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Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
PUBLIC OPINION
CONDITION OF. STREETS.


| EDITOR EVENING NEWS:
In reading your repeated notices
regarding the private road of the
Pennsylvania railroad in South Am
boz I admit II is in a terrible condi-
tion and deserves all you say of
same. But would il not be a good
plan to remedy the conditions on
this side Of the river, that to my
mind are as bad. l refer particular
ly to the condition of Amboy ave
nue. from the cemeteries to the city
line at Spa Springs. l think anyone
who drives over this road will agree
with me that this road is in as bad
condition as the one in South Am
boy and here you have not even
got the choice of hole-in- -the-wall
to avoid the bumps. 1 think it
would have been better not to have
paved the part of this road through
the city to the cemetery until the
rest of the road could receive some
kind of Improvement to make 1t
passable. | would also call your at
tention to the condition of newly
laid Belgian block pavement on the
same road or avenue. Same IS lald
without any regard to a smooth sur
face, in fact it is SO uneven that the
street sweeping machine cannot
sweep it clean but leaves the refuse
in all the depressions of the street.
was told when this paving job was
started that it would be like the
work done ON Frelinghuysen avenue
between Elizabeth and Newark. l
have driven over that avenue innum-
cradle times and | think all automo-
bilists will agree with me that 1T is
almost as smooth riding as on
brick or asphalt pavement.
would further call your attention to
the railroad crossings, particularly
the one at Smith street and the one
at New Brunswick avenue over the
c. R. r. / think 1t is disgrace to
any city to have them in the condi-
tion they are and have been for the
last three months Yours truly,
EMIL KOYEN.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
INTERESTING COMPARISON

Perhaps the following from the
Keyport Weekly will be of interest
to the Middlesex freehoIders as well
as to the taxpayers of this county:
The Middlesex County Board of
Freeholders has arranged for a bond
issue of $4,000 to cover the cost
of a new lift drawbrfdge over South
river. The Public Service Railway
Company, which crosses the bridge
with its tracks, will pay $4,000 of
this amount.
The Monmouth County Board OF
Freeholders are about to build a
new lift drawbFidge across Matawan
Creek, which will be used in part by
the tracks of the Jersey Central
Traction Company. Instead of the
latter paying one-twelfth of the cost,
as in Middlesex county, the company
has agreed to share equally with the
county, paying SO per cent of its
cost.
Evidently the public interest is
guarded more closely in Monmouth
than in Middlesex county, as indi-
Gated by the actions of the respective
Boards of Freeholders.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
DE r 7 H A NJ B oV
ACEMAKING CIT
Population 32,121. N9lo Gems

Population s212L G9lo census).
23 miles from New York.
Tax rate 2.07. H..
mouth of the Raritan River ana u
the head of Raritan Bay.
Ocean steamers can dock IN from
35 to 40 feet of water.
Channel 21 feet deep. at low
water leading up the bay from
Daily steamer service to New
Four raiIroads-the Pennsylvania.
Central Railroad of New Jersey, LIE,
high valley and the Staten Island
Rapid Transit Branches running
in all directions affording almost
an unlimited number OF excellent
factory sites.
Has two telegraph and two tele-
phone companies.
Electric light and gas companies
Federal postofffce building
Public library.
$l20,000 Y M. G. A.
Ten grammar schools and one
high school which is on the APPROX
ed list of all the leading universe,
ties in the country, four parochlal
schools and a business college.
Churches of all denominations
City Hospital.
Municipal water works
Prominent center for tfolleys "
all parts of the state.
Richest clay deposits in the couh-
try in the immediate vicinity
Splendid theatrical advantages:
Some of the leading industries
are: American Smelling & Rehnlng
Company's smelter; Raritan copper
Works refinery; Barber Asphait
Works. United Lead Works; United
States Cartridge Co.; American en-
caustic Tiling Co., Ltd; c. Pardee
Steel and Tile Works; Atlantic Ter
ra Gotta Co; Federal Terra Gotta
Co; New Jersey Terra Gotta Co;
three plants of the National Fire
proofng Co., and other similar
Industries within the inlmediate
vicinity: Ceramic Works; Chese-
brough Vaseline Works; Marcy
Stove Works; two dry dock COM
panies. together with 5htpyards ana
marine railways; Standard Under,
ground Cable Company. Roessler eS
Hasslacher Chemical Works; BAKE
lite manufacturing concern; CastleS
ice cream plant; window shade ana
cigar factories; cement stone WORKS.
coal shipping piers; handkerch1e1
factory, cement laboratories ma
chine shops and iron foundrtes
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
sHOVELING SAND

