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Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-01-14
GIVES HIMSELF
UP TO OFFICER
Geo. Durham of Sewaren to
be Heard Tonight.
Special ~ the EVENING NEWs.

Sewaren, Jan. 14:-George Dun
ham, who is accused Of knocking
Policeman Hans Simonsen s~enseless
with a rock here Saturday night,
surrendered himself to the Wood
bridge police yesterday. He is to be
given a hearing tonight, at which it
is expected the most evere penalty
possible will be meted out. His at
tack upon the officer vas cowardly
and brutal and wholly uncalled for.
Durham has a brother who is also
said to be a dangerous character. "a
was arrested but a few months ago
IN a charge Of brutally assaulting
and robbing a peddler at Maurer.
Policeman Simonsen will not be
able to do police duty for at least a
week. He is laid up with an ugly
gasL OF his head. DR.. Collins took
three stitches to close the wound.
Policeman Emil Klein Is covering
the local post temporarily.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-01-14
LEGISLATURE
is ORGANIZED

Continued from page IL
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-01-14

last ession and was prevented from
becoming a law by my veto. No In
variable rule can be laid down which
will not lead to all sorts of impossible
situations and the eventual Interior
ence of the courts. The proper solu4
tIop Of this very difficult matter is to
empower the board OF public utility
commissioners 10 order the abolition
of such grade crossings I'm such ways
and ct such a rate "a will adjust their
orders TO each particular case and set
OF circumstances. The act comforting
the power Fan AID should make Of
that power n legal duty imposed upon
the commission, the discretion OF the
commissioners to exist only In respect
OF their right to guide. direct and adj
Just the processes of elimination In n
thoroughly practical fashion. ! can
not too strongly urge this matter upon
yOnr attention.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-04-03
SOME THINGS BIG EMPLOYERS WON'T DARE
TEL WHEN BLOWING THEIR OWN HORNS

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merely writing street for avenue, or
single incorrect letter in the spelling
of the customers name. If the girl is
little too good for the management
to let go, and she refuses to pay the
fine, she is not forced to, but in the
case of a girl who doesn't dare lose
her job it is always collected.
"And then there are the exchanges.
One week last year, while 1 was
working at The Fair, % girls from the
drug and confectionery departments
were discharged because they had
been caught trading small bottles of
perfume for candy. :
81 am not approving that practice,
for L have passed the age when l
want to have Jockey cologne on my
shirtwaist, or feel that am just crazy
for something sweet. Yet it did not
seem any worse to those girls to
take such trifies than it would be an
effense for a city alderman to accept
a cigar from traction stakeholder.
And thefts. You have written on
that already, so l will just add a little.
They never make an investigation
into the reason for stealing. No
matter how slight the amount taken
immediate discharge follows.
"A porter son the main floor of
Rothschilds picked, up two 3-cent
cakes of soap spilled over from a.
full display. He was Pole with a
wife and three children. Of course
a detective found the soap and the
Pole was let out.
"The searching system Is abomin-
able. You are asked when you apply
for the job if you object to being.
searched at any time? You must of
course say no.
Detectives stand at the exits at
noon or night. If ones attire bulges
slightly or if, the detective is merely
seized with the whim, he. may say
step aside, please and then is at lib
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-04-03
BY JANE whitaker


Your employers are going to attend
the meeting of the Vice Commission
Monday morning because they
really could not refuse in view of the
fact that they expressed willingness
when they thought they could get
away with the bluff-to cooperate in
the matter of minimum wage.
And besides they. are SO clever
your employers. They don't mind
promising anything, SO long as they
are not forced to make good. But
the thing they want to do is to con-
vince the Vice Commission just what
kind, generous men they are, and
what a pity it would be to discredit
their desire to help you by the enact
ment of any law making it -compul-
sorry. Just go away and leave it to
them.
1 don't think the Vice Commits
sion will be fooled that way-for your
sakes l hope notAbdt / am going to;
tell you some Of the things that your,
employers will never dare reveal
when they are blowing. their own
horns. So zsE
1t was a very tired girl who told,
them to me-. She talked fstlessly,
with scarcely shade of expression in
her face and she lounged back
against the cushions on the couch.
81 don't know what to tell YOU
there is so much that is wrong, and
I don't envy anyone the task of set
ting it right
cat least we can give the things
that are wrong some publicity" L
suggested.
She closed her eyes and yawned.
please excuse me, but am so
tired. We had a sale in our depart
ment today. 1 am near dead. Shall
1 tell you about the fines, first?''
/ nodded.
"Well, for every mistake you are
fined ten cents. A man whose special
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11

