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Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
BIG SCHOONER
CRASHES into
COUNTY BRIDGE

Traffic across the draw OF the
county bridge was held up or imped-
ed for six hours yesterday, begin
ming at 10 O'Clock, when the two
masted schooner Adam Weber be-
came fastened between the bulk
heads and continuing until 4:1O
O'Clock yesterday afternoon, when a
small motor boat finally pulled the
craft free. For more than three
hours trolleys transferred passen-
gers at the draw and ran shuttle cars
on either side.
The Weber, bearing cargo Of
brick and fancy clay products from
the Sayre and Fisher Company, at
Sayreville, came down the Raritan
river at a good clip about 10 o'clock.
Nearing the bridge, the captain saw
the draw was not opened and think
ing that it would not swing around
in time to keep from smashing into
the bridge, he had the anchor drop
ped. The draw swung open, and the
schooner stopped in the middle Of
the south passageway, The anchor
became entangled at the base of the
bulkhead, and the schooner was
held tight.
The craft was in such a position
that the draw could only come
within two yards of closing, thereby
cutting off trolley traffic across the
draw. A Jersey Central car was ma
rooned on the south side of the draw
as was a South Amboy Public Ser
vice conveyor. Until l o'clock pas
sengers were transferred across the
draw. The schooner was dislodged
from its position so that the draw
could close, and cars were allowed to
cross until shortly after 3 o'clock
when the final effort was made to
free the craft.
The draw was kept open for about
an hour, and shortly after o'clock
the schooner was dragged from the
passageway by a small motor boat.
A long line OF automobiles gathered
on both sides of the draw, and four
trolley cars were held up from ff-
teen to forty-five minutes.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
OFFICIALS SEEK
PAVING MONEY

Mayor Ferd Garretson and Chair
man John j. Clark, of the street
committee of the Board of Aldermen,
are in New Brunswick this afternoon
to appear before the Board of Free
holders in an effort to close arrange
ments for the receipt of $4,000
from the state for the improving of
Amboy and New Brunswick avenues.
The money is needed by the city and
officials claim that it is due The
sum is that which the state appro-
priated, upon recommendation of the
freeholders, out of the state motor
vehicle fund.
Concrete work has been started
upon the upper section of Amboy
avenue, which is being paved. AS
vet there is no indication that the
street committee of the Board of
Aldermen will report on the subject
of paving New Brunswick avenue.
The latest statement issued by
Chairman Clark, of that commit
tee. was to the effect that the body
was not prepared to report at that
time. There will be a meeting of
the Board of Aldermen tonight at
which there may be some interest
ing developments concerning the
making of street improvements and
the levying of assessments therefor
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
CANNON
AS TO WAY He
RUNS HIS OFFICE

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no open ihaniiei III "i''e" 0o'H''
clerk Bernard NJ. cannon conducts
his Office is praised In Newark Sunday
Call of yesterday. Under the column
Men and Affairs" on the editorial
page, the financial statement re-
Gently made public by Mr.. Cannon,
is pointed out as an exemplary way
for Office holders to take the public
in their confidence. The article fol-
lows:
"When B. NJ. Cannon took the tax
payers of Middlesex county into his
confidence recently by publishing a
financial statement showing the con-
|ditton OF his Office as county clerk, 1t
Was on innovation tEat has been
much appreciated. The report which
County Clerk Cannon prepared and
had published, was comprehensive,
and shows what great saving the
salary system has been over the old
time fee system. In less than five
years Cannon turned over to the
county of Middlesex $l31, ,4l7.3l,
with expenses for the same period
amounting to $l07,09l. 85, leaving
net profit of S24,325.46. Under the
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
Man Dying in
City Hospital
After Arrest

Alexander Conkowsky lies at the
city hospital at the point of death
and his condition battles the attend
ing physicians. The man has no ex-
ternal injuries and has not recently
been Ill. However, he is believed to
be suffering from apoplexy. He was
arrested yesterday morning by Pa
trolman Quinlan in seemingly
drunken stupor, lying in a gutter
near his home at 435 Alpine street.
He was placed in cell until his
landlord came to headquarters and
explained that the man did not drink.
DR.. NJ s. Meinzer was called and had
the man sent home. At noon DR.. Vir-
gil Shull was summoned for the man
and his condition was considered
critical and he was sent to the city
hospital in semi-stupor condition,
in which state he continues at a late
hour today.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
FOUR INJURED
WHILE PLAYING
FOOTBALL HERE
God of Gridiron Claims Vic
tlms-Captain Mcintyre, OF
Freehold Military Academy,
Is Taken to City Hospital.