Once more that endless job of
sheveling the sand out of the hole
in-the-wall is under way This. re-
minds us of the slides at the Panama
canal. AS fast as the passageway is
Cleared another storm comes along
and fills it all up again. Some of the
officials in South Amboy talk about
the burden that that Pennsylvania
private road would be to the tax
payers should it be taken over as a
public highway. wonder if these
officials have ever figured up the ex-
pense the city has been under in main
tanning that hole-in-the- wall. When
We include the watehman's salary
and the labor of shoveling out the
sand after every storm, not to men
tion the indirect loss of prestige and
respect on the part of non-residents,
the total outlay for the taxpayers of
South Amboy for this +'hole' would
keep that private road in condition
for many years.
However, that seems out the ques-
tion. South Amboy would rather
spend millions, apparently, and en-
dure any amount of disgrace than to
give the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany the satisfaction of having things
go as the company wants them to, re-
gardIess of the advantages offered
tthe city.
But the present method of dig
ging out the sand only to have more
wash in again with the next storm
furnishes work for those who are
faithful around election time-the
fact that many taxpayers in Mechan-
Eicsville are flooded out regularly as
result of this policy makes no diff
ference. 1t would seem, however,
that a great opportunity is being lost
in this sand-shoveling tournament.
Why wait until the sand has washed
into the "'hole" where it impedes
traffic and destroys the city's reputa-
ton before shoveling it away? AS
long as the sand has got to be
handled anyway, why not start dig
ging away the hills from whence this
sand comes? Here would be con-
stant work for the faithful and some
day, perhaps, there would be no sand
left to wash into the "hole," Truly,
here is something worth looking into
rom the political point of view, and
that seems to be the only view that
can be taken by South Amboy Off
cials.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
MOTOR FAR TO WAR.
Canadians Make Long Trip on Way TO
the Front.

the Front.
New York - Robert Frank, thirty
years old, an accountant, and George
Morley, forty-fve years old, an engi-
neer, both Englishmen, arrived here
after travelling from Saskatoon, in the
Canadian northwest, a distance of
2,963 miles, on a motorcycle with side
cradle. They were on their way back
to England to enlist and sailed for
Liverpool ON the Adriattc.
Frank has served nine years In the
British army In the West Yorkshire
regiment and will enlist as dispatch
rider with his motorcycle. His part
ner will volunteer for the transport
service or in the munitions depart
ment
"We left Saskatoon on June 81
Frank said to a reporter, carrying a
tent, stove and three grips, which, in
Guiding ourselves, weighed 1,o4O
pounds. Our machine can go eighty
five miles an hour without the cradle,
which reduced the speed to thirty five
miles. We had only two punctures
the whole way, which was pretty good,
considering the rough roads in North
Dakota and Minnesota, which were too
awful for words. The rains in those
states We're heavier than had ever been
known before and detained us ten days
at Bohneau, three days at Grand Forks
and two days at Fargo. We followed
the old Yellowstone trail and camped
in our tent the whole time, which
made 1t very enjoyable The only
drawback was the thick black mud In
North Dakota and Minnesota"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
Bullfiaaters Afraid of Cows.

