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Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-26
MRS. PETERS ENTERTElNS
In HONOR OF BIRTHDAY

In honor of the anniversary of her
birth Mrs. Angie Peters, OF Amboy
avenue, Pleasant Plains, entertained
a number of her friends at her home
Monday night at progressive euchre.
Those awarded prizes were: Miss
Ada Ostermeyer, first ladies' prize,
silk umbrella; Mrs. Garret Clayton,
second, china almond set, and Mrs.
Joshua Hitchcock, third, writing
paper. T. Vale was awarded the
first gentlemen's prize, a silk umbrel-
la; Charles Tomasin, second, two
pairs silk socks, and William Bogar-
dus, third, necktie. The prizes for
non-players were awarded to Wilbert
Tenneth, china collar button box,
and Mrs. Harry Tenneth, second,
Gina pin tray.
Those present were Mr.. and Mrs,
Joshua Hitchcock, Mr.. and Mrs. Emil
Jost, Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Jessup, Mr..
and Mrs. William Benz, ST., Mr.. and
Mrs. James Hayes, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Tenneth, r. and Mrs. William
Bogardus, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Doty,, Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Palmer,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Doty, Mrs. Gar
ret Clayton, Mrs. Joseph Howley,
Mrs. George Doty Sr., the Misses
Nellie ~Androyette, Louise Piroth, Adj
die Esselborn, Ruby Eukuss, Roslyn
Doty, Ada Ostermeyer, Agnes Oster-
meyer, Messrsl John McNulty. En-
met Latourette, John Nutall, Charles
Tomasin, Charles Bennington, Frank
Cochran, Charles Marks, Walter Con-
nerly, John Cocheran, Wilbert Ten
meth, AdelbeH Price, Charles Buel,
George Leonard, Joseph Oates and
Elwyn Peters.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-26
MANY SEE ARCTIC SHIP.

The famous Arctic exploring ship
Roosevelt is now moored to the
wharves of the McAllister Brothers
shipyard at West New Brighton, and
will shortly go on the dry dock for
a general overhauling. The vessel
was recently purchased from Com
mander Robert E. Peary by John Ar
buckle. the coffee king of Brooklyn,
who is to equip her with the neces-
sary apparatus for raising sunken
vessels.
Mr., Arbuck1e hopes to obtain the
cont ract for raising the Inflated
b~attleship Maine, now lying in the
mud-banks in the harbor of Havana
He has had Some success Ia this line
and says he is confident he can raise
the w%arship, SO as to enable the au
thorities to determine the cause o.
her destruction, of which there still
exists considerable doubt.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-26
DEPUTY GRAND REGENT
PAID OFFICIAL VISIT

District Deputy Grand Regent
Grace, of the Royal Arcanum, accom-.
panied by members of his staff, paid
a fraternal visit to Stapleton Coun.
Gil No. 1,435, last week, and were
accorded a hearty welcome. After
an exchange of greetings, Mr.. Grace
delivered an earnest, eloquent talk
on the advantages of membership in
the order, and expressed the great
est satisfaction with the condition OF
affairs on Staten Island.
He said it was gratifying to note
the continued activity of the several
councils in promoting the success
and prosperity of the order as a
whole, and advancing the interests
of the individual councils. It's mem
bers seemed imbued with the proper
spirit, and r doing much good in
bringing the advantages of fraternal
organizations before the public.
Addresses were also made by Dis
trict Deputy Kindheimer, Regent
Jost, of Arthur Kill Council; Regent
Reid, ofFVigilantia Council and Past
Negcht Clute, of New Dorp Council.
After the duties of the council were
an adjournment was had
to Guenther's Cafe, where a collation.
was served.
Orator Edward VANITY promises to
make the meetings of the council dur
ing the coming winter as pleasant
and attractive as possible. A cor
dial Invitation is always extended to
all Brothers of the Royal Arcanum
on Staten Island.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-26
PLEASANT PLAINS

