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Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22
C RPoRATION TAXES
NEW LODGE, TRIBE OF
BEN HUR, IS FORMED

\ local lodge o. the Tribe OF Ben
Hur was last night organized in this
city. under the name of Evening
Star Lodge No. 20, IN the F'raternal
Order OF Eagles hall. in the Nc
Cormick building. at High and Smith
streets.
Forty or more charter members
were initiated. Ohicers were nomi-
mated and elected 10 remain in Office
until January j At the first meet
ing in January a new panel OF off,
GERS will be elected for the ensuing
six months.
The Ben Hur organization, which
is starting branches throughout the
country, pays a liberal sick and death
benefit to its members. 1t also has a
juvenile department. called the So
cial circle, which persons between
the ages of sixteen and eighteen years
may enter.
Chief William H. Bisp. OF Jersey
City, instituted the local branch last
night and gave Instructions as to the
results and demands of tine regula-
tions
:. Should the Evening Star initiate
in all a hundred members before
March J.. 1908, great affair for
members Of the affair is planned to
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22

be held in the Majestic theatre. AT
this event. if held, visiting members
and officials from lodges throughout
the country witt attend
Visitors were present last night
from Jersey City. Railway. Long
Branch. Asbury Park, and Freehold
They were royally entertained dur
ing the social hour. which followed
the business session.
Tha following officers were elect
ed, 10 be in charge of the local branch
nntil january L. 1905 Charles II.
sen, chief Mary Anderson, vice
chief; Frank Norrell, Judge; Mabel
Moore. guide; John Heddy, captain
Florence Moore, secretary: Charles
iClnney. treasurer; Bernard Peter
son, chaplain; Gladys Cluney, inside
guard: Florence Petersen. outside
guard: Carrie Winnegar. Mother OF
Ben Hur; Carl Sign, Ben Hur; Ar
thur Demurr. Father Joseph: Eliza.
beth Cluney, past chief; Gladys Gu
ney. organisf,.
The officials of the Supreme Tribe
of Ben Hur. which has headquarters
in Charlottesville. Ind. are as fol-
lows: d. w Gerard, supreme chief
John c. Snyder, supreme scribe: S.
E. yoris, supreme X. of T.; j. f.
Davidson medical inspector
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22
SUSPECT, ON
BAIL, ACCUSES
MAN STABBED

Mike Conturo. who is charged
with having stabbed Stephen Nodt
Tuesray night in the place of John
Jacko, .296 Fayette street. was re-
leased under $209 bail yesterday
afternoon. This morning he swore
out a warrant for the arrest OF Nodt
on charge of atrocious assault as
Nodt had attacked him. 1T is al
legged. DR.. William E. Ramsay, who
has been attending the wounded man,
says that he does not think the
wound was inflicted accidentally, as
it's location does not indicate that. He
reports that Nodt is doing we'll and
will probably be able to leave the
hospital in about week
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22
TROLLEY CAR
LEAVES RAILS

A trolley car partly filed with pas
sengers ran Off the track at the east
safety switch at the Central railroad
crossing, shortly after II O'Clock this
morning.
The car started off at such speed
that it ran a distance of two hun
dred feet with neither truck on the
rails. When it stopped on the west
side of the railroad crossing, it land
ed parallel with the railroad tracks,
the rear end against a pole on the
north side of Smith street
Had the car not started off at such
a speed it might have stopped on the
railroad tracks and a serious disaster
might have resulted.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22
OFFICE
CLERKS UNITE

The clerks of the local post Office
held meeting last night in the base
ment of the Federal building, at
which they organized a local branch
of the United Association of the Post
Office Clerks of America.
The local branch starts with four
charter members and one honorary
member. They are. Percy Coutts,
president; William Pemberton. sec
retary; Frank Parsons, treasurer,
and Joseph Growney.
Assistant Postmaster J. II Tyrrell
is listed as an honorary member.
has been made to the
American association for Il charter.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22

CELEBRATION

Plans have, been completed for the
sixth anniversary reception and dance
tomorrow night of the Danish Sociable
Athletic Club in the club house on New
street.
Each member is permitted to invite a
friend. The committee has arranged Il
fine supper. Music will be furnished by
Andrew Nelson and orchestra.
This dance. as we'll as being an ami
versary affair, will also mark the open
ing of the athletic class season. The
committee in charge of tomorrow
nights affair is Sigert Nelson, chair
man; John Hansen. Charles Hansen,
Andrew Anderson and Carl Peterson.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22
OFFICE MAY
BE VACANT

