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Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-14
Thrills Every Minute in Life
Of q. S. Engineers Corps

times a piece of shell hits the stake
and ruins that particular piece OF
work. So IL must be done over again,
slowly, cautiously. tediously, ~perilous-
ly.
when the stakes finally have been
firmly set along crawl the squads
bearing the spools of barbed wire.
Each corkscrew stake has its hooks
and into these the strands and loops
OF barbed wire are entwined.
Now and then an engineer. sitting
a curse at the hun. will slide IN the
sticky mud and slip into a pool Of
water or q sloppy shell hole. A sharp
cared hun hears the splash. Up goes
another fare The engineers hug the
ooze.
Machine guns have opened up
again. This time they're firing low
err. One unfortunate rolls over with
a groan. A sergeant whispers an
order, and as the flare dies two men
crawl through the mud. They seize
their wounded comrade by the shoul-
ders and then on hands n knees
drag him back to the American lines.
The others are back at their work.
For that wire must be strung. A
finished ENHANCEMENT or daylight are
the only signals for the engineers to
knock Of work.
oOinellnleS II IAkeS several ntEntH
to string the wire-all according to
the topography and condition of the
ground. With the first streak OF
dawn they crawl back into the Amer
lean lines. Maybe the next night
they find the hun artillery has shot
their work to pieces. SO methodicaliy
they do Il over again.
Meanwhile the doughboys have
dug in. And, at that, the whole
dangerous job may be protection only
for a few days. For, with the coming
of the order to the drive, the
Yanks press forward, destroy their
own enanglements and drive the huns
back a few more miles. Then the en-
gineers have another little job Of
work out there In the muddy slime
of Nc Mans Land"
The engineers build roads and
bridges, too-often under shell fire.
But America must take its hat off to
the engineers, chiefly for the perils
face in stringing those barbed
wire entanglements.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-14
Luxembourg May Join Belgium

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13:-Senti-
ment is growing in Luxembourg In ia
vor of a union with Belgium. eco
nomically at least, IL not politically,
according to diplomatic dispatches and
Luxembourg newspapers received In
Washington.
Al the recent elections in Luxem-
burg the worst insult hurled at one
candidate by another was you're
pro-Germanl"
Marcel Thilges, son of a former
Luxembourg diplomat, 1 n Luxembourg
Libre, a newspaper" published for Lux
emburg by citizens of the grand duchy
abroad, champions the cause OF free
dom for Luxembourg, rejecting the
~zollverein. or commercial union with
Germany, of which the little nation
has been a member. He suggests an
economic alliance with Belgium,
which, he says. would be a marriage
not only for money but for love-"
pointing out that the union would en-
able Belgium to receive iron. wine
and other products from Luxembourg
without submitting them to German
duties, as In the past
A similar idea is expressed in an
other article by Ziegler de Ziegleck. a
member Of the Luxembourg parliament,
In the same paper. He reminds the
public that, in 1912. public opinion in
Luxembourg was opposed to the zoll-
verein.
An anti German paper published Sc
cretly in Luxembourg n called
"DrNatio'n," openly espouses the
cause of a union with Belgium.
The League OF Luxembourg Patriots.
an organization residing abroad. has
sent the following telegram to the
Belgium minister of foreign affairs:
interpreting the sentiments or
the fatherland, the League of Luxem-
burg Patriots In foreign lands, COM
prising many groups OF patriots in al
lied and neutral countries. expresses
its admiration for the glorious armies
of the faithful guarantors OF Luxem-
burg. 1t looks forward to the day
when the nation shall owe the LIBERIA
ton of Its people to them"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-14
GIRLS LEAVE HOME d,
Two Jamesburg Iassies Take French
cav

Two Jamesburg Iassies Take French
JAMESBURG, Nov. 14:-Helen
Golets, aged fifteen, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Felix Golets. and Julia
Killian, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Philip Killian, were reported as miss
ing from their homes on Monday
evening by their parents.
Where the girls wen has not been
learned but 1t is surmised that the
couple went to Perth Amboy. where
the Golets girl has a married sister,
Mrs. Frank Kulpa. Inquiry has shown
that they have not been there yet.
On Monday afternoon the girls told
their parents they were going to
Jamesburg where a war work rally
was to be held. Instead OF going to
Jamesburg they are charged with
boarding the 8 o'clock train for Perth
Amboy.
Both girls have been employed at
the Oliver Loading Company plant
at Old Bridge and became enamored
with two male employees of that place
and 1t is thought that they may be
parties to a runaway marriage.
Mr.. Golets said that his daughter
was without funds but that the Kill
liam girl had $40 which h took from
a bureau in her mothers room. Mr..
Golets said that If his daughter will
return all will be forgiven as she had
no reason to leave home in such a
manner and that his wife was Ill over
her absence.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-14
TOTTENvILLE

