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The Washington times., 1923-10-03

The general COMMITTEES of the Alex,
andria trade exhibit win meet Ia
the Chamber OF Commerce rooms
late today. Work has been started
on building the booths In the armory
for the fall style and automobile
show. The committee in charge Of
this exhibit, which viii be put on IN
two sections, the mercantile show to
be October 9, 10 and IL, and the au.
tomobile section October 16, II and
IS, has arranged TO make it the big.
gest and best ever held In Alex
andria. A record attendance Is ex,
pected the first night and room has
been left vacant In the armory for
spectators and dancing.
Norman L. Williams, chairman OF
the committee to raise $4,000 to
cover Alexandria's quota for the
maintenance of the Childrenss Home
Society Of Virginia states that the
drive has been a disappointment and
that only half of the quota was
raised.
Thousands Of people from the out
lying districts are expected to be In
Alexandria Saturday October 13.
when the Boosters Club. composed
Of the business men, will celebrate
Boosters Day. The, 100 block of
Washington street will be roped off.
and the exercises win be held there.
A band concert will be given and
several prominent speakers will
make addresses. The biggest fea-
ture of the day viii be the givi az
away of an automobile by the club
along with several other prizes. c..
Page Waller, president Of the club,
states that the merchants who are
members already report an increase
In business, due to the club activi-
ties.
The Washington times., 1923-10-03
ALEXANDRIA D
PUSH RAD
WE.
ltiwarlls Chamber 81 Com.
n,erce and Other Organl-
zations Busy

ALEXANDRIA,. Va, Dot. -
Boosters Day WIN be observed q
the luncheon BY the T1iwanis club
in the Westminster building tomor.
row st 1880. The men named to BE
donors are +. s. Jones'. Elliott Hoff-
man. George H Evans. Ghaxaes
King. Everett Hellmuth. u. WI. Jea.
kins, w. g. IElch and David I1ulfish.
Boosts will be- awarded Tor XII.
wanian prcnaptnesss cheerfHlness,
grouchineas and hardness ana to the
tenth man who shakes hands with
the man who holds hat check No. /.
"A. III. Reynolds, member of the
club and general manager of the
Washing Virginia Railroad, win
address the club on Traffic" w.
Harmon Reed and y. "A. Rohey.
newly elected members Of the club
VIII be presented and initiated.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-05-18
JERSEY Central TRACTION co.
W0ULD ABANDON ENTIRE LIN
investigators Meet I'm
Secret Session Today
TOPIdnAbOutG Cannon

The Legislative Investigation Com
mittee which is delving into the pur-
chase of the w. j. Donnell Lumber
Company property by the ousted
highway commission for the ap-
proach to the bridge in this city at
a cost of $3.50, 100, is in secret session
in Trenton today to arrive at de-
cision as to who shall be called as
witnesses at the hearing scheduled
for next Wednesday in Trenton. The
secret session is said to have been
held in view of the fact that the
committee has been swamped with
inquiries as to whether or not Ber-
nard M. Cannon, who is alleged to
have $4,000 as commission to see
that the lumber company received
a fair price for the property, will be
subpoenaed to appear at that time.
The committee is very much in
ter rested in the destruction of check
stub; and the check books of the
Donnell company. Evans testified
that it was the custom of the COM
pany to destroy these six months
after use. Mr.. McCran wanted to 30
over these vouchers with Mr.. Eva rs
particularly those used in July, 1922
the month of the sale of the land
to the state. Bank records are still
intact, however. and some of the sc
will be produced at the next hea"-
ing. The committee has had in
vestigators working on the bank
records of several institutions in Mid
dlesex county, including the bank
at South River in which Chairman
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George l.. Burton of the old COM
mission is interested.
The committee is said to be work.
ing on the theory that more than
the $4,000 testified to was spert
by the lumber company before the
sale of its land to the state for
S25O,OO0 was consumated. 1t hopes
to bring this out by study of bank
records. 1t is also working on the
theory that Cannon was represent
ing some one else. How it intends
to prove this will have to await fur
ther hearings.
Mr.. Burton who has said he would
be at the next meeting of the COM
mittee and who now wants TO take
the stand. will be welcomed by the
committee. His rundown of the
invitation sent him last week meant
nothing to the committee for he
would have been ordered to appear
anyhow. The committee wants his
version of the testimony of Mr..
Evans to the effect that that lum-
ber company opened a $4,000 ac-
count in Mr.. Burton's bank as a
favor in return for Mr.. Burton's
fair treatment in the land deal
Mr.. Donnell is to be questione5
concerning the $4,000 or 100000
in mortgages decided to him by tht
company after he sold out his in
terest to Mcdowell and Evans.
Other members of the ousted higa
way commission are to be inviteS
to b. present at the next meeting
to tell whatever they care to about
the land deal. and to submit tc
cross examination by Mr.. McCran
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-05-18
TERRA GOTTA
PIONEER DEAD
w. B. FreriChs Passes Away
in TottenvilIe-HeIped Or
ganize Atlantic Company

