Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-27

The Jail is empty in Ardsley, N.
Y. Bet it shouldn't be.
Weeks wants to know how to
make our airplanes safe. They
might try carrying long rope lad
ders.
A man was fined $25 because he
snatched a phone from the wall, but
it was probably worth more.
One senator is suggesting force be
used against coal hoarders. We
suggest the force be a police force.
The U. s. S. Pittsburg has gone to
Constantinople and may smoke out
or out smoke a few Turks,
They are urging this country to
admit more foreigners. Well, we
will admit we have o than
enough.
New device tells the depth Of the
sea by echo. II tried at the three
mile limit the echo will return
drunk.
Only thing in the way as much as
a drum is a man as tight as a drum.
ALI the world is a stage. If you
don't play you have no show.
We can be thankful every day
that watches don't strike like
clocks.
Proposed law would keep children
under IS from working. That Ii one
way to get them to work.
Georges Clemenceau has arrived
in this country and Is making more
of a hit than Georges Carpenter
did.
1t Is not true that New Workers
sleep in their shoes so they will be
ready when fire breaks out.
Longer dresses are here only for a
short time. They are just to call
attention to their faces.
Neighbors protest a grand opera
singer practices late at night. The
singer claims she Doesn't. 1t may be
the wind.
and heading for passes which tbs
Denver 6 Rio Grande claimed fol
it's own.
One Of these passes was at Ration
New Mexico, Rio Grande engineers
had already surveyed the routs
through the pass. but the Santa F,
rushed ahead and built track
through the pass before the Rio
] Grande could stop 1t. This act
I stopping the Rio Grande's progress
southwark, was bad enough, but
even more disturbing was h reporr
that the Santa Fe had designs upoI
the Royal Gorge west Of Pueblo
Through this gorge, the only pass
age, General Palmer had projected
one of his branch feeders, and his
forces were actually grading in on,
part of the gorge. But the Santa
Fe moved a strong force into the
canyon and seized a position and
fortified it.
1t was real war then between the
building gangs, until a United State.
| court enjoined both sides from build.
ing in the gorge. The outcome No1
this court action was a victory fol
the Santa Fe, which thereupon wal
able to compel the Rio Grande tt
hand over its whole property to thu
Santa Fe under lease. A year latel
the Rio Grande seized a pretext Il
l.break the lease, and 1t retook III
lines by force, also occupying thu
Royal Gorge with an armed party
The war finally ended by a Supreme
Court decision in favor Of the Ri
Grande. After this decision the two
roads reached a compromise agree
ment which gave the Santa Fe tn
rights to the south Of Pueblo ant
the Rio Grande the construction
rights to the westward of Pueblo
| Consequently the Rio Grande turne'
definitely westward and in the earl,
SOS it reached Salt Lake City.
Although this outcome scenes
like defeat at that time, IT resultet
fortunately for the road after all, TO
1t forced the line through the grand
! est mountain scenery reached b.
any American railroad, and as
consequence it's tourist traffic toda'
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