New Jersey will be without a chan
cellor for a week next January, unless
some loophole can be found out of u
peculiar legal trap the state has made
for itself.
The term of the present chancellor,
William j. Magic, will expire on Janu-
airy IA. On that day the last week of
Governor Stokes's term will begin dur
ing which period. the constitution of
the state provides, No appointment or
nomination to office shall be made by
the governor"
The only way to overcome the legal
objection is for the chancellor to re-
sign before January II and make it
possible for Governor Stokes to ap-
point a new chancellor.
1t is probable that the chancellor,
Governor Stokes and Governor elect
Fort will confer on the situation.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22
The PUBLIC
SERVICE TO
ECONOMIzE

NEWARK, Nov. 22:-There was
an unconirmed rumor in Newark
yesterday that on January l. the
United Gas Improvement Company,
of Philadelphia. will take over all the
transportation lines controlled by the
Public Service Corporation. and that
the Public Service Corporation will
retain the lighting traffic. which it
now controls.
Frank Bergen. chief counsel of the
Public Service Corporation, denied
the story and said the management
of the trolley lines will remain where
it is, SO far as he knows The United
Gas Improvement is heavily interest
ed in North Jersey Traction and has
always been friendly. Other officers
of the Public Service Corporation
deny the report.
1t became definitely known yester-
day, however, that the Public Ser
vice Corporation is preparing for the
adoption OF. policy OF retrenchment
about January l, and which will nee
essitate a shake-up of more than
ordinary proportions amone en-
ployes and officials. The plan is aid
TO include the cutting down of ex-
penses for construction work. the ac-
quirement OF new business and the
transfer of some employees to less
lucrative positions than they now
hold. besides the dropping altogether
of some high salaried officials, by the
abolishment of some positions and
the consolidation of some with
Others.
Thomas \. MeCarter. president of
the Public Service. said yesterday in
regard TO the current stories:
In common with other large corpor-
ations throughout the country the
Public Service Corporation had deter
mined upon a comprehensive plan of
retrenchment in its search for new bus
mess, in stopping new construction and
extension and in its managerial and
executive force. The plan. SO far as il
taffeets curtailment in the search for
new business and in a stoppage of new
construction, is alrady in effect.
SO far as economy in the executiv,
and managerial force goes. it becomei
| effective January I. The details of thi
! 1 do not care to go into a the presen
time, except to say that all who vii
be affected by the Change have alread,
been notified. Taken altogether il is
/ plan which will enable the corporation
! to effect very large economies, which
are, OF course. very essential Just now
I The more important changes will bt
made public later
In the stories of coming changes it Is
/ said that the companH's secretary
Frederick Evans has been booked to gc
and that his duties will be performed By
Colonel Edwin W. fIine, who is now as
sistant to the president Ii is also SAID
that Charles A. Stirling and A. r. Carl.
ton. vice presidents. who have been il
charge OF the transportation and tbs
electrical departments. will relinqus4
those places and will not be succeeded
by any one,
An anchor TO windward--an ad In
1.-THE EVENING NEWS.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22
CENTRAL R. R.
BUILDS TRESTLE

The Central railroad company has
started building a trestle at, "a point
in North SAmboy, where the trunk
sewer is to extend under the tracks.
City Surveyor F. l.. Smith has sent
"a communication to Chief Engineer
j. o. Osgood, of the company. ask
ing that he be notified when the work
is completed, so that the sewer con-
tractor may proceed.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22
AGAIN
SPEAKS OUT
Special bu United Press Wire:

Special by United Press Hie
WASHINGTON Nov. 22--'Havins
twice led the party and having twice
been defeated | am no longer Il candi-
date but II ! am drafted l shail NOT
run away. This is William jennings
Bryan's latest expression regarding MS
personal attitude toward a renomlna-
tion for the presidency given III an IN
terview today.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22
Marious Dance Tonight.

