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Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-07-11
BR|QUETT|NG
PLANT STOPS
Company Seeking New Quar-.
tsrs--Sites in View.

The New Jersey Briquetting Com
pany has closed its plant in lower
Fayette street preparatory to remov-
ing to another location. AS yet it
has not been decided where the fac
tory will be removed to. The COM
pany is negotiating for number of
sites, among which 1t is understood
there are some in this city and South
Amboy. According to authoritative
information received today from the
Fayette and Rector streets will not
expire until August 1. The plant
will be removed about that time.
VIII Remain Idle.
1t had been expected to have 1t
removed before this time so as to
make room for the proposed new
buildings that the new owners, the
Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical
Company, propose to erect thereon.
For that reason operation was sus-
pended a few weeks ago and the
plant is now idle and will probably
remain SO until 1t has been removed
to new quarters.
The New Jersey Briquetting Com
pany has been in operation in this
city for the past two years. 1t man
ufactures briquettes, which are made
of coal dust and other ingredients
and used for fuel as coal. 1t burns
up to fine ash, leaving no cinders.
At present the company has many
orders in at its local plant which it
Is temporarily unable to fill.
Chemical Works to Build.
1t is reported IN building circles
that the Roessler & Hasslacher con-
Germ will erect the largest of all its
factory buildings in the city on the
site Of the present briquette making
plant 1t Is stated that one will be
of brick and many stories high and
will cost in the neighborhood of
100000.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-07-11
EXXEMMlPTS MAY
FORM BRANCH
Local Delegation Pay Visit
to Port Reading.

Organizer John Danner, accompa-
MED by Chief Patrick Rocks, of the
fire department, Chris Meshrow,
president; Charles Deitzman, secre-
tary; John st. John, treasurer;
Jeppe Sondergaard, James Howley
and William Miller, of the Exempe
Firemen's Association of this city,
went to Port Reading last night for
the purpose of organizing an Exempt
Association in connection with the fire
department at that place.
About twenty members eligible to
join an exempt association met the
local delegation in the house of Port
Reading Hook and Ladder Company
and talked over the matter. No ac-
tion was taken but enough interest
was taken to assure an organization
in that place. On account of the hot
weather, 1t is believed that the Or
ganization of it would be put off un-
til some time in September
Organizer Danner is doing some
hustling to get an exempt associa-
tion started in every place in this
section, where there are none al
ready established.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-07-11
ENGLISH WIN IN
ATHLETIC EVENT
Harvard and IaIs fleet OK
fori and Cambridge.

CptCttE W yfttSA 1889 ~ Hcs
London, July 11:-With five firsts
against four to their credit, the ath-
letes representing oxford and Cam
bridge won here today. The issue
was in doubt until the final event.
The one mile run which was won by
T. J. Baker, Cambridge crack. This
was the best event Of the entire
meeting. The Cambridge sprinter
Just managing to head W. c. Moore
of Oxford. The time was 4:27:3.
The visiting cracks came in from
Brighton where they had been train
ing early and rested until $50
O'Clock when the first event at ham
mer throwing had begun. This un-
certain event proved true to form
and singularly enough the favorites
of the experts, an American, won the
honors for Oxford. G. E. Putnam,
of Kansas, a Rhodes scholar sent
the object beyond the best mark OF
the visitors. The victory was warm
" received. Putnam's throw was
151 feet, five inches, two feet less
than his throw in practice, which re
suited in boosting him into fayorite-
ism for the event Child, of Yale,
was second with 140 feet, ten inches.
G. A. Chisholm, the Yale crack, cas-
lily defeated the field in the 120 yards
hurdle race. His time was 1872.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-07-11
MIDDLESEX PAROLES BY
COURT OF PARDON

