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Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-07

ran as hard as he could. =.
He ran and ran. a deadly sinking
feeling in his stomach. Then he had
to tell himself: THE house is gone
tool" The cold was biting at his feet
and through his very bones. He turned
desperately to the left and an. This
time he ran into something. He felt
it with his benumbed hands. 1t was
straw.
"Oh. now / know!" he exclaimed.
This is that old rick near the barn.
Now If / go to the right, I'll reach
the barn."
But he went to the right but there
was no barn. The white flakes cut his
face and swirled around him like mad
imps in a dance of triumph. They
seemed to cry: Nov we've got you'll"
He remembered stories of people be-
ing frozen to death right on their own
doorsteps in storms like this. He
tried to think calmly, but thinking
didn't do any good. I'D better keep
moving. l won't lose heart. / must
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-07
IHE BLIZZARD
by Aoeline MecG ,IvAN

near Old Harry's stall is open," he
thought. II ought to fasten it tight
and I'd better water and feed both
him and Floss now while the baby's
asleep"
but not his gloves. His boots were in
the barn. but it was only a few feet
from the house. Whew! When he
opened the back door a gust nearly
blew him off his feet, and it seemed as
If a great angry ogre had thrown a
bucketful of snow violently in his face.
He laughed. though. 1t vas lots of
fun. Out into the blizzard he dashed
headed straight for the barn. He
ought to reach 1t in a minute or two.
How queer! He certainly ran far
enough yet the barn wasn't there.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-07

must have fallen asleep. School is
pretty long that's true, and when the
woods are quiet and pretty and a per-
son has just had plenty to eat, it's
awful easy to go to sleep. as you
know.
And then, just a suddenly as she
had gone to sleep. Peggy walked up
but oh. such a different woods as 1t
was! The fire red sun was all gone.
The oak trees that had looked so
warm and friendly were dark and
solemn looking and the pile of bould-
ers-Peggy looked around for the pile
of boulders. They weren't there!
Nothing was there as it ought to be!
Goodnessi
Somebody's picked me UP and ar-
ried me away" thought Peggy to her
self.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-07

tending and her woods were the
est to, a forest she had ever seen.
Munching at her apple. she wan
dered into the woods. Passed the
place where she and her friend Ellen
played house; passed the place where
the rabbits had a nest. passed the pile
of boulders and the tiny creek where
the family sometimes had a picnic
supper. and into the far end of the
woods where she seldom went. And
hen she sat down to finish her apple
and cookies and to decide just what
she should do next. The winter sun
looked so red and beautiful in the
west, the oak trees. that, keep their
leaves most Of the winter looked warm
and cheerful and Peggy was thinking
what a beautiful time she was having,
and how comfortable she was and
what fun playing little Dutch girl was
going to be.
And then, so suddenly that she
never knew what had happened. she
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-07

through a vacant lot over to the
woods.
You see. Peggy lived in a suburb of
a great city and it wasn't hard to get
to the woods from her house. Just
cross a few lots, wander through a
meadow and there were the woods,
not ten minutes from home. OF course.
woods are not forests. Forests have
great tall trees that have not been
touched for years and years and years,
Trees that seemto go up as far as .
person see and to make a roof
most to the sky. And under this roof
Of trees. is a dim. fairy-like darkness
in which most anything can happen.
And. Of course. everybody knows that
mere woods are not hat dark and
that they are cheerful and lovely to
play in. But Pegg,4was good at pre-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-07

~ EGGY was to be the little Dutch
- girl in a play in her room at
school and she had been working
hard to have her costume quite
perfect. She was to yea a short,
striped skirt. a plain little tight fitting
waist. a large bonnet hat almost COW
cred her and, of course-wooden
shoes. 1t had been easy enough to
fix up the skirt and waist; the bonnet,
though queer. wasn't so very hard to
make but the wooden shoes-they had
been a real trouble.
Wooden Shoes" her mother ex-
claimed, I'D just like to know where
you can find wooden shoes! Years
ago We used to see them sometimes on
the fancy goods counters in the big
stores. But not q pair have I seen
since the war. l don't believe they
ship them over here any more"
But l nave to have wooden shoes!"
cried Peggy in great distress. II
couldn't be a Dutch girl without
them"
And it vas right there Uncle Ed
came to the rescue. He remembered
that n Sunday when he had driven
way out west from the city. he had
passed through a Dutch settlement.
And he thought-of course. he wasn't
certain sure but he thought he had
seen some youngster walking about in
wooden shoes.
Lets drive out there next Sunday"
he suggested to Peggy. land see for
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-07