its third annual ball tonight in Braga
hall Two handsome prizes are offered
for the best waltzing couple.
The club has spared no expense to
make this the most successful ball ic
mas ever held. Steinhauser's orchestra
will furnish music Those on the arr
raugeuleut committee are J. A. Bird,
chairman; J. J. O'Toole, ]. II. Mullen. G.
l.. Smith c. T.. Jacobsen, c. A. Buckley
and +. B. Holzheimer.
Passion Play nt Mefuehen-
Special TO the EVENING NEWS.
METCcHEN. Nov. 2s:-The Passion
PLAY is 70 be given in ST. Francis K g.
church here Monday night.
BE an advertiser-Ic a word.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22
MAN PINNED
TO GROUND

Steve Scitost, "a Hungarian laborer AT
the American Smelling and Refining
works. had his leg broken this morning
while q work.
Scitost, with a number of other men.
was shifting a large iron plate which
fell on his leg, pinning him TO the
ground He was eXtricated at once. DR..
William e Ramsay was called. He
attended the injured man and sent him
to the city hospital.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22
What MiddIeSex
Go. Will Receive
From Them.
PORTION FOR
PERTH AMBOY
speeIa1 o the ErEEINe NEws:


TRENTON, Nov 22:-The various
municipalities in Midlesex county will
receive total of S1S,10266 from
the annual tax on the franchises of
public utility corporations. which has
just been assessed for this year by
the State Board OF Assessors. Tho
amount TO be received by Perth Am-
boy is as follows:
Public Service Corporation, lessee,
OF the Elizabeth & Raritan River
Street Railway Company, $45173;
Public Service Corporation, lessee Of
the Somerset, Union and Middlesex
Lighting Company, $403. Sc; North
eastern Telephone d. Telegraph
Company, =; Western Union Tele-
graph Company, s16s6; Citizens
Electric Light, Heat & Power Com
Dany, s6.0s; Perth Amboy Gas Light
Company $5S3,4s; Hudson & Mid
dlesex Telephone & Telegraph Cons
-pany, 1921 New York & New Jer-
sey Telephone Company, $51Tr30.
Total. s1,985.20.
New BrIlnswick's Share
New Brunswick will receive a todeI
Iof S2,s1S.99, from the following
companies: Public Service Corpor&-
ton, lessee Elizabeth & RaritaR
River Street Railway Company. $1,4
1894 Public Service CorporationJ
lessee Gas Light Company of New
Brunswick, s3S0.60; Public Service
Corporation, lessee Somerset, Union
& Middlesex Lighting Company,
$S03-33. Northeastern Telephone &
Telegraph Company, s1.47; Western
Union Telegraph Company. $1255.
Postal Telegraph Company, $351.
New York & New Jersey Telephone
Company. s4s4o5
What South Amboy Gets.
The share of South 4A1nbUy wB6{
as follows: Public Service Corpora-
ton, lessee Elizabeth e. Raritan
River Street Railway Company
S25S 3S. Western Union Telegraph
Company, s0.10; Citizens Light and
Fuel Company, OF South Amboy.
s199.19: Middlesex & Monmouth
Electric Light. Heat & Power Com
pany. $1S5.S7: New York & New
Jersey Telephone Company, s137.60.
Total, $7S1.14
| The tax is assessed by the State
Board of Assessors and by that board
| IL certified to each taxing district.
where it is collected for the benefit of
the municipality. The rate is two per
cent. on thu gross receipts. except for
! Graduated rate, which viii increase
ic-half of one per cent each year un-
ii it reaches five per cent. on the gross
, receipts. where ii will remain station
| ary This year it is two ana one-haif
iper cent.
| The total tax in Middiesex county by
taxing districts is shown by the fol-
4 l.1T1~ q n
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22
MAURITANIA ANCHORED
UNTIL FOG PASSED AWAY

Special bu United Press Wjrc:
NEW YORK. Nov. 22:-OwinS to the
heavy fog the new Cunarder Mauretanla
is anchored outside the bar today II
the fog lifts she will make an attempt
TO enter the harbor this afternoon.
While she did not break the record for
the run for passage. she created a new
record for one day, reeling off 624 knots
on the fourth day of her VOYAGE.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22
MORE INVOLVED IN
BROOKLYN BANK CASE
Ipeciai by united Press Wire