Four victims, one with fractur-
ed collarbone, one with broken rib,
another with contusions of the fore
head and the fourth with a gouged
shin, was the toll exacted of young
men between seventeen and twenty
three years old by the god of the
gridiron in two contests at the
Amusement Park grounds over the
week end Two were injured at the
game between the Perth Amboy high
school and the Freehold Military
! Academy Saturday afternoon, and
two at the game between the Dexters
and the Sons of Rest, of New Bruins
wick, yesterday afternoon. Captain
Arthur Mcintyre, of the Freehold
team was taken to the city hospital
about o'clock Saturday afternoon,
after he had been examined by Dr..
F. G. Henry and deep briuse found
at the intersection of his nose and
forehead. 1t was feared he had a
fractured skull. He was discharged
from the institution at noon yester-
day. John Seel, of 1S1 Market
street, is suffering from fracture
of the collarbone; Austin Fiigen, of
151 Market street, has broken rib,
and John Nickerson, Of the Free
hold Military Academy, has a badly
gouged right shin.
Seel, right halfback for the Dex-
ters was playing but a short time in
the game yesterday when he made a
flying tackle and landed his man.
Seel fell heavily on his collarbone
with his opponent on top of him. He
continued to play for while when
he felt pain in his right shoulder,
and was attended by Dr. E. X Han
son, who was on the grounds, and
who found that the gridiron fighter
had a fracture of the collarbone.
Austin Fiigen, center for the Dex-
ters, fell on the ball during the
fourth period, and several players
bounded on top of him, and one of
his right ribs was broken He con-
tinued to play, however, until the
game was nearly over. He was at
tended by DR.. Hanson
Captain Mcintyre, of the Freehold
eleven, and one of its star players, it
is believed, was struck by the shoe OF
player during a scrimmage. He
continued to play, but finally was
overcome, and aided off the field
After the game he lay on the high
school green unable to rise. He was
attended by DR.. F. G. Henry, who
ordered him to the city hospital
John Nickerson, right halfback for
the academy, was gouged in the
right shin with a cleat, which made
an ugly hole. The wound was tenn
porarily mandaged until he could
reach Freehold.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
APANESE CRUISER SUNK BY
GERMAN MINE OFF KA|UCHAU;
MOVE GUNS To STORM DUNK|RK
War Breaks Out
at Wedding;
3 Are Arrested

A miniature war broke out at a
wedding in Kirkland place between
10 and IL o'clock last night, and
some infuriated participant hurled a
keg of beer out of the window. Beer
bottles were used as ammunition and
the best man and several witnesses
to the ceremony are said to have
scars this morning from the melee.
Recorder Pickersgill this morning
blamed Stephen Gozecky, twenty-five
years old, of 323 Smith street, as the
main cause of the trouble. He was
fined $40, while two other partici-
pants were fined $40 each. Patrol
men Martin and Muska made the ar
rests.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
SELECT JURY To
|. DECIDE FATE Of
MRS. CAR NJ A N
Crowd at MineoIa Court Room
Mrs. Carman, Charged
With Murder, Calm as Wit
neSSeS are Questioned.
Special by Unite, Press Wire.

