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Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-18
MOTORING BOWLING
FISHING BOATING
CATHOLIC CLUB
GETS SURPRISE
BASKETBALL NOTES
AROUND THE CIRCUIT.


IT'S good news, They are slowly
enclosing Washington court, South
River, and before winter ends the
Sterlings expect to have it In COM
Portable shape for the spectators. A
couple of stoves have been added to
the heretofore inadequate heating
apparatus. Joseph Breitenmoser and
his crew have taken the town by
storm and everyone In those parts is
basketball crazy. The attendance
justifes a small outlay on the court.
While touching on the subject of
improvements 1T might be we'll to call
attention to the announcement of the
management of the Auditorium In
this city. 1t is reported the huge
amusement place will soon be fitted
up with flrst-class and ~up-to-date
shower baths for the benefit of the
many athletes who exhibit their
prowass on that court. Every bas-
ketbali player knows the value of q
cooling shower after a game, and the
announcement will be hailed with joy
staround the circuit" It is the Riy-
iersides home court.
y a. u. evidently
aout II existence when It
dropped from the county league. Too
bad. With more experience, espec-
tally against heavier and older oppq-
nents.ihis hnneho al Epnns fellows
would surely have been in the run
ming next year. Ii would be wise II
the Sewaren boys wake up, get ambi-
tons and played a few games before
the season ends. There Is nothing
like youth to become quickly d~isceur-
aged.
That bunch OF basketball tossers
from Tire-town, the Crescent a.. c.,
believe they will have a look in on
that county championship before the
season closes. The Milltown boys are
classy players, putting MP a fast,
clean game, and declare they will hit
a terrific stride before the second
Iround OF the schedule is completed.
The Crescents are handicapped this
year by the disadvantage OF playing
all home games on a strange court
Washington hall, South River. Last
year they exhibited In one OF the
smallest courts In the county, at
Midtown.
6ayreville has had its troubles dur
ing the past two weeks. Everything
but sunshine in that burg. Paul
Check and his basEethaIl team added
Phair to their lineup despitesa bylaw
In the s, A. A. ruling against such a
procedure. Whereupon the basket
ball teams-junior and H~eaioF--im-
mediafely made arrangements to
paddle their own canoe. So far 1t
has been successful. The only regret
Is the action of Dug" Fisher, for
mer Rutgers star, who has resigned
from the club and the team.
Just a word for the Puritans and
Riversides. The game played here
Thursday night was the most exciting
and most intensely fought basketball
Dattie ever staged on the Auditorium
court. The result, for once, made a
monkey out of that old adage when
youth and age meet, youth con-
Quers." But the attendance was
gratifying and plainly demonstrated
that basketball Ia far from a dead
issue in this town Of ours.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-18

T~ottenyille. s. l., Dec. 1S.-And
the T. A. G. came back. Encour-
aged by the reversal of form on the
part of Pagnod, Belts and a few
other members of the team, who
played With the spirit of old, the
Tottenville A. C. basketball team
romped home the winner Saturday
night in X. of p. Hall. this place,
and disposed of the 18th Ward Y.
M. @. A. OF Manhattan, by the lop
sided score of 62 to IS. The game
al featured by the work of the
entire home quintet, which put up
one of the best games seen around
these parts In many a day.
Bedell aud Pagnod were high
score men for the winners, al
though Belts and Macan were hu'
q few points in the rear. Wiegand
showed UP we'll for the visiting five.
Romers an old time player, exhibited
bis akill during the last eisht min
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-18
HANS SMITH Is
HEAD OF CLUB
Danish American A. C. Elect
Officers New Members.

Hans Smith was elected president
of the Danish-Ameriean Athletic
Club. reorganized from the d. S. A.
c., yesterday afternoon In its club
rooms IN New street. Six members
were added to the roll yesterday and
many applications are pending. The
other officers elected follow: Vice
president, sigmund Nielsen; treasur-
err, Martin Hansen; financial secre-
taTy, Paul Markinusen; recording
secretary George r. Lund.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-18
ELECT NEW HEAD
or JUNIOR LEAGUE

The managers OF teams entered In
the City Junior Basketball League
will meet tonight In the Y. NJ. III, A.
club rooms and elect another presi-
dent to succeed Benjamin Avcnen,
OF the X. NJ. H. A. juniors.
1t is expected some action will pc
taken regarding a court for games
Tuesday nights.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-18
YOUNG CARROLL WINS
BOUT WITH ED. COOK

