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BOOZE VALUED At THOUSANDS,
SEIZED BY THE POLICE, IS CAST
INTO SEWER BY COURT ORDER
Doleful Crowd Stands BY on
East Side Side Street as
Funeral Is Held.
LEACH YIELDS SLEDGE.
Deputy Commissioner Bangs
In the Head of First Barrel
and the Flow Is On.

II great ships come staggering to
their docks in the next day or two, II
little fishes 60 crazy and become vio-
lent, If desperate humans leap over
board head first and with mouths
open, and II the tenants OF tall build
ings along the waterfront rush to
their windows to inhalc deeply the
breath OF the sen"-which will be
some breath--tlr' answer to all these
mysteries will lC obtainable at Po-
lice Headquarters,
And here Is the dolcful answer
First Deputy Police Commissioner
John A. Leach this afternoon offici-
ated as funeral director at the burial
of John Barleycorn. when the remains
of anywhere from $25, 900 to $50. 900 or
some more wine and liquors were low
cred into the Sheriff Street sewer.
Police Inspector William Coleman
acted as chief gravedigger, and with
twenty reserves kept back the crowds
of mourners.
The police band being otherwise
engaged and the Police Glee Club
being on traffic duty singing watch
Your STEP" taps were sounded with
sledges on barrel heads.
Promptly at o'clock the cortege
moved out of the old Union Market
Police Station into the middle of
Sheriff Street. between Houston and
Second Streets. In the procession
were nine barrels of wine and booze.
two kegs, 115 bottles. seven demi-
Johns, one pitcher, one little still and
a solitary pint flask. Deputy Police
Commissioner Leach read the death
warrant which had been signed by
Justice Alfred J. Talley, and at
sign the manhole covering of the
sewer was removed
! The iron disk struck the stones with
! a clang which sounded dismal in the
superheated street. and brought q
concerted moan from the mourners,
vino were being kept back by the re-
serves. Deputy Police Commissioners
Leach, uncoated and bare armed,
swung a sledge hammer. 1t swishcd
through the air and hit the head OF a
barrel with sickening whack, and
the life giving or life taking contents,
as one feels about it, went gurgling
| and splashing into the Sheriff Street
! sewer, and on and on and down to the
unsuspecting sea.
| But Commissioner Leach's blow was
so mighty that it broke the handle,
and the hammer went into the barrel,
splashing the contents over Mr.. Leach
and his Palm Beach trousers
Meanwhile bottles were being I'M
corked and their contents poured into
the manhole, cleansing the sewer and
adding to the height of the tide. And
so. many thousands of dollars worth
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of booze was consumed in the short
afternoon. which beats the record of
any city banquet that used to be.
Some said the estimate of the amount
squandered on the sewer was $4,000.
Still others said that the booze was
priceless.
But one of the pallbearcrs said that
there was lot of hooch in the nectar
! that was served to the mermaids and
other deniZens of the deep. And he
ought to know.
He was an old-time cop!
Unable to stand the sight OF Deputy
Commissioner Leach pouring out the
contents of two bottles OF bonded
goods one in each hand. Eli Lefko-
! WITT, of No 40 Miller Avenue, Brook
Ign dashed forward and showed a
brand new straw hat under the flow,
Then he put the hat to his mouth
and drained what he had taken be-
fore Policeman Sheridan could get to
him. He was pushed back into the
crowd still draining the lid.
A group of school children from
p. S. No 122 in Sheriff Street stood
around and watched the object
lesson.
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'Hy[AN ADMINISTRATION
PROVIDED ONLY Upper CENT.
OF SCHOOL REPAIR MONEY
Meagre Funds, Inadequate for
Required Upkeep, Quickly
~ NV u.'
SURVEY IS INCOMPLETE.
Three More Schools in Brook
Ign Found as Bad as Worst
Reported.

