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Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-19
THE A DELIVERY.
truly,
A. N. CLEANER.

EDITOR EVENING NEWS
In your paper OF the 18th. instant, you take up the
question of mail delivery and in regard to the north
western section you say that the first move should be
for the people to get the streets graded, curbed and
tagged, etc. But what has this to do with mail de-
livery after all? What does the law say about it?
What have curbstones and mail carriers to do with
each other? How many old streets are there that
never have been curbed or tagged? Was not the post
office itself built In q street that had no curbs or flags?
What is the reason, for instance, that on Brace avenue
the mail carrier serves two blocks only, leaving out
the rest of the avenue? In Kennedale Park he serves
the first two streets and not the others, and these
streets are all alike. There is no difference between
the streets he serves and those streets that he does not
serve. On New Brunswick avenue the same condition
exists. In fact. It IL the same condition in all the out
lying districts.
Some time ago a statistic was brought to light that
showed that Perth Amboy, In comparison with other
cities in our state. WAS short OF carriers and clerks to
a discriminating extent. What does the law designate
to be a carriers load, and how much have our carriers
to shoulder when he leaves the post Office? Could you
please tell us something about that.
Your advise to the people who live on the outskirts
Is absolutely worthless. A man can't talk on Brace
avenue and be heard In Washington, d. c. Such talk
ing must be done by the city at large to have any effect
at all. You close your remarks by saying you believe
the accommodations will be forthcoming. 1t Is this
little word believe that does so much harm In Perth
Amboy at the present time. We always believe things
but we don't know them. II we, on the other hand,
could learn to know things better. we would not have
to believe so much.
npSrpvEp
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-19

Prominent center for troll
leys to all parts of the State.
Richest clay deposits in the
country in the immediate VI
entity.
Splendid theatrical advan
tages.
Some Of the leading indus
tries are American smelling Il
henning Company's smelter;
HARLAN Copper Works s1nelter;
barber Asphalt Works; United
Lead Works: United States
Cartridge Company: Architect
ural Tile e Faience Co.; c.
Pardee Steel and Tile Works.
Atlantic Terra Gotta Co; Fed
eral Terra Gotta Co; New
Jersey Terra Gotta Co; three
plants of the National Fire
proohng Company. and other
similar Industries within the
immediate vicinity: Ceramic
Works; Chesebrough Vaseiine
Works; Marcy Stove Works:
two drydock companies, to-
gether with shipyards ana
marine1 railways Standard
Underground Cable Company;
Rnessler az HasslaChtr Chemt-
cal Works; emery mills, coke
and cigar factories cement
stone works: coal shipping
piers; handkerchief factory,
cement works. machine shops
and iron foundries.
For further particulars ad-
dress:
Joseph r.. Stricken, Presi-
dent of the Board OF Trade.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-19
COMMENT BY THE PEOPLE
THE CASE OF THE FIREMEN.

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EDITOR VENIN NEWS:
In your editorial, 1.-THE Threatened Firemen's
Strike" you seem to be under the impression that the
men have no right to strike, that the public must first
be considered In these enlightened days. ! don't see
why the public should censor the men. Why not
censor the corporation? They are the hogs, getting
all the benefit from the hard worked men, of long
hours and small pay. Why should the president get
$50, 900 a year from the earnings of the road III they
cannot pay the first demand Of the men?
am not a Socialist, but / believe with them people
should own and operate the railroads. 4 vas truly
stated By. g, rahh!!-aif tbs city recently that the people
wno buy their labor for to accumulate their wealth are
not recognized CT considered as they should be In the
making Of this wealth, or words to that effect.
Now. Mr.. Editor. you may as we'll say in these en-
Iightened times the miner, the mechanic, the factory
hands, or any Other worker must needs first ask for
the public approval before asking the price OF an extra
loaf of bread. Now. as for arbitration being used so
easily, would state the fremen have been willing to
arbitrate, but the mighty company will not unless they
get the committee to suit them and are sure of the
result being in their favor.
You stated In one of your editorials the NEWS is
the peoples paper. It is only through the honest news
paper that will publish both sides of a case that the
people and their representatives can get the opinion of
the majority.
Yours truly,
A. N. LEAVE
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-19

