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Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-30
RED CROSS PART
IN GREAT WAR
Local Organization Made En-
viable Record for Home
Service--Other Work

The report Of the wartime activities
of the Perth Amboy Chapter of the
American Red Cross shows that its
workers have done a vast amount of
work for the comfort and general well
fare of the men in the United States
service.
From April, 1917, to June, 1919, the
women workers made 10,1S4 knitted
garments, comprising helmets, scarfs,
sweaters. wristlets and socks. OF these
144 sweaters were given last winter to
the Coast Guards stationed here. Nine
hundred and twenty-three complete
outfits were given to our own men on
the eve of their departure for the va
rious training camps.
The remainder of the knitted gar
ments were sent to headquarters for
distribution at camps n for ship
ment overseas.
Gratitude of Men
That the men appreciated these gifts
is shown by the many letters express
ing gratitude hat ave been n still
are being received by the local chapter
officials.
A total of two hundred and fifty
packing cases containing 1870 gauze
and muslin surgical dressings. 6.9e4
hospital garments, 5,2S1 refugee gar
ments and 931 comfort kits, all made
by the women workers of this city were
sent to headquarters in New York for
seas, some sem to Colonia general hos
pital and our local city hospital also
received some of these supplies.
Christmas Boxes
And the Red Cross Christmas boxes
sent overseas-537 of them went to
gladden. the hearts of our men lover
there"
Homo Service
The Perth Amboy Home Service
branch was organized in November,
1917. Its purpose being to supply in
formation. encouragement. legal,
medical and any other business advice
and any other service necessary to help
the service man or his family. Begin
ming with two cases 1T has to date taken
care of $40 cases, securing bonus. Lib
lerty bends, allotments an allowances
and helping to solve many other prob
lens that perplexed the man or his
family.
Motor Corps:-In August, 1918. the
nucleus Of The present organization
was formed, but it was not until carly
in the spring of 1919 that the members
were qualified to begin actual work.
There are at the present time fourteen
lactive workers. The equipment o
sists of an ambulance presented by cr-
ganized labor, a station a purchased
by the motor corps with the proceeds
of a concert given under their auspices
and q seven-passenger touring car do
mated by the Citizens Emergency Re-
lief. Tho corps responds to emergency
calls in town. does work at Colonia
general hospital and does any other
work that the American Red Cross
asks.
EnviabIe Record
Perth Amboy Chapter has an envi-
able record when we take into consid-
Grafton the fact that we have no So
called leisure class" All hat has
been done was done with willing hearts
and hands by persons who had their
own homes and families to care for.
Truly as a young darky soldier from
Tennessee remarked Tho Red Cross
sho do knock the pessikism out OF a
man."
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-30

An Essex correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Mall writes: This morning
l witnessed a strange sight in which a
herd of cows. an old bull and a few
calves took part In a meadow near my
house.
A COW that had recently calved died
in the night and yesterday morning
lay out stiff on the frosted grass be-
meath a tree. During the day cows
roamed near the place and stopped to
smell and lick the side and face Of
the dead animal. Not till this MORN
ing did the knacker's cart arrive to
carry the body away.
When the vehicle was drawn to the
spot the whole herd came slowly up
and stood round watching intently,
with heads down. and an indescrib-
able expression, which seemed half
questioning and half sympathetic. In
their eves. Seven of them and the
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-30
special correspondent.

By Special Correspondent.
KEYPORT, June 3O-Two persons
were killed. three were injured seri-
ously enough to warrant their re-
moval to a hospital and two others
slightly hurt about 3 o'clock this
morning when an automobile con-
tanning seven passengers crashed into
the bridge at Walnut street and then
plunged into the creek below. All OF
the occupants OF the car were resi-
dents OF Newark and according 10
the findings of the police, they were
intoxicated and travelling at a high
rate of speed when the accident oc-
CURED.
One of the dead had been uniden-
titled up until the time of going to
press, he being known only as Ivy"
The other occupant OF the car to lose
her life was Mrs. Sophia Carusa,
whose husband Is in the army. These
two were killed outright.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-30