Most Spanish bullfighters object to
fighting cows. The average toreador
Is sincerely afraid of COW. And he
has good reason. The cows of the
half wild breed used for the arena are
much quicker in their movements than
are the bulls. Their horns are more
pointed and pore formidable. They
do not lower their heads to the ground,
shut their eyes and charge like loco
motive upon the rails, but are alert and
ready to follow every movement Of
their ecutors.-Exehange.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
Luke McLuke Saws:


Somehow or other q white horse al.
the laundry.
Boy babies learn to talk first But
, girl babies make up for the lost time
after they grow up.
When a corn fed gets on pair Of
scales and discovers that she has lost
three pounds she always looks around
the room to make sure that she hasn't
mislaid any of her shape.
A man Hikes to boast about his me-
chanical ability. But it takes a woman
to sharpen a lead pencil with pair of
scissors.
The man who is so deaf that he can't
hear his wife asking for money never
has any difficulty in hearing the rustic
of skirt when he is out of the house.
Sometimes a woman acts proud and
calm and contented during church serv-
ices because she doesn't know that
there is bug crawling around her
black velvet hat.
Before she gets him she asks LIN all
sorts of questions about affairs In gen
erAl ana gives 0llu tue lued lhdt ue uuS
Solomon looking like piker when 1t
comes to wisdom. But after she gets
him she wouldn't believe he was right
If he told her that 1t was raining out,
side
Anyway when a widewer marries a
| widow they do not have to rehearse
for the marriage ceremony like the am
ateurs.
Nobody blames a souse for imagining
that he can sing, but the trouble Is that
the souse also imagines that you are
from Missouri.
The trouble with telling lie Is that
you have to tell dozen more to back
1t up.
The high cost Of living wasn't such
q much In the old days when a woman
was satisfied to go downtown with a
lump of chalk tied In a corner Of her
handkerchief. Nowadays she wants a
FIVE dollar vanity bag and has to buy
about SO worth of cosmetics to fill the
blame thing.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
To Munich a Viper.

Though the prescription seems to
have disappetred from the pharmaco-
poeia Of modern beauty specialists 1t
was for centuries notorious that to
feed on snake meat was the way to
win perpetual youth; to cure goiter,
again, or any other swelling, all that
was necessary was to MUNICH viper,
from the tail up, as it might be stick
Of celery, while yet another snake, If
eaten, conferred the power of under
standing all the tongues of birds.-Ex-
change.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
Try to Look Like the Boss.

"Did you ever notice In big office
how employees try to look like their
boss?" inquired an observant man.
"It's not always true, Of course, when
the boss is Crouch and unpopular
with the men under him, but where he
is popular and sizes up as a pretty big
gun to the staff you'll find that about
half the men In the place wear their
mustaehes or whiskers or both just
about the way the boss does. If he has
a stubby little business mans mus
taehe you'll see several more of those
around Pittsburgh Dispatch
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
STOREHOUSE OF THE MIND.
There Is Nothing Ocoolt or Mystical In
the Subconscious.