Who was it first invented kraut, and put it in a barrel?
Some scientist should find it out, and deck his tomb
with laurel. For krauts a good old honest dish, and
when, with eager talons, We throw it in our holds, we
wish that We could eat three gallons. For sauerkraut's
savory and clean, and not the least corrody, and 1t cou-
tains no nicotine, or benjamin Of sody. | always give
a Joyous shout, glad are my feelings inner, when grand
ma says she'll cook some kraut with other thingsl for
dinner. And towards the stove, throughout the day,
with anxious eyes I'm looking; and n~eighbors seven
miles away all know just what's a%-cooking. The in
cense that you read about around the dump is gropin'
when granny cooks a mess Of kraut and leaves the
windows open. ] see the n%etghbors going by, they sniff
the aauerkraut boiling, and often / can hear them sigh:
For kraut I'm fairly spoilingi" All, sauerkrau Ia a
noble dish, beloved of wise old foSiest And why do
foolish people wish their weed IN plugs or stogies?
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-19
COMING EVENTS.

COMING EVENTS.
Feb. 20--First annual dinner OF
the Perth Amboy Progressive Ciubs
Packer House, 7:30.
Feb. 20.-Heinlein Banjo Quartet
and Concert Company, Goodwill hall,
(Y. M. G. Al
Feb. 22.-Turkey Dinner, Ladies
Auxiliary of Simpson NJ. E. church,
lecture
Feb. 21-Masquerads bail of the
German Singing Society at Krceger 8
Auditorium.
Feb. 26.-First annual ball Dex-
ter Football Club. Auditorium.
March 17-BrOtherhood If Rail
road Trainmen's gath annual hall
at Auditorium.
March 24-Easter dance, Good
will Club. Goodwill hall.
March 24.-Ball OF st. Patrick's
Alliance, Auditorium.
April 2-Bartenders' Union; an
nual ball at Auditorium.
April 14:-Dance Of the Ancient
Order Of Hibernians and the Ladies'
Auxiliary, Auditorium.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-19
PROGRESS ON CONVERY PLACE.

The payment for the Pardee lands neces-
sary for the extension of Convery place means
progress. The opening of this thoroughfare
is no small undertaking, but it will be a great
thing for the western section of the city. AS
soon as it is accomplished a trolley belt line
should be put in operation at once to cover
that district.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-19
Population 32,l31.
~ miles from New York.
II q EnLA D M

pfuldiipn dEsi5Is
20 miles from New York.
Tax rate 2.02.
On Staten Is and Sound, at
the mouth Of the Raritan river
and at the head of Rsritan
Bay.
Ocean steamers can dock in
from 35 to 40 feet Of water.
Channel p feet deep at low
water leading up the bay
from Sandy Hook.
Daily steamer service to
New York.
Four railroads-the Pennsyl-
vaDia. Central Railroad of New
Jersey, Lehigh Valley and the
Staten Island Rapid Transit.
Branches running in all direc-
tinns, affording almost an IN
limited number of excellent
factory sites.
Has two telegraph and two
telephone companies.
Electric light and gas COM
panies.
Two daily newspapers.
Federal Postomce building.
Public Library.
Nine grammar schools and
one high school, which is on
the approved list of all the
leading universities in the
country, four parochial schools
and a business college.
Churches OK all denomina-
tions.
City Hospital.
Municipal water works.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-19
Men Raincoats, 5000
Second Floor, Washington St.

Mems $15 and $18 raineoats will be offered during
the remainder of the anniversary at $10.50. The line
includes tan color English gabardines, plain gray and
black cravenettes and double texture tan and olive
coats, guaranteed rainproof. As there are all sizes
from "a to 46 chest measure, no man should have any
trouble in getting fitted. So come along and save a
third or more by taking advantage of this sale. The
opportunity is too good to miss. Regular $5 to $lS
raineoats, special selling price ........... 5000
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-19

Karatol Suit Gases, s1.39-Made. of waterproof cloth
over strong steel frames; leather corners; loop han
dies; cloth lined; 24-inch size; regular $l.98; spe-
cloth lined; brass lock and catches; inside tie tapes;
26-inch size; regular $l.as; specially priced at $l.49
English oxford Bags-Excelent travelling bags Of
three ounce cowhide leather; riveted frames; leather
lined; one fun length pocket.
10 and 16 ill.,, regular $500, special ...... s4.25
II and IS in. regular $3.50, special ...... S4.75
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-19

Canvas-covered Trunks-Boun6 with hard fiber;
brass locks and trimmings; two sole leather straps;
one tray; sheet iron bottoms.
Size % 30 80 "a SO 3S 40.
Reg. 1878 1925 1915 1925 $7.75 1925 1915
Special $4.eS $549 $3.50 $3.50 $3.50 1928 '$7.79
Steamer ~Trunks-Bound with hard vulcanized fiber;
cloth lined ;one full covered tray; two centre bands;
Excelsior locks.
Size % 80 80 "a SO 3s 40
Reg. $3.50 $500 $3.50 $500 $3.50 $500 $3.50
Special S4.7e $5.29 $3.50 $50 S659 S69s $749
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-19
Velvet Carpets, 9Oc
Fourth Floor, Washington St.