Those removed to the South Amboy
Hospital were Theresa Caster, color
ed; Joseph Ggpso and Louis Bacilla.
The latter was the owner and driver
of the car and he was placed under
arrest this morning by Officer James
Mccain, who was detailed to the
South Amboy hospital with a warrant
to make the arrest. Recorder Thomas
l.. Smith, of Keyport, made out the
warrant for Bacilla's arrest.
Mrs Anna Amos and Nick Deda-
rio. also of Newark, were the more
fortunate occupants, neither of these
being injured sufficiently to cause
their removal to a hospital. Mrs.
Amos was removed to the home of
Mrs. johnson which Is near the scene
of the accident.
When the car crashed from the
bridge it broke the gas main supply
ing the borough with gas and 70
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-30


damaged the bridge that traffic across
IL today is impossible.
The car was going from Newark
to keansburg. The car. 10 is said,
was racing along at a great rate of
speed when IL struck the bridge, II
swinging completely around and then
crashing into the creek. The ecu
pants were pinned in the car, unable
TO escape until help arrived.
Mrs. johnson. whose home is near
the bridge, heard the crash at about
3 o'clock and quickly ven to the
scene. The fire alarm vas ms and
frcmen quickly responded n began
the work of extricating the people
from under the car. The escaping
gas, from the high pressure main,
was so strong that three of the fire.
men were ~suffooated and had to be
revived. they being William Crater.
william Bryne and James Mccain.
After the occupants had been re-
moved from the car the bodies of
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-30
2 KILLED, 5 INJURED, WHEN AUTO P[UNGES OFF
BRIDGE INTO CREEK At KEYPORT EARLY TODAY


Mrs. Carusa and "Izzy" were taken
to the morgue OF Harvey 5. Bedie and
the three seriously injured were taken
by some OF the fremen, under direo-
ton Of Chief J.. Walter Snyder. 20 tho
South Amboy Hospital. The injuries
OF these three could not be deter
mined up until the hour OF going TO
press.
DIR. William p. Allen and DIT. Hart
nan were both called TO attend tho
injured md the county physician was
also notified. The condition OF one
or more of those in tho hospital may
prove fatal.
The damage dono to the bridge
VA such rs to mako Il impossible for
any traffic to pass over II, the braces
being knocked out from under II, tho
guard rails broken, while tho entire
middle collapsed.
Tho accident was tho result OF q
typical "joy-riding'' party, reports
' showed,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-30
Early American Post ofaces.

In ITS the first post Offices in Maine
were established at Kennebunk. Fall
mouth and Bath. The mails were car
ried by carriers on foot or on horse
back and the average weeks mail did
not amount to five letters at each Office
The rates were high, ga. 1914, 1874,
rs and 37h cents. according to the
distance the letter had to be carried,
and double the rate when the letter
was Of more than one sheet Of paper.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-30

Or touching the reins, and tho horse
kept his nose near his shouide. hut
when the man stopped singing the
horse stopped pulling. I have heard
the land girls say they sing to the
horses and cows they look after. and
that the animals love 1t, and / know
In India some of the hardest labor
is done by oxen. driven-not with
whip or goad-but by the singing Of
the native boys in charge Of them.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-30
The Other Man.

An old Irish coachman had just fin.
ished n wet and cold drive. "Now,
Pat" said the young lady he had
driven, drink this glass of toddy,
and you'll feel Ike another man."
Later on. when preparing TO start on
the return journey, Pat said. "Sure,
and the other man would like q drop
Of something noti"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-30
Do Animals Love Muster

I was awakened the other morning
by the clatter of a horses hoofs and
a mans voice singing Killarney"
says a writer in the London Daily Elk.
press. Peeping through the venetian
blind I saw that a young Midland
railway carter was the vocalist, and
that his horse. which was harnessed
TO a heavlly-laden van, vas following
him in a zig-zag fashion, across and
up the steep road which runs past my
windows. He was not using a whip
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-30
A Busting Burg.

by George I" triumphantly ejaculat-
ed a prominent resident Of that on
rushing hamlet. "Pruntytown is get
ting to be moro and more metropoli-
tan right along. Why, dog-take-it, the
all night restaurant stays open till
half-past ten or '1even every night of
the world, except Sundays Fudge.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-30
Saw Smoke; Call Firemen

Smoke issuing from the garage of
Nathan Sher, 457 Division street.
caused neighbors to turn in an alarm
at 9:10 this morning at box 81. Sher
told the firemen when they arrived
that he had been working in the gar
age all the morning and that IL any
one had looked they would have seen
him. Neighbors said the smoke was
pouring out of the doors and windows
in very great quantity.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-30

old bull came up and licked the dead
cows face, In one instance as 1t was
being hoisted into the cart. When II
was taken away they stood watching
II to the far side Of the meadow and
through the gate till they could see 1t
no longer. Then they smelled all over
the spot where II had lain.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-30
French Military Auctions.