that so often unnerve the most expert
enced performers.
The setting-the bare barnlike hall--in
itself scarcely inspires confidence One
end is screened from the gaze of the
occupants by long curtain through
which a monstrous horn of brass extends
into the room, being suspended from the
ceiling.
Grouped around are a motely assembly
OF musicians with Instruments of weird
design. Somehow these instruments seem
familiar, yet no one ever saw their like in
theatre orchestra. They are especially
constructed to produce soft sound waves
that do not drown the singers voice
The violins no longer possess the fa-
mliar curves and sturdy frames They
are hollow tubelike affairs with strangely
arranged strings. The celos are In a sim
liar emaciated condition. their ample sides
having apparently dwindled into slight
wooden supports. Every instrument, how
ever. boasts a little aluminium horn, di-
fected toward the parent trumpet in or
Ger to concentrate the sound waves at
one common point. Perched on a high
platform near the room is the conductor
whose lofty position Is chosen to take
him out of the way of all important sound
waves.
The performer stands on % little wood
en- platform right at the mouth of the
receiving trumpet. \ few hurried drec-
tions ard then strict silence is the rule
No human voice or sound but that OF the
singer must now disturb the atmosphere.
for the little machine behind the curtain
relentlessly records every little sound
wave.
:. red light is flashed and the atteu-
ated little orchestra gets to work
And then the artist has to sing to this
strange little assembly with abandon and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11


zest as though the inspiration or the bril-
liant light, of beautiful clothes and seen
cry and applauding audience We're all
there.
1t is a great ordeal, for one has to
sing with far greater care in front of a
talking machine than is required when
audiences of flesh and blood are to be
pleased.
With fiendish cruelty, the revolving
WAX recording disk gathers in every little
fault. A slight clearing of the throat al.
little swallow, every deep breath or slight
shuttle of the feet is sufficient To form
sound waves that imprint their message
ON the yielding wax. Such things an audi
ence would not note. but the obedient
record maker makes no distinction be-
tween the actual and the intended
When the artist has finished the record
is played over and the inevitable inper-
fections criticised The weak spots are
then rehearsed and the whole trying busi-
ness commenced over again. If the per
former makes a mistake in the course of
the song, a bell rings and a fresh start is
made. Not until a record of pure and dis
tnct tone is obtained does the artist $,
ordeal end,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
Westminster Very Popular

Iondons fashionable acre, known as
Mayfair is threatened with a most Sc
rious rival i'm popularity by the larger,
more spacious and more beautiful West
Minister wherein are some OF London
most ancient historical associations Gu
riously enough, it is the ubiquitous auto
mobile that has been partly responsible
for this. The presence of many motors
means noise and vibration. to say nothing
of smell, and to avoid these nuisances,
people have been driven to find pieds-a-
terre in some of London's less frequented
Of the age is to make the town house
more and more a temporary affair. What
| people want nowadays is some house
| that Is near their business or their pleas
| ures, and another out in the country
within five minutes of the first tee ON
| their pet golf course and somebody dis
covered that Westminster filled the first
bill to perfection. This somebody is now
| known TO be Mrs. Reginald Mckenna, the
pretty young wife of the much maligned
and suffragette harried home secretary
| When Mrs. McKenna came to examine
| the district, it soon displayed unheard of
advantages. Houses, built many years
| ago, and fallen to the depth of boarding
| houses. some even to the indignity of
| tenements were found. on close inspec-
| ton, to be well and substantially built,
and capable of being made into really
| comfortable mansions. Many of them
have a distinct Georgian character about
them, that makes for comfort They have
| deep window seats and handsome pan
elled walls, not to be found in the mod
ern house-great assets in the hands OF
| clever housewife and hostess.
| one street in particular, that long had
the reputation of being dangerous slum,
where one went at the risk of ones life
after dark. has now been modernized and
| cleaned up into Il spick and span thor
| oughfare with well to do folks in all the
! houses. In great many cases two
| houses have been turned into one, and
| this has Just been done in Catherine
] street for Mr.. and Lady Agnes Peel, the
result being a beautiful and commodious
| town house, where they can entertain
over a hundred people without the least
crush. Lady Agnes is the half sister of
| The handsome Lord Beauchamp, and her
| husband is the younger son of the hate
| Niscount Peel, a former speaker of the
House of Commons. Mr.. Runicman and
his wife occupy another of these houses;
and, indeed, the district is eagerly eN
plored by members of Parliament, it be-
ing so conveniently situated Tor the
House."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11