Trenton, July 1.-THE most i'm
portant work done by the court of
pardons yesterday was committing to
life Imprisonment the death sentence
of Vincenzo Turro, who was to have
been electrocuted during the week of
July 81, next, for killing Nevicayella
CiaciareIli
The court also followed its line of
conduct in refusing to allow the re-
turn to citizenship of the famous
ballot box suffers of Hudson county
prior TO 1890, by forcing them to
serve tWsnty-One years, with the
right of suffrage when it returned to
citizenship Patrick H. Blougher,
Thomas J. Miskel and Thomas Trot-
ter, all of whom have served their
time and been twenty-one years oUG
of prison.
Those paroled from MiddIesex
were: Danyi Kiraly, serving fifteen
years for second degree murder Eu-
gene Mcdonald, serving three years
for highway robbery, and Lewis Rob
erts, serving fourteen years 'or at
tempted rape. From Monmouth
We're: Ernest Carey, serving six
years for burglary; Fred Rosenwell
serving seven years for burglary; r.
Romeo Slocum, serving one year for
embezzlement, and Edwin n. Leland,
serving one year for larceny; Morris,
James May, serving seven years for
burning, and Frederick C. Schweik-
hardt, serving fifteen years for ar
son.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-07-11
BODY IS FOUND
OFF R0SSVILLE
Believed to Be that of
Charles Hill! of Newark
Not hutilatsd.
CLAD IN BATHING SUIT
Coroner Jackson of New
Brighton, s. !. Is Notifies
AT 0'NsiIPs Dock.
CLAD IN BATHING SUIT

A well preserved body of a young
man, clothed in a two piece bathing
suit, was found floating off Rossville,
Staten Island, about 1890 o'clock
this morning, by Max T. Knothe and
Henry Woglom, of Rossville, and 1t
Is believed to be that of Charles
JohL Hill, the eighteen-year-old
Newark boy, who was drowned off
Sewaren Sunday afternoon.
Three Miles from Spot.
Although the body was found
three miles from the scene of Sun
of the Staten Island police, and
that the body had not been in the
water many hours, and is the body OF
young Hill. The remains are at the
establishment of Michael E. O'Neill,
who maintains the Rossville House,
on the Shore road, in the immediate
vicinity of where the body was
found.
Knothe and Woglom were on their
way to work In the formers motor
boat, enroute to the United States
Metals and Refining Company's plant
at Roosevelt, when they sighted the
corpse off the starboard side. Bring
ing their boat about quickly, they
gently lifted their ghastly find and
put back to shore. At Mr.. O'Neilps
hotel telephone message was sent
to the Tottenyille police and Coroner
William H. Jackson, of the Borough
of Richmond. The former depart
ment sent Mounted Policeman Aug
Schley to the scene, where he Is now
stationed awaiting the arrival of Mr.
Jackson from New Brighton.
Blue Bathing Suit.
The body has red hair and Is
clothed in a two piece, blue bathing
suit, with white stripes. The gar
ments were not removed by the po-
lice so other means of Identification
were not learned. r. o. Acker, oi
Sewaren, who hired a boat to the
three Newark boys, of which Hill
was one, was called on the telephone
and asked to identity the body. This
he could not do, inasmuch as the
boys arrived at his place late Sat
urday night and were not seen by
him in the lamplight. He said to-
day that the bathing suit does not
belong to him, therefore 1t is sup
posed that the boys came prepared
for dip in the sea. Hills clothes
were taken back to Newark by his
companions.
Charles Hill lived at 683 South
Twentieth street, Newark, and was
accompanied by Barney Ellerman
sixteen years old, of sos Springfield
avenue, and Charles Vonhoff, seven
teen years old, of 696 Springfield
avenue, both of Newark None of the
boys could swim After long day
of fishing, Hill dropped off the stern
to cool his body. Releasing his hold.
against the wishes of his friends, he
endeavored to keep his head above
water, but quickly sank before the
gaze If his terrified comrades.
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TottenviIle Club Damaged.
eoia1 to the EVENING NEWS.


Tottenville, July 11:-During the
visit of the second shower over this
section about 4:30 O'Clock yesterday
afternoon, bolt of lightning struck
the club house of the Tottenville
Athletic Club, in Sprague avenue,
and did considerable damage to the
front of the building.
Harry Henne, of 1899 Amboy ave
nue., member of the club, who was
the only one in the clubhouse at the
time. sitting near a front window
downstairs, was knocked unconscious
for about twenty minutes. Mr..
Henne. who was revived by Wilmer
Sleight, of Sprague avenue, who ran
TO the clubhouse after 1t was struck,
thought that he had been killed.
Mr.. .Henne complained of numbness
of the left leg and on his left breast
is the perfect imprint of the flash of
lightning which he will carry the
rest of his days.
The bolt entered the upper story,
tearing off weatherboards on the out
side and the wall Of small hall
room was partly torn down.
Sewing Machine Ruined.
A White sewing machine awarded
to the club some time ago by the
EVENING NEWS was practically
ruined. The entire back of the ma
chine was ripped apart and every
pane of glass in that room was
broken. Some of the baseball uni
CONTINUED on page z.J
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VERDICT FOR THE FULL
AMOUNT is AWARDED
s,sc.al % ths EvENING NIWg