Captain and Mrs. Reuben Andro-
vette are home from O trip to Mary
land and Delaware.
Twi nboys were born to Postmaster
Lester Conner of Richmond, former
ly of this place. on Sunday.
William Schneider was home from
New Brunswick for q visit owe the
week end with his parents.
Chris Arenson. who crushed his
hand while at work at Fort Wads-
worth las week. is recovering.
Fireman Peter Mcdonald. of 76
truck, who has been confined to his
home the past two weeks. is recover
Ing.
A meeting of the Richmond County
Democratic general-committee, will
be held tonight at the club rooms in
stapleton.
A meeting of the board of directors
of the Richmond County Building n
Mutual Loan Association was held at
the rooms last night. The nomina-
ton Of officers will take place at the
next emeting.
An electric light placed on each side
of the walk between the station plat
form Of the Rapid Transit n Nam
street, is Welcomed by the passengers
who use hat way coming and going
to the trains.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-14

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You can feel this take hold instantly,
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-14
State High School Conference
At Rutgers College Nov. q

NEW BRUNSWICK, Nov. IA
Preparations for the New Jersey
state high school conference are pro-
ceeding at a rapid rate at the state
University at New Brunswick. The
conference will be attended by a
large proportion of the eighteen
hundred high school principals and
teachers of New Jersey. The confer
ence is unique in nan respects as all
of the associations in New Jersey
devoted to various kinds of high
school work have Joined hands with
the State Department OF Education
and the State University in planning
an educational meeting of great i'm
p~ortance. Among the speakers are
Hon. P. w. Wilson, of the British
parliament, London: DR.. Stuart A.
Courts. of Detroit, Michigan: Super
intendent Corson of Newark; Presi-
dent Demarest OF Rutgers College,;
Dean Bevier Of Rutgers College; d..
Otis w. Caldwell, principal. OF the
Lincoln school, New York City.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-14

PARIS, Nov. 1s:-American engi-
neers did their work in the autumn
offensive unseen and unsung.
Their exploits weren't spectacular
nor picturesque. They had no press
agent to tell how they charged over
the top and hammered the hun.
They didn't charge over the top.
They crawled over in the black
night. squirming forward through the
whitLsh, pasty mud. That was their
job OF war every time the advancing
Americans reached a specified objec-
tive In each Of the separate drives.
The engineers we're not back OF
the lines building roads or bridges.
They were up in front OF the front
line-in front OF the infantry.
All they had to do was to crawl
out in front of the doughboys' tenn
porary trenches and string the barb
ed wire entanglements. Only then,
with h a protection, could the
doughboys actually dig in. transform
ing their temporary bitches, made
with n few scoops of a shovel, into
real trenches.
The story of how those engineers
work in the mud and the dark in the
death strip of No Mans Land was
brought me by William ID. Hines, a
former Cleveland newspaper man,
now of the Red Cross. He'd been up
at the front In a canteen and had
seen the engineers go out at night
fall to their perilous Job and return
just before dawn.
They wore rubber boots and
slickers against the rain and o.
limestone paste. They carried cork
screw steel stakes and huge spools OF
barbed wire.
The least unusual sound might
bring death to the entire crew.
Stringing barbed wire isn't what an
insurance company would class as a
good risk. The enemy is only q few
hundred feet away. His machine
gunners, snipers and artillery observ-
ers have fixed ideas against letting
barbed wire entanglements be built.
EVERY few minutes q fare goes up.
Nc Mans Land looks like Times
Square. Machine guns begin to bark
and the artillery drops q few shells
in the neighborhood.
Instantly with the flare the engi-
neers fall fiat. They huk the ground,
m~otionless, fiattened like turtles in
the pasty mud.
Tho flare goes out and in the
darkness the engineers sit up. rub the
mud out of their eyes and go back to
work. The whang of exploding shells
ceases for the moment and the rat
tat-tat of machine guns die to an &C.
casional bark.
The silent work goes on. Taking
his steel corkscrew stake each engI-
neer, squatting in the sticky mud, sits
astraddle II and resumes the work Of
forcing II into the ground.
Hands are cold and wet and slip
perry with the white paste. But the
only way they al get those stakes
set is to keep turning them and twist
ing them, forcing down-like plant
ing a huge screw without the aid of
a screwdriver.
Every few minutes those flares
come and interrupt the work. Some
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-14
When the Yanks Come Home