SpcCfds Oy ONlte, fT6oS HRo
Mineola, Oct. 19.-Mrs. Florence
Carman, wife of DR.. Edwin Carman,
we'll to do Freeport physician, today
began facing the ordeal of her trial
for life, charged with the murder of
Mrs. Louise Bailey one of her hus-
bands patients, who was shot down
in DR.. Carman's Office on the night
of June 80. Owing to the great num-
Der to talismen subpoenaed for the
panel, from which jury will be
chosen, but few spectators could
today.
A great throng was on hand early,
but as soon as the court room was
comfortably filed Justice Kelby or
dered the doors closed and admit
tance to all other wouldbe specta-
tors refused. Gowned plainly, but
becomingly, in blue suit and wear
ing white shirtwaist and small hat
adorned with black and white os-
trich plume, Mrs. Carman entered
the court room wit ha deputy sher-
iff at 1912 o'clock. Beyond a
slight paleness the woman, accused
of murder, looked remarkably well
and did not show any signs of heI
long confinement in jail. Smiling al
her counsel, John Graham and G. NJ
Leayy and her husband. DR.. Carmar
she showed the same remarkable
coolness that characterized her dur
ing the grand jury inquiry.
She did not appear a bit agitated
On the contrary, she seemed to be
keenly interested in the court pro-
ceedings without being worried by
them. Three jurors had been tenta-
lively selected and the eighth tails
man was examined. They are Rob-
ert M. Ludlum, builder, Oyster Bay;
Allois Angler, barber, Central Park
Frank e. Mount, builder, Rockville
Center. District Attorney Smith
and Counsel Graham for the defense
each gave every prospective juror a
severe grilling. The five rejected ad-
mitted under questioning by the
prosecutor that they had formed opin
ions of the case that might affect a
judgment.
Sarcestically scoring Detective
VIM. ]. Burns and belittling "dicto-
graph evidence" Chief Counsel Ora
ham today outlined at the trial OF
Mrs. Carman, the plans for her de-
fense. Any attempt to show that she
overheard somsthing over the disto-
graph will be bitterly fought, At
torney Graham plainly indicated
Six men have been accepted as jur-
ors when the noon adjournment OF
court was called These were ac-
cepted out of nineteen talismen ex-
amined. Attorneys on both sides
are we'll pleased with the progress
made and predicted at noon that
the jury would be completed by to-
night. This will mean that the in
PRODUCTION of evidence will begin
tomorrow.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
WATER BOARD
LAYING MAINS

The water department is rapidly
laying the mains in the different
streets ordered by the Board of Wa
ter Commissioners at a recent meet
ing. George Hardiman announces
mains have been laid in Ashley
street, Pine avenue, Summit avenue
and Neville street. Extra men have
been put on in digging the bitches
and good progress is being made.
Other streets in which mains are to
be laid are as follows: Hommann
avenue, from Brace to Kamm street !;
Bertrand avenue, between Smith and
Market; Cornell street between Hall
avenue and cemetery; Donald ave
nue., from Harrington to Kamm
street; Meinzer street to Bruck ave
nue..
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
ODD FELLOWS
HONOR LYkkE

Members of Berthel Thorvaldsen
Lodge, Odd Fellows, of New York,
of which he was a member, and Val
halla Lodge, Odd Fellows, of this
city, paid last tribute to John
Lykke at his funeral that was held
from the home of his sister-in-law,
Mrs. Rasmus Larsen, 189 First
street, at o'clock yesterday after
noon. Rev. Ole Nielsen, pastor of
the Danish Methodist church, offici-
ated at the service at the house and
a quartet from the church, composed
of Mrs. Ole Nielsen, Mrs. n Wagner,
Miss Anna Mortensen and George
Mortensen,' sang. The Odd Fellows
service was conduS> d at the grave
by Noble Grand dalph, of Berthel
Thorvaldsen Lodge, of New York.
Interment was In Alpine cemetery.
The bearers were members of the
two lodges of Odd Fellows.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
GERMAN TROOPS
ARE MOVING To
NEW POSITIONS
Special By United Press Wire.


Berlin, via The Hague, Oct. 49,
The official war office statement to-
day characterizes the general situa-
tion in France and Belgium as un-
changed Troops are being reassign-
ed to new positions, it is stated, but
naturally details of these movements
are being withheld.
While there has been continuous
fighting on the right wing and espec-
tally at points south of Ostend, 1t Is
announced that at no points have
there been decisive results. Only a
necessary garrison has been left In.
Ostend. The report says the remain
der of the troops are moving south
ward. The Russians have vatnly
essayed to resume the offensive in
the east but nowhere with success.
The bad condition of the roads and
the heavy rains are acting as natural
checks against any very speedy
movement in Russian-Poland. But
it is stated that steady, slow progress
Is being made.
Fighting is in progress Just east
of Warsaw.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
Hearing Today
for Uniform
Traffic Lam
Special bv United Press Wire.

opeCtut Oh bUtted ffeSS Hus.
Trenton, Oct. 19-Representatives
of the different municipalities of
New Jersey appeared at a hearing
held today in the state house and
gave their views on the supposition
to adopt system of uniform traffic
regulation throughout the state. The
hearing was given by the commission
recently named for this purpose by
the governor, consisting of Commits
sioner of Motor Vehicles Lippincott,
City Commissioner LaBarre, of Tren-
ton, and A. 2. Hamburg, president Of
the Newark Board of Trade. Two of
the questions discussed were which
machine is entitled to the right OF
way when they approach each other
at street junction and the proposi-
tion of special instruction for all
traffic officers of the state.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
find OLD MINUTE BOOK OF
ST, PETERS EPISCOPAL Oh.

