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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
VIRTUOUS WIVES
WHO WRECK HOMES
OWen Johnson's Norel Of Man.
ners Is a Picture of Ne,U
York Society

owen Johnson's new novel "Nirtuous
WiVes,' is a continuation Of the theme
or The Salamander' 1t is a tale of
married women who take everything and
give nothing. They take the name and
money of their husbands, but they do
mot care for anything more. If they
nave children they turn them over to the
They f1irt with men not their husbands
and with the husbands of other women.
They care for nothing but entertainment.
They are shallow and superficial, but
wives and that they give their hus-
bands no ground for serious complaint
Because he knows that readers are
impatient of long novels, Mr. johnson
has compressed his tale into short COM
pass. 1t fills a book of only $50 pages
lie might have written a great novel of
New York manners in the first quarter
of the twentieth century if he had ex-
panded 1t and filed in the sketchy out
lines. But II suggests the whole picture
as 1t stands. His characters include the
old families and the new men just maxi
of the contamination of the life Of the
poor man by the same curse of the
pleasure-loving wife, and there is a
woma' of the old fashioned type, who
can - called 4 lady without doing
violence to the term. She is gracious
considerate, loyal to her ideals. She
saves the heroine from shpwreck at
critical moment.
The story is written about the beauti
ful young bride of successful busi-
ness man of thirty-five. He is content,
when the story opens, but he spends a
weekend at the home of millionaire
and decides that he must put his wife in
such surroundings as those in which the
wife of his host shines. He is socially
inexperienced and is unaware of the
hollow mockery known as home life in
this millonaire's establishment, and he
does not discover it till the end of the
story.
Mr.. Johnson has undoubtedly de-
scribed the life of the circle with which
he deals. its responsibility. and its in
difference to everything save selfish en-
toNment. together with its extravaganza.
His climax comes quickly and with
surprise in order that he may
have. happy ending. There is a school
of young critics which will denounce
Mr. johnson for permitting his whole
some woman character to make some re-
marks on what marriage means and to
say that duty is only self-respect, but
they are of the class which holds that
any literature which insists on the moral
values is inartistic, Yet the artistic
quality of this novel is improved be-
cause the two standards of domestic life
are set off, ,-one against the other.
VIRTuoUS WIVES. By owen johnson.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co. $3.50.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
'Cermany's Strength A,ctul
Tobacco, Says Vor,vaerts
By GEORGE RENWICK
Special Cable to the Euening
Public Ledger

Copyright 1918 bv Nelo York Times 90.
Amsterdam, Aug. 25.
The scarcity of tobacco in Ger
many has led to the introduction of
a standard cigarette and the cigar
'ette smoker of the Fatherland is
loud in his condemnation of it. 1t
costs nearly a penny, is put up in
packets of various sizes and is
called "Germany's strength"
Norwaerts describes the sensa.
ton caused by smoking this any.
thing but fragrant weed:
When one lights this cigarette
one feels at once that Germanys
strength must be tremendous to
stand such awful stuff. If one inhales
the smoke then the first feelings OF
seasickness set in. If the paper be
removed a grayish mixture of sub
stances is seen and the smell is like
that Of musty cellar dwelling in
which there is a shoemaker's work
shop"
A slightly better cigarette is also
made, but in order to obtain twenty
Of that kind the smoker must pur-
chase forty of "Germany's
Strength"
Turkey and Bulgaria" adds Vor-
waerts. have both had good to.
bacco harvests and it is suggested
that these Allies might prove them.
selves clever by coming to Ger
many's aid with smokeable cigar.
cites, which would help US to keep
our spirits up in many a serious
hour"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
4 Soldier Unafraid

A book which would be an inspiration
to many of our boys at the front is "A
Soldier Unafraid." 1t Is young
Frenchmans letters to his father and
mother written from the trenches of the
Alsatian front. After a brilliant career
in school and college Andre Cornet
Auquier was made professor in Glasgow
University, but. twenty-six years old,
enlisted in the French army at the out
break Of the war. His service was so
fine that he was rapidly promoted and
decorated. General Joffre himself giving
him the cross of the Legion of Honor.
Mortally wounded on March 1. 1917, he
was buried four days after, and at his
grave his colonel paid n touching trib-
ute to him. in which he said that he
was a ''soldat sans peur ct sans re-
proche" These words We're chosen for
the title of the French edition of his
letters, as we'll as for the English by
his editor and translator. Mr.. Theodore
Stanton. His letters give vivid pictures
of life in the trenches and occasionally
they bubble over with fun. But the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
4 Book of PRAYER