THE difficulty of our situation
at the present moment arises
from the fact that the appropri-
alton was not normal, but only
about 10 per cent. Of what il
should have BEEN"
! This sentence culled from letter
Of c. B. J. Snyder Superintendent of
School Buildings, To William l.. Eft
finger, Superintendent of Schools Feb.
2, 1920, explains why the existing
schools are in the shameful condition
exposed in the report of several civic
bodies and why the number of new
public school buildings is so far be-
hind the citys needs. This sentence
derives added significance in the
light of the following paragraphs
taken from the same letter:
'In 1918 we expended for emergency
repairs and unforeseen work the sum
of $SO5,545. In 1919 our ex-
penditures were $64O.322. They should
have been much larger, but funds
were not available.
"You will remember, | think, that
xehe close of both years. notwith-
I Banding the most rigid economy
y' there was much work which
could not be performed because Of
lack of funds. In other words. work
which should have been done in 1918
was necessarily held over until 1919.
"The same condition of affairs
obtained at the close Of last year.
so that at the beginning Of this
year te20) we we're confronted
with an enormous amount Of re-
pairs, especially in the sanitary
and heating work, much
the result of slow deterorat
due to the postponement Of thor
ouch repairs."
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GLADYS DEACON
IS NOW DUCHESS
OF MARLBOROUGH
Civil Wedding of Duke and
Boston Girl Performed
in Paris.

PARIS, June 24.-Miss Gladys
Deacon of Boston to-day became the
Duchess OF Marlborough.
The civil ceremony OF wedding her
TO the Duke Of Marlborough took
place to-day at the British Con-
sulate. 1t took but three minutes
for Consul General II. G. Mackic to
read the services and for tho wit
ncsses to affix their signatures to the
certificate.
Miss Deacon was gowned simply
in a blue street dress. with a blue
cape and a large blue. transparent
hat trimmed with red roses. The
Duke wore a morning coat and light
gray trousers. Miss Deacon did not
give her age, but the Duke set his
down as forty-nine
American newspaper men were the
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Troth to James N. Thompson, Steel
Man, Is Broken "By Mutual
Consent"

Col. and Mrs. Henry Huddleston
Rogers. who are in London. have an
nounced by cablegram that the en-
gagement OF their daughter, Mary
Millicent Rogers. to James NJ. ThOmp-
son OF New York has been ended. No
explanation was obtainable at Col.
Rogers's office.
Mr.. Thompson. VINO is connected
with the John Illingworth Steel Com
pany, was quoted as saying that the
only explanation he felt at liberty to
offer was that the engagement had
been broken by mutual consent"
The engagement was announced last
August, about year after Miss
Rogers's introduction to society. She
and her parents are expected to &C
main broad for a few more weeks.
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MRS. J. w. CATES'S
DOMICILE ARGUED
Surrogate Foley Hears Contentious
on Which Right TO Tax on
Si7.OOO,OOO Depends.

Whether New York City or Port
Arthur. Tex, will benefit by the tax
on the $1,000, 900 estate vf Mrs. John
w. Gates will be decided by Surro-
gate Foley, who to-day listened to
arguments whether Mrs Gates was a
resident Of this State or Texas.
A. l.. Humes, one of the executors
of the estate. argued that she was q
Texan because in her will. executed
two months before death, Mrs. Gates
held that she was a resident OF Port
Arthur He said that an apartment
In the Plaza Hotel, although contain
ing 100000 in paintings and costing
$4,000 year rent, was considered q
temporary domicile by Mr.. and Mrs.
Gates
Charles M. Travers, for the State.
said Mr.. Gates in 1868 registered
as a voter from the Waldorf. He
said Gates once placed his Port
Port Arthur property on the tax
rolls at $4,000. although he held
securities in Texas worth s3,o00.00o
and $5,00o.00o in other cities. This,
rravers said. proved the financier
did not regard himself as a Texan
Travcrs said Mrs. Gates since the
death OF her husband spent but short
periods in Texas. and erected u
100000 mausoleum at Woodlawn,
where she and her husband are now
buried.
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prived of luncheons at home, with
the consequent disastrous effect
upon their digestive systems.
NO RELIEF FOR 1900 PUPILS IN
LESS THAN A YEAR.
The city has started work on a
new school two blocks from here"
said Miss Behnken, but 1t cannot be
finished in less than a year. Il was
originally designed to relieve the
neiehbo rhood, but il will only lust
care for our needs. There will be
only forty eight classrooms, and we
have forty five classes for September,
without tho last two years from "a
to SO. Our attendance increases at
the rate OF three classes a year, SO
there is little hope of relief in the
new school for long, We now have
1900 pupils"
Here, again, is seen the inability OF
the city to keep pace with the grow
ing school demands, not to mention
liquidating part of the deficit in
buildings and sittings.
when we get out OF here" Miss
Behnken added, this building should
not be torn down. 1t should be con-
verted into neighborhood swimming
pool, something We need here badly.
This is a very crowded neighborhood
and the people need something like
it. Now here is a dirty boy who has
come to school unclean," singing out
an untidy youngster. I'VE teach the
children hygiene, yet l am unable to
get him cleaned up, for we have not
even sink and faucet here. The
only way / can wash child's hands
and face Is to catch in a basin some
water from the drinking bubbles in
| the basement"
MODERN coNvENiENcEs, BUT
CAN'T USE THEM.
Miss Behnken keeps this basin in
| her own office-there Is no other
place. At p. S. No. 157, Kent Avenue
and Taaffe Place, not far away, there
are shower baths, she said But in
this modern building, completed dur
ing the war and equipped with all
modern improvements, refusal to APP
proprate money for attenda nts
makes it impossible for tn. school to
use the showers installed.
| Probably the greatest shame of all
at +. S. 81 Is found in the adjoining
annexes. Three stores nave been con-
verted into class rooms. They are
heated with ordinary base burner
stoves which exhale coal gas and
furnish insufficient beat, while the
roofs are leaky and the sewage Is
bad. The yards around the rooms
are filthy to the extreme and impos-
sible of use. When 1t rains the odor
Is unbearable.
The school is located in the midst
of fur factories which send out fine
particles of fluff to be inhaled by the
youngsters and also acid fumes
which turn clothes on the neighbor-
ing wash lines yellow. The sidewalks
are in terrible shape, 80 that in fire
drills the children break out OF line,
upset the discipline and retard tho
emptying of the building.
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only ones present at the ceremony,
aside from the witnesses. chief of
whom was Eugene Higgins. cousin OF
the bride. and whose home will be
the scene of the religious ceremonies
to- morrow. Walter Berry, l.. c. Rem
ault and j. T. B. Scwell we're the other
witnesses.
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prived of luncheons at home, with
the consequent disastrous effect
upon their digestive systems
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1921-06-24
PROTEST S1.25 GAS RATE.
brooklyn Union Consumers Ask
Com mission for Further Reduction