Parls.-The French military author.
tiles hold periodical sales by auction
of automobiles for which the army
has no further use. The demand for
these machines. many Of which do not
need great repairs, Is so great that
one days receipts recently were the
equivalent of S240,000.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-30
Well Named.

'sThe convicts who escaped went
through this window, where the bars
are fled"
"Then If the jail had only been this
post office, that would have been the
general delivery window. -
, 1919-04-26

Constipation and the train Of evils it
brings may be overcome by using DAVIS
LIVER PILLS. Common sense applied
to diet and reasonable exercise with the
assistance Of these pills will work wonders
of all dealers in medicines. Try them.
, 1919-04-26

peace following an armistice in which
all the Allies were pledged to give no
regard to secret treaties. The Italian
situation -overshadowed all other ques-
tons throughout the day in Paris and
was the sole subject of conversation in
official and unofficial circles.
Amsterdam, April 23rd-The German
peace plenipOtentiaries, the Frankfort
Zeitung says, have been instructed not
to sign the treaty of peace unless it
provides for the immediate and uncon-
ditional return Of German prisoners of
war.
London, April 23rd.-UraI Cossack
troops, apparently acting in conjunction
with the Siberian forces of Admiral Kol-
chalk, have beg n an offensive in the re-
gion OF UraIsk in southeastern Russia,
south of Samara, and have captured sew
eral villages OF Uralsk.
London. April 23rd. Large quantities
of material were abandoned by the Boil
sheviki when they were driven out of
B~olshieozerkie recently, according to the
report of Major-G General Ironside, Brit
ish Commander-in-C Chief on the Arch
angel front, REGARDING the operation.
His report continues We captured
field guns, one thousand rounds of 9-inch
dIIlIuullIllOIS anu SOIIlG pIlSUiI6IS. Inc
spirit of the troops taking part was ex-
cellent and they have done exceedingly
well" Regarding the general situation,
General Ironside says deserters from
the Bolshevik forces have joined our own
and the Russian troops. They openly
show their hatred of the BoIshevik and
bear witness to the hard conditions of
service. This has done more than any
thing else to consolidate the Russian
army. General Ironside in his report
mentions especially a battalion of Royal
Scots with the North Russian force as
having had the hardest time of any
troops in the ArchangeI sector with the
heaviest casualties but as displaying high
morale throughout and never showing d
sign of being disspirited.
Paris, April 23rd The German Govt.
has officially advised the Allied and
Associated Govts. that the German
Plen%ipotentiaries would not leave Ber-
lin before April 28th., and that they
would reach Versailles May 7th at the
earliest. Seven ne~Wspaper-men will
accompany the pIenipotentiaries, the
despatch adds.
st. Johns, N. F., April 23rd-Both air
flight parties apparently are r%econciling
themselves to prospects of a long delay,
the general impression being that with
weather as at present it is unlikely that
any flight will be possible before mex
month.
, 1919-04-26