any more!"
1t was with SOME diheulty she made
e father understand that she was
talking about the gnome in the tree,
put as soon as he did understand he
turned his fiashlight on that wicked
gnome-and what do you suppose
Peggy saw? Nothing but the old syca-
more tree by the creek-bare, white
and n of her favorite play spots!
After supper Peggy could laugh at
the joke on herself.
Next time + go off to play forest"
she said. I'm going to have some ~
the girls go along. Then if l have
company, I won't think things look SO
queer"
That's a good idea" agreed her
motner'' and next time stay awake
and play and come home before dark
n then you won't see gnomes whers
trees are"
And Peggy promised to remAmber.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-07

1.-THE winds blown me off my
course, l guess" he muttered. o
else it's blown the barn away!"
He stared through the. wicked
Wilderness around him, but could see
nothing except the snowfakes. They
made him dizzy.
"I'd better go back" he thought,
and turning right square around he
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-07
THE JUNIOR COOK
s 2 large sweet mangoes.

strips 2 large sweet mangoes.
Add to the cooking carrots and cook
Is minutes longer.
Y Season with y teaspoonful salt.
Serve at once with melted butter.
This is a very tasty way to use some
of the last left overs from a late gar
den. Any left over makes a tasty
salad the nextsday.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-07

be brave!" he told himself.
And Jean might be out in the storm
tool Perhaps she was trying to tele.
phone him now. He began trudginG
along head down. hands in pockets.
Eyes were of no avail, SO he shut them
to keep the snow out. On he went
and suddenly bumped into something.
II was the rick again. This gave him
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-07
CARROTS WITH PEPPERS

CARROTS WITH PEPPERS
Scrap and slice six large carrots.
Put on to boil with 1 pint of water.
AS Don as the water is boiling re-
duce the heat so hat the carrots keep
boiling but do not run any risk of
boiling dry. p
Cook about 35 minutes.
Wash and chip into small pieces OF
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-07

which is used for other purposes.
The table and stool shown offer a
solution to the trouble, for they are
small, easily made. n may be kept
in and out of the way corner with
the stool pushed underneath when the
telephone is not in use; as the table
is made with provisions for the di-
rectoTy, pad and pencil, it will be
more convenient than If the phone
were kept upon a table and these ac-
cessories had to be sought among a
litter of books and magazines.
The table and stool may be made of
oak or any suitable wood, and stained
TO match the finish of the room or
the color of the furniture. The legs
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-07
JUMBLED FILM FAVORITES

~ N1follID FILM rANOINllES
FEMALE QUARTETTE
1. 1 charmed old Ann, Kate.
2. Is DIR. Amo in, Eva?
3. He take reel in.
4. The coat. Nelly.
MALE QUARTETTE
1. Ham got his name.
2. Yale won't care
3. Let Bell try.
4. Begone Irene u.
WORD SQUARE
My first has just begun.
My second is a girls name.
My third is to put off.
My fourth the sun gives off.
ANSWERS
JUMBLED FILM FAVORITES-
Katherine Mcdonald, Mario
1apies, Katherine Lee, Ethel Clayto,
aale: Thomas Meighan, Contcd
Bert Lytell, Eugene O'Brien.
WORD SQUARE
YEA r
E L 4 A
A LAY
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-07

HILE the telephone is a nee
sary adjunct to many homes,
often it is an annoyance be-
Il cause it is kept upon a table
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-07

- EAN," Pat said, with a r%eproach-
full look on his face, at isn't a
fellows job to look after babies
~ and I'd just refuse fiat, if it wasn't
The New York herald., 1922-10-22
COLUMBIA LAW DEAN
LAUDS MOOT COURTS
Expansion Of System Viewed
as of Ever Increasing
Importance.