The reaction against materialism
which is regarded by many as an out
growth of the war is reflected in a
little book of prayers by the Rev. w
f. orchard. The prayers are arranged
in groups, and are intended primarily
for congregational use. although their
personal quality makes them ideally
suitable for the individual as well
They are intensely mystical in char
acter, their dominant note being an un-
questioning faith in spiritual realities
and divine wisdom.
THE TEMPLE: A Book OF Prayer. BY w
L. Orchard. d. d. INTRODUCTION by DR.
Frank Crane. New York: f. p. Duttor
& Co. ST."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
YORK HONORS HEROIC DEAD
Tablet Will Be Unveiled as Me
mortal of Love and Pride

: York. Pa. Aug 24-Trbute will be
paid the York ,Countains who have
sacrificed their lives in the great world
war for democracy. Tablets containing
the names of the thirty-two young men
who have been killed on the field of
battle or, at sea will be unveiled in
front Of the County Courthouse in this
city next Monday night The exercises
WIZ be of community character, simple
and impressive. and will be under the
direction of the York Chamber of Com.
merce. which has erected the tablets.
The panels are finished in black and
are so arranged that names can be
added any time. The names will be in
gold The panels will be erected under
the massive stone balustrade and over
the three central entrances to the County
Courthouse. Across the top in old
English letters will be inscribed. "In
Memory of York County Patriots Who
Gave Their Lives for World Peace"
The panels will be draped with Amer
ican flags and the unveiling will take
place as the last name on the list is read
by Walter q. McBhin, chairman Of the
exercises.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
Trench Fighting

An excellent handbook on trench fieht.
ing has been produced by Captain
Georges Bertrand, of the Alpine Chas-
seurs of the French army, and Major
Oscar y. Solbert of the American enRi-
neer corps. 1t is copiousIy illustrated
with diagrams, and is SO simply ana
clearly written and so full of necessary
information that it has received the
approval of the War College. Every SOL
dfer who reads it will be better fitted for
fighting
TACTICS AND DUTIES FOR TRENCH
FIGHTING: BY GeorEss Bertrand and
nam's Sons. $3.50
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
FIREMAN DIES IN WRECK
Two Others Hurt When Empty Train
Jumps Track

jersey city. Aug. 24.-(By T. n So
Fireman Edward Erchssen, OF Scranton,
Pa, was killed and two others were
slightly hurt early today when a ten
car sempty troop train jumped the track
after hitting a switch and crashed into
the light locomotive near Jersey City
Heights at the. Delaware Lackawanna
and Western railroad crossing. .....',
The injured were Engineer II. Book
helm and 'Trainman Cortie Biesecker
also of Scranton, Pa.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
Drink

A revised and enlarged edition Of Vance
Thompson's Drink and Be Sober" has
recently been published under the title
OF Drink" IT is an arraignment of
alcohol on the charge Of responsibility
for large part of the disease, crime,
poverty and decentralization in society.
Mr. Thompson has assembled the we'll
known statistics and summarized the
opinions of physicians and psychol-
ogists, and has done it in most racy
and interesting way. His conclusion IL
that the State should prevent the manu-
facture and sale of Intoxicating drinks.
DRINK. BY Vance Thompson. New York:
. e. p. Dutton 4 Co 81
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
4 Bears Adventures

Margaret Fox has produced delight
full book for children between the ages
of four and twelve in "The Adventures
of Blackberry Bear" 1t Is the story of
a young black bear who wanted to find
his old home in the forest where his
grandfather lived. He left his father
and mother and had many exciting ex-
periences in his wanderings which ended
with his return home.
THE ADVENTURES OF BLACKBERRY
BEAR BY Margaret Fox. New York:
Moffat, Yard Co. $1.25.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
SEE LONDON FROM AIR
Congressman Thrilled by Trip in Lib.
erty Motor Plane