assign Fiume to Italy would be to create
a feeling that we have deliberately put
the port upon which all these countries
chiefly depend for access to the Mediter-
ranean in the hands of a power of which
it did not form an integral part and whose
sovereignty if set up there must newt
ably seem foreign, not domestic or iden-
titled with the commercial and industrial
life Of the reason, 10 doubt, that Fiume
was not included in the pact of London,
but was definitely assigned to the CrOa-
tians and the reason why the line of the
pact of London swept about many
of the islands on the eastern coast
of the Adriatic and around the portion
of the Dalmatian coast which lies most
open to that sea vas not only because
that here and there on these islands
and on that Coast there are bodies of
people Of Italian blood and connection,
bus also and no doubt chiefly because
it was felt that it was for Italy to have
a foothold amidst the channels Of the
eastern Adriatic in order that she might
make her own Coasts safe against the
naval aggression of Austria Hungary.
But Austria Hungary no longer exists.
1t is proposed that the Notifications
which the Austrian Govt. constructed
there shalt De RACED and permanently
destroyed. It IS part also of the new
plan Of European order which centres
in the League of Nations that the new
States erected there shall accept a limi-
tation of ornaments which puts aggres-
sion out Of the question. There can be
no fear of the unfair treatment of
groups Of Italian people there because
adequate guarantees will be given IN
der international sanction Of the equal
and equitable treatment Of all racial or
national minorities. In brief, every
question associated with this settlement
wears a new aspect given by the very
victory for right for which Italy has
made the supreme sacrifice OF blood
and treasure, Italy along with the four
other Great Powers has. become one
of the chief trustees of the new ord
er which she has played so honorable
a part in stabilizing, and on the north
and northeast her natural frontiers are
completely restored along the whole of
the Alps from northwest to southwest
to the very end Of the lstrian Peninsula,
including all the great watersheds with
in Trieste and Pola lie all the fair re
gions whose face nature has turned to-
ward the great peninsula upon which
the historic life of the Latin people had
been worked out through centuries of
famous stories, ever since Rome was
firsG set upon her seven hills. Her an
cient unity is restored. Her lines are
extended to the great walls which are
To- - --T4hTo q
, 1919-04-26

interest. The nations associated with
her, the nations that know nothing of
the pact of London or Of any other spe-
cial understanding that lies at the be
ginning of the great struggle and who
have made the supreme sacrifice IN the
interest, not OF national advantage or de-
fence, but of settled peace OF the world,
are now united with her old associates
in urging her to assume a leadership,
which cannot be mistaken in he new
order of Europe. America is Jtaly's
friend. Her people are drawn, mil
lion strong from Italy'S own country
sides. She is linked in blood as we'll as
ia affection with the Italian people. Such
ties can never be broken. ana Amel ca
was privileged by the generous com
mission OF her associates in the war
to initiate the peace Weare about to
coasummate, to initiate upon terms
watch she had herself formulated and
in which | was her spokesman. The
compulsion is upon her to square every
decision she takes a part in with those
principles. She can do nothing else. She
trusts Italy and in her trust believes that
Ita!v will ak nothing Of her that cannot
be made Enthusiastically consistent with
those obligations. The interests are not
now in question, but the rights of peoples,
Of states new and old, OF liberated peoples
and whose peoples have never been ac-
counted worthy Of d right, above all
the right Of the void to peace and
such settlements OF interests as shall
make peace secure. These and these
only are the principles for which
America has fought. these and these
Only are the principles upon which she
can consent to make peace. Only upon
these principles she hopes and believes
viii the people OF Italy ask her to make
peace.
Paris, April 23rd-After a conference
held by the Italian delegation TO the
Peace Conference this afternoon, it was
announced that the delegates would leave
Paris tomorrow.
Paris, April 23rd-President Wilson's
emphatic declaration that he will not
yield on the Adriatic question has created
the most profound sensation and he has
thrown down the gauntlet to the sup
portars OF secret treaties in a manner
which almost took away the breach
Of the delegates who have been urging
compromises on points covered by many
sec eli documents and at variance with
the Presidents fourteen points. Presi-
dent Wilson's sN eeping declaration, while
aimed directly at the Adriatic problem,
also reaches the KiaU-Chau controversy
in which Japan relies upon a secret
agreement made with Great Britain,
France and Italy i'll 1917 to support her
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-14

NAL. or it procures him meat or fur
that he can sell; he turns out piece OF
carved ivory that he can dispose of
for profit AS a reindeer man his work
results in a larger herd from which he
can sell meat. On the other hand his
labor fer white man accomplishes
not hing for himself directly.
He appears to take little pride in the
small Jobs he does for others, and he
has no interest ut all in his part of a
big Job The fact that he gets so many
dollars for his work does not appeal to
him as il does 10 the white man. He
,nrefers to get his money by selling the
product OF his work, not his work alone.
An official recently told me that the
Eskimos would never really count
among civilized people until they
learned to re wage slaves This indi-
Gates that all our plans for the ESki,
mo : economic development must be
along the lines of making things to sell
not in turning cut industrially trained
Young people who can do homework Oh
Job work by the day or hour. 1t will be
some time before the Eskimo will be a
success along that line.-W. c. Shields
in Department of Interior Bulletin.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-14
LIQUOR TRAFFIC
BACKBONE GONE
If War Prohibition Should End Oct.
8 But Little Territory Would Be
s Affected, for Short Time.