the Subconscious.
Stated as briefly as possible, the sub
conscious may be described as that re-
gion Of the human mind In which are
stored the memories acquired by previ-
GUS experience, education and observa-
ton.
This includes memories of sights and
sounds which were perceived without
our being aware of them at the time
we perceived them.
Let them come within range of eye
and ear, even when we are paying at
tention to something else, and the deli
cate mechanism Of these sense organs
registers a definite memory image Of
them in our minds.
Such images, together with all our
other memory images, no matter how
acquired, remain our permanent pos
session.
We are able to recall by voluntary
effort only comparatively few of our
innumerable memory images. But re-
peated experiments as well as facts of
common knowledge seem to indicate
that under certain conditions any ex-
perience that we have ever had can be
recalled by us. AS one psychologist
puts it:
Whatever has gone into the mind
can come out Of the mind"
Obviously there must be region of
the mind wherein are stored these mul-
titudinous memory images. 1t is 10
this region that psychologists refer
when they use the term, "the subcen-
scious.'
But the subcenscious is not only a
reservoir for the storage of memory
images. 1t is also a workshop for their
manipulation, so that on occasion they
may emerge, not simply as they went
in, but in pleasing and often renlarka-
Bile combinations.
This function of the -subeonscious is
exempI1fied In many ways, from the
picturesque and vivid dreams of sleep
to the 4inspiratiens" Of men of genius.
In It's hidden depths, 1t would seem.
the mind is perpetualiy active. 1t Is
not content to hold its memory images
in inert FORM 1t must fuse and collate
them, choosing for Its purpose those
memories in especial that are most
closely linked together in a network
of associated ideas.
That Is why one mans subeonseious
is more serviceable to him than an
others.
Through conscious study and refiee-
tion he has packed the secret cham
bers Of his mind with mass of mem.
ory images relating to one specific sub
ject or subjects, hence naturally linked
by association of ideas.
And Just because he consciously To-
cuses his attention in this direction he
sets bis subconscieus working for the
same end with the special material
his conscious thinking has aecumulat-
ed for tt.
In word, there Is really nothing oc-
cult or mystical In the subconscteus.
! 1t is simply convenient term to des-
ignate one phase Of our mental life
II. Addington Bruce tn Kansas City
Star
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
FROM NEW YORK
NEW JERSEY CENTRAL

Trains Lenve Perth AmbOy
For New York. Newark and Eliza
beth at-62s, ITO. x7.3S, lbs. xS.21.
8.24, 9.42, 10.06, 1I33, 11-57 a. M;
1910. 314, 1926, 443, 100, 6.29. 7 40,
SI8, 8.24. 9.53, s11o0. SLIGO p. m. Sun
days s.32, 9.2s a. m: LIS, sos, 6.52.
S.s4 s.29. 1915 p. M,
ocean Grove, etc-f2.51. $40, 9.12, 9.38
a M; 1908, 228, 465, 5.sS, 6.s7. 1904
D. m. Sundays-12.51. 4.20. 8.22 a. m:
For Atlantic City-s.1o, 1o.44
through express) a. M; 2,2S p. m.
For Philadelphia and Trenton, via
Bound Brook - rs. TIA. .b5, 3. AZ.
1906. 1133a, M; 1910, SOC, 8.24 p
m. Sundays 80. 9.2S q. m; SIS.
sos, $50 9.29 p. m
Knew York only.
s-Saturday only.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10

FIRE ALARM BOXES
23-Raritan Copper Works,
14-Market and Sheridan Streets
2b-Sm1th Street and Central n
2o-Hish and Lewis Streets
z1-Mad1Son Ave. and Paterson Straet
2S-Market and First Streets
a6-Smith and High Streets
36-NeW Brunswick Ave. and New St
o1-SmIth and State Streets
Terra Gotta Works
Ave. and Hartford ST
45-Commerce and Front Streets
46-State and Washington Streeta
47-HiRh and Washington Streets
64-Stg.te Street and Buckingham Ava
65-Parker Street and Pulaski Ayenue,
bo-HalL Avenue and Charles Straat
67-State and Wayne Streets
68-Near United Lead Works
69-Ma urer.
S2-Was hlngton and First Streets.
o3-NeW Brunswick Ave and Elm 81
e4-Smfth street ard Watson Avenue
sS--Gonmerce and State Streets ~
52---FrQnt and Smith Streets
I5-W ater and Gordon AStfc6s
earny Avenue and Gordon Street
SI-Brace and Ransom Avenues.
S2@Smitb and herbert Streets
SS-Amboy Ave. and Washington ST.
s4-Lehtgh A-e- and Stanford Street
65-~Nsar City Hospital
eo-C1eveland and Brace Avenuea
87-Amboy and Hall Avenues
92-Anlboy Avenue nd lnslee StreeA
93-La wrence And Francis Streeta
and Johnstone Streets
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10

That letter to the London Chron-
icle, and published in this country
yesterday, supposed to have been
written by an officer in Lancashire
regiment now fighting in Flanders,
certainly told the Britons at home
gust what was coming to them. A
few more letters of this kind may
bring the nation to it's senses. Great
Britain is fighting for its life in this
war far more than is Germany.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
DREAM CALLS WAR NURSE.
Miss Thomson Sails After Vision of
Wounded FiAncs.