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14:-The
United States will give the boys from
"over there the greatest, warmest
welcome that any army ever received
upon its Homecoming.
Probably the biggest welcoming
celebration will be here In the ma
TONS capital. Already tentative pro-
grams have been suggested to the
President and Secretaries Baker and
Daniels, and they have agreed that
the boys in army khaki and navy
blue will get a heart-gripping well
come when they do come back.
The Washington ceremony will
doubtless come after the major part
OF the exp~editionary forces are re'
turned. This may not be for a year.
But it will take In the home forces
too. all those boys who were in train
ing when the war ended.
The plan most favored lei Is to
wind up the var in a burst of glory,
with hundreds of thousands of our
fighters marching through the ma
tional capital, past the White House
where the President will review
them. This would be a larger cele-
bration but of the same reviewing
idea which came at the close of the
Civil War.
1t has been suggested that Marshal
tOcn anu 16HeTdlS f1dlB anu OldZ DC
invited to stand with the President
on the reviewing platform. This will
be done II II is possible for them to
accept Invitations. Very likely mill
tary detachments from the allied
armies will be brought owe for that
one review. They will march with
the American soldiers who fought at
their side In the war.
The king of Belgium, too, may be
invited. as 1t is known that he has
expressed the wish to be able to come
to America and personally thank the
people of the United States for their
aid to the Belgian people and their
country. The Belgian legation here
refuses to comment upon the posi-
bility OF King Albert's coming to this
country, although II is frank in its
admission tina. the Belgian king loves
America and Americans.
1t is thought here that General
Haig may come as the official British
military witness of the reviewing
ceremonies; and that Italy may send
General Diaz. But IL they do not
come IN official capacities they may
be prevailed upon to visit America at
the time when the parade of victors
will be held. 1t is held here that
there is less probability of bringing
Marshal Foch over at that time, as IT
Is believed the work of reconstruction
in France win consume much of his
time. and he will not leave France in
at least two years.
But what a reviewing stand that
would be. with Wilson. Foch, PERISH
ing, Haig. King Albert and Diaz
there!
And what an army passing by, the
heroes of the war, American, British,
French, Belgian and Italian!
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-14
OLDEST NATIVE DEAD
Chief Ana Cha Hash, Who Ruled
Alaska. Die

Associated Press Correspondence.)
DOUGLAS, Alaska, Nov. 14:-Chief
Ana Cla Hash, who. according to local
records, ruled the Taku tribes village
near here long before the Americans
came to Alaska, Is dead here.
The chief was said to be the oldesr
native leader in all Alaska. HIS
many relatives placed his g far be-
yond the century mark. Alaska's gov
errors at Christmas time were usu-
ally presented with n of h famous
Chilkat blankets by the old a
Natives from every part of south
eastern Alaska, 1t is expected. win
come here 10 attend the funeral.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-14
Popular Yanks Cause Riots


PARIS. Nov. LITTLE popularity OF
the Yanks with the French civilian
populace caused an incipient riot on
the ~boulevards here the other day.
A trio of westerners. fresh from the
front, were celebrating too bolster
ously to suit the pleasure OF a Yank NJ.
p. He attempted to take the noisy
doughboys In charge. Their resist
anoe threatened damage to a Partisan
shopkeeper's window. AS the military
policeman subdued his prey and was
about to march them of, the shop
keeper rushed forth and attacked him.
Leave them alonei They've got a
right to amuse themselves on leave
from the 'front.'" he shouted.
Other civilians Joined in the melee
all on the side of the doughboys.
The fray was not quelled until French
gendarmes came III and arrested the
civilian protectors of the celebrating
Yanks.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-14
Hebrews Open Club In Paris