have such hard task in his match
making with her as with her elder. sister
People who speak of her are wont to
say: "Oh, she ought to have been a
boy! She is as lively and al fur of fun
as her sister is dgnified, and when a
small child, there was nothing she en-
joyed 50 much as a romp with her favor
ite Uncle George" Their friendship is
still as strong as ever and finds its roots
in their mutual love for salmon fishing.
But all outdoor sports appeal to Princess
Maud. She is a good crcSeter and a rat
Ting good swimmer, having been men,
Der OF the celebrated Bath club for sew
eral years. Many are the pranks related
of her. the one that brought her into the
most serious trouble being the occasion
when she mixed pepper with the hay for
the late Queen Victoria's old white don
key that used to draw her bath chair
about when in Scotland. The faithful
animals behavior afterwards was any
thing but dignified and when the culprit
was discovered she was in disgrace for
a long time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11

only occasional and brief visits to giddy
Paris, London or New York the countess
was to adopt native costume on occasions,
but worse still. she was to buy her frocks
in Buda Pesth! Buda Pesth, when all her
life she had worn only the very best that
London, Paris or New York could offer
her.
Like a wise woman she made no fuss
about it. but was no less determined to
have her own way in the end and be-
hold, she is now installed in London, and
though the count will not give uD his me-
dieval fastness in Hungary, yet they will
only go there for a minute fraction of
each year.
The Szechenyis-one wonders what the
British footmen win make of this name
are now house hunting, and as soon as
they are in" will give a big house
warming party, to be followed 10y many
other pleasant festivities throughout the
season. Her London friends have not
forgotten the American girl though she
has only seen them for such brief in
terVals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
Bergson Sums Up America

From the New YorE sun
Paris-Professor Bergson's speech at
the recent dinner of the Comite France
Amerique at Doyen's> in the Champs
Elysees was a charming synthesis of
the Impressions of the United States
which he brought back with helm after
his visit here
NJ. Bergson at the beginning of his
address spoke almost enthusia tically of
the climate of New York, against
which he had been dolefulIy warned
About the supposed crudities of
American life and the lack of artistic
perception he said. II had certainly
been misinformed I must say that |
found New York interesting to fasei-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
He Used the Muffler

Dearest said the East-End matron
according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer
II wish to say a few words to you. You
are not treating me right, darling. Not
that you are as bad as Mr.. Hogerly, who
Is untrue to his family. And you aren
like Mr.. Jillz, on our left, who drinks and
gambles but
THANK you, sweetheart
Don't interpret"
Don't interpret. I'm awfully glad that
you aren't like Mrs. Smiths husband.
Mrs. Smith thinks he's all right. but /
happen to know that he is a perfect de-
mon. Not that Mrs. Smith is any too
good. She makes believe that she is all
right, but the other day Mrs Brown told
me
"All right, Auto.'
"Why do you call me Auto"
"You are always running people down,
that's all. But so on
She refused to crank up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
SzECHENY|S ARE To
LIVE IN LONDON
Former Miss Vanderbilt
Wins Her Point
MAYFAIR THREATENED
Fashionable Acre Has Serious Rival
in Westminster-Great Efforts
to Be Made to Marry Duchess
of Fife and Princess Maud
MAYFAIR THREATENED
By LADY MARY

London, May o.-(speeial)-rha old
adage. "ceaseless dropping wears away
stone" has never been more apliy
illustrated than by the recent arrival oil
the Count and Countess szechenyi in Lon
don-not only for the season, but perma-
nently, except for a few weeks in each
year. When the countess, who, you will
remember was Gladys Vanderbilt in her
spinster years, was married, stern and
harsh were the rules and regulations
laid down by her august husband, and
everybody who knew the fair Gladys
wondered how long she would stand it.
They were to live in his medieval castle
situated in the wilds of Hungary, paying
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
"Oh Girls! Do Try
GETS-IT for COrnS'
The New-PIan Corn Crre No Fuss,
No Pain, Sure and Quick

You never used anything like GETS
IT. for eorns before! You're sure at
last that every stubborn corn that
you've tried so long to get rid OF is a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
MAKING RECORDS
FOR PHONOGRAPH
BY NO MEANS EASY
Orchestra a Weird One.
Even STARS" Have to
Repeat Performance
Frequently
From the Chicago Daily News.