Elections OF student council and class
officers. plans for the expansion OF the
Moot Courts as an essential element in
the training of young men for the
American bar and genera. broadening
Of student life activities to make better
lawyers and better citizens were an
rounced at Columbia University yester-
cay.
The class of 1925 chose these officers !:
President, Samuel Glover. Fairfield,
Conn. vice-president. Irving Cooper.
$40 West 112th street. New York sec
retary Donald q. Riker, East Orange /;
treasurer. Alfred r. Walker. Jr., Pei
ham Manor; law library representative,
H. Struve Hensel, 259 Engle street.
1enafiy. N. J.
Yale, Princeton and Columbia are the
colleges represented by the new Off
GERS. Glover was graduated from Yale
ir 1912 and Walker in 1922 Cooper
and Riker are 1922 graduates of Column
tia. Hensel took his Segree from
Princeton this year.
Charles E. Greenougn. 9s3 Fifth. ave-
rue. was unanimously reelected presi-
cent of the class of 1924. Other officers
ef this class are vice-president, Col
gate w. Darden. Jr., Norfolk. Va: sec
1etary Robert M. Beckett. Fast Orange !;
treasurer, Ira A. Hawkins. Jr.. 400
University avenue, New York class rep
resentative on Law Library kssocia-
ton, William Henry Jackson Woodford,
317 West 105th street. New York
The new governor of the Student
Council Is William T. Taylor, lis Ham
ilton place, New York. Greenough was
chosen secretary. A treasurer is yet to
be named. This council, under the con-
stitution adopted by the student body of
the law school. governs the entire range
of student activity.
Dean Harlan F. Stone, in q statement
asking the cooperation Of the law stu
dents In the extra curricular work OF
tie school. stressed the Importance of
the Moot Court system.
The New York herald., 1922-10-22
MISS PARKS MADE
BRYN MAWR HEAD
Inaugurated President Of Col
lege at Elaborate
Exercises.

Special Dispatch TO THE New YORK HERALD.
BRYN MAwK, Pa. Oct. 21.--Miss Ma
rion Edwards Parks was inaugurated
president Of Bryn Mawr College to-day
in the cloisters of the library. The in
augural procession. a quarter OF a mile
long. proceeded across the campus be-
tween rows OF undergraduates in caps
and gowns. In the procession were 140
delegates from ninety-four other insti-
tutions of learning and many Bryn
Mawr graduates, as we'll as Gov. Sproul
or pennsylvania. The presidents Of
thirty-six universities attended
President Angel OF Yale University
spoke on the need for institutions Of
higher learning. President Nelson OF
Smith College urged Bryn Mawr to
maintain its position of uniqueness and
lack of conformity. President Comfort
OF Haverford College also spoke.
DR.. Rufus Jones of Haverford, presi-
dent of the board of trustees of Bryn
Mawr College. inducted the new presi-
dent into office
The new president. In her inaugural
address. discussed the development of
the woman's college in America, and
said the community has the right to
demand from the college that Its
students come out into life with per-
ceptions qulckened and that they be
trained to a sincerity which will call
cut sincerity from those about them.
Miss Parks succeeds DR.. NJ. Carey
Thomas.
The New York herald., 1922-10-22
GILBERT CALLS BAD
EYE EXCUSES FAKES
Deputy Finds Voters Got Help
Because They Could Not
Read Ballot.

Seventeen men and women in the First
Assembly district CAL Smiths home. dis
tricb were questioned yesterday by A..
9. Gilbert. Deputy Attorney-Ge in
the Bureau Of Elections OF the At
torney Generals office. at 1913 Broad
way. regarding their statements that
they had defective sight and needed
help in voting.
John +. Kea ting of 10 Catharine street,
chairman of the Board OF Registration
of the district. told Mr.. Gilbert he had
not administered an oath to the seven
teen when they filed claims for assist
ance. He also admitted having failed TO
administer a Hteracy test to first voters.
as required by the new election law.
There were thirty-seven persons In the
First district who called for assist nee
In voting because OF poor sight. It was
said the others would not be questioned.
Mr.. Gilbert found that with one or
two exceptions those questioned were
not entitled to assistance because Of
poor sight. In nearly each instance he
found that the voter was unable to read
or became confused in marking ballots
and called for assistance.
Miss Ethel Barry of Peck slip. a
member of the board, told Mr.. Gilbert
the chairman had been informed by
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith of IS Dover street.
the Democratic captain. that assistance
IN voting was needed by those named.
Miss Barry said there were sixty-six
new voters in the district and that Mr..
Heating had refused TO give the Iiteracy
test, saying ii was TO be used at his dis
cretion. Similar statements were made
The New York herald., 1922-10-22
HOTEL MEN TO WAR
ON PUBLIC PORTER
Want Him Supplanted and Use
Of Red Cap Service
Extended.
USEFULNESS HAS PASSED
Association Asks Terminals
10 Fight Socalled
Menace
USEFULNESS HAS PASSED

