entered from
the main hall with the best man.
The house was tastefully decorated
with holly and green's. After the cere-
mony a wedding supper was served
by Caterer Woolsey, of Perth Am
boy. There were about one hundred
present from this place, Brooklyn,
Perth Amboy, Newark and New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sofield were the re-
'cipients of many handsome presents.
The bride and groom left on a late
train for an extended wedding tour.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
new METHOD
OF INSPECTION
Public School Inspector Has
Each Pupil Pass Before Him
To Look for Symptoms.

In accordance with a suggestion
made by Commissioner ]. B. Quick at
the last meeting of the Board of
Health, Public School Inspector DR..
M. S. Meinzer tried the suggested
method of inspecting the children at
public school No. 5 this morning.
The inspector said that this method
will probably prove a good one, but it
involves a great deal of work for a
single man. DR.. Meinzer spent ex-
actly forty-five minutes al school No.
5 this morning, and had each child
pass before him, in the light of a
window. The children that appear to
be sickly are taken from the line and
inspected more thoroughly in private.
The inspector has now finished his
semi-monthly inspection of the local
schools, and will probably visit the
Maurer school tomorrow.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
Society
GIVE A SUPPER JANUARY 30.


A meeting of the Ladies' Aid and
Sewing Society, of Grace English
Lutheran church, was held in the YES
try of the church yesterday after
Don A number of the members
were present. They decided to hold
a chicken and waffle supper Wednes.
day, January 80. The place for hold
ing it has not as yet been decided on,
but it is probable that it. will be held
in a vacant store somewhere on Smith
street. Preparations will be made at
once for the affair.
Miss Lizzie Seel, of Market street,
is confined to her home with an at
tack of grip.
Mrs. Samuel N. Greene, of $50
State street, is aspending a few days
with friends in New York.
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Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. Carroll have
left this city to make their home in
Buffalo, N. Y. MI. Carroll is in the
terra Gotta industry.
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Mrs. F. Kemble, of Ball Block, has
returned from a trip to Trenton.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
Robert e. Lee memorial Catherine

WASHINGTON. jan. 10.-President
Roosevelt was asked to attend the Rob
ert Il. Lee memorial meeting to be held
in this city on the 10Th inst. under the
auspices Of the Association of the Con-
of the ~Confederacy. This will be the
centennial anniversary of the birth of
General Lee and is to be generally eel
ebrated throughout the south. The
president will not be able TO attend.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
Uniyer.i,ies Must BE Free.

NEW YORK, Jan. 10.-Dr. Nicholas
Murray Butler. president of Columbia
university, declared last night at Coo
per Union that Il university must be
fiuence of a millionaire in the interest
of teaching truth. NO university" he
said, "should sell itself to the mob
through fear or to the millionaire for a
donation. The pure light Of reason
alone should be its guide.p
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
Work AT Il. v. Docks Light.

Work on The Lehigh Valley coal
docks continues light, although the
other dock has been put in operation
and two docks are now at work as
usual.
A foreman on the docks said yes
terday that the amount of work done
during the past year was about equal
to that of the previous year, although
no comparative figures could be
given.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
DO MISUNDERSTANDING INSTRU-
MENTS IMPROVE OR DEPRE-
CIATE MUSICAL TASTE?