PARIS. Nov. 14:-soldiers' club
room facilities in Paris have been in
creased by the opening of headquar-
ters by the Jewish Welfare Board.
Clubrooms are at Al Boulevard
Haussmann and preparations are be-
ing made to take care of soldiers
mail. There are rest rooms, easy
chairs. q piano. a photograph, a IL
brary and a writing room.
Religious services r held regular
~. At intervals there is music. dane
ing and entertainments. Several Jew
ish women from America bake cakes
for the club and they are distributed
free to the soldiers.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-14
THE MOST
DANGEROUS DISEASE
a body are so system.

No organs of the human body are 30
important to health and long life as
the kidneys. When they slow up and
commence to lag in their duties. look
out! Danger Is in sight.
Find out what the trouble is-with-
out delay. Whenever you feel nervous
weak. dizzy, suffer from sleeplessness.
or have palms in the back or difficulty
in passing urine-wake up at once.
Your kidneys need help. These are
signs to warn you that your kidneys
are not performing their functions
properly. They are. only half doing
to accumulate and be converted into
uric acid and other poisons. which are
causing you distress and will destroy
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-14
PHILEMON LITERARY AND
HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEETS
Interesting Session Held Yesterday at
South Baptist Church-Read-
fngs and Music

TOTTENVILLE, Nov. 14:-Inter-
esting papers were read before the
meeting Of the Philemon Literary and
Historical Society yesterday afternoon
at the South Baptist church. Mrs.
Stephen Cossey, second vice president
of the society, presided and in her
opening address spoke in regard to
the closing of the war. The subject
of the meeting was War Work and
Reconstruction" Miss Katherine
Dodds read q paper prepared by Mrs.
Henry Fisher on "Other War Work
Abroad" Miss Ayers presented a pa
per on Physical Reconstruction"
and Miss Laura b. Yetman, chairman
of the Fifth Ward Branch of the
American Red Cross, spoke concern
ing the Red Cross.
report on Art" The musical part
of the program, which was arranged
by Mrs. Arthur f. Decker, consisted
of three vocal solos by Miss Margaret
Benjamin, of Huguenot Park. The
meeting was largely attended by the
members.
At the business session plans were
made for the giving out of the bas-
kets of food on Thanksgiving Day.
November 2s. to the needy of the
town. Mrs. Fannie Lewis is chair
man of the philanthropy committee
In charge of this work.. At the OPEN
ing the doxology was SUM and at the
close America"
The monthly guest day OF the So
ciety will be held next week, when
Rev. j. Harrison johnson, pastor of
the South Baptist church, will be the
speaker. Rev. Mr.. Johnson will speak
on "Old Chester" where he was born.
An excellent program is being ar
ranged for the meeting. Members
are privileged to bring a guest at this
time. A social will follow and re-
freshments will be served.
Representatives of the society are
at the annual meeting of the New
York State Federation of Woman's
Clubs that is in session at the Hotel
Aston in Manhattan this week.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-14
Letters From
Local Soldiers

Dear Brother-in-law,
This will doubtless surprise you, as
you expected that I had sailed, but
when I arrived at the ship I was noti-
fed that I was to be transferred and
so did not sail. This 10 sure some
warm place to sleep and hardly any
work to do so far. We are waiting
for a new ship and so may be here
for quite some time. I have seen
some hard service at sea, so I won
mind being on land for a little while.
The new ship Is going to carry sup
plies over to the boys m then bring
some of the boys back who have been
wounded. The war is going to be
over o and so we will all be COM
ing home.
STANLEY.
Letter from Private Il. Exley
Dear Mother:
/ have been in a big push and came
out o. X. We pushed the huns back
about twenty-five miles and we are
still going. 1t is some feeling. going
over the top. We went In one night
and the next night the big drive came.
We waited for the barrage to lift ano
In a few minutes came the word to
go yer. All that morning Il was
fight, fight, and we sure did. through
machine gun and artillery fire. When
I went over I never thought of any,
thing except what was ahead of me.
We got four prisoners and they told
me that the Germans were licked and
the war would not last very much
longer.
I am on detail now and have not
been with my company for two
weeks. We expect to come put soon
for a long rest. This makes the fourth
time we have been in the front lines
and I hope 1t will be the last. 1 have
been sleeping IN a dugout forty feet
below ground and 1t is b~ombproof,
but the big guns keep us awake all
night.
Your son.
e. EXLEY.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-14
M%ICROMETERS O /
Two Missing instruments Found In
Perth AmhOv-