London, Aug. 24.-The committee
from the United States Congress which
is visiting the All countries. COM
posed of James B. Aswell, of Louisiana :
Alvin w. Barkley. of Kentucky; Marvin
Jones. of Texas; Milton H. yelling and
James II. Mays, of Utah, and Charles
Hiram Randall of California. few over
London Thursday in batt!eplanes in
which were installed the new Liberty
motor.
The Congressman declared their ex-
perience in their flight at a height of
5000 feet was thrilling. and said that the
Liberty motor worked like a charm.
British officials and pilots, they as
serted pronounced the motor a great
success, and predicted it would play an
war.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24


From Pennsylvania exclusive of Phla.
aelphia) and New Jersey appeared in a
casualty list gIof fifty7three issued last
might:
- s...--s.assss 49,. Corporal
kUTH. WILLIAM F.. Emaus. Pa.
DIED OF WOUNDS
q corporal
6IMONS, FLOYD j.. Bethlehem. Pa.
DIED FROM ACCIDENT AND OTHER
CAUSES
II - =, -, CORPORAL
NAUB. CLARENCE E. Red Lion, Pa.
/ SEVERELY WOUNDED
e~s''-r. Sergeants
bRAHAM. STEWART DONALD. Meadvile
eETsasoN;; CARL Leroy. Bradford. Pa.
Corporals
eAxTER. CLARENCE A, Pittsburgh. Pa.
MISSING IN ACTION
Privates
BURNS. GILBERT. Mahanoy City. Pa.
JuKES, EDWARD. Rochester, Pa.
KEELER. WILLIAM w, Clearfeld. Pa.
LOWER. WILLIAM B. : Lewisburg Pa %
GdrPH. EARL E.. Punxsutawney. Pa.
TRUPPp., EDWARD. Elizabeth, n. J.
PRISONER
Lieutenant
6AYEoR. EDWARD R., Bellefonts. Pa.
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED KILLED IN
.sACTlON--NOW REPORTED WOUNDED
1900 Private
DUBBs, w. W., Emsus, Pa.
xnEvIOUsLY REPORTED MISSING IN
\ ACrION-NOW REPORTED WOUNDED
SEVERELY
Private
CERELLI. MICHELE. Baltimore, Md!
R1EvIOUsLY REPORTED MISSING IN
ACTlON--NOW REPORTED ON DUTY
'Privates
CARTER. JOHN. Avoca, Pa.
WARRIs. NORMAN l., 1884 North OpsI
l S)xeet. Philadelphia.
rhilsdelph.a.
A1SH. MICHAEL j.. scranton. Pa.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
Poincare Honors Petain

4 With the French Army in France,
Aug. "a. Near the headquarters OF
|he French army General Petain, the
fench commander-in-chief, was dec
tatsd with the military medal by Pres
Gent Poincare. Marshal Foch, Premier
Flouenceau and Naval Minister Lev
|1les accompanied the President French
Koo19 formed a hollow square within
t6ich were representatives. of all the
klli&d nations 3fg.as -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
Flying Lieutenant Killed

With the American Army on the
vesie, Aug. 24,-Lieut Louis verdier,
former head Of the Lafayette nying
squadron. brother Of Paul verdier, of
San Francisco, has been killed In action,
according to tnformsuon received here.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
TODAY'S LIST