What effect is the wide popular
use of these instruments having and
likely to have on the musical tastes
and habits of the people at large, on
1.-THE musical profession and trade, and
on the development of musical art in
this country? A most deplorable one
If we may believe the eminent band
master and March-King,' John Philip
Sousa. He likens this phenom-
enon to the invasion of this country
by the pestiferous English sparrow
which destroyed or drove away u
native song-birds. He predicts a
marked deterioration in American
music and musical taste, IN interrupt
ton in the musical development of
the country, and a host of other in
juries TO music in its artistic mani
festitations. These talking and
playing machines, he declares, offer
to reduce the expression of music to
a mathematical system of maya
phones, wheels, cogs, disks, cylin-
ders, and all manner of revolving
things.
Another musical expert. MI. Rup-
ert Hughes, takes a Numerically
opposite view of the situation. The
true value of the piano player, in his
estimate, is its usefulness as first aid
to the unframed. 1t is to the classics
of music what the translator is to
literature. While the best translat-
ors lose something of the original,
without them many of the most
learned would be unfamiliar with
Homer, Plato, Job, Isaiah, Vergil,
Horace, Dante, Cervantes, Goethe,
Hugo, Tolstoi, and the others who
have made the mistake of not writing
in a universal language. i. The
piano player comes to their rescue;
1t is always ready for them at home,
makes 1t unnecessary for them to
dress and go out, and enables them
to make their own programs. Incl
dentally, by stimulating acquaintance
with the classics, 1t stimulates a de-
sire to hear them well performed.
So, In course of time, the concerts
also profit.
Personally says Mr.. Henry T.
Finck, L have no need of music
rendering Instruments, for / happen
to be a musical critic who hears all
the best in music at first hand.
i feel in regard to piano players a Il
monographs as / do in gegard I'd
mountain railways in Sutherland.
Being able to climb mountains Aasily,
/ have little use for them; but
glad that they make the glories OF
the Alps accessible to thousands who
could never know them without the
aid of these railways. And the high
est peaks still remain sacred to the
professional climbers. | must
say that | would rather hear Sousa's
band in a superior photograph than
in the concert hall, because the rec
ord" makes 1t less noisy while at the
anne time preserving the peculiar
quality or tone color of every instrl-
ment and soloist as well as every de-
tail of expression. Far from vitiating
the musical taste of the community.
these instruments are, in my opinion.
potent agents of musical progress -.
From "A Musical Revolution" by
Henry T. Finck, in The Circle for
January.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
HOTEL SOLD AGAIN
Former st. John Property Bought
BY Newark Party.

The Citizens Realty Corporation
sold the Eureka hotel, at Hall avenue
and State street, last night to a party
from Newark. The name of the pur-
chaser is as yet unknown. The Citi-
zens' Realty Corporation recently
had plans drawn for extensive altera-
tons to the building, which were
about to be ent out for figures. AS
yet, it is unknown what changes the
new owner proposes to make. The
property was formerly owned By
John N. st. John.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10

NORTH YAKIMA. Wash, Jan. TO-
A train loaded with coal was raided at
the station here by citizens who were
without fuel, and almost twenty car
loads We're carried off. The engineer
started to pull out when the levers
holding the false bottoms of the coal
cars Were pulled and the coal let down
on the tracks. Hundreds of persons
have been without fuel for days, with
zero weather prevailing.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
May Abolish Carlisle.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. - Carlisle
institute, which was established at Car
isle, Pa. in 1870. for the higher educa-
ton of the Indian, is in danger of be-
ing abolished. The subcommittee of the
senate committee on Indian affairs,
which has the Indian appropriation bill
under consideration. has agreed to re-
port an amendment striking out the APP
propriation for this school.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10

WATERFOWL. \. Y, Jan. TO-
South Dakota divorce court has freed
Mrs. Edith Mcmillan Harbottle, for
several years the private stenographer
of John Byron Taylor, son-in-law of
the late Governor Roswell p. Flower,
from her husband and permits both to
marry, she to take her maiden name.
This action was brought on the sole
pay for a pair Of corsets which the
plaintiff needed.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10

ELMIR.A, y. y, Jan. 10.-Justice
Hazel sentenced Anton Winters of
Rochester TO seven years al hard labor
and Il fire Of $1,000 for making coun
terfeit two dollar certificates, which
his wife passed in Rochester, As he
has no money and must serve one day
for each dollar of the fine, Winters
sentence is really for twenty-one years.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
TO MEET HERE r z.
New Jersey State Conference of Laborers
To Convene Here.