A protest against the proposed rate
OF Sl.25 for gas supplied by the Brooklyn
Union Gas Company was filed to-day
by 200 consumers with the Public Ser
vice Commission. The petition sets
forth that the consumers now paying
$3.50 a thousand cubic feet do not be-
lieve the new rate of sl.25 effective
Aug. 1 Is sufficient.
The petitioners ask that their attorney
be allowed to cross examine witness for
the gas company when the Public Ser
vice Commission starts it's public hear
ing into the general gas situation
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GEORGE HAZELTON DEAD.
Playwright Was Author Of "The
Willow Tree" and "Yellow Jacket"

George Hazelton. writer and play
wright. died at his home to-day OF
cancer.
Among Hazelton's plays we're THE
Yellow Jacket" which he wrote in
collaboration with Denrimo. and The
Willow Tree"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27
HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS
TO MEET TOMORROW

NEW BRUNSWICK, Oct. 27:-All
Is in readiness at the State Univer-
sity for the fourth annual confer
ence of high school teachers which
will be held Friday and Saturday.
The army of visiting delegates and
school people from New Jersey and
nearby states will be the guests of
the student body during the confer
ence. In speaking for the confer
ence committee DIR. Charles III. Ell
lott, who Is directing the general
arrangements for thes conference,
said: The most important confer
ence of high school teachers and
supervisors of the year will be held
this week"
The subjects which are being dis
eussed r also of paramount inter-
est to the high school teacher and
principal. Such important topics as
Elementary Science and Communi-
ty Civics," Credits for Outside
Study in Music" The Place of Pub
lie Speaking in the High School,"
Appreciation in Literature" the
Organization of Industrial Teach
ing occupy a prominent place on
the program. The National Edu-
cation Association and Its Program
will be discussed by Miss Charl @.
Williams. president of the National
Education Association, and Junior
High School Extra-Curricula Activ-
tiles" by Assistant Commissioner
James NJ. Glass of the State Depart
ment of Education of Pennsylvania.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27
BIG FESTIVAL SUNDAY
FOR ROOSEVELT CHURCH

