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Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-10-23
FIVE BIDS SUBMITTED
In Addition Four Others,
Eager to Make Offers, Ar
rive Too Late at City Hall.
.CITYS CREDIT EXCELLENT
Purchasers.Are John D. Ever
lit & Co., of Wall Street,
City Receives $2,587.5O

City Treasurer Cornelius p. Convery
received sealed bids at o'clock last
night In the council chamber at city
hall from Ave New York brokers for
S125,000 worth Of street improvement
bonds of this city. The firm of John
d. Everitt 8 Company, of Wall
street, New York, offered 102.07, which
was high, and were awarded the issue.
Alderman-at-Large Voorhees, and
Treasurer Charles X. Seaman of the
Perth Amboy Savings Institution, were
present when the bids, all of which
were accompanied by certified checks
for $1,000, were opened and were
pleased with the result. Mr.. Seaman
said the bids were very good consider
ing the condition of things in the bond
market at the present times Mr.. voor-
hees said that l01 was the best price
the city received last year for bonds.
There would have been nine bids in
stead Of five, last night, had not the
representatives of four concerns ar
rived too late.
The bonds sold last night will run
for fifteen years at AZ per cent interest
per year, and the premium the city re-
ceives by the sale is S2,5s7.50.
The bids were as follows:
John n EvaYitt a. a. mo 07o
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-10-23
LITTLE BEING DONE TO
RELIEVE THE VICTIMS

Calcutta, Oct. 28:-Colonial head
quarters are making but little attempt
to ascertain the extent Of the earth
quake damage in Northern India.
Quetta reports $50 known dead The
Anglo-Indian residents are apparently
Indifferent. The English local authori-
ties expected to handle the situation.
Headquarters refuses any assistance
until formal report lie fled, probably
two weeks hence.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-10-23
TAFT AGAIN URGES THE
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS
speclaI bD Unlted Pres Wlrs.

/ Houston, Texas, Oct. 23:-President
Taft arrived this morning and made a
short speech from the hotel balcony.
He was greeted by the school children
He left before noon for Dallas and will
arrive there this evening.
In his speech here he defended the
postal hank, citing the success Of sim
liar institutions in foreign countries,
and expressing the hope that the banks
would cease their opposition to it.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-10-23
MOTHER AND SON FOUND
MURDERED IN HOME
Special to the EVENING NEWS.


Cumberland, Nd, Oct. 28:-Blood-
hounds and posse are searching for
the murderers Of Mira Edward Reid
and her son Croker The bodies were
found burned in the Reil home near
Medley. Croker's hat was found Gov
cred with blood, which leads to the
murder theory. The Reids were Known
to be wealthy.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-10-23
CADETS IN SESSION

One application for membership was
received by the Westminster Cadets at
meeting in the Presbyterian chapel
last night A short business session
was held and drill followed. The
quarterly competitive drill win be held
next Friday night.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-10-23
CANAL GOVERNOR RESIGN

Special b. United Press Wire.
Washington, Oct. 23:The Canal
Record of October, which has just
reached here, contains the announce
ment that Governor Blackburn, of the
canal zone, would resign Immediately.
Blackburn refused to confirm the re-
port last week.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-10-23
CLOSE MILLS TO CAUSE
AN ADVANCE IN PRICE

Raleigh, Oct. 23:B BY the direc-
tion of the American Textile Asso-
citation all the big cotton mills in
North and South Carolina closed to-
day for period of from two weeks
to thirty days, throwing thousands
out of work The association expects
to advance prices in the manufac-
tured product.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-10-23
SOUTHERN MANAGER FOR
BISONS NEXT SEASON
speoiaI bv United Prsss Wirs,

Buffalo, Oct. 2S:- William Smith,
formerly manager Of the Pennant-
ming Atlantic Club in the Southern
baseball league, has signed as manager
Of the Buffalo team in the Eastern
League for next season.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-10-23
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
HELPS HARMON BOOM
SpectaI bu United presa Wlre.