Specidt OY t'tte" IFeSS WHf
NEW YORK. Nov. 22:-Altllough ten
indictments already have been returned
by the Kings county grand jury in the
Brooklyn borough Bank lootdng case.
the end is not Yet. That body. today, is
continuing its investigation of the
queer methods pursued in managing the
institutions business and it is expected
that other persons may Yet have to ex
plain their actions in court
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22
JAPAN SHAKEN
BY EARTHQUAKE

eSpecidl BY United Press Wire:
TOXIC, Nov. 22:-The empire was
shaEeu by an earthquake today. More
THAI a thousand miles were embraced
in the area affected. Full reports have
not yet been received from many cities
and much uneasiness is felt.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22
~ Crushed His Foot.
Specsdl to the EVENING NEWS:

KEASBEY, Nov. 22:-Wiliam Bryan,
of Fords. a, foreman at the Ostrander
Works, Slipped on the dock yesterday
and caught his foot between the rum
way and the pier crushing it quite
badly.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22
BAD ROADS CAUSE
DELAY FOR WESTON
Special by United Press Wire

NVtCfUF % IWtttU FTtSS WWo
DELTA Ohio, Nov. 22:-Edward Pay
son Weston, the pedestrian, arrived
here at 1880 o'clock this morning and
after sleep. started for the west at 10
o'clock. Owing TO the bad roads he
probably will not get to Indiana until
tomorrow.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22

Frank Petroski, of 93 Penn street.
who had his hand crushed between two
coal cars of the Lehigh Valley railroad
Wednesday, was taken to the hospital
yesterday afternoon. 1t was found that
blood poisoning had set in.
When PetrOski got to the hospital he
refused to undergo the operation, and
returned home.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22
MANY MADE HOMELESS
BY EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS
h,l United Press Wire

Special by United Press Wire:
ROME, Nov. 22:-Help is being hur-
ried to Calabria where more earthquake
shocks are reported to have occurred
yesterday. How much damage was
done is not yet known. 1t is certain,
however. that the shocks caused heavy
loss and many are homeless and desti-
tutc
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22

Don't forget the Calumet Club dance
November 27, Braga hall.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22

,.ct Tho NEWS f'' "euii WAITS
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-11-22

BE an advertiser-lc a word.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-09
WANTFD:-KANSAs MONEY!

1t is no great surprise to those who
have been watching the trend of finan-
cial affairs closely to be told that a
considerable amount of Kansas money
has been loaned in the east. 1t is esti-
mated that $15.0OO,OOO of eastern
paper is held in Kansas. Every day
the leading banks of Kansas receive
from eastern brokers lists of high
grade notes that they have for sale
virtually applications for loans. Most
of these loans are desired by corpora
tions or firms that are rated as gilt
edged. No others would receive atten-
ton in Kansas. They pay from five
to eight per cent interest on short
time notes. Short time securities of
some of the big railroad companies are
also listed by these brokers. They
bear good interest rates. but run for a
shorter period than ordinary railroad
bonds. Money is short in the east and
so these loans are sought where there
is a surplus of cash.
II Kansas bankers will exercise due
caution, and not load up too heavily on
this eastern paper it will prove a good
thing Tor the banking business in the
west A few years ago when Kansas
FARMERS hrst began to get big returns
AAoAAA llelr 1drIhs there was a great era
OF debt-paying and building up bank
accounts. The banks were surfeited
with money. Many of them had more
than they wished to carry. Every
farmer was putting money in the bank
and few were borrowing, and banks
can not make money unless they can
make loans. In the course of time,
been carrying a much larger reserve
business operations and that took
money from the banks. Since then the
banking business has been profitable,
although most Kansas banks have
been carving a much larger reserve
than was necessary If they can make
the surplus bring in an income from
the east, it will be Just that much more
added to the income of Kansas. Incl
dentally it might be stated that much
of the bank stock of Kansas is held by
Kansas farmers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-09
WILL TAXES INCREASE?

