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Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16

RARITAN RIVER DEVELOPMENT

In connection with the bulletin sent out by Colonel S W. Roes
sler, of the War Department, regarding the deepening Of the chan
mel in the Rarhan river, in which Il stated that the commence
ment Of the work is dependent on local and other interests estab
fishing adequate water terminals open to the public on equal terms
or giving adequate assurance that such public terminals will be
established in the near future, it would be interesting to know
whether the government receives the sam assurances from all other
towns and cities bordering on waterways that it is proposed to I'M
prove before proceeding with the expenditure of money. We have
In mind particularly the vast sums of money that the government
spends annually on the creeks and bayous in the South and South
west. 1t is well known that millions of dollars of government funds
have beer spent on insignificant streams in different parts Of the
country. The question naturally arises, why is the War Department
so particular about spending money for the proper development of
the Raritan river, a stream which is really navigable and on which
there is already a considerable tonnage, when the tiny rivulets OF the
South which seldom carry anything more than a load of hay, receive
80 much consideration apparently without the slightest requirements
ON the part of towns bordering thereoni
AS Former Mayor Garretson remarked at the Board of Trade
Forum Yesterday, there isn't any question about the development
that would follow closely any improvement that may be made to the
Raritan river o. any other waterway in this vicinity. Ii the govern
ment can spend millions pulling snags out of the Missouri river every
vear when the sight of a steamboat on that stream is a rare thing,
surely it would seem as if a mere $25o0O0 ought to be spent on the
Raritan, which is constantly in use, without guarantees o u IN par'
of the municipalities to be benefited.
But this proposed development of the Rarhan river emphasizes
ore than ever the necessity of a comprehensive city PLAN suppose
- oHr r1an TO-DAY. In reply to such a letter as Colonel Roess-
Ter has inst sent out we could forward a copy OF the cHy pan !"
mo the proposed developments along the farltan river au :"
fine War Department that just as soon as the government maue 'e
river deep enough to accommodate the shipping fern A""'' was
ready TO put its plan into execution. l
Then. indeed, would we be progressing We would De prep".
70 % forward at once Selling every opportunity TO carry "" :"
plan IS already prepared.
But first. a city plan. al
Nv l. tha time TO have this plan drawn before all these de
xe,onments are upon us. They are crowdlng iaSt' ie" A"
-bt-uofto neglect her opportunity.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16
CANDIDATES FOR MIDDLESEX

,t;adlssex is certainly producing her snare Oh an"0AN -
h.u.tori.l bonorsth;s fall. Both parties are now represenNu Wv
..ouu although with the campaign so young it Is difiie@t !"
say how they will make out hnovn
q, the Democratic side Congressman Thomas d. cuhy mas ="
Mis- hat into the ring and he has made consideraoe si'
aa;a.o although it looks as if he would have the Democrauc s'aAe
ra.n;uat;o against him and without its support there VIII pe So"'
difficulty in pulling through.
~. ,.4.s candidate To declare himself is Warren {. King, whose
roms i n Middlesex county over near the Somerset county me- M
K;ra made his formal announcement at a dinner in TINS CITY gwen :"
his honor by George F. Reynolds. Mr.. King is seeking the hepuOn'aA
.ominat;on. and has presented a comprehensive platform that ougn'
To gain for him much consideration.
Mr. King is such a new conner in politics that 1T is nara u sAe up
his strength. He is prominent in manufacturing circles n Is spoAen
Of very highly by those who know him. But IN the case o W. Ming
= ! with Congressman Scuny, the state organization is hkely TO NC
against him, the Republican leaders having practically liked upon
Newton A. K Bugbee, of Trenton, as the pary's standard bearer.
But whether either of these men realize their ambition IT not
thev have brought Mddlesex county into state prominence n nave
shown to the state that Middlesex is a county to be reekoned WITH VII.
Seullv has already shown himself to be a fighter by his open denance u
HE Nugent ring that dominates things so completely IN Essex county
Mr. Kings comeback" at j. Philip Bird, who attacked Mr. King s
candidacy in a speech at Atlantic City a few days ago, shows that he
too is not going to be sidetracked without letting his opponents know
that they have been in a fight.
Altogether Middesex politics are looking up and a lively time Is
promised in both parties before the voters finally decide at the polls In
November.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16