After having been mislaid for
more than thirty years, minute
book of the vestry of St. Peter S
church has been recovered by X.
Wavne Parker, of Newark, and has
been returned by him to the vestry.
The book was discovered among
papers and periodicals in box found
in the law office Of the late Captain
James Parker several months ago.
Captain Parker had been a warden
of the church and the book was in
his care. This book covers the period
from 1871 to 1878.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
Sewaren Women at Meeting.

Np6tTUT 10 IFt u r74F w ~ II " D.
Sewaren, Oct. 19:-Mrs. F. F.
Grant, Mrs. C. M, Cooper, Mrs F.. H.
Turner and Miss Rush attended the
rally in New Brunswick Saturday of
the presidents and delegates of the
various Women's Clubs of the third
district, who are making every effort
to secure a woman's college for New
Jersey, to be situated at New Bruins
wick. The local women are en-
thusiastic and speak in the highest
praise of the manner in which they
we're entertained by the women Of
New Brunswick.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
GERMANS
CANNOT BREAK
ALLIED LINES
Special By United Press Wire.

Special BY United Press Wire.
Paris, Oct. 19:-Although fighting
in the north continues at different
points, official reports reaching mill
tary headquarters intimate the Ger
mans are not in sufficient force to
penetrate the allied lines at the
northwest, just north of the Belgium
border. Little early change is
looked for at this point. Between
Arras and the neighborhood of Sois-
sons the allies continue to drive the
enemy back and at points have driv-
en- wedges into the German line
which, it is reported, reach to the
main line of the entrenched positions
maintained directly west of the main
line of German communication.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
COMMISSIONERS
HEAR SUPERVISORS REPORT

The Public Playground Commits
sion met at ] o'clock this afternoon
and listened to Playground Super
visor r. V. Afflerbach read his an
nual report A number of sugges-
tions were made by the supervisor.
The report will be approved by the
board. copy sent to the Board of
Aldermen, one to the NEWS for pub
lication and one kept on Ale Com
missiee---- 49, Baldwin, Pierce, Griswold
were present
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
REPORT GERMANS
! 10 MILES AWAY
FROM DUNk|RK

epeetu oA pHited Press Wire.
London, Oct. 19:-The Rotterdam
correspondent of the Daily Mail wires
that 1t is reported from Berlin that
the Germans have succeeded in
crossing the aagian border along
side the coast anu that they are only
ten miles from Dunkfrks
fspondent adds thef Germans are acs
companied by heavy siege guns and
that 1t is understood an attack ON
the Dunkirk forts will soon begin.
There is no official confirmation CT
the report here. 1t is stated at the
war office that no reports have been
received which would indicate that
the Germans had crossed the French
frontier.
1t is pointed out that the extreme
left wing of the allied line is now
made up of a combined Belgian
French force and it is stated that
news of its falling back would first
come from Paris.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
Lacking For Dietel.

Members of the Walters and Cooks
Union. and City Marshal Desmond,
are anxious to learn the wherea-
bouts of Edward Dietel, formerly
business agent of the union and now
an alleged absconder. A warrant
has been sworn out before Recorder
Pickersgill by an official of the union
charging Dietel with embezzhne
funds of the organization. Dietel
has been missing for several weeks,
and is believed to be in seclusion In
New York.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
SINK AUSTRIAN
DESTROYER IN
ADR|AT|C SEA
,ctal bp Hnited Press WIRE.

