Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-01
HALLOWEEN is
MINUS TROUBLE
Little II Any Damage to
Property Last Night--Mask-
ers Parade on Streets.
WHITE WAYS DRAW CROWD
Many Girls Noticed in Co.'S
tume-- innocent franksPlay-
ed--Feast for Children.

Young and old celebrated HalIow-
cen In and about this city last
night Ii was done In rather quiet
and peaceable manner compared
with some celebrations the city has
seen. There was practically no
roughness. The masqueraders con-,
fined themselves to innocent amuse-
ment, simply parading up and down
the streets and blowing horns No
reports have as yet been made to
the police OF any property being
destroyed.
Adults Take Part.
A decided feature this year was
that many adults besides numerous
children masked and helped the city
celebrate. Among the more unique
groups OF grown-ups was girls
baseball nine In regular male base-
ball suits. They paraded about the
principal streets in this city and
South Amboy. Hundreds of marked
children swarmed Smith street. State
street and Hall avenue. They pa
raded up and down, blew horns and
otherwise amused themselves in an
innocent manner.
Aside from this open-air demon
stration the city otherwise cele-
brated with dances, parties and other
indoor affairs. There were large
number of Halloween parties.
Dances were held In the Auditorium
and the Knights of Columbus head
quarters, as well as in some of the
other halls of the city.
Treats the Youngsters.
A hundred or more boys and girls
dressed In grotesque costumes, wear
ing masks or with faces blackened
proflted by the generosity and glib
heartedness Of County Clerk Ber-
nard M. Cannon. He threw hand
fuls OF coins into crowds of the
youngsters who eagerly scrambled
for them. After pleasing them In that
manner for time ne sent them to
Alchin's confectionery store to be
served with drinks or Ice cream Mr..
Cannon delegated e. Cornelius
O'Brien to escort his guests to AL
ehin's where they slipped sweetened
drinks to their hearts content. Mr..
Cannon did this out Of his mind feel
ing for children He Is himself a
father and loves little tots. He has
frequently been known to give aid
to poor children and likes to see
them amused. His act last night
was but another sample Of bis gener-i
GUS feeling towards them.
A5tIe Boy Has Teeth Broken.
When the news spread about the
city that Ice cream and drinks could
be secured at Mr. Gannon's expense
there was wild f~od to Alchin's
store. There was constant crush
at the entrance of the place and the
crowd grew SO large at one time
that seven year old boy, a son of
Mrs. Charles Cohen, was pushed
down into an areaway In front of the
confectionery store Two of his
teeth were broken. Mrs. Cohen re-
ported the accident to the police.
Wagons Taken by Jokers.
A number of boys took an old
wagon from the Raritan Copper
Works field and pushed it to Sheri-
dan street, where they let 1t run
down an embankment towards the G.
Pardee plant. Another gathering of
boys took spring wagon from Max
Margolius' place at Amboy avenue
and Washington street. He has not
as yet found It,
Tried to Rob Seniors.
A few members of last years SEN
ior class of the high school with
others made several futile attempts
to steal stock of ice cream and
other refreshments from the high
school last night. One attempt to
take 1t after the niscreants had
broken into the school building al
most caused a riot Brooms were
used in the melee that followed
No oae was injured, but number
were well shaken up.