WASHINGTON, d. c., May 10
Concerning Togoland, one Of the earl
lest and richest Of German colonies,
! the National Geographic Society has
| issued the following bulletins:
'Togoland is shaped like a hogs
| head with a 5 miles base resting on
the Gulf of Guinea, its sides sweiling
to more than nree times tnat wlatn'
lcrowding the nritish Gold Coast pos
| sessions to the west. French Dahomey
| on the east. and its narrow tote Ia
psrfng into the Niger region
Germany snr<xeed Togoland In
1884, the year she launched upon her
| colonial expansion with the cquis
| ton also OF northeastern New Guinea
and the Bismark Archipelago. Togo
land was the first colony to dispense
| with imperial subsidy.
along the seacoast highlands soil
is rich and sandy. its climate warm
| and moist. The hinterland is higher,
wooded and drier, but seldom arid.
Thus the land Is adapted to q wide
variety OF products. among which the
| growing of cocoanuts. corn, rice, to-
| bacco and coffee already has been
| highly successful The exports include
considerable quantities OF ivory, Kerr
nels, cora, palm oil and rubbe
This colony affords a commentary
upon Germany's application of bu-
reaucratic methods to her possessions.
| Despite heavy German emigration to
the United States and South America,
and despite her effort to divert this
flow to her colonies, only about 500
Germans we're to be found among
the million natives Of Togoland in
1910. Most of the 500 were engaged
In government service, either In the
coast cities of LONE, a m~ade-to-order
town which Germany planted on the
site of q fishing village, and little
Popo, or the inland government sta
lions at Misahohe or Bismarkburg.
"Togoland lies along the famous
Slave Coast Of Africa. Behind the
treacherous shoals and bars sh>ye
traders defied cruisers from the shell
ter of lagoona and inlets that abound
along the shores where they obtained
their human stock in trade. They
found the native chiefs, especially the
Dahomeys, coastal people of Togoiand
as well as of Lahomey, only too ready
to barter human being for rum and
.trinkets. Tribal leaders made forays
to supply hte demand. Frequently
they burned villages by night and cor
rallied the Inhabitants when they fed.
Northern tribes of Togoland are
mostly Hausa, q mixed negro race,
who have become civilized and indus-
trfous. But the Dahomeys, I'm the
south, present q curious blend of
cruelty and superstition.
Small robust aZ athletic, they climb
trees like monkeys, easily become flu
emit finguists. but cling to fitichism
and still practice cannibalism.
The King of the Dahomeys Is a
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16

man who prefers to fight Iife's battles
single-handed.
Once in a while IL is the wife who
Is h~enpecked and h will live without
complaint with a husband who acts
Ike a boarder.
All married women do not frisk
their husbands pockets at night. A lot
of them know that 1t would be a waste
OF time because their husbands
had anything in their pockets.
And what has become of the O. f.
man who called any word Of four syi-
ment of our lower jaws.
This world would be a mighty peace
Tfui place If it were not for the move
ment of our lower paws.
Any time you are asked to guess a
woman's age be q gentleman and re-
member that a woman is always at
least two years older than she looks
and at least Is years older than she
| thinks she looks.
Where do these literary fellers get
that stuff about his heroine being
"speechless with rage ?" Any married
man who is house-broke can tell YOU
that the madden she gets the more she
talks.
| Many a man gets in bad because
he has fooled himself so often that he
imagines hat he can fool other peo-
pie.
A husband soon learns that while
his wife can't bake she is always need
ing dough and sure knows how to
| spare it.
Every time a farmer reads of some
| fellow who makes a living PLAYING
tennis the poor farmer is so disguised
! that he has to take a dose of liver
medicine
The Stork is q smart bird in some
ways. Bur he will insist on bringins
dozen children to the man who cam
support two.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16
POLITICS IN