The Hotel Association of New York
Issued a statement last night denouncing
the public porter as a menace and de-
claring that an extension of the services
OF the red caps" employed at the Grand
Central and Pennsylvania stations would
do away with whatever usefulness the
public porter has left. Arrangements
have been made at the Grand Central
for the 'red caps" to meet passengers
and conduct them to hotels within the
terminal radius. The statement snys: J
The Hotel Association calls attention
to this problem at the present time be-
cause the public porters, according to
newspaper reports. have just heen mr.
sanized into an association to perpet-
uate themselves. 1t decries the evil of
the public porter and urges his eiimira-
tion OH basis of his lack OF utility
to-day.
The public porter has served his USE
fulness. At time when there were no
taxicabs or other transportation facili-
ties 1t was necessary for travellers TO
md some one to take their hand bag
gage to transportation lines. To-day
this Is absolutely obviated because OF the
large number Of such facilities available
''The public porter Is menace, re-
tanned in a great part to steer visitors
places they desire to go. Tho unsus-
pecting visitor falls prey to the porter
as soon as he arrives in New York
The license fee is so small as practically
to obviate all responsibility on the part
Of the public porter. He should be
eliminated
- miles Bronson of the Grand Central
Terminal has already written to James
0. Stack. chairman Of the public porter
committee of the Hotel Association OF
New York City. stating that he would
cooperate with the committee to the
fullest and that he had personally al
ready made arrangements for red caps
to meet arriving passengers at the Grand
Central Terminal and conduct them to
any of the hotels within the terminal
radius or to transportation abutting on
the terminal.
Negotiations are pending with the
Pennsylvania for the same type of SER
vice. 1t is hoped by the association that
both railway systems Will even further
extend this red cap service to meet both
incoming and outgoing passengers"
The New York herald., 1922-10-22
What Chairman McAneny Says
in Reply to Hylan Abuse

accusing Mayor Hyan Of mud Singing cheap abuse and
thoroughly about the Transit Commits
and McAneny cites the follow
ing specifications
The investigation Is timed political effect but by
the nuncons which would have halted
all the Mayors the Transit Commission inter-
yened to keep them running
inquiry o halted because the Mayor is
discounted.
The Mayors will be superseded by real one
the searching invests
cation known.
The r. r. T. train services have been increased
to the degree that they will stand.
40 relief until subways have been
built.
holding with $14ooo
much manipulated securities has been out Of business
H. lease with its $42000O0
payment has been dissolved
been from fixed per
cent. maximum in the first year-f earned
dividends been reduced from the 20 per
3 kind to a maximum of per cent.
r.. T.. ahead
Millions go train service and equipment
instead Of to private pockets 8s s4tr
dollar Of city funds will to buy kind Of Junk
and the Mayor knows it,
The New York herald., 1922-10-22
HAS JUDGE RECONVENE
BOARD TO ENROLL HER
Husband and z Children Vote ;
So Can Mrs. Huff NoU.