6pecadI 0D UNIted T7Te8a W3Te.
| Buffalo, Oct. 23:-'Fhe November Ma
tional Monthly publishes long article
by Governor Harmon, of Ohio, on the
national issues. Following the Har-
mon presidential boom in Texas this is
regarded as an indication that National
Chairman Norman Mack, editor Of the
Monthly. has dropped BRYAN.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-10-23

j. ,. Kubinak has the contract for
hanging electrical fixtures in NJ. Pa
iisi s new building at Amboy avenue
and New Brunswick avenue. He is
also doing the electrical work in the
Hungarian parsonage in Penn street
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-10-23
ATTENTION.

Court Amboy No. So, Foresters OF
America.
There will be special meeting OF
the above named Court at Foresters'
Hall Saturday night, October 2s, at
1880 P. NJ. for the purpose of elect
ing a treasurer to take the place OF
the late treasurer. Brother X Finkel-
stein.
CHA6. WARNER,
Financial Secretary.
JACOB LAMP,
Chief Ranger.
6211-10-23-It~
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-10-23
FELT HEAVY EARTHQUAKE
gecial bg Unltsa Prsss WIRE

Cape Girardeau, Mo-, Oct. 23.-
The heaviest earthquake for years
was felt this morning There were
heavy rumblings. No damage is
known.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-10-23

Y0u can BBIlL rem estate by ads
yertising--or you can have real eer
Kate ''for SALE by aimDly placardin&
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-10-23

A newspaper w1En0uE auvertisea
mente would be no more interestina
than q city without stores. or husls
ness Of anS kind.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-10-23

More than $1,000 people In this
read the EVENING NEWS.
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til they will be literally "skyscrapers" within CEN
fury.
In one of these big b. ildings, while the machin-
cry will be out of sight domestic affairs will be SO
mechanical, even automatic, that you can get al
most anything the family needs simply by turning
on a switch or pressing button
The fiat dweller of that distant day will not be
bothered with servants or the servant problem. By
pressing button the Christmas dinner will come
up noiseessly from the kitchen on the mechanical
waiter or perhaps in pneumatic tube
After your Christmas dinner is over the dishes
will disappear silently and swiftly as you could
wish Some sort of mechanical dish washer in the
kitchen will take care of them-or, what is more
likely, they will be made Of a cheap composition
and will be destroyed by burning after they are
used once The antiseptic precautions of the mod
surgeon will be common to the kitchens of the
next century and hygiene will be a real science
When you have eaten your Christmas dinner, if
you want to go out for the evening you press
button and an aerocab will come to the landing at
your door. Or, if you prefer it, you may drop down
the pneumatic elevator to point SO 100 feet
below the surface of the earth and be whirled
through the pneumatic subway at dizzy rate of
speed to your destination. Only the speed will not
make you dizzy. You will not be able to feel it.
You may sit in your cushioned car we'll lighted and
warmed and ventilated by process yet TO be
discovered and before you realize it the miles will
speed away and you step out to the opera the
play.
If you prefer to remain at your apartments the
kaleidoscope attached to your telephone may be
connected to any theater you desire, and you
sit in your easy chair and smoke while you the
play projected on the wall like the most perfect
moving picture All the stage settings will be there
to make the play seem real, and the improved tele
phone will bring every shade and subtle infection
of the actors voice to your
It seems certain that this kaleidoscope arrange
ment-the exact word to describe it will be coined
after the process is discovered-will be of the
fruTnnhS will
to see the person you talking to over tele-
phone.
The flight of the coming airship probably will be
rapid that the business man and even the sal
aried worker if he loves the country, have
villa or cottage at great distance from the city
and go to work in his airship at slight cost
On Christmas day in the good century to come
this fight in the air will be the means of many
family reunions that impossible now. A few
hours will take to the most distant part of the
country, and the practical cessation of business
during the holiday week will leave all free to fore
gather with the loved ones and pay deferred visits
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apartments, the scientists
probably will have provided for you combna-
ton of telescope and moving picture machine by
means of which you can connect your room with
the toy department and see the display by wire
or perhaps by wireless-and at the same time you
get prices and leave your order with the clerk by
telephone
But perhaps the woman of 2OO9 will enjoy the
mad rush of the shops much as she does to-
day during the holiday season, and then she will
go to the big store and order her toys and pres
ents. The store could deliver them through the
pneumatic package tubes which will go to all
parts of the city, but it will be more poetic to
have them delivered by Santa Claus.
Christmas eve a score or a hundred Santa
Clauses will set out from the various shops with
their airships laden with Christmas gifts to be de-
livered at the various addresses 1t will no longer
be necessary to deliver all goods in the rear of
the big apartment building, but whether you live
on the twentieth or two hundred and twentieth
story of the big house you will have your
private airship landing, and while the family is
gathered at the door to receive Santa Claus the
airship will settle the landing and the cheerful
Merry Christmas" of the aeronaut will greet you
as he hands in the packages
The Christmas tree of a hundred years from
now will be electrical marvel. Festoons and
wreaths of rainbow colored lights and "chasers"
will scintiate from its green branches. But the
presents that hang on it will be even
derful.
There will be dolls as large as the little girls
who will receive them. There will be dolls that
walk and with the improved photographic ar
rangements of another century there will be dolls
that talk and others that sing beautiful
songs Some of them, doubt, will be able to
dance gracefully and to do tricks that would seem
miraculous if performed by an automaton to-day.
The mechanical toys of 2009 will be marvels of
perfection. The most imaginative man cannot
possibly conceive of the things that will be
invented in the way of machinery, but it is safe
will be perfected. Wheels will spin without any
visible motive power Power may be taken from
the suns rays or wireless power stations may be
operated by the waves the waterfalls, or even the
winds. Before the coal supply is exhausted the
need for coal either for warmth power, will
have passed away.
And whatever triumphs make in the in
dustral world they impart to their games and
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-16
TRY GYROSCOPE CAR
Coach on Single Rail Tested in
England.
Inventors Idea Is to Carry Passengers
on the Principle of Spinning
Top-First Trial
Success,