Young Johnnie Carroll, who fs
making his home In this city, boxed
Eddie Cook at the Standard A. c.,
Brooklyn, Saturday night. Carroll
vas master OF the occasion all the
way, until the fifth round. In that
inning he hit Cookie SO hard the
Perth Amboy scrapper injured his
hand and the bout was stopped.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-18
MARIONS REFLECT JOHN
BIRD AS PRESIDENT

John Bird was reelected president
of the Marion A. G. last night. The
newly elected officers, whose I'M
follow, will be installed at d banquet
on New Years eve: President, John
Bird; vice president, Otto Hartwlg;
financial secretary, Thomas i. Null
len; recording secretary. y. j..
O'Teole; treasurer, Martin r.. Ryans
trustees, Joseph Mullen, Charles
goum fnd IT In Inc NEwR
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-18
MATCH AT
SOUTH RIVER TONIGHT

South River. Dec. IA great
deal OF interest ia eAntsred on the
bowling match arranged for tonight
when the local bowling team will
roll the Jamesburg aggregation three
games. Last Monday night the local
team lost to Jamesburg and hope to
sturn the tables tonight.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-18

utes OF play and performed remark
ably well, despite the long lay of.
Next Saturday night the Good Ccnn-
ell five, of Brooklyn, will meet the
locals on the court at K. ofsP. hall
The Cadets and Flying Five will
play the preliminary. The score:
z. A. Q. (62). X. M. G. A. t58),
Bedell ...-..... rf. .....W Craig
Phillips
Pagnod .-....-.lf 49,. Wiegand
Rcmer 7 Traig
.afss .s...*...e Capptis
AGA s-....-.-r g ..... Philips
w. Craig
Paugh ..s.+-...lg..-...J CRAIG
Wiegand
Field goals--BedeH (1D), Pagnod
tS), Belts (5), Macan Cd, Paugh
ca, Wiegand (5), w. Craig a.,
capptis ID y. Craig, Phillips, Foul
goals--BedeI1 CD. Referee, DR.. ID.
w. Bedell. Timers. Messrs. Hawkins
and Taylor. Scorers, Messrs. Dough-
ertv and Paugh.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-18

@NF - = ---- = xrm wM
Midtown, Dec. .18.-Ths game
scheduled Tor tonight af Railway.
between the Crescent A. G., of this
place, end the Y. NJ. G. A., OF that
city, has been postponed. 1t will
probably be played at the same burg
on Monday night, January s.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-18
HAS
A GOOD LEAD
Take Two Out OF Three
From Freehold.
spsoiar 3 ths RYnNrNa VIEWS.

Helmetta, Dec. 18:-Helmetta IN
creased its lead In the 3-M. Bowling
Beague Friday night by taking two
out of three games from the Free
hold representatives on local alleys.
The scores:
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-18
CHURCH TEAM
WINS IST ONE
Simpsons Make Their Debut
With Neptune Midgets.

The Simpson III. e. church basket
bali team made It's debut Saturday
night aud at the same time defeated
the Neptune Midgets, OF South AM
boy, by the close score OF 8 Co 6.
The first bali ended In the visitors
favor, score A to 1, but the church
men cat loose In the second period
and uneerked a few formations. The
score:
Simpson Five Neptune Midgets
f1igen Kennedy
right forward
s.ss- Daiy
left forward
4fHSStL $780,. s.e IE0TnaS
centre
.Fayne Neyius
right guard
Ialls ferguson
left guard
field goals-Fiigen. Payne (2),
DAILY. Ferguson Foul goals-Martin
Cd DAILY ca. Referee. Mr.. seger.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-18

EVENING NaA aszAza 80 aasa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-14
Stopped Train to Recover Poodle.

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Mrs. Richard Buckles of Taylorville.
I'LL. caused q passenger train on the
Bluff line to be stopped between Alton
and ST. Louis yesterday while she got Off
to search for a pet French poodle dog
which she had Entrusted to the baggage
man and which escaped through the open
car door.
Mrs Buckles was going to McClusky,
ILL.,, to visit and had put the dog In the
baggage car. While the baggage man
had the door open the dog leaped out and
the baggage man went back to notify
Mrs Buckles Of the loss
Mrs. Buckles insisted that the con-
ductor stop the train while she got off.
She found the poodle, only slightly in
jured. She then drove to Alton, where
she waited for another train.
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Camels Give Way to Railroad.
From the New York Sun.