Special bR Unifed Press Wire
London, Oct. IA News agency
dispatch from Cettinje, states that
1t is Officially confirmed that the
French cruiser Waldeck Riuffeau,
has sunk an Austrial destroyer in
the Adriatic, north of Catero. The
bombardment OF Catero by the An
g1o- French fleet of forty units and
by the Montenegrins from Lowrfn
ciutinues.
(The report Of the sinking of the
Austrian destroyer was sent out from
Rome Saturday, but was not confirm
ed
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
CREW Of 244 ON
CRUISER IN BIG
WAR DISASTER
Special by United Press Wire.

cpectui oU Chtttd fTesS Hre
Toxic, Oct, 19-The light Japa-
nese cruiser Takhehiho has been
sunk by striking a German floating
mine, while patrolling the coast of
the harbor entrance of Kiachau, the
German possession of the Shangtung
Peninsula. Two hundred and forty
four of her crew were lost with her.
Only thirteen survivors were res
cued by warships, which went to the
rescue. No details of the disaster,
the first of any real consequence Of
the Japanese navy in present war
have been received. The Takhehiho
was one Of the oldest of the Japa-
nese cruisers.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
CLAIM RUSSIANS
LOSE 100000 men
At PRE- MYSL
Special By United Press Wire.

Special by United Press Wire.
Vienna, via Amsterdam, Ok "
In an official statement issue> to-
day the Austrian government de-
clares that the Russians have lost
10000 men in unsuccessful attempts
to take Przemysl by storm. The an
nouncement declares the Russians
eor+inue to lose heavily and already
haSs been driven back from the
southern forts of the San river fort
resses.
"The general situation continues
excellent" says the announcement.
"The Russians are be'lg forced back
at every point on u fighting line n
Galicia."
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
Miss Curry's Funeral Tomorrow.

The funeral of Miss Mae Curry,
nineteen-year- daughter of Mr.
and Mrs J. Curry. of Commerce
street, will be held tomorrow morn
ing from her late residence, followed
by a solemn high mass of requiem in
st. Mary's church at 10 o'clock In
terment will follow in St. Mary's
cemetery.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19
salvation Army Captain iii.

Captain E. w. Patterson, of the
salvation Army Corps, is i'll with
chills and fever and will be unable
to fulfill his engagements for We'd
nesday night.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19

A few great bargains In 1914 Ford
cars A. Jensen, Ferry Garage.
o149-9-10-tfs
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19

New REQ and Hudson cars for
hire. Phone Sexton 181.
10178-10-14-12t
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19

np neao Sc ewIng machines
snsen's, 336 State street.
7000-7-a1-N-W-r-tfs
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19

Cali . taxi. Phone 4e -s-'--
Ss83e-Io-e-1mu.s :
Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-19

Partly
cloudy tonight and
Tuesday. Rising
temperature. Rising
northwest winds.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-06-11
Auto License Fec Opposed

A storm of protest has been hurled
ct City Commissioner newman, Of New
Orleans, who proposes to enforce a re-
cent ordinance making necessary Ii
censc fee from each person permitted
to operate a motor car on the streets
of the city. The ordinance also pro
vides that picture Of the driver must
be carried, ready for reference in case
it should be demanded by any police
man. There is no objection to the
examination to determine the compe-
teney of all drivers, but the picture and
fee features are being attacked by the
motor organizations.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-06-11
Automobiles and Good Roads
Department Designed to Help Farmers With Progressive

the best methed is to drag it with a
+, ae drag. A road irag il made easily
with two halves of a leg which has been
split. The log should be about six or
eight inches in thickness and abo t
six or eight feet long. The two halves
of the log are set three feet apart with
the smooth faces forward and upright.
They are then fastened tos ether wi !,
braces set in holes bored through the
log. 4 pair of horses ma, be used
to drag the road, and are hitehcd %
a chain fastened to tie front half of
the log. The road drag shorld move
forward so that it slants across the
road in such way that small arount
of earth will -liGe past the s-leoth face
of the ,og toward the center of the
road, thus forming the crow. The
edges of the logs will Doth out the
rpts
Best Way to Drag.
The est way to drag is to begin at
the side ditch and 90 mp one side of
the road, and then down the other. In
the next trip the drag should be started
Il little nearer the center, and the last
trip over the road the drag may work
close to the center itse'f. Small ridges
of earth will be thrown in the horse
tracks and smeared by the round side
|of the log smoothly over the road.
|Smearing the earth by the drag is calc
pudding, and it tends to make the
surface Of the road smooth and water
tight after the sun comes out.
The DAD is always dragged after it
has raincd, and not when it is dry.
A good, strong pair of horses with
ia well-built drag can drag three or
four miles of road in a day, anc it is
the best way tc maintain good roads.
In every country some farmer along
each four miles of road should own a
drag and drag the rocd when it rains,
and he would always find the road in
good condition when he goes to market.