Mrs, Albert Leigh has returned
from a visit in New Jersey.
Emil Jost was in Tottenville last
night.
Mrs. Harry Smith visited her
mother here yesterday.
Mrs. Mynard Sharrot Is gradually
regaining her health.
Frederick Kaufman was in Perth
Amboy yesterday.
Miss Louise Oechsli visited in the
Bronx. recently.
John Fosburg was in TottenvilIe
yesterday.
Miss LILLIAN Atherton, of Jersey
City, visited in Prince Bay this
week.
Harry Strickley, of Yonkers, Wis
tied in Annadale last week.
Mrs. M. A. Browne was In Staple
ton yesterday.
An addition is being built on the
rear of the Richmond Borough bar
Der shop for a pool~parlor.
A meeting ok Molly Stark Council,
Daughters of America, will be held
tonight.
Mrs. William Westcott. who re-
Gently returned from the S. r. Smith
Inhrmary, is able to be about again.
Daniel Macarthur, of Tottenyille,
IS no longer at the Pioneer hotel
club rooms in Amboy avenue.
Romer Miller holds the high
score In the pinoehle tournament
that is being conducted BY the Ami
eitia Association at is rooms.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-26
ELKs' RECEPTION TONIGHT.

Overshadowing all other events in
clubdom and in circles where the
spirit Of genialty and true hospital
ity are ever dominant, is the ap-
preaching euchre and reception Of
Staten Island Lodge, No. S41, B. P.
o. Elks, which is to take place at
the German Club rooms, Stapleton,
tonight. Everything is in readiness
for the affair, which promises to ex-
eel and exceed any similar euchre
given in the county.
The last event of the same kind
given under the Elks' auspices still
fingers in affectionate and pleasant
memory, and the patrons who at
tended that symposium of pleasure
and jollity will surely be on hand
at, the coming one.
The prizes are astonishing in
number, and remarkable for their
are beauty and general utility, and
the fortunate woers of Dame Chance
will mot regret their good fortune,
Besides the euchre. there will be
dancing to the music of one of the
finest orchestras in the profession.
The chairman of the committee of
arrangements is j. Harry Tiernan,
who is hustling with energetic vigor
to make the euchre a noted one in
the annals of Elkdom.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-26
TOTTENVILLE, KREISCHERVILLE,,
RICHMOND VALLEY
REASONS F0R DECREASE
IN THE REGISTRATIONS

There is q decreased registration
in every borough of Greater New
York this year, and many reasons
are advanced for the fuctuation. The
chief reason, perhaps, of the dimin-
ishing vote in these %boroughs is that
the State superintendent of Elec-
lions has exercised a keen scrutiny
over every mar registering, OF at
tempting to register, who was not
entitled to the franchise. Conse-
quently many ''foaters'' and repeat
ers' have been deferred from regis
tering because of the rigid investi-
cations of Superintendent Leary and
his efficient staff.
The efficacy and efficiency of his
work is shown by the fact that where
as the Board of Health gives the
lodging house census in Manhattan
as more than $4,000, only 4,036 in
mates have registered this year from
these places, and even these are to
tigation as to their right of franchise.
York owe superintendent Leary a
big debt Of gratitude.
The local branch of the State Su-
pei lHlCluSII u ElCCLtOnS 10 olCudtVu
at st. George, and is in charge of
Deputy Superintendent Israel Corse.
This branch of the service is perform
ing creditable work, and reflects the
same spirit of keen caution and vigi-
lance as the New York office.
Mr.. Corse is a young man of pru-
dence and wisdom. He has good
Judgment, a clear, analytical mind,
and possesses all the essential quail
fications for performing the duties
of his important office. He not only
enjoys the confidence of his super
Tors, but also that Of the people of
Richmond, who know that their in
terests will be well conserved while
he is at the helm of this great ser
vice on the Island. Active and vigil
liant, no "foater" or repeater may
hope to vote in his bailiwick with
out suffering the consequences.
The office is open from 8 A. M.
until 10 P. M. Any citizen knowing
another who is not legally entitled
to vote is requested to notify Mr..
Corse, who will Immediately start
an investigation to ascertain the
validity of the claimants right to
the franchise. 1t is not the purpose
of the board to disfranchise the
legitimate voter, or throw obstacles
in the way of his exercising this
great privilege, but rather to pre-
vent wilful fraud at the polls by
those who are not legally entitled to
vote.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-26
ST. PAULS FAIR
OPENING NIGHT
Many Attend Affair that Is
Being Held In the {
Lecture Room.