The pilgrimage to Mecca, which is soon
to be undertaken throughout the Moslen
world, will be marked this year by an.
other concession to modernity. The holy
carpet, the covering which is annually
taken from Cairo to Mecca for the
Kaaba, the most sacred part of the holy
shrine, will travel by railway. Usually
the caravan to which the holy offering is
intrusted has embarked at Suez for Jed.
dab and thence overland to Mecca. But
the latter part Of the journey is through
a hostile country, and the pilgrims have
often been compelled to resort to many
devices to fulfill their mission.
This year the ceremony of the holy car
pet at Cairo was held a week earlier than
formerly. The caravan embarked from
Port Said for Malta; thence 1t will pro-
coed by the new Hedjaz railway to Me-
dina, and from there over the old route
to Mecca. This change is said to have
been one of the results of the pilgrimage
last year OF the khedive, who recon-
mended the use of the railway on ac-
count of the dangers which he had seen
menaced the old route.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-14

DN bENJAMIN r. Gibbs.
! The staff of physicians for the new
Northern Dispensary and Emergency
Hospital, which is. to be established
June l. at sO42 14th street northwest,
was named at a meeting of the board
of directors of the institution last even
ling at the residence of the president.
Commodore Peters. U. S. N. retired.
1854 Columbia road. The list and the
clinics to which they are assigned are
as follows:
| Surgical diseases, DR.. Daniel T. Brit
WE'LL diseases of the eye, DIR. George H.
| Heitmuller: diseases of the ear, nose
and throat. DR.. James H. Stone; general
medical diseases, DIR. Frank Leech; dis
eases of women DIR. Albert ]. Carrico;
diseases Of children. DR. Dwight Gordon
Smith; genito-urinary diseases. DR.. Har-
ry A. Fowler; diseases of the skin. DR..
E. w. Watkins; diseases of the chest and
| tuberculosis. DR.. Lewis j. Battle dental
diseases. DR.. Frank e. Nicely.
| Meeting of the Staff.
| A meeting of the staff will be held soon
for the purpose Of organizing the work
ture. 1t is expected that invitations will
be issued shortly to the residents Of the
northern section Of the city soliciting their
| to control the institution. A board Of
! lady managers Is also to be organized
| shortly to aid in the effort.
DIR. Benjamin F. Gibbs. chairman of the
sanitation committee of the Columbia
Heights Citizens Association, who first
introduced the idea of the hospital. is
leading the effort toward getting things
In shape for the opening of the institu-
| ton. When the institution is formally
opened, 1t is pointed out. no one will de-
serve more praise than DR.. Gibbs for the
successful establishment of the work
The certificate Incorporating the hospital
body was filed late in March by DR.. Gibbs,
Commodore Peters, Charles c. Lancaster,
James Lansburgh, William H. Saunders,
Emile Berliner, ]. Clinton Hiatt, Alton
B.. Carly and Harry A. Colman. Later
of the institution, with Commodore Pc
| tiers as president; James Lansburgh, vice
president: J. Clinton Hiatt. secretary, and
| William H. Saunders, treasurer.
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A Young New Jersey Huntress.
From a Letter in Fur News.

From q Letter In Fur News.
am young lady and hunt. trap
and fish. TheS fur bearers here are coon,
skunk. rats and few minlss and foxes.
and no .opossum at all. belong to q
young ladies' rifle club Of about twenty
FIVE members. My catch last winter was
forty-eight skunks. twelve .coons, four
minks. thirty-three rats, three foxes and
one bear. / sold them to q raw fur
company Of Port Jervis, NJ
When i set all my traps / have line
of fifty traps at work while + sleep. Ny
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-14
Almanacs.
From Ave Maria

from Ave Malta.
/ The history of almanacs goes back to
very ancient times. The Greeks Of Alex
andria certainly had them. although the
date of their first appearance In Europe
In not known with certainty. In the
British Museum there are specimens Of
manuscript almanacs dating from the
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, bat
the first printed European almanac that
anything Is known about was complied
oy the astronomer Purbach. and appear
ec some time between the years 14J0 and
i46l. 1t was. however. Purbacs's pupil.
Reglomontanus, who brought out the
first almanac of real Importance. 1t gave
the usual astronomical information. not
merely for one year ahead, but for the
fifty seven years. 141J-153l. ReSiomon-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-14