Manchester, Eng.-A 22-ton railway
car, 40 feet long, Is feet high and 10
feet wide, mounted not on regular
trucks but one single line of four
wheels, with not a support but that
line OF wheels. That's the first thing
20 picture. Then put 40 passengers
inside the car and run the whole COM
b1nation around on a single rail at 20
miles or more an hour, and you have
the spectacle that was presented be-
fore the Royal Society of England sew
eral days ago on the war Office
grounds near Chatham. 1t was the
first public demonstration of the full
sized working model of the new gy-
roscope car, first made public before
the Royal society on May s, 1907, by
lts inventor, Louis Brennan, G. B.
The demonstration was successful
even beyond expectation. The car
ran smoothly and without vibration,
taking curves and Irregularities in
tho track with perfect safety and alb
solute stability, loaded or empty, fast
VI SAOW' ASFCi was lhS ASoob
tendency on the part of the car to
leave the rail, so perfect was the gyro-
scope control. Two horoscopes were
used, weighing three-quarters of ton
each, and making 5000 revolutions a
minute in vacuum. A gasoline en-
CINE furnished the motive power
through the means of an electric dy-
Lamo. Mr.. Brennan was overjoyed at
finding that the stability of the gyro-
scopic principle was even more
marked in a full-siZed model than in
smaller one.
The principle of the gyroscope is
that of spinning top. Some thirty
years ago Mr.. Brennan, who was then
il Australia, became beset with the
idea that this principle could be ap-
piled to railroad construction and op-
GRAFTON in a way which would revolu-
tionize land transportation all over
the earth.
1t has always been known that on
an ordinary two-railed track friction
and Earring prevent the use of any
but II per cent. of the total power de-
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to him, it does to the little Johnny of to-day
The lad of the next century will want a model
of the latest airshp in his Christmas stocking He
will expect a working model, too-one that will
sail through the fiat like live bird, and perhaps
carry his own weight
Within the last hundred years steam and cleo
tricty have been developed and it is entirely rea-
sonable to imagine that within the coming century
men will travel through the air as commonly as
they travel over the land. The automobile
the trolley car the railroad train and the horse as
a draft animal-alI will be gone. Men will
the EARTH as the birds do, for resting place for
their homes and the principal source of food sup
ply; but when they want to move from one place
to another they will mount into the ether, even
as the birds do and fay swiftly and safely to
their destination.
Tt is probable that there will not be a wheeled
vehicle of any kind the streets of great city
on Christmas day, in the year 2009. Our tunnel
system will have developed until the vast subter-
ranean net work of bores, chutes and pneumatic
tubes will carry the heavy traffic of the city
without noise or confusion. The streets will be
given up to pedestrians-to those who walk for
pleasure or wish to travel short distances. The
sidewalk as it is will be MORE but the en-
tire width of the street will be given up to foot
passengers. There will be neither car tracks nor
moving vehicles to annoy.
The suburbanite who does not fly to work in
2OO9 will be shot through pneumatic tube, trav
cling the five, ten, fifty miles of distance in
space of time that may be only a few seconds, and
certainly cannot be more than few minutes. 1t
NAV be that few people will walk anywhere in
the year 2009. When man learns to fly he will
scorn walking too slow means of progress,
Perhaps our Observation-Disclosures, who no
doubt will live in immense apartment buildings
towering a half mile from the ground, may go
for weeks at time without setting foot to the
earth
With the passing of the Christmas sleigh there
will be no longer any need for reindeers for Santa
Claus. He too, viii, travel by airship, and while
the old Santa Claus will be myth, the Santa
Claus will be real as the bewhiskered and be-
furred boys who now entertain the children in the
department stores.
1t is not hard to imagine that the big stores
will develop the Santa Claus idea to the point that
Christmas purchases will be delivered on Christ
mas eve by an airship driver made up to imper-
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George Augustus Sala, who, when the
magazine Temple Bar was being start
ed by Mr. Maxwell, imagined a quota
ton from Boswell as a motto for the
venture. The thing was intended as
joke, but for long while it was alb
solutely believed to be quotation
from Boswell, and perhaps there are
ingly that DR.. Johnson did say the
words, SO seemingly authentic are
they. However, Sala himself always
acknowledged that he invented the
phrase. and added that to the best of
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-16
NOT SAID BY DIR. JOHNSON