We offer a carefully selected line of velvet carpets
especially designed for hall and stair covering at a
saving of zoe a yard. Made, lined and laid free of
charge. Regular $l.1o quality; the yard ....... e0c
$3.50 Wilton Velvet Carpet, $1.65-Best grade of
Royal Wilton, in new patterns, suitable for halls and
stairs-regular $3.50 per ~yard-made, laid and lined,
Spec1dl @1.oo
$3.50 Administer Carpet, $1.65-Light colors, suit.
feets-all with borders to match-regular $3.50 yard
made, laid and lined for ................. $1.65
$1,40 Wool Velvet Carpet, ~$125-Oriental designs as
well as SO id color effects. in red, green, tan and blue
regular $1.40 per ~yard-made, laid and lined, spe-
eial S125
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-19

How picayune the march of the suffragettes
here must seem to their English sisters fight
ing for the came cause.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-19
Perth Amboy Trust Co,

This Company is a legal depository
FOR the funds of the State OF New Jsr
ny, the County Of Middiesex and Is
slso a depository Cor tho municipal
.unds of the City of Perth Amboy.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-19
STATEN ISLAND RAPID TRANSIT.
FARE TO NEW YORK

Timetable In Effect December 1s, 1912.
To Now York
Leave Perth Amboy Daily
sos. $3.50. 700. 1929. 1929. $500. $500.
$3.50. $3.50. i1:l0 T. m.-12:1b. 1852, ESQ.
$40. 4:2s. SEAS. $40. 1882. 300. 1925.
Sundays and Holiday
s:16. 7:4e, s:t6. s:4s. lo:4e.~it4s q. m.
-12:4s. l:4s,-2:ohs-4:3 $40. 6:15. 7:ib.
s;is, lo;oa~p. M. and Holiday Nights only
From New York
Leave New York Daily
500. 700. 800, 400. 1900. i1:2o a. m.
-l2:3o. 1880. 2:+o. $40. $40. 5:i5. $50.
b:45. S:1b. $50. TOO. T:40, 500. 1000,
1880 p. m.-12:S0 T. "a
Sundays and Holiday
1880. 800. 1000, II 100 L. M, 1900 noon
II 100. 2:oe. $500. 4:3o. $3.50. $50. 1890
$3.50. 1900. if:a0 p. m. and Holiday Nights
only. 1890 a. m.
Express. GEO. j. BROWN.
General Traffic Agent
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-19
PERTH AMBoy TRUST COMPANY.

makes a man think, and thinking often
stops him from making out the check.
That's how an account at the Perth
Ambov Trust Co. makes for economy. A
man will spend cash twice as readily
as he will if he has TO draw a check
for the amount. Start an account today
and keep track of the lumber of times
it saves you from needless spending.
We pay interest on daily balances.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-19
FIRE ALARM BOXES

FIRE ALARM BOXES
23-Raritan Copper Works.
-Market and sheridan SITS.
2b-Smith st. and c. R. r.
26-High and Lewis SITS.
27-Madison Ave. and Paterson st,
market and First SITS.
S5-Smith and High Sts.
3b-N. Brunswick Ave. and New st.
s1-State and Smith SITS.
42-Atlantic Terra Gotta Works.
f3-Buckipghem Ave. q Hartford St.
l5-Commerce and Front SITS.
estate and Washington Ste.
f7-HiBh and Washington SITS
Estate st. and Buckingham Ave.
bh-Parker st. and Pulaski Ave.
66-Hall Ave. and Charles St.
57-State and Wayne SITS.
United Lead Works.
59-Maurer.
62-Washington and First SITS.
t5-N. Brunswick Ave. and Elm St.
64-Smith st. and Watson Ave.
85-Cornmerce and State SITS.
7Z-Front and Smith SITS.
and Gordon SITS.
7|-Kearny Ave. and Gordon st.
and Hanson AYES.
S2-Smith and Herbert SITS.
ga mboy Ave. & Washington st.
84~-Lehigh Ave. and Stanford St.
Smear City Hospital.
S6-Cleveland and Brace AYES.
s7-Amboy and Hall AYES.
S2-Anbny Ave. and Inslee st.
s3-Lswrence and Francis SITS.
s4-Neville and tombstone SITS.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-19
Misses $I.75 New
Lingerie Dresses, $500
Third Floor, Market St.