In times past the government or the
typical American city was so controlled
and regulated by the state legislature. ano
special legislation affecting adversely the
interests of the individual city was SO
often enacted, that many states 1ncor-
porated provisions in their constitutions
prohibiting the legislature from passing
any law with reference to one city that
did not apply to all cities alike. This
provision helped along the good govern
ment advocates in their effort for the i'm
provement of municipal conditions.
But it remained for st. Louis to DEM
onstrate to the world the fact that when
city is given the right to rule its own
affairs without let or hindrance from any
power higher up it is bound to make
some Improvement in its internal affairs.
In 1875 Missouri had a constitutional con-
vention. The delegates from ST. Louis
were sent to that convention with in
structions to insist upon a provision which
would allow their city to build it's own
charter, and which would force the leg
islature to keep it's. hands off ST. Louis
affairs.
The attempt was at least partially sue
cessful, Tor the convention knew that
without the support of St. Louis the con-
stitution might not be ratified by the peo-
that cities with more than 100000 popu-
lation might make their own charters in
conformity with the constitution and laws
of the state, and that the charter should
be drafted by a committee Of freeholders
duly chosen. The constitution also laid
down some other guiding principles. such
as the provision that there should be a
mayor and two-chamber council a,
least one branch Of which should be elect
ed at large.
But in the main st. Louis had become
master OF it's own destiny. A board of
St. Louis Became Master was elected
of It's Own Destinies. tho ity to
frame a charter for submission to the
people. This charter was drafted. sub
mitted and adopted. The restrictions i'm
posed by the constitution somewhat cur
tailed full freedom of action, but the
new charter was such an Improvement
that home rule became q fixed principle
of municipal government. In 1880 Cali
fornia followed. suit with q homo rule
constitutional provision applicable to
cities Of 100000. The charters under this
provision were to be approved by the leg
islature but 1t could no. amend them. 50
that this approval became merely per-
functory duty. So well did the home
rule provision work that in 1887 It was
extended to cities Of 10000 population.
and in 1890 still further extended to en-
brace towns Of $500. There were some
provisions in the California constitution
i " -
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TAKE UP POTASH AGREEMENT.
Present Conference Likely to End
in Settlement.

HAMBURG. May 13.-The German
American potash conference is at work
or a new agreement. The preliminary
discussions indicate that there is a good
chance OF a satisfactory settlement of
differences being reached.
The basis OF the negotiations has not
been made known, but q German an
nouncement sets forth that the German
syndicate reserves the right to sell di-
rectly to the American potash importers
ana binds the Americans to purchase
only from the syndicate
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catch this winter. 80 far, is twenty-five
skunks. twenty-four rats. fourteen coons.
Ave minks. Ave foxes and one martin,
and I sold three OF my minks for 81
apiece.
And for game I hunt rabbits. pheas-
ants. Quails. squirrels and woodchucks
and q stray bear. and my catch this fall
IL as follows: twenty-five rabbits. eight
cen Quaiis. twelve phessants. thirty
squirrels and fifteen woodchucks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-14

sufficient excuse for home rule While
Los Angeles has not been as successful In
its use as have some other Cities IL is
hoped that the recall will he more
perpetual warning than an Instrument OF
frequent use.
The recall has been exercised often
enough to demonstrate that the people
who may
Cities Are Afforded invoke it
Chance for Experiment. if they be-
come convinced that their city govern
ment is not to their liking. Dallas has
invoked the recall and there have been
enough other horrible examples to keep
the average municipal Official in the
straight and narrow way.
1t is proboble that other instrumental
ties for good in municipal affairs will
be developed through the home-rule prin-
ciple. With a charter comparatively
easy Of amendment ii naturally follows
that many cities will experiment with
new remedies for municipal Ills, and IL
would be contrary to human experience
to suppose that out Of the thousands of
experiments made. other new engines
will not be discovered. Los Angeles ex-
periments with the initiative and referen-
dunn and the recall may not have pro-
duced entirely satisfactory results, but
when California followed the example OF
Missouri in establishing the principle OF
municipal city home rule, 1t made posi-
BILE the widespread adoption of many
ideas I'm state as well as municipal poll
tics which promise to give new voice 10
the demands Of the American people
for good and wholesome control of local
and general politics.
Tomorrow - COMMISSION GOVERN
MENT.
XIv-UniQue Features.
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tanus (whose family name was not so
big a word, but. simply Johann Muller.
or John M!ller). besides being q great
astronomer was q bishop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-14