New Brunswick, July 11:-Rachel
A. Cordo, of Bonhamtown, was given
verdict of $500 yesterday by To-
cal jury, in her suit against the Pub
lie Service Railway Company for al
legged damages received last winter
when she alighted from a trolley car
at Bonhamtown Corner, after the
conductor failed to stop the car on
the passenger signal. The state of
demand was $500.
The case was tried before Judge
Harry c. Runyon, of Somerville, in
the local district court. Judge Free
man Woodbridge held court in
Judge Runyon's district. Clifford 1.
VOORHEES,, of this city, represented
the defendant company and Thomas
Brown, of Perth Amboy, the plain
tiff. The jury. composed of many
leading New Brunswick men, was
out only ten minutes.
Mrs. Cordo is sixty-nine years old
and suffered such bruises by her ac-
cident that she was confined to her
home for some time.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-07-11
MATTER RESTS
WITH COUNCIL
$500 Nssdsd by Playground
Commission In 0rdsr TO
Start Two Here.
WILL ASK FOR AMOUNT 7
IT Aldermen Appropriate
Lass Than $1,000, No Play
grounds Until Next Year.
WILL ASK FOR AMOUNT

The Playground Commission will
ask the Board of Aldermen for an ap-
preparation of 81, 800 at its commit
tee meeting Friday night. That
amount If secured will be used 10
equip two Fairgrounds, one in the
southern and one in the northern
parts Of the city. The main grounds
will be at the northeast corner T
Madison avenue and Lewis street.
One thousand dollars will be used to
thoroughly equip that and the re
naming $500 will be used to equip a
school ground or other available
property in the northern part OF the
city. 1t is very likely that a woman
superintendent will have charge of
the first Fairgrounds.
Discussion at Meeting.
The Playground Commission held
a meeting In city hall at $50 O'Clock
yesterday afternoon to take up the
subject of securing funds for estab-
fishing Fairgrounds. At hrst II had
been intended to ask for but Sl.otC,
but it was decided yesterday that
such an amount would be too small
for equipment of two Fairgrounds.
A communication asking for an ap-
preparation of 81 500 will be sent to
the aldermen for deliberation at their
committee meeting Friday night. If
an amount between 81 900 and 81,
500 is given, but one playground will
be started, at Madison avenue and
Lewis street, and If an amount less
than 81 900 is appropriated, the COM
mission will open no Fairgrounds
this year, the members state.
Could Equip in Two Weeks.
One of the members Of the Play
ground Commission stated today that
a ground could be completely equip
ped and ready for use in about two
weeks after the money had been re-
ceived from the city. The appli-
ances to be used can be purchased
from sporting houses in readiness for
immediate use. 1t is the intention
of the commission to engage a fe-
male instructor at first and allow her
to look over the ground and choose
such appliances as she may see fit.
Thus, the commissioners intend 20
place the majority of money in ap5 IL
ances this year and place more l$f it
in superintendance and instruction in
years to come.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-07-11
WATER CLAIMS
ANOTHER MAN
browns While Bathing Near
Vasslins Works Yesterday
Aftsrnoon--ko HeIp Near.
CALLS FOR ASSISTANCE
Boy on Shore Sees Anton
schavinsky Disappear
Brother Notifies Police.

Local waters made tempting by
excessive heat the past few days,
claimed another bathing victim yes
terday. Anton Schavinsky, a Pole,
twenty-one years old, living at 262
Davidson avenue, was drowned off
Sandy Point near the Chesebrough
Vaseline Works, in the Raritan river
about l o'clock yesterday afternoon
He sank, then came up and drifted
helplessly with the water up the
river while spectators stood on the
river bank unable to render assist
ance. His body has not yet been re-
covered.
Cried For Help.
The young man was unmarried and
boarded with Polish people In David
son avenue. The heat yesterday af-
ternoon tempted him to go into the
river to bathe, although 1t was claim
ed he could not swim. According to
a lad who saw him drown, Schavin-
sky walked into the water and down
the bank unheedful Of the danger
that laid ahead of him. He stepped
off into the channel then threw up
his hands and cried for help. He
sank and remained down for a brief
period and after reaching the top,
drifted up the river. He sank a num-
ber of times after that and when last
seen his helpless form was floating
partially submerged. The police and
Coroner Ferd Garretson were noti-
fed.
Brother Notifies Police.
1gnatz, a brother of the victim,
called at police headquarters last
night and told of the accident. 1t
was learned that Ignatz worked at
Laurel Hill. When Anton Schavin-
sky was drowned it was reported that
he had gone down in the Raritan
Copper Works reservoir and officials
of the company were notified. 1t was
later learned from eye witnesses that
the drowning took place in Raritan
river.
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TO STOP WASTE
OF CITY WATER
Supt. CroweII Issues Notics
--PsnaIty If Caught.