Judge Humphrey of the Queens Coun-
the twentieth election district yesterday
to reconvene on next Saturday to enroll
the name of Mrs. Esther Ruff, 55 of n
Spruce street, Corona, on the registra-
tion list.
When the woman tried to register last
week she was not permitted to do so
because of illteracy. She appealed to
Judge Humphrey on the ground that
she has been entitled to vote since the
passage of the woman suffrage law and
that she is not new voter in the sense
implied by the new literacy law. Mrs.
Ruff is the mother OF seven children.
all voters. her husband votes, and Mrs.
Ruff said she did not intend to be left
The New York herald., 1922-10-22
REGARDS HYLAN
AS MENDACIOUS IN ATTACK

equipped for service. ana capable or ex-
tension as an important part of the city 8
transit facilities. l--
THE Mayor makes several state
nents, thoroughly mendacious, that / am
bound to correct In passing. He says
the commission has made no attempt to
investigate the overcrowded condition
or long Roadway of the privately oper-
ated subway trains. The commission
has conducted inquiries into subway and
tther rapid transit operation. covering
months of time. in the course Of which
the companies were subjected to the
r .ost searching investigation Of their
affairs they have ever known. Not
only subordinates but the Interborough
directors themselves were brought be-
fore the commissions bar.
1.-The record Of these sessions is SO
recent that It is hardly necessary TO
recall them to the public nird. AS re-
suit of them train service. both on the
interborough and the r.. r r. was in
creased to the utmost degree that their
present rush hour track capacity. car
equipment and financial condition will
stand. AS result Of successive orders
the Interborough service since May ]
has been increased from 2.773 to 3,133
II aims day. gain of $50, or more than
10 per cent The company reports for
July show an addition of 44.1s2 736 car
seat miles over the July preceding. or
;rore than 100000 car seat miles a
day. The increases in the b. r. T.
service have been of corresponding i'm
purtance.
I'm order further to increase service.
the companies have been required to
order between them over 400 new steel
cars. When these have been delivered
and are ready for use, further orders
for new trains will follow. and after
they have heen delivered there can be
no more relief until new subways have
been built
''In securing the information upon
which these orders for better service
could be framed, the Commission sub
jected the subway companies to as thor
ough an examination as 1t now proposes
to make in the case OF the bus lines.
and, 1t does not doubt, with equally
beneficient results.
THE Mayor also says that neither
The New York herald., 1922-10-22

the Commission nor its counsel made
any attempt to investigate or to COR
rect the financial manipulations of the
traction ring'-this In face OF the fact
that within a month a reorganization
OF the lnterboioush and Manhattan
properties along lines upon which the
Commission insisted has put out OF
business the Interborough's ancient
holding company, with it's sl1z ,oOo, 600 OF
much manipulated securities dissolved
the twenty-year old lease of the Man
haitian elevated lines to the INTERIOR
ough under which $4,000. 900 has been
paid annually on Manhattan stock
whether earned or not cut the
Manhattan dividend from n fixed 7
per cent. to a maximum or in the first
year. and that only If earned: reduced
any future Interborough dividends from
the 20 per cent sort paid four years ago
to maximum Of seven; cut out all In
terborough dividends Of any description
for five years ahead. and required the
turning over of millions for train SER
Vice and new equipment that In the old
days would have gone into private
pockets.
Whatever the traction ring may
mean to the Mayor / think II may safe
~ be said that these exactions and
other concessions. forced for the benefit
of the fare paying public. cannot very
greatly please such ring or any one
connected with il.
THE Mayor does not omit his daily
statement that. under the Commission s
plan for the unification OF the transit
lines-subway.k \ elevated and subway
under the five cent fare, several hun
dred millions of city funds would be
paid the operating companies for Junk
1t has been explained frequently and
patiently to the Mayor that the Com
missions plan does not propose the
spending of a dollar of city funds for
any sneh purpose. and he Is. of course,
perfectly we'll aware that that is true
But more of that.
II shall certainly continue where
necessary to correct the Mayor. Very
clearly the latest turn given the situa.
n is getting futher under his skin and
l an, prepared for more notes Of pain. :"
Commenting on the, municipal bus in
surance revelations Albert E. Sheridan.
manager of the Motor Vehicle Bonding
Companies. an association of surety and
casualty companies to meet the taxicab
bonding law, said the bonding companies
had considered furnishing bonds for
municipal buses, but had declined the
business. believing it tco hazardous.
Mr.. Sheridan said that several mutual
companies had been formed to furnish
bonds for taxicab owners, but found lit
tie business because of the failure of
the police to enforce the law. He thought
that out Of perhaps $4,000 taIicabs In
New York city fewer than 1000 were
now under bond and that, therefore, as
to the remaining 10000, the citizens OF
the city, including pedestrians have been
deprived of the protection which the new
law had intended TO afford.