for anyone who has acquired the trick
to invent a retort, or remark, in the
Johnsonian style. One of the most
effective of these pseudo-sayings of the
doctor is "And now, SIR" said DR.. John
son, 1--WE will take a walk down Fleet
street" There can be but little doubt
that DR.. Johnson did make this re-
mark, for he was always walking down
Feet street, but it is not recorded that
he did so. The saying Is due to
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-16

Tennesseean progressive in thought and will interpret the laws in accord
with the modern spirit
The Campbell February g. 1874 his
Episcopaan minister
University Chicago by civil
south enlisted in the Thirt
the front however, time take in the battle OF Fort Doneon
carefully
guarded that he did until the
partnership with
1898 chief justice months
appointed the United States the exPeent Cleveland
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-16
HE'LL Be TIE CAFE KING

Henri Pruger, for the last seven years general
manager of the Hotel Savoy, London, has been
engaged as general manager of the new Cafe de
iOpera in New York City at salary of $50 00O
This, it is believed, is the largest salary paid to
any restaurant manager in the world. Mr.. Pru-
ger is president of the company that will operate
the restaurant, which has just been opened. 1t
occupies an entire building the west side of
Broadway, between Forty-second and Forty-first
streets
In London Mr.. Pruger has become known to
thousands of Americans Before going to the
Savoy he conducted the Grand Hotel Rationale,
Leizone, and chain of hotels in southern Eu-
rope including the Grand Hotel at Monte Carlo
and the Grand Hotel at Rome
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-16

of 6 In Washington where he lives he walks downtown
the other
noticed
and stepped allow o
General does not
to him that this the remarkable aousness
life which,
his house Jefferson place make settlement for his death
Greatly this walked
the
The admit the
life beyond
nothing poough the
The
which
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-16