The three nights fair under the
auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society
of st. Paul's M. e. church, opened
in the lecture room last night. A
feature was the excellent supper un-
der the direction Of Mrs. Theodore
Leven, Mrs. Irving SIeight and Mrs.
Daniel B. Skidmore. One hundred
and fifty or more were served be-
tween $50 and 8 o'clock.
The lecture room has been trans
formed into a beautiful garden. The
booths on each side are laden with
many fancy and useful articles. Each
is decorated with white and yellow
creme paper,
AS you enter the door, on your
left, is the ice cream booth in charge
of the young men of A. f. Decker's
class. Next is the grocery booth, in
charge of the official board with d.
c. Butler as its head. Adjoining is
the variety booth, presided over by
Miss A. South and a number of 9TH
Ell ladies.
In the center of the room is the
Japanese garden in charge of Mrs.
A. f. Decker, and the orange tree in
charge of Miss Leila Hoag. On the
right of the room is the apron booth
in charge of Mrs. Lyna Dorsey; can
dy booth, with Mrs. George w.
Slaight in charge; fancy booth, pre-
sided over by Miss Anna Van Name,
and the fruit stand is in charge of
Miss Kate Specht.
Each booth has its corps of help
ers to assist in selling whatever is
on them. Tonight a musical will be
given, under the direction of Mrs. A.
F. Decker and Edward Scales. The
program will include a piano solo.
by Miss Elizabeth Benjamin; vocal
selections, by Miss Margaret Benja-
min and a male quartet composed of
Edward, George and Charles Scales
and Walter S%harrott, will sing.
Tomorrow night a sketch, six
of Chocolate" will be present
ed and William Ruth, s%oloist, of
Newark, and Graham Christopher
will give selections on the xylophone.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-26
MAGISTRATE
HELD WOMEN
Mrs. Forman and Daughter
Charged With Selling to
Minor Are Held.
POLICE apt C0MMENDED

Another crusade against cigarette
selling to minors has ben started by
the police on this end of the island.
Following a complaint made by Prin-
cfpal Gould j. Jennings, of public
school No. 3, Pleasant Plains, that a
number of small boys in the school
Were seen smoking and having cigar
cites in their possession an arrest
was made. Mrs. Mary Forman, who
Keeps a small store in Amboy ave-
nue., and her daughter, Miss Mile
Forman, seventeen years old, are
charged with selling Robert Johnson,
nine years old, of Prince Bay, cigar
cites.
In the second district court at
Stapleton yesterday Magistrate Han
dy held both mother and daughter in
800 bail each for the court ofNspec-
ial Sessions.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-26

Let the NEWS tell your wants.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-26
OYsTER suPpER WAS HELD.

The board of stewards of the A.
M. 3. Zion church, Sandy Ground.
held a successful oyster supper in
the church last night. The menu,
which included oysters in every
style, was one of the best given in
that church in some time. A fea-
ture of the evening was an address
by DR.. White, Of New York. The
affair was a great success and a good
sum was realized. Those in charge
were Francis Henry, Samuel Lam
don, Daniel Smock, II. l.. Bishop,
Mrs. George Hunter AMI Mrs. Eliza
beth Henry.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-26
PLEASANT PLAINS, HUdUEFNoT@
PRINCE BAY
HIIGuENO
nee. the Judge accepted the latter

since. the Judge accepted the latter
plea. -
eight years old. charged with assault
on Augustine Harris, sixteen years
old. daughter of omer Harris, "
ored. of School street, SANDY
Ground, near Pleasant Plains, plead
ed to assault in the third degree.
Randolph is charged with keeping
the girl in a fat at Newark avenue,
Elm Park, without her parents ON
sent. Others that pleaded were Pc
ter Peterson and Ole Assmussen,
petit larceny; Robert Jellinick, at
tempted burglary, and Morris Gal
lagher, abduction. All will receive
their sentences at the close OF court.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-26
OCTOBER TERM
RECOMMEND
Criminal Cases Taken Up
and Eight Men Pleaded
Guilty to Charges.
SEVERAL LOCAL CASTS

The October term of the supreme
court with Judge Harrington Put
nam or the bench, reconvened for its
last week on Monday, when the
criminal calendar vas taken up. the
civil cases having been finished last
week.
Eight men We're arraigned on va
fious charges and after entering
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-26
ANNIVERSARY SERVICES.

Services to commemorate the for
ty-fifth anniversary of the Church OF
the Holy Comforter, at Eltingvtfte,
was celebrated at the church Sunday
night. Rev. Samuel Hamell Wood,
OF the General Theological Seminary,
New York, preached an excellent
ermon appropriate to the occasion.
An elaborate musical program was
rendered by the choir, consisting OF
several vocal selections.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-26
Wasting Time on the Devil.

1t Is wonderful how much time good
people spend fighting the devil. Ii
they would only expend the same
amount of energy loving their fellow
men the devil would die in his W
tracks of ennul.-From Helen Keller's
'Story Of My Life"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-26

Be an advertiser-Ic. q word
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-26
MUSIC LECTURE TO BE HEARD.