Is sSB TODAY'S LIST
b .-c., KILLED IN. ACTION
vfts. ~ a., Privates
y 4ABcHAK., MIKE, Auburn. y. Y.
.SsS.1Lr SsS; ;1IAGl, E;n Somerset, Pa,
+ COLLINS. JOHN J., New York city.
MeHEON GEORGE p, Brooklyn,
sSEvCOSfER. EMMETT J., Pipe Creek Tex
8EuTER, FREDERICK j.. Monkton. Md.
DIED OF WOUNDS
7@@.% HI, sCorporal (
WAGNER. ANDREW. F.. Elmhurst III.
.5FFf 80 :, ptt.ates 20
oAupIN. JOSEPH c.. Ascension. La.
HANRAHAN GRAY. Bridgeport. Conn.
HOLMES. HARRY c.. Syracuse. Kas.
HUDSON. JESSE. North Chattanooga
IcS5s; FREDERICK P; rktosa, ), Mich,
1AfNETTIS LUIGI, Rome. Italy:
WOUNDED sEvERLY d, :.
jga Privates
ACKERMAN. ROY H. Chicago. III.
3EyAN. JAMES j., Chester. y. Y.
6CHPERs. PAUL Mount Herman. Ky,
BRokDBRooK. JOHN J., Bridgeport. Conn.
6U&KE. STANFORD w. Scranton. Pn.
HAMMER, WILLIAM. Scranton. Pa.
GAkAMAN, BENAGA g., Lo"l?3d. n. q
,
COWHER. CARLTON MONROE. Mnpleton
CUpMoRE. MICHAEL JAMES. Bingham
CIPHER. GEORGE A.. Worcester. Mass.
DEMPSEY. JOHN JOSEPH. IS North Far
=, esn street, Philadelphia.
DEVOID. GEORGE A., Bristol, VT.
DOUGHERTY. GEORGE. Mount Holly
EATON. FRANCIS W. North Reading,
FAY. JOHN. Brooklyn. +:
TLAHERTY. RAYMOND. South Boston.
R1XKER. .wnLIAM ARTHUR. Newvile.
'nARRETr. JAMES F. Mount Holly. y. J..
,nS LINN Ss;e,.z E1w'ss ssaxu 4; 9 SShYn nrook,xn
yBRoGANs. CHARLEY NJ. Lafayette, Ga.
}6UFFEY. RUFUS, CabeilH ny.
*sNEs YICp2s S,p8er WtaiWwSntic soS5 GS%n New
tzENNESsEY, JOSEPH p New Rochelle.
xEMoK, WILLIAM. stroudsburs. Pa. - =
LIES. FRANK J. Dorchester: Mass; n.
kE1POLD. MERLE JOHN. Bradford. Pa.
kEWANDowSKI, THADDEuS s.. Chicago.
klcNANN. ARTHUR H., Bath. Me. e..
JOHN. Brcokiyn.
pGAnIETTA. REICH A.. Brownsvilie. Pa.
DfART1N, EDWARD. North Abington Mass.
HlFHt'u, NoHH.
kENN,- LOUIS e.. Frederick, Nd.
6ICH. lBAsIL H.. sSsnth xatlcl, Mass.
DO0ERS, DOMINICK. Danville. Pa.
ROONEY. JAMES j.. Maiden. Mass
BOPP. WILLIAM F.. Middet0wn, Md.
GEORGE L., Charlcstown.
Mass.
OSCAR LEONARD. Kane,: Pa.
bEIFRIED. JOHN E., Brooklyn.
PHEETZ. WILEY C.. .1dlewiid. n, c.. : :, |
5MITH. EDWARD. Durand. Mich. /
BUsHOK. MIKE. Homestead. Pa.
VAN TASSEL. JAMES d.. Hallton, Pa.
ALEXANDER B., Man
chester. Conn.
FRANK, North Plymouth.
Mass. Il
WARDELL, CHARLES, Ladd. Ill.
WEBB, IRWIN r., Norfolk Mass.
WHALEN. JOHN ,F.T Watertown. Mass.
WrcKENs. GEORGE F., Maiden. Mass.
REPORrRD MISSING, NOW
REPORTED KILLED IN ACTION
-sf-st> ~ - Private
RRELY, CHARLES e.. MeysrsdaIe, Pa.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
Hastings Bank Chartered

Erehtnges.. Aug. IA charter has.
&inoa by the compfrolisr. Of the
10y 70 the First National Bank OF
114 Pa. to begin bugiusss With :
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
IN CASUALTIES
REPORTED TO-DAY
NJ for "a Hours Is ia,
With. 5sf Reported /
SEVERELY WOUNDED
Only Seven Soldiers Killed
in Action and Eight Dead
of Wounds
! SEVERELY WOUNDED
Washington, Aug. "a