New York.-Miss Elizabeth M. Thorn
son, a Scotch nurse who has been iv-
ing at 113 West Eigbty-fourth street,
sailed on the White Star liner Arabic
on her way to the Dardanelles to do
Red Cross work.
Miss Thomson had a dream that her
faBce, Roger Knox, who went to the
Dardarelles with the troops a few
months ago, had been wounded severe
ly, and 1t made her so uneasy that she
packed her trunk and telephoned to the
White Star line Office at 8 Broadway
to have cabin reserved for her.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10

Justice Kalisch, in the supreme
court has refused to quash an in
aictment against the Morris Canal
and Banking Company which a Nor
ris county grand jury accused of
maintaining a nuisance because its
bridge over the canal near Shippen-
port was impossible. Doubtless
Councilman Parfsen, of South Amboy
had some such vision as this in his
recent move regarding the hole-in-
'the-wall. But think of the long,
drawn-out fight that Morris county
must go through with the canal com
pany before it wins its point and
even then il stands a chance of losing
after spending all the money.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
New BRUNSWICK avenue above IL

New Brunswick avenue above the
Lehigh Valley tracks is being put in
first class shape. When will that sec
tion below the tracks, more particu-
larly between Fayette street and the
Central tracks, where the brick pave
ment has been down several years,
be put in condition to match it?
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10

The residents at the foot of High
street demonstrated against a park
on the old emery mills track. Doubt
less they much prefer some big in
dustry there-a picric acid plant, for
instance.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10

How to Make a Coroner's Cocktail.
Mix two girls and two men.
Add beer, wine and booze.
Squeeze into an automobile.
Add dash of 10Y.
Shake well.
Serve at fifty miles an hour.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10

opened at the Perth Amboy Trust Co.
for your wife win be a source of great
convenience to her. Should you be
out of town on business, she will have
an account TO draw on and she can
pay all bills by check, not worrying
about receipts, for the cancelled check
when returned will be a proper vouch-
er. We pay interest on daily balances.
The Ferth Amboy Trust Company
Is a United States Government De
pository for Postal Savings Funds, is
legal depository for the funds OF
the State of New Jersey, the County
of Middlesex, and is also deposit
tory for the municipal funds of the
City of Perth Amboy.
Perth Amboy trust Co.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
Some TiqhtWad.

"They tell me that Smith is an awful
tightwad," said the wise guy.
"He sure is replied the crouch.
"Why, If that fellow killed two birds
with one stone he would want the
stone back"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
Bits Of BypIay
By Luke McLuke
Copyright, 1918, the Cinmnnati
Enquirer
Paw Knows Everything.

Wilhe-Paw, what made the wild
man of Borneo wild?
Paw-It must have been his wife, my
son.
Maw-Willie, you come into the
kitchen and take a dose of medicine.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
OuchI

It's easy enough to be pleasant
When with your woes you are stricken,
But the man worth while,
Is the man who can smile
When hts wife catches him with chicken
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10

''Allies sink 9,000-ton Turkish
battleship,' reads newspaper head
line. Judging from weight alone,
there Is no reason why she shouldn' t
sink.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
Scorching.

The speed flend was a fool, I vow.
To scorch was his delight.
One day a tire blew out and now
He's scorching day and night.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10

William Jennings Bryan began his
Chautauqua campaign for peace in
Europe yesterday receiving a good
peace talk comes so high, one can
only guess at the cost of the real
article.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10

again that the men must decide this
fall whether or not women are to
be allowed to vote
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
Names Is Names.
Callie Coe lives at Portsmouth, o.
The Wrecked BRIDGE.