Politics in Monmouth county are always puzzllng to the res
he state. But usually the reason for the happenings down there G
0 light some time or other. The Trenton Times thinks 1t sees an
lanation for at least one of the recent happenings down there.
ays:
ssThe mystery of the transfer of Monmouth County from
the South to the North Jersey water supply district has been
explained by the appointment of DIR. O. c. Bogardus OF hey-
port to succeed DR.. William E. Ramsay of Perth Amboy as
amember of theNorth Jersey Water Supply Commission. The
job is worth $4,000 a year, with little to do, and a four years
term.
cit never has been easy for an outsider to understand
Monmouth county politics; and sometimes the residents are
puzzled to explain how it happens that certain Republican
and Democratic officials are able to hold ON. That there is
political significance in the transfer Of Monmouth county and
the recent appointment there is little doubt 1t was not en-
tireiy due to popular desire ito be included in the North Jer-
sey district as the memorandum to the Lewis bill is ex-
planned"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16
Walt Mason's Ripping Rhymes
THE BACK NUMBER

I am a n old back number; 1 nod and snooze and slumber, while
things are marching on; L tell long prosy stories about the dazzling
glores of days that arr long gone. 1 talk of bygone ages, and quote
old seers and sages until L spoil a lung; the actors all were dingers,
and there were better singers, long since, when / was young. Such
poets a the sped ones, such statesmen Is the dead ones, these times
al never know; and there were better writer's, and more heroic
fighters, In days of long ago. l am al old back number; stale chest
nuts without number l suffer to relate; old jokes that Eve was
spinging when she and Ad were swinging upon their garden gate.
There's nothing modern pleases: I like the ancient wheezes, I love
tho mossgrown ways; progressive things confound me; I bore the
friends around M with chatter of dead days I m an old back
numbers; How long will he cucumber this globe" the young folks
sigh; 1--WE can't enjoy u haying until the old mans playing a
either in the sky" The old knows he's casting a gloom that's
everlasting m relative and friend: and yet he can't help dwelling on
olden times and telling the tales that have 10 end. Faey 4ws
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16
Lnke McInke Saws.

After a man o from a were
illness he likes to tell you that at one
time his temperature was los.
These hobble skirts they are wear
ing this summer sure give a we'll
built girl a chance 10 advertise the
fact that Hips Is Hips.
The old-fashioned Mother who used
to tell her children that if they told
lies a big Boogy Man would fly into
the bedroom window at night and car
Try them away. never stopped to think
that she was something or a liar her
self.
After all, a bachelor Is merely .
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16
GOSH

eau Claire (Wis.) Leader.)
Her son Lee. who was upstairs,
heard the quarrel and came down with
a shotgun just as his father was about
to throw a lighted lamp dressed In
pink georgette crepe and wore a green
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16
How?

The Farmer in town or a visit saw
a big. shiny bottle on the showcase in
a drugstore.
"Whut's this here thing for?" asked
the Farmer.
why. that is a bottle that will keep
things hot for you or cold for you for
days, whichever "a you want them"
explained the Clerk.
The Farmer looked at the bottle
doubtfully for a while and hen said:
How Is that bottle goin' to know
whether you want things hot or
cold 2"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16
HaW. Hawf

"Is Browna college man?" asked
Smith.
is one Of the worst spoilers I ever
know Of"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16

When your Boss tells a joke. my boy
Laugh long and heartily;
The joke will not be funny, but
You'll find 1t policy.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16
Firms Is Firms.

Zwiebel e. Griebel are in business al
Elkhorn, Wis. You could almost write
a rhyme about that firm, couldn't you:
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16
Alta Bow

We suppose the proprietor OF a no.
tells should inspect the food for the din
ing room. Anyway o. K. Bean run the
Hotel Montgomery at Norristown,
Penn.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16

Experience Sharpens the wits o.
Some Men and the Noses of Other
Men.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16
picture hat.


If you happen to go broke at tn,
races in Louisville, KY, just remembel
that Iva Dollar lives in that town.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16
FOOeyf

Most n~o-count man you ever met.
as Brown a college mani" asked
We know he is a sponge. n yet
We know he won't take water.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16
OnHli

at wonder why a small boy Is known
as a little shaver?" remarked the
Gabby Barber.
well" said the Victim in the Chair
st suppose it is because a small boy
talks SO much without saying any,
thing"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16

oh. Maryi Do You Need Repairing?
Bowling Green Times-Journal.)
Miss Sadie Stir has rented the
Gerard office on College street and will
open up a ladies' repair parlor.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16
Names Is Names.
Our Dali Special

I. Wanter lives at Monmouth Ill.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16

The Vets may be unlcky geeks,
And yet they should be thankful,
That they still have some seven weeks
In which to get a tank full.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16

And. speaking of Jun 80, a whole
lot of men will always remember that
fatal day as Blue Monday.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16
Web

"Old Nature is a careless mutt"
Said thoughtful Mr.. Penny;
You'll find the duck has web feet,
but
The spider hasn't any"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16
Me and Pickwick.