The army casualty list issued for to-
Gay by the war Department contains
9yepW- one, names. The list issued last
hteht ycortafned ffty-three names; a
Eotalf OF 124 in the last twenty four
pArA Today's list is divided as fol-
lows: =
Sihfds In sctton' ;...;.............. I
eunued severely =. ;. .;.,.. ........... SO
Died Of wounds 3
'rtf
n Total Observation-Disclosures. II
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

THE omnipresent servant girl prob
= lem is in danger of being solved.
The influential gentleman who may
work it out is Mr.. McAdoo. the Sec
retary Of the Treasury. Ar. Nc.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
HEROES FROM NEARBY
~ IN LAST NIGHTS LIST

y wasfninkton.' Aug. 24.-The following
from Pennsylvania exclusive of Phila-
aelphia) and New Jersey appeared in a
casualty list ,Iof fifty7three issued last
night:
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-12-20
MUST SPEED UP
RED CROSS DRIVE
Only 3,700 Memberships Re-
ported So Far and Campaign
Is Half Over

The Red Cross Christmas Roll Call
drive has not retained the momentum
it received at the big mass meeting on
Monday night which inaugurated the
campaign and which seemed. by the
enthusiasm shown, to make Its sue
cess certain.
Up to last night there have only
been 800 memberships secured, and
although there are many teams that
have not as yet turned in their results.
Albert Leon. general chairman of the
campaign, urges that everybody coop
crate in this great work and take out
a membership and thus make Perth
A mboy worthy of her name of Pace
making City.
Mr.. Leon also desires to see Perth
Amboy one of the banner cities of the
state and to do this. the workers must
In the next three days secure a large
of memberships and it is re-
quested that IL anybody has been
missed by the teams or solicitors. that
they will go voluntarily to the booths
and pay their dollar for a 1919 Red
Cross button.
The women's teams which have
been operating in the booths situated
in various parts of the city, in stores
and theatres. are practically the only
teams that have turned in the results
of their solicitation.
tContinued on page ~
p. A. Hardware for carving sets.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-12-20
DRINKS LIQUOR:
LOSES HIS MONEY
Boss Carpenter at Morgan
Meets Strangers in N. Y. and
AWakeS in Hospital

The last thing Harry Macchi, boss
carpenter employed at the II. A. Gill
lespie Shell Loading plant at Morgan,
remembered when he regained con-
seriousness In Bellevue Hospital. New
York City, last night, is that the
kindly violin player was going to take
him home to Perth Amboy. After that
things are rather a blank. He was
drugged and robbed of S1,175.
Macchi recalls perfectly that he
went to Brooklyn on Wednesday TO
confer with a man about retiring as
a carpenter and embarking In the
aeroplane manufacturing business.
Later they came to New York and
went to a cabaret In Fourteenth
street, Macchi says. where he was in
troduced to a young woman and
someone who was presented as dis
tinguished violin player. Drinks came
in seemingly endless professions un-
til, presently, Macchi remembers that
the man who was Interested in air.
planes turned to him, wept into an
empty beer stein. and said:
My poor friend. you feel sick.
You are not able to go home alone
so 1 will send my good friend the
violin player home with you"
But the entire party went along,
starting for Perth Amboy via the
subway Sophie Bruggner, ticket
agent at Twenty eight street, New
York, saw the woman signalling
somH one a little later as an uptown
train pulled into the station Two
men rushed out of the washroom and
all three were whisked northward.
The agent called a policeman who
found Macchi in coma. DR.. Weller
took him to Bellevue. where it was
said he was suffering from drug pois-
oning.
Macehi told the police he had given
his companions a check for $1,000 IN
the cabaret and that his watch and
chain, 500, and a Masonic emblem
worth $175 had been taken. He said
he lived in Keansburg and that he
thought he'd continue as a carpenter
for a while longer.
Tinsmiths Wanted. Kelly & McAlln-
den 756-12-20- 2tH
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-12-20