A corn fed working girl secured dandy
job one day
As brakeman on a freight train on the
x. Y. z. and A.
She weighed 400 pounds and when she
started on a run
She found that walking box car roofs
was anything but fun.
But this girl needed money, and she
stuck right to her train.
And stood on top of freight cars and held
on with might and main.
One day the train was speeding from
Grass Crossing to Hay Ridge.
The girl was standing up on top as they
approached a bridge:
It was a brand new bridge, but she did
not know 1t was there,
And when the train passed under 1t she
hit it fair and square
The bridge could not Withstand the shock
and fell down with a crash,
And, as it fell, it rumpled up the corn
fed girls new sash.
A wrecking train arrived, and there an
awful mess was found,
But at her post of duty stood the brave
girl, safe and sound.
The boss mechanic said. "See. here,
you're fired, you big fat cobi
For you have wrecked this bridge and
you must hunt another job
The girl climbed down from that car
roof. and tears was in her eye,
And as she faced that brutal man che
made this here reply:
CHORUS.
I dis9u'f nlsars~te wreck. your bridge or
oiook yotir railroad track.
didn't see the bridge at all, l hit 1t
with my back.
Just give me one more chance, Kind Sir
don't fill me with alarm.
Don't fire an honest working girl who
didn't mean no harm
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
THE BEST WAY TO SHIP
FREIGHT
Is via the
New York and New Jersey
Steamboat Company

Pier 81, East River, New York.
SCHEDULE
Leave New York
11:00 a. m. and 2:30 D. 10.
Due Perth Amboy
2:30 p. m. and 600 D. N.
Leave p. A. for N. X.
1880 a. m. and $500 p. N.
}. y. 11CA, Agent. Perth Amhov
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
STATEN ISLAND RAPID TRANxIr
VaHe to New York

Time Table In Effect May 20, 1pl1.
TO NEW YORK
Daity
$50, sos, $50. 200. .7-2s, 7.2s, 800.
$50 sso. $40. AaS sa5. s.es. g. s.45. ss. 7a
500. 1000, f1.00 p M 10 night
Saturdays
siI soa elSs 20 p 1sss Ss5 sss IT, m as; s4s ss
s46. 1000. Hoo p. M 1905 night. ''
surdavs Only and May aist, July 5th
ana September sth.
TOO. 7.55. $40, 9.05, 1000, 1a.s0, 11.4o
sos. s.45. 7.s7. Sos. s.5s. s.5o. 1856.
FROM NEW YORK
Daily
20 sas sss sso 81 sso 'ees s. lss'
100 900. 500, 1906 HOO .. m. 1900
lsss ~ les lS so aS a. rs 7ss. Sss sos
sundrys Only ard May s1st. Jul, sth
cso. 500 's s.oo esHsf%sf5 Hsfoaioao .h i1oo a. m.
SEQ $40. 7.2o 500, s4D. s.2,i. 1000.
11.o0 p. m. 1900 night Leo a. m.
Express trains.
GEO J. BROWN,
General Traffic Agent.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10

Don't get your head swelled by applause,
And common sense don't lack;
There's room up at the top because
It's easy to slide back.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10

Things to Worry About.
Spain has more hunehbacks than any
other country

Our Daily Special.
When you are prepared for a rainy
day 1t never rains.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
Builders and Contractors Directory
J. n. KENNEDY, Plumber

Steam and Gas Fitting, Timing, Etc.
Jobbing promptly attended to. Prompt
service and moderate prices. Es-
Inmates cheerfully furnished.
531 State Street Telephone 1881
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
ADOLPH II. KOYEN

Successor to Edward I<oyen
Masons' Materials, Cement, Stone, Edi-
sons Portland Cement, Higgen
sons Plaster, Lehigh Coal
Sayre Avenue Telephone 1370-w
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10

1t is deemed worthy of note that
Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-10
MARTIN HANSEN

All kinds of General Contracting VOL
House Moving, Grading. Digging c.
lars and Sewers. Telephone III
$50 elm ST., Perth Amboy' N.