ROOSEVELT, Oct. 27:-NeXt
Sunday will be a red letter day for
the Zion Lutheran churches at this
place and Railway. Anniversary
Reformation festival and Tranksgiv-
ing will be celebrated in the church
here at 10 o'clock in the morning
and at 7:45 o'clock at night. The
different societies of the church will
attend the services. The services at
the Railway church will be held at 3
o'clock in the afternoon. .
All services will be conducted by
the pastor, Rev. Alexander Leon
hardi, who has served in three
countries, Canada, United States of
America and Germany. Rev. Mr..
Leonhardi recently returned with his
family from Europe. where they
have been staying for more than il
year. In more than 100 lectures,
sermons and addresses he has spOk-
en- to thousands of people. Last
Christmas he addressed the boys of
the American Army of Occupation
in the chapel of the United States
Army Hospital at Coblenz, Germany.
An invitation is extended to every
one who understands the German
language to attend the services. The
services in the Railway church will
be conducted in the English Ian
guage.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27
MAYOR HYLAN TO SPEAK
IN BOROUGH TONIGHT

TOTTENvILLE, Oct. 27.-Mayor
John f. Hylan will invade Staten
Island tonight for the purpose of
arranged for \e north and east
shores of the island. These meet
ings will mark the opening of the
active campaign of the mayor and
other city-wide candidates in Rich
mond borough. 1t is to be marked
by the largest array of speaking tall
ent that has been assembled at any
one meeting in the borough for the
campaign. Mayor Hylan will be the
principal speaker at each of the
three meetings. Others that are
down on the list are Comptroller
Craig, Dock Commissioner Murray
Hubert, Matthew j. Cahill, candi-
date for borough president, Harry
Rudolph, candidate for sheriff and
the various other candidates for as
sembly and board of aldermen. The
meetings will be held at school No.
20, Port Richmond, public school
No. IS, West New Brighton. and at
the Stapleton club rooms.
William l.. Vaughan, of Totem
Vile, candidate for assembly in the
second assembly district. will lead a
large delegation from here to the
meetings.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27
KEYPORT CLUB MEMBERS
HAVE SEVERAL SESSIONS

KEYPORT. Oct. 27.-Under the
direction of the chairman of the
handicraft department of the Key
port Literary Club. several meetings
of the department will be held at
the various homes of the members
during the coming weeks. On Fri
day afternoon of this week the de-
partment will meet at the home of
Miss Margaret Bedle when the max
ing of wooden hats and wooden flow
ers will be demonstrated by Mrs.
L. Brewer Walling. president of the
club.
Great interest is shown in the reed
work which is taught by the chair
man. All sorts of attractive baskets
and trays are made in this DEPART
ment and while many members had
V before tried reed work. many
articles we're completed the past
year and all were well made. The
reed class is forming now and will
hold the first meeting in about two
weeks. in order that the members
may complete articles for Christ
mas gifts.
The club was represented at the
Woodbridge presidents birthday
party today by the president. Mrs.
l.. Brewer Walling. and Mrs. George
S. Hyer. recording secretary.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27
PLEASANT PLAINS

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Whitney.
of Newark, were visitors at Prince
Fay Beach Monday.
Mrs. Leo Kretz visited her moth
err at Eltingville this week.
Mrs. Nelson Gilby is at Vineland,
N. j., for a visit with her son.
Mr.. and Mrs. James McQuillan,
of Manhattan, were at their bum
galow at Great Kills Beach re-
Gently for a visit.
Announcement Is made of the
marriage of William E. Nichols, Of
this place, and Miss Annie e.
Brown, of Eltingville, which took
place last Saturday night at st.
Marks parsonage. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. William
Burd, pastor of the church.
The Pleasant Plains Union was
well represented yesterday after
noon at the reception rendered Mrs.
Bessie Browne. by the Richmond
County w. C. T. U. at the New Dorp
parish house.
The cottage prayer meetings of
St. Marks church will be held to-
night at the homes of Charles
Sprague, with f. c. Shea. leader;
home of David Johnson, with Mrs.
II. Mouterstock as leader; home of
j. c. Swade. with Miss Hazel Pol
hemus as leader. and at the home
of Philip Waterway, with c. j.
Kahn as leader.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27
ANNOUNCE WINNERS At
so. AMBOY CARD PARTY