The second lecture of the series
on music In public school No. B.
Pleasant Plains, will be given in that
place tomorrow night. The lecture
will be delivered by Walter Fl. Rob-
inson, of New York, who will lee
ture on "Voice Production" 1t will
be illustrated by charts and musical
selections.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-26

The object of art is to crystalline
emotions into thought and then fix 1t
In form.-Delsarte.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-22
nhamn clark,a Onnortnnity.

Champ Clark's friends have already
begun to manifest a little misgiving
as to his conduct as speaker, since it
now seems fairly certain he will sue
coed to that influential office. The
Kansas City Star, which has all along
stoutly supported him, takes occasion
now to sound a timely warning. 1t
cites two incidents in his career as
floor leader of his party to show him
the possibility Of fatal error lying in
his path as speaker.
One Of these incidents pictures Mr..
Clark in the role of chief filibuster,
resorting to extreme measures to gain
a partisan fight at the expense Of
needed results. The other shows him
in exactly the opposite position, that
Of sacrificing partisanship for the COM
mon good. It holds up these two at
titudes as a warning to the Missourian
when he takes the gavel, which
Speaker Cannon will lay down at the
end of the sixty-first congress.
The next speaker will make a fatal
mistake, both for himself and his
party, If he uses the great power Of
the speakership to promote party in
terests at the expense Of public bust
ness. It matters not that other
speakers before him may have done
that; he comes into this power at a
time when the country is taking a diff
ferent view Of such things than It
formerly took. It is demanding more
OF it's representatives today than It did
and It is keeping closer and more dis
eliminating account of their official
records. Grant. merely for the sake
OF argument, that the democratic party
has a fair chance to elect it's ticket in
1919. that lie all the more reason why
Champ Clark, as the leader OF that
party in the house, should heed the
warning his more sober friends are
trying to give him. And the fact that
they are giving It is evidence that he
needs It.
Democracy's task is q big one and
IL It avoids the pit into which General
Grant said it was always sure to fall
at the wrong time" it will be only
because it has followed better advice
than the Champ Clarks Of the past
level OF living cost.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-22
The Puzzle of Food Prices.

So good an authority az Secretary
Wilson Of the Department Of Agricul-
ture hesitates to venture into the field
Of dogmatism with reference to the
action Of food prices. He thinks they
will fall, but rise again and rise not
quite as high as the point from which
they began to drop. He is willing TO
admit that we are an extravagant
people, an expensive people. But any
one will admit the same thing who has
thought at all on the subject. And
Mr.. Wilson offers some sound advice
as to the correction OF these faults, but
he avoids more than a general state
ment Of what he thinks prices may do.
The fact is people generally seem
to be at sea on this subject Of food
prices. The man who argues that We
are going to have a sweeping reduc-
ton in them does not follow up his
assertion with satisfactory reasons. lie
does not tell you why the powers that
sent prices up, arbitrarily in meas
ure, as has been contended, would
voluntarily send them down. And
until he tells you that you have a
right to question his wisdom,
Secretary Wilson'S theory seems to
imply an automatic readjustment Of
the general level Of prices, a point to
which many sensible men have all
along contended natural conditions
would lead us. But even that view
does not entirely clarity the situation.
The trusts and the tariff have been
blamed for high prices. II they were
responsible what change has occurred?
The tariff, which has had less influence
than imputed to it, has not been
altered, and the trusts have been
under Ere all the time.
1t seems to us there is a lot of bun
combe in this lowering of prices talk.
Price movements must be slow to be
OF permanent character. Certain &C
ton in isolated markets may for a
time push prices down, but conditions
Of production have TO change to pro-
duce material changes in the general
have given It,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-22
The Ballot Form