Owing to q shortage of city water
the water department today gives
notice to the public that the ordi-
nance governing lawn and garden
sprinkling Will Ac~ strictly enforced IN
the future. 1t is claimed many pens
sons use no discretion in ap4InFIing g
lasss stshd Irs,j Ms, W. Uz5fp ozdinance T"a
covering this ui5G2.'.~gIermits sprink-
ling of gErdens and lawns with city
water two hours each day. Consum-
ers are requested to avoid all waste
in that connection, as a violation OF
the ordinance may be followed by
shutting off the water.
The exceedingly warm weather OF
the past two weeks has caused large
quantities of water to be absorbed
from the source Of supply and with
hundreds of sprinklers going besides
the city's wagons the demand has
been so great as to cut down the
pressure in the northwestern part of
the city to a large extent. Prior to
the showers yesterday afternoon the
demand and supply was unusually
great, so that the pressure gauge at
city hall registered but twenty
pounds. When the showers arrived
and sprinklers were shut off the
pressure indicator jumped to forty
pounds.
The notice given consumers fol-
lows:
Attention is called to the ordi-
nance regulating water rates, limit
ing the use of water for lawn or
garden sprinkling to two (2) hours
each day.
Consumers are requested to avoid
all waste in this connection, as viola
ton Of this rule will be followed by
off the water.
July 11th, 1911.
A. H. CROWELL,
Supt. Water Dept.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-07-11
CHILD LAID UP
WITH INJURIES

Alma Anderson, the nine-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. j.
Anderson, is laid up at her home
with both bones of her right arm
broken as the result of fall from a
fence. The girl will in all probabili-
ty be laid up about two months. She
is under the care of DR.. ]. S. Hay
and DR.. E. A. Hults.
The injury was received Friday as
Alma, with other girls, was playing
in front of her home in Rector street
She climbed up on the picket fence
and fell to the sidewalk, distance
of about five feet. The little victim,
although suffering from shock and
pain, is getting along nicely.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-07-11
Much Damage Caused by
lightning, Wind and Rain
in Vicinity Yesterday.
EAhY PLACES STRUCK
Flag Pole Splintsred at Rari-
tan Yacht Club Bolt Hits
TottsnviIls Club.
CLlFFWO0D BARNS BURN
Goats Blown Ashsre--T Tlata-
wan Tree Target of Flash
--Sou,h Amboy Hit Hard.
CLlFFWOOD BARNS BURN

A fierce electrical storm, accom-
panied by heavy rain, swept this
section yesterday afternoon, leaving
much damage in its path. Lightning
struck in places, including the mast
OF the Raritan Yacht Club house and
on Staten Island boats were driven
from their moorings and aerial
wires of every description were dam
aged to some extent. The New York
Telephone Company's damage here
and on Staten Island was great
Wires were grounded and numerous
short circuits were formed, thus
hampering service to large extent.
Likewise were wires and other aeri-
ais of the Public Service Lighting
Company about this city damaged.
Yacht Club Struck.
The heat was felt to an unusually
large extent yesterday and towal ds
the middle of the afternoon 1t be-
came evident that thunder showers
were due. Large black clouds rolled
up in the western sky, but in the
beginning it seemed as though this
city was to receive no relief from
showers as the clouds seemed to pass
over on Staten Island. The storm
following a sun shower, however,
and this city received it's share of
heavenly downpour in company with
lightning flashes and peals of thun-
der. One large flash which caused a
creak and then loud clap of thun-
der came down on the Raritan Yacht
Clubhouse and broke the top of it's
faspole and then ran down into the
ryof There came gust of smoke
AID re witnesses thought the build
il as afre. When the smoke
cleared AWAY the damage, which was
slight, could be seen.
Lightning struck the roof of the
residence of Niels Alling, of 1876
Gordon street, yesterday afternoon
during the severe thunder storm and
tore away the peak of the roof.
The rain came as relief to man
and animal alike. Horses that had
been going at slow gait and looked
as though they would drop from ex-
haustion, were given new vigor and
the hot pavements were somewhat
cooled.
Damage Along Shore.
Much damage was done along the
shore when the swift rain and wind
storm struck. Several small boats
were washed ashore, none of them
being seriously damaged, however
A large tree in front of the residence
of William Coe, at Lewis and Water
street, was blown down, carrying a
summer house and all the telephone
wires with it to the ground. At the
home of Mrs. Lanier, in Water
street, two large trees were uproot-
ed, breaking down the fence and
otherwise damaging the yard. All
along the waterfront broken branch
es and shrubbery were much in evil
dence. Some idea of the storm may
be gained from the fact that waves
reached the front porch of Bayard's S
bungalow on the beach.
Telephone Company's Trouble.
The New York Telephone Com
pany suffered more damage on
Staten Island than 1t did in this city
and hereabouts. The wind and rain
were terrific on the island, causing
many wires to be grounded and
short circuits to form.
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GOES OVER VEkDUCT
Between II and IS Killed
and 55 Injured Of Whom
Many Will Die.
HRECKAGE TAKES FIRE
Heavy Pullman Cars Pils
on Day Coaches Smashing
Them te kindIing Wood.