; = = MIC ana fICkW1Cks
The New York Times uses up a col
.umn and a half editorially to prove
that DIR. Samuel Johnson was the
spiritual ancestor OF Samuel Pickwick.
Shux! That's nothing. Ball Crank re-
Gently used up a half column trying to
prove that Alfred Jingle was the
spiritual ancestor of Luke McLuke.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-16
Bits of By-Pldy

BY LUKE McLUKE
Copyright, 1919, the Cincinnati
Inquirer.

The old-fashioned man who used ia
go to a portrait painter when he
wanted to be done in oil now has q
son who goes to a promoter.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19
BIG MEN WRITE FOR
STRUGGLING RUSSIA"
Root, Gompers and Others
Contribute to MAGAZINE.

Many Americans, whose names are
well known and whose opinions COM
mand consideration. have contributed
short articles to a special American
issue of Struggling RiLsstd, a weekly
magazine published by the Russian In
formation Bureau in the United States
with A. ]. Sack as editor. The articles
support the policy of the magazine in
opposing Bolshevism. Thousands OF
copies will be sent to Russia.
Elihu Root, who was at the head of
the American mission that visited Rus
sia during the Kerensky regime, was
one OF the contributors An excerpt from
his article follows:
II retain all the confidence in the peo-
pie of Russia which 1 have many times
expressed in public. I believe in them
and / feel sure that they will work out
successfully a true democracy based on
principles of liberty and justice. Plain
ly. this can only be done by completely
destroying the power of the wicked and
cruel Bolsheviki, who dispersed the Con-
stituent Assembly elected by the people
of Russia and in it's place set up a
tyranny just as bad as that of the Gear
and just as effective in preventing the
people of Russia from governing them
selves / know Admiral Kolchak per-
sonally and l know a great deal about
him and 1 have the greatest confidence
in him"
Other contributors were David r.
Francis. Samuel Gompers. DR.. Nicholas
Murray Butler, Jacob II. Schiff, Law
renee Abbott, Senator Sherman and
Senator Harding.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19
SCHURMAN PLEADS
FOR CORNELL FUND
Alumni Are Told Importance
of Forthcoming Drive.

On the eve Of the opening of Cornell
University's national campaign for a
$S,000,000 endowment fund to be used
exclusively for increasing the salaries
OF its faculty, Dr. Jacob Gould Schur-
man, president of Cornell, has addressed
message to Cornell alumni of this
country and to the general American
public. asking for support in the cam
paign and declaring that unless the en-
dowment needs of Cornell and other
endowed universities are met, the whole
system of higher education in the East
will go down hill" Their first and
fundamental need, he says. is for funds
to raise the salaries of the instruction
STATS to living scales.
President Schurman also says that
there is no conflict between the endow-
ment campaigns of Cornell, Harvard,
Princeton and other institutions and
that they dovetail because the financial
needs of the larger Eastern universities
have become "a national issue"
DR.. Schurman's message was received
last night at the New York headquar-
ters of the Cornell campaign commit
tee, 80 West Forty-fourth street. The
campaign will begin tomorrow in this
city and the rest of the United States,
and will be conducted also in Mexico,
Cana a and every other foreign coun-
try in which there are twenty-five or
more Cornell alumni
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19
GILSEY ESTATE TO DAUGHTER
Made Sole Heir in VIII of Hotel
Mans Grandson.