sEWAREN, Dec. 20-Russell CAT
fey, thirty eight years old, OF sewaren,
was instantly killed and Joseph Eals
also OF sewaren, was badly injured at
S:4b o'clock this morning when a
fast line trolley No. $500 Of the Pub
lie Service Railroad Company, struck
an automobile delivery wagon driven
by Carey on the old road between Sc
warren and Port Reading.
II Is claimed by witnesses that the
warning bell at the crossing does not
operate.
Caffey. who was a driver for John
kath, grocer of Sewaren, was re-
turning after making deliveries a,
Port Reading. FAX was accompanying
him and was beside him In the driv-
er's seat.
The trolley, which was In charge
OF Motorman Fred Peterson, OF 28s
Oak street. Perth Amboy, and Con-
ductor Edward Wodjinski, of Keasbey
was travelling at n fast rate from New
ark to this city and the impact OF the
two smashed the automobile to bits,
and hurled Caffey's body forty yards
away from the scene. where It was
picked up, horribly mutilated. The
skull was crushed in and almost every
part of the body injured.
Eak, who was picked UP uncon-
scious, was taken TO the home OF r..
3. Freeman nearby. and DIR. /. t.
Spencer of Woodbridge. was called.
He will be taken the Railway hos
pital later. He is suffering from num-
erous injuries, which are not expected
TO .urove fatal.
The front of the trolley was badly
damaged by the impact, glass being
broken and the fender badly bent.
The crossing is in a rather remote
section and according to witnesses the
warning bell had not been in opera
ton for several days. nor has the
warning light been in operation al
night, they claim.
Thore were several passengers In the
trolley whose names were secured by
Chief of Police Murphy. of Wood
bridge, who arrived on the scene
shortly after the accident occurred.
This is the second accident that
has happened within a week on the
fast line near this place. Last Friday
morning two men were badly injured
when they were struck by a fast line
ear on the trestle runnign over the
tracks of the Philadelphia and Read
ing railroad at Port Reading. Henry
Cortright, a carpenter of New Bruins
wick, one of the men who received a
fracture of the skull as the result of
being struck by the car. died at the
Perth Amboy city hospital yesterday.
Owen Hearn, of Jersey City. the
other man who was struck and who
received cuts and bruises about the
face and head has SO far recovered
that he was able to go to his home.
Cortright's body was taken last
night to his home in New Brunswick.
Coroner James J. Flynn. who was
called this morning to Sewaren and IL
making an investigation into both of
the accidents.
Caffey is survived by his wife and
two children.
Coroner Flynn. after making an in
vestigation removed the body to his
morgue In Perth Amboy.
Chief Murphy placed Peterson and
Wodjinski under arrest and they were
taken to New Brunswick on charges
of manslaughter. Judge Peter F..
DAILY held them in $4,000 bail for the
action OF the grand jury.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-12-20
BOOM CONGRESSMAN SCULLY
FOR GOVERNOR Of THE STATE
At DEMOCRATIC CLUB SMOKER

More than 1000 men crowdew into
Palace Hall last night at the smoker
of the Perth Amboy Democratic Club.
where they acclaimed Congressman
Thomas j. Scully as the next governor
of the state of New Jersey.
1t was q notable gathering Of Demo-
Gratis and when Frank Dorsey started
proceedings every seat in the hall was
occupied and there wasn't an inch or
available standing room left. The pop
ularity of Mayor-elect Dorsey was at
tested by the splendid reception ac-
corded him when he began brief
speech of welcome, following which
he introduced as the principal speak
er of the evening United States Com
missioner John A. Matthews of New
ark.
Mr.. Scully was highly praised by
Commissioner Matthews. who stated
that he was the best equipped Demo-
crat In the state to lead the party to
victory next fall. The crowd was not
long in recognizing the oratorical abil-
ity of Mr.. Matthews and they listened
to his every word with close attention.
He stirred them to great applause by
his eulogy of President Wilson, whom
he proclaimed the greatest of all the
world statesmen.
Congressman Scully was introduced
following the address of Mr.. Matthews
and then the whole audience rose and
cheered the next governor" Mr..
Scully explained that he had left
Washington at 3 o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon in order to attend the smoker.
but he considered himself amply re-
paid for all the trouble he had takei
to get to Perth Amboy in time. The
congressman spoke in his usual happy
vein and pleased his audience nightly
by words of counsel and advice TO the