Perth Amboy.
TOTTENVILE, Nov. 14-During
the past few weeks several microme-
tiers have been stotlen from the HILL
lard manufacturing plant in johnson
venue. So numerous were the thefts
that superintendent John w. Krago-
now appealed to the police.
Detective Schley was assigned to
the case and yesterday he recovered
two of the instruments. one from John
Meyers. seventeen years old, a former
employe of the plant. at his boarding
house at 169 Market street Perth Am
boy. and the other was in the posses
sion of John Schneider, also of Perth
Amboy who said said that Meyers had
given 1t to him.
Meyers, 1t Is said. admitted to the
detective that he had stolen the two
instruments which are valuable and
are being manufactured at the plant
for the government. Six have been
missed from the plant.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-14
COPPER WORKER INJURED
Fingers Cut on When Hand Strike.
Circular Saw.

Fingers Cut ON When Hand Strikes
Circular Saw.
TOTTENVILLE. Nov 14-Frederick
Decker. of Lee avenue. a carpenter
employed at the Tottenville Copper
Company plant in Bethel avenue had
three of the fingers of his left hand
cut off close to the lower knuckle and
the little finger was broken and cut
by a circular saw at the plant Tues
day afternoon.
DR.. Frederick Schwerd of Prince
Bay, attended the injured man and
had him removed to his home in Lee
e Mr.. Decker was operating the
machine at the time Of the accident
and in some manner his hand got
caught In the saw which amputated
the fingers.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-14
STATEN ISLAND
Richmond Red Gross Sends
Many Articles for Relief
Marine and Seaside Hospitals and
Perth Amboy Get Influenza Epi-
demic Supplies.

demic Supplies.
BV Special Correspondent.
Richmond County Chapter of the
American Red Cross has sent out for
the relief of Spanish influenza, during
tho month of October. the following
articles:
Allotment of influenza masks
to the Atlantic Division Sup
ply Service o'VVV
Hospital .................. 1870
staten island and org . 1000
Breast binders Seaside Hospital 81
Pneumonia jackets, Seaside
Gauze handkerchiefs, Seaside Hos
Gauze compressors, Seaside
Pneumonia jackets, Debarka-
ton Hospital, No. 2 ........ 20
September 81. 1918 MARINE Hos
pital)-Draw sheets, 13O; paJamas'
so; bath robes, so; pillow cases. 30;
handkerchiefs, so; wash cloths, so.
October s to 80 (Miss Holt, Board
of Trade, Perth Amboy)-Draw sheets,
10; pajamas, 20: outing flannel; un-
derwear, 80; absorbent cotton, 3 lbs;
unbleached muslin, 10 yds.; hot and
fee water bags, 20; knitted wash
cloths, 80; handkerchiefs. 90; operat-
ing suits, 4, operating coats, 8; one
layette, complete.
Seaside Hospital Heavy bath
robes. 20; hospital shirts. outing inc
twill, 10; pajamas, IS; cotton socks,
~ pairs; ward slippers. SO pairs; draw
sheets. so; flannel undershirts, 4; pill
low cases. 280; dish towels. 20; hand
towels, 40; outing flannel underwear
for men. 15; children's night gowns,
so; infants wear, Ill; operating
gowns, 4; gingham and Red Cross
aprons, so; four pieces ~unbleached
muslin, 200 yds.; hot water bags. 20;
operating caps, 40; convalescent
hoods. so.
The chapter has sent at least six
helpers a day to Seaside since IL
opened as an emergency hospital, the
first week Of October.
Health Department, Richmond
County-Sheets, "a; pillow cases. Al;
towels. Sc; hospital shirts. 16; wom-
ems night gowns, 6; pa1amas. 10.
Miss Fensteadt, Social Service
Sheets, 8; pajamas. 4; towels. As; new
refugee garments, 10; soap, 10; wash
cloths. 20; pillow cases, 40; sheets. 4;
aDrOns- G.