Trees Are Canadian Guides Compass.
A famous Canadian guide-of whom
his friends assert that you could take
him up in a balloon blindfolded and
drop him into the middle of the wilder.
ness and he would find his way out
was asked by a Michigan hunter not
long ago how he did it.
There is one thing which in any
general stretch of country is infallible.
That is the inclination of the trees.
Every section has its prevailing wind.
If you know what is the prevailing
wind of the region where you are it
seems to me that anybody with half
an eye ought to be able to take
straight course and hold it.
"Of course you won't find the trees
in thick woods bending at decided
angle as you will find those on ex.
posed ground. But II you observe care
fully you will detect enough variation
from a straight perpendicular to keep
you going true. That's the secret OF
my senses of direction, and it's the
secret every man in the woods can
hare"
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bill calls
$500000
that
specifically
IF voice making war the Montreal Herald
the right follow what
o a of be
Citizen thus Should
will disown that and change its nstanter
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hotels
Two of the best chefs
culinary
operations should
In furnishings a
in
in obeautif de POpera"
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Natural Deduction.

Naggsby-Griggs told me to-day that
his wife had never spoken cross
word to him during their ten years OF
married life.
Mrs. Naggsby-Poor woman! Has
she been a deaf mute all her life?
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-16
CANADA FOR INDEPENDENCE

Some optimistic persons in Canada believe the
day is not far distant when the Dominion will
become a republic independent of England. In
such an event, they believe, Sir Wilfrid Laurier
would become the head of the new nation.
When the imperial council of defense sent
out from London recommendations that included
the construction, manning and operation of a
Canadian war navy protests arose from all parts
of the Dominion The actual government meas
ure presented by Sir Wifrid to the house of COM
mons has caused another outburst which indi-
Gates clearly that many Canadians look forward
to ultimate independence.
The defense council suggested that Canada
build one Dreadnaught, three cruisers, six de-
stroyers and three submarines, beginning with
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George Augustus SsIa Responsible for
Phrase Credited to the Great
photographer.

The Johnson celebrations have
brought out flood of sayings, or
pseudo-sayinge, of the great lexico-
grapher." The wit and wisdom of that
great man were of the sledge hammer
order, and invariably preceded by
sir" so that it is comparatively easy
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-16
GOES TO THE SUPREME COURT

President Taft has selected Judge Horace
Harmon Lurton to fill the vacancy in the United
States supreme court caused by the death of Asso-
ciate Justice Rufus w. Peckham.
Judge Lurton has been a judge of the sixth
judicial circuit of the United States circuit court
of appeals, the district including Tennessee, Ken
lucky, Ohio and Michigan.
Judge Lurton, prominent Tennessee Demo
crat, even though he has never held elective Of
flee, is an exconfederate soldier and in Michigan
is known as the man who once decided a street
car case against the late Governor Pingree
Mr.. Tafts service on the circuit bench with
Judge Lurton convinced him of the integrity and
rectitude of that jurist His later contact with
him has demonstrated to his satisfaction that the
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Its Kind.

what will be the fruit OF the dis.
covery of the north pole?"
Il guess it's fruit will be bananas. y
What do you mean?"
why, aren't its discoveries coming
along in bunches?"
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his knowledge and belief DR.. Johnson
had never said word about taking a
walk down Fleet street. There are
other legends about Johnson, however,
which it is not so easy to kill.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-16
Not Her Heart.

Does your heart ever reach out for
the unattainable?"
mo, but my hands do when my hus-
band is not at home; there are three
buttons in the back of my gowns that
I just cannot reach"
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New Points of View,

He-My dear, the authorities are
down on this rat business, and l in
tend to rid the house of all that are
in it.
She-I am very glad to hear you
saw so. I need new ones badly.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-16
IS OLDEST ARMY OFFICER

Brigadier-General Daniel H. Rucker retired,
is not only the Oldest officer of the United States
army now living, but also the oldest man that
has ever been in the military service of this
country.
The lapse of time since his birth is most WV
idly realized when it is considered that General
Rucker has lived in every presidential admins
tration since the government began, save only
three-those of Washington, Adams and Jeffer-
He was born only Is years after the death
of the first president and among his friends and
acquaintance have been good many people who
knew George Washington.
But anybody who saw the general to-day would
never imagine that these things could be true