SOUTH AMBOY, Oct. 27-The
following is the list of the winners
at the recent card party held in the
rooms of the X. of C. under the
auspices of the Catholic Daughters
Of America. Many Perth Amboy
people were among the many who
attended. Mrs. John Ryan is the
chairman arranging these delight
full events.
The nonplayers prize was won
by Mrs. Leon C~osgrove; bridge,
Mrs. John Quain; pinochle, John
Sutliff, ST., and Patrick j. Dwyer;
five hundred. Mrs. Murray, of Perth
Amboy Mrs. Edward Mullen, Mrs.
Amboy; euchre, Mrs. John Bren-
nan, Mrs. Edward Noble and Miss
Fabiola Burke.
Plans are completed for the mon
strous ~character dance to be held
jointly under the auspices of the
Catholic Daughters of America
and a committee of the Knights of
Columbus. The dance will be held
on Monday night in st. Mary's hall.
The grand march is scheduled to
start at $3.50. Grand Knight and
Mrs. Timothy Duggan will lead the
march.
The weekly card party scheduled
for Monday night will be postponed
until Wednesday night on account
of the dance. The following men,
bers have been appointed to serve
on the committee. Mrs. Margaret
Kerwin, Mrs. Winifred Mccarthy,
Mrs Olga Manhattan. Mrs. Jennie
Heston Mrs. Elizabeth Triggs. Mrs.
Julia Rea, Mrs. Margaret Rue. Mrs.
Matilda Rush, Miss Irene Smith,
and Mrs. Anna Snyder.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27
TOTTENVILLE

Mrs Kennard Weaver of Philadel
phia, is the guest of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Christensen. Of Weir
lane.
Miss Mildred Fordham has re-
turned to East Moriches, l.. l., af-
ter a months visit with her aunt
and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. William ].
Clark, of Arthur Kill road.
Miss f. Blanche Brown has been
visiting friends in Newark.
A daughter. Marjorie Stetson
Howard Chandler Thayer recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. George M. Totten.
of Lee avenue, have been entertain
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Decker,
Of Weehawken.
Police Sergeant Scanlon has re-
turned to duty after his annual va
cation.
Mrs. Ewald j. Gross is confined
to her home i'll at Butler avenue.
Deckhand Charles Pearsall, Of
the ferry boat Perth Amboy, who
was knocked overheard in the acct
dent on the boat Sunday night went
to ST. Vincent's hospital. yesterday
and had an X-ray taken of his in
juries to his shoulder.
Miss Chiefly Gregory will enter
tain the members of the Afternoon
Euchre Club at her home tomor-
row.
William Brandt, of West Wood
mere, L. l., was fined $25 by Mag
istrate Croak in he second district
court yesterday on a charge of
speeding in Amboy road at the
rate of thirty miles an hour.
Beatrice Thompson, colored,
twenty-five years old. of Newark,
was sentenced by Judge Herman IN
county court to three months in the
county Jail for stabbing Brant
Granville, colored, with q knife on
August 3. at G~reenridge.
Chemists of the department of
health in examining the knife and
woman's night gown found at Lin
oleumville Monday night report
that the stains were rust and not
blood on the knife and gown.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27
OIL STOVE CAUSE OF
FIRE IN DWELLING

TOTTENVILLE, Oct. 27.-An
over heated oil stove in a one-story
rear extension of the two-story
frame dwelling at 351 Brehaut ave
nue. caused damage to the structure
to the extent of 800 yesterday at
ternoon. The building. owned by
Patrick Harding, of SIS Main street,
is occupied by John Hector and his
family. An alarm was turned in
from box 80 at Amboy road and
Sprague avenue which called out rs
hook and ladder and ISL engine
with their motor apparatus to the
scene. The blaze was soon entin-
guished. The building was insured.
Patrolman Cotter made the report.
Public School. No. Is. at Tomp-
kinsville, is closed today because of
a fire early yesterday morning which
damaged the structure to the extent
of about $4,000. The fire gained
such Roadway that two alarms were
sent in by Deputy Chief Begin upon
his arrival. There are thirteen rooms
in the school and it is expected that
eight a be used after temporary
repairs are made. District Super
intendent Thomas Baker expects to
open the school again on Monday.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27
EASTERN STAR CHAPTER
STARTED LAST NIGHT

TOTTENVILLE, Oct. 27:-Master
Masons together with many mem
bers of the order from the various
chapters on the island were at the
institution of Great Kills Chapter,
Order of the Eastern Star, which
took place last night at the Masonic
temple here. District Deputy Louise
Mendelowitz, recently named by the
grand matron, was in charge of the
ceremonies. She was assisted by
other past district deputies and past
matrons of the other chapters in
Richmond. Mrs. Chauncey Goodrich
is the matron of the new chapter
and Mr.. Goodrich is the patron.
Both were members of Huguenot
Chapter No. SS of Tottenville. After
the installation of the new officers
and other formalities a social time
was held with refreshments in the
banquet hall.