Il WESTERVILLE, o., July l4.-Just
how much of the United States was af-
fected by war prohibition and how much
viii be affected by constitutional prohi
hition?
5 The average man, it seems, thinks of
prohibition as something that has sud
denly enyeloped an entire nation. But
a statement of the Anti-Saloon league,
issued from the headquarters here, points
out that before war prohibition went
into effect there was only little por-
ton of the United States wet.
For instance, 80 states and the District
of Columbia were dry, either by popular
vote or legislation. They were dry as
to light wines and beers, just the same
as to spirituous liquors. War prohibi-
ton did not affect them at all, neither
will constitutional prohibition affect their
status. 1t was illegal to ship liquor into
them from wet states.
Those 81 states represent the largest
area in the United States. OF the IL
wet states only two or three are of any
size. as, for instance, New York, Penn
sylvania, Minnesota, California and
Louisiana. The remaining wet states
such as Delaware, Rhode Island, Mary.
land, Vermont, etc, are among the
smaller of the states in area.
But even the 10 states are not wholly
wet In fact, there is not state in the
Union that has not dry spots in it. Fol-
instance, almost half of New York stat,
was dry. In more than half of Califor
MIA sale of all liquors was illegal II
| Kentucky, l07 of the 100 counties wer,
| dry More than half of Louisiana wa
| dry There have been very few saloons
in Vermont, and Wilmington was tn,
only wet spot in Delaware.
J SO, according to the drys, there wa
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-14

mighty little of the country that wasn't
under prohibition, anyhow, and about
so per cent of the people lived in arid
territory.
Minnesota, it is pointed out. would
have been wholly dry except for the state
law which requires the drys to get a
majority of all votes east at any election.
When Minnesota voted on the wet and
dry issue prohibition had a larger vote
than the vets polled, but not a majority
of all votes, by about 500 cast in the
election for governor. That means that
many voters ignored the wet and dry
| issue entirely.
| Even if war prohibition lasts only a
| few months and not until constitutional
| prohibition comes in. the drys do not
anticipate any great gain to the vets.
They point out that only a very few
| saloons and other liquor establishments
would find it profitable to open up for
such a short time. If, for instance, war
| prohibition should end October |. there
would be but three months in which to
sell liquor and the drys say most of the
men engaged in the traffic, knowing that
constitutional prohibition is to come
January IL, will look about for perma-
ent Engagements rather than resume
liquor selling for a short period.
The backbone of the liquor traffic is
gone, they say, even if there is hiatus
between war prohibition and the consti-
| tutional variety.
At the office of the Anti Saloon league
! it was said that the league will engage
actively in a law enforcement campaign
and in preparation for the world dry
fight.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-14
A LOST TRIBE
AL Traces of Arawak Indians, Once of
Jamaica, Are Lost.

When in 1894, on his second voyage,
Columbus discovered the island OF ia
maica, it was populated by the Arawak
Indians, who, although at first hostile to
him, became friendly on his giving them
clothing and other articles hitherto un-
known to them
When later the Spanards settled the
island they forced the Indians not only
to do agricultural work in their own is
land, but to labor in the gold mines of
Hayti So hard were the Spanish tas,
masters that by 1853 the whole .Arawali
nation was exterminated
During the past eight years efforts
have been made, under the auspices of a
scientific society, to recover all possible
traces of the lost race To that end ex-
plorations have been made in the old kit
chen middens. or refuse heaps, of the
Arawaks, in which there have been found,
besides shells and pottery and fish, turtle
and cony bones, many celts, or rude CHS
els, grinding stones, stone pendants and
axes i 800 objects in all, which have been
given to the American Museum OF Natur-
al History of New York city.
To the anthropologist the most inter
esting objects are the cylindrical stone
pendants, which were fashioned Will
sand and stone and endless rubbing
Pendants of exactly the same sort arr
worn today as insignia Of office by chief,
or hcadmen OF tribes in northern Soutl
America New York sun.