Employer want q boy who Is abso-
lutely trustworthy. Do you ever give
'em.-Judge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-14

It pays to road the want columns OF
The star. Hundreds OF situations are
filied through them.
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COMMISSION GOVERNMENT.
Xu-CITY HOME RULE.
BY Frederic J. Haskin.

which were found to initiate against thu
absolute independence Of the cities con
trolling their local affairs, and the con
stitution was twice amended-in 1882 ano
legislature the last vestige Of right t.
interfere with city government in the
conduct Of it's local affairs.
The example of California was followed
in 1889 by the state of Washington
which gave home rule to cities of 20,OOt
sofa followed suit, giving fair degree
of home rule to all cities within its Dor.
ders. Colorado joined the procession IN
1902, Oregon in 1906. Oklahoma In 1907
and Michigan in 1903 In every state
where the home rule doctrine of city
charter making has been applied there
has been a general tendency toward
charters more suited to local needs anC
better adapted to local conditions
The states which have constitutional
guarantees against special legislation
for indi-
Left to Itself, W u
Chicago 0usted Crooks. only have
prevented legislative interference. but
they have Gu: off tho right of city
to appeal for. aid to the legislature In
remedying a specific situation. Author
tiles say that the experience or Chi
cago IN this direction is most illuminat-
ing by way of illustration as to what
a city can do when conditions are bad.
The same law which prevented the
legislature from interfering with Chi
Cages affairs also prevented 1t from
rendering Chicago aid when that city
desired to free itself from the thral-
dom of a. corrupt city council SO, nam
pered by the fmpossibility Of adding to
or subtracting from the powers OF the
council through Legislative action, chi
cago reformers settled down to night
the problem out In another way-oy
cleaning out the crooked members and
substituting good men. 1t was long,
uphill pull. but since then good govern
ment experts everywhere have held up
the experience of Chicago as an OBJ
ject lesson of what can be accomplish
ed when a city Is left to its own re-
sources in its fight for better municipal
conditions.
Under the Michigan constitution cities
they shall and shall not do by the
same general law. This law had to be
broad enough to allow Detroit, with
its nearly half q million people. the
necessary freedom of action Of q me-
tropolis. and at the same time It had
to be SPECIFIC enough in detail to guide
the unframed Official Of the country
town of 500. 1t is provided that when
a revision OF q charter is sought there
must be an initiatory petition signed
by at least 20 per cent Of the voters II
two-thtrds Of the legislative body vote
favorahIy on this petition Il II, at the
next municipal election. submitted to
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Charter of New York
Merely Hodgepodge.

3aAVAVAy 4AVWSVpVuSVs elite ana
those municipalities which do not enjoy
home rule. In two years 13S cities asked
the municipal experts OF the National Mu-
nicipal League to assist them in building
or rebuilding their charters This included
nearly all the larger cities of the coun-
try and number of the states as we'll
The present organic law of the city or
New York consists of a large collection
of statutes aggregating half million
words, a hodgepodge of all sorts OF
laws and regulations. thrown together
by Understanding processes covering
many years.
When Justice Hughes was Governor
Of New York he appointed commission,
which drafted a modern charter for the
city, the new instrument covering the
entire situation in 10000 words. But the
legislature and the governor locked
horns over charter reform, ana The queS-
ton is yet unsettled.
st. Louis has had a board OF free
holders at work on new city cnarter,
into which 1t is sought to incorporate the
best ideas of the English and German
systems with those of the advanced
American system. st. Paul and PittShury
also have been at work doctoring their
methods of government, so as to moor
porate in their charters the best lessons
has shown a deep interest in charter re-,
form. and the indications are that the
present decade will witness greater
era Of charter-making progress than any
other decade in American municipal his
tory.
The privilege of home rule for cities
gives individual municipalities oppcr-
tunities to try experiments that never
would be granted a general law passed
by q state legislature. 1t was while act
ing under its home-rule privilege that
Los Angeles made a notable departure
in municipal affairs by Incorporating Q
recall provision in its charter. That the
recall has been abused In some instances.
may be admitted. and that It has not
been on trial long enough to JUSTIFY
final decree in its favor may be con-
ceded, but on the whole 1t has gone
long way toward proving its case in the
court OF public opinion. and II will prob
ably become one Of the most potent IN.
fiuences Tor pure municipal government
yet discovered. II 1t jusfifies the hopes
Of its advocates 1t Will IN itself be .