The International State Conference
of Laborers held a meeting at Dover,
Del, last Sunday. Hans Peterson
and Andrew Peterson were the local
delegates. The next meeting of the
New Jersey state conference will be
held in this city April 4.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
South Amboy Grocer Sues.
Special to the EVENING NEWS;

NEW BRUNSWICK, Jan. TO-
John Coan, attorney for A. H. Slower,
of South Amboy, appeared in the dis
trict court this morning in a suit
against Henry Luker, who owes SLOW
er $3O.80. 1t was shown that Luker's
income was about $110 a month and
he was ordered to pay $40 monthly
until the account was settled.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
q BODY STILL UNCLAIMED
No Arrangements for Funeral of Man Whit
Died In Lookup,

The body of Michael J. Hayden,
who, as told in the NEWS yesterday,
died in the city lookup Tuesday night,
is still at the undertaking establish
ment of Thomas f. Burke, in State
street, waiting word from a sister,
who, it is said, resides in Paterson.
The body will be held at that place
for a day or two, and, if no word is
received, he will be buried by the
authorities.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10

PORTLAND, Me, Jan. 10.-Enraged
because u fellow workman. Patrick j..
Griffin. hit him upon a painful boil,
Isaac Romeo, it is alleged by the POI
lice. struck Griffin in the side with Il
heavy bar Of iron, the blow causing his
death three hours later. Romeo was ar
rested on 4 charge Of m-anslaughter.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
Sold Woodbridge Property.
Special to the EVENING NEWS:

NEW BRUNSWICK, Jan. TO-
The sheriff sold two Woodbridge
properties this morning for the New
Jersey Building, Loan & Investment
Company. The first was against
August Oldbrich. The property was
bought in by C. T. Cowenhoven for
$707.14. The second was against
Edward JacQuot. This was also
bought by Lawyer Cowenhoven for
1906. Mr.. Cowenhoven represents
some Woodbridge party.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
South Amboy Man at HospitaI.

John Crashing, of South Amboy.
while at work on the Pennsylvania
railroad Yesterday, had his leg
broken. He was placed ION a train
and sent. to this city and faken to the
hospital in a CARRIAGE
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10

NEWPORT. II. J., Jan. 10. Rev.
Walter Lowric, rector Of the Trinity
Episcopal church. announced last night
that lie had accepted Il call to become
rector Of st. Paul's Episcopal church
at Rome.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10

SHREVEPORT. La, Jan. 10.-His
coat tails caught by a projecting mai
crane, Walter s. Currey, a passenger
on the eastbound Cannonball of tho
Nicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific rail
road, was jerked from the train nj
Doyline, ear here. and received inju.
ries which caused his death. Currey,
who was a member of Il leading bust.
ness firm. stood on the steps Of the rear
coach Of the CannonbalI, which was
running sixty miles an hour, in an eff.
fort to drop off 4 package for Il relative
at Doyline, where the train makes nc
stop.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
OBITUARY.
j. ERNEsT CHAIMERS.

MRS. j. ERNEST CHALMERS.
Mrs. j. Ernest Chalmers died very
suddenly at her home in Sewaren
yesterday afternoon. She is survived
by her husband, who is a member OF
the Boynton-C Chalmers Company, and
a six-months-old daughter. The flu
neral will be held from the house at
$50 O'Clock tomorrow afternoon.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
Ghost Stories.

Some weird stories of ghosts of to-
day in the great city of New York. :
Whey we grow old before our
time, with stories of certain kinds Of
animals who live one hundred and
twenty-five years or more, and how
we can do it. y These and many
other features of unusual interest dn
the Magazine of next Sundays
New York World.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10

Splendid short stories in the free
ten-cent magazine that's part of THE
PHILADELPHIA SUNDAY PRESS
every week-nothing like it any
where. Conan Doyle, Anthony Hope,
others equally good, + contributors.
Splendidly illustrated woman's sec
ton. Buy THE PRESS every day in
the week-you get all that's worth
having.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10

This newspaper will be a dull one
On the day-if that ever happens
when the ads. in its columns con-
tains no genuine bargain-offers. IT
WILL NEVER BE A DULL PAPER
WHEN THEY DO!
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10

Mothers who give their children Ken
nedy's Laxative Cough Syrup inva-
riably indorse it.. Contains Honey
and Tar. Conforms to the National
Pure Food and Drug Law. Sold by
G.. A. Sexton.