The State Tax Commission is proba-
bly, right in it's belief that there will be
little disposition to boost the amount OF
money to be raised by taxation simply
because the valuations Will be increased
under the new law.
Practically every taxing power in the
state is anxious to keep taxes down as
low as possible. There is probably not
board of county commissioners In
Kansas that does not scheme and plan
to lower the tax rate. The annual dis
trict school meetings, also, and the
boards of education in the cities make
the rate only high enough to raise what
is necessary for good schools
The usual plan is to make an esti-
mate of the amount of money that will
be r eeded to be raised by taxation. Then
the total assessed valuation is taken
and the rate is made just high enough
to raise the amount necessary. Thus
there is little need to fear that the rate
will be made excessive. If the total as
'sessed valuation is increased five-fold,
the rate need be only one-fifth as large
as formerly. And If the new law sue
ceeds in getting on the tax rolls a great
amount of property that has heretofore
been hidden, the amount actually paid
in the future by the property that has
been paying taxes will be decreased.
Some fear has been expressed that
the increase in the assessed valuation
will lead TO the unwise voting of bonds,
but there is probably little danger of
that either. In communities where the
limit of legal bonded Indebtedness has
been reached under the old law, the
voters are sufficiently impressed with
the burden of bonds to keep them from
making it heavier just because the
legal limit has been raised. In COM
munitics where the limit has not been
recorded the new law will make no diff
ference-more bonds could be voted I'M
der the old system as we'll as under the
new, and if the voters did not wish to
vote bonds heretofore there is little dan
ger that they will do so under the new
assessment. Besides, the next legisla-
ture can readjust the limits of bonded
Indebtedness to correspond with the in
creased valuation.
The feature of the new tax law that
is liable to make the greatest uproar is
the fact that township assessors will
hereafter be appointed by the county
assessor and the county commissioners
instead Of elected by the people Many
people will resent this abridgement of
self government We, as people, be-
Iieve we are capable of running our own
governmental affairs. The success of
this new plan depends on the wisdom
with which it is administered, particu-
larly by the county, assessors. If local
assessors are chosen who are men of
known integrity and who have the ut
most confidence of the people whom
they will assess, the objections to the
new plan viii probably be kept down to
the minimum. If politics is allowed 10
enter into it. however, or if any favorit-
ism is displayed, the people will not
stand it. There will be a change. Now
that we have it. though the new plan
should be given fair trial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-09
NOT a NEW IDEA.

1t is no new idea with him when
President Roosevelt suggests that
changed conditions, industrial and
otherwise, demand changed attitude
on the part of state and nation to-
ward wealth. Twelve days before the
lamentable tragedy at Buffalo that
made Theodore Roosevelt president,
he enunciated this doctorine in a Labor
Day speech at Minneapolis, MINI.
Even then he foresaw the necessity
for more rigid legislation to deal with
vast combinations of capital. -
Among other things the then vice
president said:
We cannot possibly do our best
work as a nation unless all of us
know how to act in combination
as well as to act each individually
for himself. This acting in combina-
ton can take many forms, but of
course its most effective form must
be when it comes in shape of law;
that is. of action by the community
as a whole through the Iaw-making
body.
1T is not only highly desirable, but
necessary, that there should be legis-
lation which shall carefully shield the
interests Of wage workers, and which
shall discriminate in favor of the hon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-09

est and humane employer by remov-
ing the disadvantage under which he
STANDS when compared with unscrup-
ulous competitors who have no con-
science and will do right aonly under
rear of punishment
Nor can legislation stop with what
are termed labor questions. The vast
lholVldual and corporate fortunes. the
vast combinations of capital, which
nave marked the DEVELOPMENT of our
industrial system create new condi-
tlons and neceSSitate a change from
the old attitude of the state and ma
ton toward property.
our interests are at bottom COM
mon; IN the long run we go up or
down together. Yet more and more it
is evident that the state, and if neces-
sary the nation, has got to possess the
right OF supervision and control as re-
CARDS the great corporations which
are its creatures; particularly as re-
CARDS the great business combinations
which derive a portion of their i'm
portance from the existence of some
monopolistic tendency
In sentiment this is in line with
everything Mr.. Roosevelt has said as
president down to and including his
recent address at Provincetown, Mass.
That speech of 1901 sounds the same
in its ideas as though it had been
made last week.
Those who assert that President
Roosevelt is an opportunist, selling on
popular ideas to make himself popular
and watching the drift of public
sentiment in order to keep just ahead
of it, evidently do not know whereof
they speak. He arouses and directs
public sentiment; he foresees evils
and promotes reforms himself instead
of drifting with the tide