Every one interested is invited to visit Bamber-
gers Thursday and see these new lingerie frocks worn
by young women in the department. You win then
realize what excellent values the dainty frocks are, be-
cause they are not only made of good materials, but
also to fit. Some are plain effects, others are elabor-
ately trimmed. All sizes for misses and junior misses.
Regular $i.75 values, and entirely new. Special An
niversary selling price, only ................. $1.00
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-19
PUBLIC SERVICE TIME TABLE.

Cars Leave Staten Island Ferry:
For New Brunswick-6: a. IN. ana
every 80 minutes until $40 p. m.-also at
s:40. 1870 and l1;40 3. IN. tSaturdays
only, at 12:10.)
For K~easby-s:z6 e. m. and every Is
minutes until $40 .. m. Then every 80
minutes until 11.40.
For Rahway--s:bo a. m, and every 80
minutes until 11;20 p. m.
For Boynton Besch--6:00 q. m. and
every Is minutes until 1880 p m.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-19
Trunks, Bags and Suit Gases

(Sixth Floor-Halsey Street.)
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-17

against the extinction OF the petrol,
by providing closed season when 1T
shall be illegal to take them. under
any circumstances.
We note that the Hartford ceurant
has been pleased to print liberal ex-
tracts from the senator's bird speech,
and that it thinks it a bird of a
speech. It says that "the senator
was led to grave constitutional ques-
lions and to discussion of themes far
larger and more important than the
birds themselves 1t appears also
that he spoke from a careful study
and knowledge which is very UNI
usual and praiseworthy, we are sure.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-17
TO DRIVE OUT sWEATSHOP
IS MISS CASEY'S Al
Strike Organizer Says Garment Work
ers Are Sweated Like Slaven.

New York, Jan. 17-f'This is a
struggle mainly to abolish the sweat
shop system where human beings are
literally sweated like slaves to-day
said Josephine Casey, the strike or
ganizer who is in charge of the shirt
waist workers department of the
great garment workers strike.
tOur quarrel is not with those man
ufacturers who have complied with the
fire safety and sanitary laws and who
pay fair wages to their workers and
in other ways treat them with some
employers should have to suffer with
their fellows. But there are not
many of these. The majority of the
workers labor day and night in hor-
rible lofts, dark, unventflated and
pregnant with disease. I have even
been told by our girls of places where
both sexes use the same Mushroom.
1.-THE terrible lesson taught by the
Triangle fire has not brought about
much better conditions. I don't blame
the factory inspectors. There are not
enough of them to go around.
1.-The workers employed by the man
ufacturers against whom especially
this strike has been brought pay star
walton wages.
MANY of these sweatshop proprie-
tors have trick, when the air is foul
with discomfort, of raising the wages
of about one fifth Of their employees,
usually. the American girls, and then,
when they have these workers in good
humor, they make up the loss by cut
ting the wages of the foreign girls
Gertrude Barnum, daughter of
Judge Barnun, of Chicago, is another
active leader in the cause of the strfl<-
ing garment workers who discussed
for the United Press, today, the issues
at stake.
lone Of the worst phases of the life
of these girls" she said, f'is the fact
that so many of them earn such mis-
cradle wages that they fall easy prey
to the agents of the white slave traf-
fic. These agents or cadets know
the situation we'll. They know that
the girls get an average wage of Sc a
week, many of them getting SO and
erage of about Sc. Most of these girls
have only been in the country a short
while and have close relatives here.
They are entirely dependent upon
what they can earn.
mo girl can feed ana clothe herself
decent1y on Sc. The white slave
agents know it and they play upon the
girls natural desire to have nice
clothes and an easier time. Many of
them succurnb to the temptation and
they cannot be blamed. It. is the fault
of the sweatshop system and the star
walton wages paid by even the man
ufacturers who run apparently
well arranged factories.
''In almost all the shops the 81
hour week law is openly violated,
mainly because the average foreign
girl working in these places is SO ig-
norant of conditions here that she
doesn't know such a law exists. Only
when the strike was declared did most
of the foreign workers learn that there
was a law protecting them against the
long hours they had been forced to
stay at their machines: The manu-
facturers simply take advantage of the
girls ignorance to exploit Them
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-17
FRANKLIN's DISCOVERIES.