Nellie Moore Gilsey, daughter of the
late Peter Gilsey, who died on Septem-
Der at the Hotel Bonita. Broadway and
Ninety-fourth street. is the sole heir to
the large fortune left by her father,
according TO the terms of his will, which
was filed for probate yesterday in the
Surrogates office.
In the petition she is described as a
minor. living with her mother, Mrs.
Nellie Gilsey of 124 West Eighty second
street No provision is made in the will
for the latter nor is her name mentioned
In the document.
According to the petition the estate is
worth more than $4,000 in personal prop.
erty, while the value of the real property
held by the decedent cannot be stated"
The testator, who was a grandson of
the founder OF the Gilsey estate. which
included the famous Gilsey House, one
of New York's best known old time
hotels, committed suicide by shooting
himself. No motive for the suicide has
been disclosed. When his grandfather
died he left fortune OF $4,000, 600 and
the decedent was one of the heirs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19
MRS. KINGSLAND'S
WILL is CONTESTED
Distribution of Million to
Charities Is Halted.

Distribution of charitable requests
aggregatiHg considerably more than
81 ,oo0. 900 as provided by the will of
Mrs Mary ]. Macy KIngsland OF 1925
Fifth avenue, who died recently at her
summer home in Lenox, Mass, will be
delayed by the action of two grand
nephews of the decedent. who filed OBJ
jections to the probate of the will in
the Surrogates' Court yesterday
Acting in behalf of Oliver J. Macy
of Scarborough-on Hudson, and L
Ridgeway Macy of West Orange, N, j..
Scott, Gerard & Bowers, attorneys of
46 Cedar street. filed a petition for the
appointment of a temporary administra-
tor of the estate pending the outcome
of the contest The value of the estate
involved is believed to be worth In the
cumulated by William Kingsland. ar
importer and husband OF Mrs Kings
land He died several years ago.
The contestants, who are not bene-
ficiaries under the terms of the will. OBJ
ject to its probate on the broad legal
grounds that the codicile were not exc
cuted according to law: that the de-
ceased did not have testamentary ca
pacity, and that undue influence was
exercised upon her by persons unknown
to brothers They allege also that v
and William NJ Buckley have renowned
their appointment by provision of the
will as executors of the estate. Their
renunCiations are on file in the Surro-
gates office. V. Everit Macy is a
nephew of the decedent and bene-
ficiary.
1t is alleged by the plaintiffs that
they are entitled to a share in the estate,
which, they say. consists of real and
personal property. bonds, stocks, Sc
curities and mortgages OF great value.
They ask the court to take immediate
action in conserving the assets. alleg-
ing that II pro5ucts an income from
rentals and interest of more than $780,
600 per annum.
The filing of Mrs. Kingslands will in
the Surrogates' office on September 80
disclosed that she, had bequeathed
amounts ranging from $4,000 TO $50
600 each to nearly score OF charitable
institutions. as well as making them
beneflciaries in the residuary estate.
These requests and those to relatives,
friends and old family retainers, two OF
whom are to receive $4,000 each, are
held up pending the outcome OF the
present action.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19
SUGAR LIKELY TO BE
HIGHER AND SCARCER
More Candy and Soft Drinks
One of Many Reasons.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1s.-No relief from
the present sugar situation is In sight
and the probabilities are that conditions
win become worse, the Senate Agricul-
ture Committee was told to-day by DR..
Alonzo Taylor of the Department of
Agriculture. Consumption has increased
about IS per cent. compared with last
year, DR.. Taylor said. due largely to in
creased manufacture OF candy and soft
drinks to satisfy a demand resulting
from prohibition. Other causes given by
the witness were a rebound from war
time repression to extravaganza due to
present prosperity.
DR.. Taylor told the committee the
price of sugar had nothing to do with
consumption in the United States, as the
people were engaged in an orgy OF
spending" and were not trying to econ
omize. There is an increased demand
for sugar in Europe. he said. and II this
country is to get sufficient supplies It will
have to bid against Europe. with re-
sulting advance in prices
George A. Zabriskie, president of the
United States Sugar Equalization Board
and William A. Glasgow. the boards
lawyer. told the committee that reten-
ton of the licensing provision in the bill
continuing the board in operation dur
ing 1920 was absolutely imperative" II
the board was to function successfully.
IF Congress is determined that we
ought to buy the Cuban crop II has 10
give the board power. to buy it." Mr.
Glasgow said I'VE have to control the
rehners in the United States to accom-
plish any good by purchasing that crop"
Then you contemplate handling this
matter as you did during the war;
asked Senator McNary.
Exactly" the witness replied. "That
Is the only way ! see how we can be OF
advantage to the American people"