Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-22

DISCOURSE De Foe. in his 'Cruso,' his Mon
Flanders Religious Courtship, Family instruc-
cess and Richardson has done the same IN
Pamela etc.
was at a place whore there could be no landing.
there being a great surf on the stony beach. so
we dropt anchor and swung round towards tne
edge and hallow'd to us, as we did TO them' put
the wind was so high, and the surf so loud, that
we could not hear so as to understand eacn
other. There were canoes on the shore, and we
made signs and hallow'd that they should fetcn
Is. but they either did not understand us, or
thought it impracticable, SO they went away,
and night coming on. we had no remedy put 70
wait till the wind should abate; and, IN the
meantime, the boatman and l concluded 10
sleep, if we could; and so crowded into the scut-
tie. with the Dutchman, who was still wet, ana
leak'd thro' to us, so that we were soon almost as
wet as he. In this manner we lay all night
with very little rest; but; the wind anating tne
next day, we made a shift to reach Amboy pc
fore night, having been thirty hours on the
water, without %victuals. or any drink but a bottle
of filthy rum, the water we sailed on oelng SAT-
I'm the evening / found myself very feverlsh'
and went to bed: but, having read somewhere
that cold water drank plentifully was good for
a fever. I FOLLOWED the prescription. sweat plen-
tifully most of the night, my FEVER lett me, anu
in the morning, crossing the ferry. l proceeded
ON NV Journey on foot, having fifty miles to
Burlington, where l was told I should find boats
that would carry me the rest of the way to Phil
adelphia."
ut appears, then. from this account written
by Franklin nlfHstii tudl IL pSh ~
Amboy. being sick with a fever. and in the
morning, "crossing the ferry" he said he pro-
ceeded on foot to Burlington. Naturally, II he had
spent the night in South Amboy he would not,
the next morning, have had to cross a ferry upon
starting out for Burlington. There is no ferry
10 cross between South Amboy and Burlington.
The fact that we know that there was a ferry
running from the foot Of High street to the
south shore where there was a highway leading
on across the state to Bordentown and Burning
ton. makes 1t practically certain that it was In
Perth Amboy where Franklin landed after his
trip from New York, spending the night here and
then proceeded on to Burlington by way Of
Long Ferry to South Amboy and thence south
ward.
The fact that Franklin himself simply refers
to Amboy without stating whether 1T Is Perth
or South would indicate that there was only one
Amboy at that time and If there was only one
it must have been Perth. But Perth and South
kmbov are 80 closely associated In everything
these days that what is honor for one Is honor
for the other. In fact, Franklin Is a national
character and no one community unless 1t be
PHILADELPHIA, has any special claim upon him.
He certainly played a great part in obtaining
the independence of America and for that as
we'll as for his other great achievements we all
honor ourselves by honoring him.
AS the statue of the great statesman moves on
to New York this afternoon Perth Amboy and
South Amboy bids 1t Gods speed and a sare
Journey. Incidentally, 1t inspires the hope that
Perth Amboy may, some day, have such a statue
to grace the historic surroundings in this city.