The first man to Uncover the appl-
cability of electricity to practical uses
was BENJAMIN Franklin, who was
born in Boston 207 years ago to-day. A
host of other innovations were due to
the fertile ingenuity of the great scien-
+iet editor and diplomat. The first
circulating library in America was es-
tabIished by Franklin in Philadelphia,
in 1892. Five years later he organ
lied the first fire company on this side
of the Atlantic. In 1742 he invented
the first stove used in America. The
following year he founded the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, the pioneer
among the great State and Provincial
institutions of learning. He was also
the founder of the American Philoso-
phical Society His kite demonstra-
ton, to prove that lightning is cleo
tricity, was made in 1882. The Am
erican postal system was largely based
on Franklin's ideas, and he Travelled
1000 miles in his work of extending
and improving the postoffice organ
ization. He was the first American
diplomat. The first American hospital
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-17
WOODROW WILSON'S SPEECHES

There need be misunderstanding with respect to
the meaning of the remarks which Woodrow Wilson is
addressing to the country They neither too much
too little for the situation in which he finds himself
assume FIST last al Hne that nn aetng
Iqnited
ence derines the action only through the
matter have given bonds sacred honor is involved and
There is nothing equvocal about this language There
is nothing cryptic. To assist him in his duties he will
pick out PROGRESSIVES and ONLY progressives.
Who is a progressive in politics9 He is who be
heves that the of inherent in the
people, who seeks to guide his official conduct by what the
people would have DONE who Short representative
Of the people and not their ruler
How may progressive in politics be known?& What
policies of government is he friendly too
The question is not difficult to than the
first glance at what has been done, doing in the
several states, is enough to determine the
The progressive believes that government must be
election Of United States senators direct nomination
of presidential candidates He believes in direct power
over laws through the initiative and referendum.
The progressive believes that the tariff should not be
used to bolster privilege and rob the that
the evils of private monopoly must be destroyed by
ation where that is adequate and by public ownership
where it is not.
Governor Wilson's course in New Jersey is defini-
ton Of the meaning he places upon the term Eprogres
sive.''
Governor Wilson's recent speeches. therefore, are to
with those who in sympathy with the great demo
cratic movement which is sweeping the nation. He will
not himself and the power Of the great office
to limit and check the nation it's attempt
make this in truth well in theory the country the
plain people and of widely diused wealth and comfort
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-17
DEMAND FOR REPORT
ON ATROCITIES IN
THE RUBBER DISTRICT.

Washington, Jan. 1.-THE House
foreign affairs committee wants to
know why the state department hasn' t
yet made public the report of Consul
Stuart Fuller, of Iquitos, Peru, on his
investigation of atrocities to natives in
the Putumayo Rubber district. Rep.
Kindred of New York has told the
committee, that the report of the Brit
ish investigator who made the trip
through the South American Congo
with Fuller has already caused a
probe of British companies in the Pu-
tumayo. The committee is consider
ing a second demand on the state de-
partment for a report.
Consul Fuller Investigated the stor-
les of horrible atrocities to native rub
Der workers. His report was receiv-
ed here several weeks ago but has
been closely guarded by the state de-
partme nt. 1t is understood that It
does not fully confirm the stories of
murder, rapine and cruelty to natives.
British reports say the investigators
were deceived and all evidences of
brutality carefully concealed before
their entry into the Putumayo district
st understand your wife is doing her
own cooking?"
You are mistaken
ftBut Jinx told me she was
f$Ohs that was just for a little while
Jinx was making a visit and I
guess she thought he had stayed long
enough. ''-Iouston Post.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-17
McLEAN'S ORATORICAL
zee sos. FLIGHT.

While divers statesmen of the dem
agogic type, muck-rakers, and doubt
%lleor disreputable persons are sever
ally trying to decrease the high cost of
living, or the employment of babes at
haFds f6b6rrss or tn e harbarft1eg of peon-
age in tne=soutE1, Connecticut leading
5tatesmeni Senator Mclean, has been
devoting himself to the protection of
migratory birds. The distinguishe ed
senator has reffecfad tt1atffIe stormy
peere4~aesu-Ifo--fy4s e0@rovsts and he
will advocate the eenstruetiorf zof ap-
propriate pefches at intervals in the
great seceans- There the birds may
resl bNtween flights, and there they
RAY be captured-during the open
season-by wrecked and starving sail
ormen. The bill will surely secure