Bridgeport, Conn, July IL
Rushing eastward forty miles an
hour, the Colonial Express on the
New Haven railroad, plunged over
a thirty-foot yiaduct on the outskirts
of the city early today, killing be-
tween twelve and fifteen persons and
injuring fifty-fve, Of whom twenty
will probably die.
The wreckage caught fire immedi-
ately and the city fire department
had to be called out to prevent many
of the passengers from being roasted
to death in the wreckage.
The train, made up of engine, bag
gage car, two day coaches and five
sleepers, was more than an hour be-
hind and was running at a high rate
of speed through the suburb. AS
the engine reached the Yiaduct at
State and Fairfield avenues, in West
Bridgeport, it swayed far out and the
front of 1t struck the coping of the
viaduct. The impact threw the en-
gine from the rails and it crashed
over into the streets, carrying with it
all of the cars with the exception of
the two rear Pullmans.
The two day coaches were torn to
pieces and most Of the dead were
later found in these cars. The heavy
Pullmans piled up on the wreckage,
the whole forming a mass Of torn
and twisted wood, iron and steel.
Passengers in the two cars which
remained on the track started to the
work of rescue Immediately, aided by
the pol sand fire department
-.ll---,---,a fie+ of T-37Erz.n dead follows:
C. W. Christi, Piiffsaa!delphia;
Mrs. George Rogers, sr~ lntant
son, Washington, D. C.
George A. Saunders, New London.
A. M. Curtis, engineer.
W. A. Ryan, fireman
Baby Hartman, daughter of Mrs.
Louis Hartman, Of Newfield n. J.,
mother critically i'll at Bridgeport
Hospital
Three unidentified children.
Two unidentified women.
Negro passenger.
The New Haven officers placed the
number of dead at thirteen, injured
at ffty-fve and add that at least a
dozen of the latter will die of their
injuries
The roads press agent, in a state
ment, blames the dead engineer for
the accident and declares that he
violated one of the rules of the road
in approaching a cross-over on the
viaduct at q speed exceeding fifteen
miles an hour.
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20 E29900PtEDGGEE6D 8
FOR Y M. C. A.
Fifteen Petitions Out Ex-
pect 1000 to Join.

Peter A. Peterson has secured the
names of about 200 men who have
pledged themselves to become mem
bers and pay S5 within year after
Young Mems Christian Association
branch has been established in this
city He has about fifteen petitions
out and expects to have total of
twenty-five out in a short time. Each
will be headed with the signature of
a member of the Y. M. G. A. commit
tee recently appointed by Mayor AL
bert Bollschweiler. Mr.. Peterson
expects to have about 1000 members
pledged before he concludes his
work.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-07-11
PASTOR IS ALLOWED
A MONTHS VACATION

Rev. DR.. William E Palmer, pas
tor of Simpson Methodist Episcopal
church, at a meeting of the official
board held at the church last night,
was granted the entire month of Au-
gust in which to take his vacation.
At this meeting of the board James
E. Noe and George D. Runyon were
appointed a committee to supply the
pulpit during the absence of the pas
tor, while on his vacation. DR.. Pal
mer, with his family, will leave about
the first Of August to spend his vaca-
ton at his old home in the noun
tains, in the eastern part of Pennsyl-
YAnia