From the Chicago Daily News.
The latest penalty that fame exacts
from theatrical and music hall stars is
that of singing to talking machines. For
gramophone agents descend on the star
who comes out with a new song success
or talking act that takes the public
fancy.
Most artists willItell you-and hardened
ones, too-that singing to a reproducing
machine is to them far greater ordeal
than performing to crowded theatre. 1t
is the strange conditions under which
these voice reproductions are carried out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11

mating degree and in certain respects
beautiful
Il say to you now, much as it may
surprise some of you, that skyscrapers
may be agreeable to look at, and that
many of them are. beautiful.
ut has always seemed to me that the
fundamental element of the American
spirit is idealistic, and l come back
more firmly fixed in that view than be-
fore. Americans are socially idealistic.
They are always full of sentiment,
whether they confess it or not. They
have passionate curiosity as to every
thing which concerns the workings of
the intellect-les chooses de resprit;
and above them all they consider that
life was given to them in order to rea-
lize something that is as yet far beyond
anything that has ever been realized >
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
King to Go Husband Hunting

Great efforts will be made this season
by King George and his queen to find
suitable husbands for the Duchess of
Fife and her sister, Princess Maud, who,
by the bye. has recently celebrated her
twentieth birthday The Princess Royal
has intimated her wishes in this respect
to the king, and as you have heard be-
fore this good ladys wishes are Gener-
ally regarded as law in the royal house
hold for to put ii mildly, if they are not.
there are "ructions." :" The Princess Royal
wants her daughters, settled-nappily if
possible but settled anyway, for the
health of her mother. Queen alexandria,
gives her much anxiety. The severe
shocks which the queen mother has re-
ceived latterly in the sudden deaths of
two of her brothers and her nephew, the
elder brother of Prince Ernst of Cumber-
land have naturally affected her.
The two young princesses will be chap
eroned this year by their aunt, Queen
Mary. for, though their father has been
dead now for over a year, the Princess
Royal Will not go into society for another
l. months Queen Alexandra had intended
giving a dance at Marlborough House for
them, but. of course, this is now out of
the question. The girls certainly have
had the worst luck since they came out
The elder girl debut was followed im-
mediately by the death of her grand
{
sooner emerged from their mourning for
/ I'm than their own father succumbed,
/ and now the assassination of their great
uncle has spoilt some of their fun. How
/ ever. Queen Mary will give some enter
/ tainment then-most probably a dance
/ for both princesses are very fond of
/ dancing.
Several Candidates Mentioned
! Several princely names have been mem
/ toned in connection with the elder girl
eX-king Manuel, who has just chosen
stodgy looking girl from among the IIo-
! henzollerns for his bride, for one But
people who know her say that the duch-
| ess's will-or, as some unkind folks put
| it,, her obstinacy-is only equaled by
| her mothers. and King George himself
| may suggest future husbands for her
| until he's black in the face and she won't
look at one of them unless she chooses
He has begun with the Crown Prince of
Greece. who is eminently suitable. but
of course, that hasn't the slightest effect
on the duchess. Both her mother and
Queen Alexandra. too, are keen on this
match. and if her royal obstinacy is
pleased to look favorably on the Young
man, all may yet be we'll He is of
course, great nephew of Queen Alex
andra being the grandson of the i'll fated
| King Of Greece who was recently assas s.
sinated. He is a charming young fellow
lGeorge would heave huge sighs of RELIEF
If the match could become a fait ac
cempli
lite Of the two, and he is not likely 70
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11

.poner." You apply "GETS-IT" in .
seconds, that's all. "GETS-1T' does the
rest There is no more fussing, no more
bandages to fit, no more salves to turn
tba flesh red and raw. NO more plasters
10 get misplaced and press on the corn.
No more pulling" no more pain, no
more picking and Souging, no more
razors.
..GFTS-IT" stops pain, shriVels up
the corn, and the corn Vanishes. GETS
IT. never fails, is harmless to healthy
flesh Warts callouses and bunions dis
appear:
25c a bottle, or sent on receipt of price
by F. Lawrence & Co, Chicago.
Sold in Birmingham by Eugene
Jacobs Drug Store. Gale Drug Co. G.
stores) 307 First avenue and Pratt sta
ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
Far-Seeing

From the New York World
Carson seems to be getting mighty
friendly with everybody all of sudden
Yes, he is going to be married soon
and he wants 10 have as many friends
as he can invite and get presents FROM
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
Best Fishing Time

From the New York World
"'rhey say the best time to go fishing
is early in the morning. Is that right
Sure, Before the fish wardens get on
the job"