The coming legislature Will De
urged to change once more the form
of ballot used in elections throughout
Nebraska with a view to eliminating
the party circle and compelling each
voter to make a Cross-mark opposite
the name Of every candidate for whom
he wishes to express preference.
Presumably the present ballot would
be retained unchanged In other re-
spects except perhaps, to provide for
alphabetical or rotated arrangement
Of the names under the respective
ONCE headings.
The proposal is represented to be
one for the adoption Of the so-called
Massachusetts ballot, although, in
fact, this form is no more the Msssa-
chusetts ballot than Il is the Nebraska
ballot, because it is the form that was
embodied in the Australian ballot law
which prevailed here in Nebraska for
six years, prior to 1897. when the en-
blem ballot was inflicted upon us. The
real essence Of the ballot form is not
whether the cross-mark square is be-
fore or after the name, but whether
the elector may vote it straight with
one cross-mark or whether he must
pick out for himself the names of the
candidates for whom he wishes to vote,
Everyone will concede that the bal
lot should be so constructed as to ia
cilitate the voter in registering his
free and untrammeled choice of candi-
dates seeking his suffrage. The party
circle is unquestionably the short cut
to straight tickets. But IL this is OBJ
jectionable, neither should the ballot
be so complicated and confusing as to
prevent the voter OF average intelli-
gence from marking it as he desires.
The justification of the party circle, If
there is any justification, is the null
tiplicity of offices to be filled, making
It an almost physical impossibility for
the ordinary voter to exercise his right
of suffrage on every ONCE.
The Bee would be inclined to favor
the elimination of the party circle If
the movement we're accompanied with
a material diminution in the number
of offices to be filled by election. If we
can have a short ballot, with not over
twelve or fifteen places to be filled at
one time, the old Australian ballot
would be feasible and desirable. The
reason our experience with it here in
Nebraska before was not satisfactory
was because the voters often had to
make from thirty to forty cross-marks
at one election, and it was nothing but
popular disgust with this cumbersome
and DISTINGUISHING ballot that made
our people welcome as relief the
odious emblem ballot which has been
discredited everywhere.
II we are to have intelligent de-
cision at the polls 80 between aspirants
for once and questions Of public pol
icy the machinery for voting must be
simplified and not made more complex.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-22
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Emperor William OF Germany. like his
father and grandfather, is a skilled work
man, and has all his sons equally well
trained
Patrick Mcbride was awarded the first
prize for fancy needlework display at the
county fair OF zanesvile o.. defeating
several women competitors.
Colonel John II. Mosby, the famous con-
federate cavalry leader, now living in
Washington at 70 years Of age, proposes
to capture New England this winter by
delivering twelve lectures there relating to
his civil war experience.
with the hearty approval of the judges
OF the juvenile court and the police com
missioner the NewsbOys' court was opened
in Boston with three schoolboy judges, who
will have absolute Jurisdiction over viola
lions OF newsboys' licenses and other petty
Offenses.
Robert Il. Lincoln OF Chicago son OF
Abraham Lincon and president Of the
Pullman Car company, has leased a house
In Washington for the winter. Since his
term as secretary Of war expired, in 1885,
Mr.. Lincoln has made only occasional
visits to the national capital.
Rev. b. F. Fraser of Atlanta was on
his way to Marietta to preach the funeral
sermon of United States Senator A. s.
Clay when tine train was halted by burn
ing trestls. Tho clergyman crawled over
the blazing timbers and rode to his desti-
nation on the fireman's seat Of locomo-
tive sent 70 the other end OF the trestle
to meet him
Dr. Christopher Koch Of Philadelphia,
vice president OF the Pennsylvania phar-
macentical board who recently directed
a crusade against cocaine and opium sell
ers in Philadelphia, says that 4s per cent
OF all criminals are addicted to a drug
habit of some sort. He favors life i'm
prisonment for criminals known to be drug
users,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-22
The Game Of Politics

The British, we are told, take more
interest in their politics than we do in
ours. They play it as they do their
cricket, make it a great national game.
They do not cease their interest with
the close OF a single campaign, but so
in for a steady diet OF politics and,
therefore, get more OF It than Ameri-
cans do.
That thesis has never seemed wholly
sound Certainly It does not now In
the light OF recent American activity.
II the people Of this country have ever
been aroused on any one subject, they
are aroused today on the subject of
politics. Nor has their interest been
in the least abated by the recent cleo
tion, but rather, II anything. enhanced.
They, too. have begun to play politics
like a great national game The re-
suits OF the November contests fairly
burned their way into the popular
mind and enkindled it to renewed
zeal in the effect Of this election on
the national campaign two years hence
And il is q fairly safe guess that the
animation win not die down com,
pletely at any stage during the interim
We doubt II this criticism may truly
be made OF the American people today
and We doubt II II ever was wholly cor.
rect. OF course we have been too busy
with other matters to allow politics
to consume all Of our time. but wher
It comes TO live, intelligent interes
in the affairs OF government, It MAJ
well be questioned II even EnglanS
outdoes us There Is some inheren
element about politics that make,
those who engage actively in it abiso