William D. Frerichs, one of the
organizers of the Atlantic Terra Cot
ta Company. which now controls
plants in this city, Rocky Hill and
Tottenville, died last night at his
home 1903 Amboy road, Tottenville.
Mr.. FrerichS was seVenty-SeVen years
old and had resided in Tottenville
nearly all his life. He was born at
Greenboro, North Carolina and came
to Staten Island with his parents
when a boy. He suffered a stroke of
paralysis about two or three years
ago when he retired from the terra
Gotta business. He was then with
the Federal Terra Gotta Company,
of Woodbridge, which concern he
helped to organize after the present
management took over the Atlantic
Terra Gotta Company. He was
stricken again on Sunday night of
this week and passed away at his
home about S25 o'clock last night.
Mr.. Frerichs is survived by
widow and three sons, former As
semblyman Ernest V. Frerichs, Will
liam d. F'rerichs, Jr., and Charles
Frerichs, and one grandson, Will
liam FrerichS, and sister, Mrs.
Helene Cole, of New Dorp, S. 1. He
was a member of Richmond Lodge
No. so, Knights of Pythias, the Aque-
honga Athletic Club and the South
Baptist church, of Tottenville. He
was president of the board of trus-
tees of the church for a number of
years and before consolidation he
was a member of the board of trus-
tees of the village of Tottenville.
The funeral will be held on Sunday
afternoon at o'clock from the
South Baptist church, Tottenville.
Rev. j. Harrison Johnson, pastor,
will officiate and the interment will
be in Bethel cemetery.
Mr.. Frerichs began his career IN
the terra Gotta industry in this city
many years ago. He entered the
employ of the Perth Amboy Terca
Gotta Company in 1877, about the
time this company was started. 1t
was then the only terra Gotta COM
pany in America and the knowledge
OF clays and methods of manufac-
ture were in it's infancy. Mr.. Ere.
richs was the company's first
draughtsman and he started there in
that capacity. Almost from its in
ception he helped to solve many
Continued on page 81
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SAYS JAPAN IS
MOSTFR|ENDLY
Japanese Ambassador Finds
Only One Disturbing Ele-
ment in Treatment of
Countrymen

NEW YORK, May 1S:-Treatment
of Japanese in this country, in the
opinion of Masanao Hanihara, the
Japanese ambassador, is the only
thing that is apt to disturb tn
friendly relations existing between
the United States and Japar
Addressing the Japan Society here
today, the ambassador declared that
the happy result" of the Washing
ton arms conference was tn re
moval from our mutual international
relations of the feelings of suspicion
which had disturbed them" He ado
ed, however, that the American atti-
tude toward the japanese immigrant
was the one question in the whole
bright outlook" which disturbs the
minds of both peoples.
II want you to understand said
Mr.. Hanihara, that there is no
question of our desire to send in
more immigrants. The question is
simply one of elementary principle
in international intercourse.
The Chevrolet is superior in all essen
tials. Jefferson Motors. Inc. Phone IS.
5-14-tfs
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CONV|CTS MUST
FORSAKE MUSIC
Will Use Pick and Shovel In
stead of Guitar and
Mandolin

TRENTON, May 1s:-Soon there
will be an exchange of musical in
struments for construction tools
among the inmates of the state
prison, declared Burdette G. Lewis,
state commissioner of institutions
and agencies, today in a statement
on the plan to put the convicts on
the road building program of the
State Highway Commission.
I'VE are doubly appreciative of
the cooperation of all public Off
cials and others in providing work
for the prisoners who are now idle
in the New Jersey state prison." said
the commissioners statement. "They
will all be happy to exchange their
mandolins and guitars for shovels,
work will permit them to earn some
money for the benefit of their de-
spades and rakes, especially as the
pendents or for their own use when
they leave the prison. 1t will permit
them to demonstrate to the prison
officials and to the Court of Pardons
whether they are to be trusted if re-
leased from the prison"
Mr.. Lewis announced that his de-
partment has engaged r. 2. john
ston, of Jersey City, who will be
superintendent of construction. He is
an experienced highway and railroad
builder, according to the commits
sioner, and the Civil Service Com
mission has approved his temporary
employment at the rate of $4,000 a
year. Johnston began work today.
County Engineer Henry B. Smith, Of
Burlington, will act as consulting en-
gineer on the first contract which
the Department of Institutions and
Agencies has received, the Borden
wn-Crosswicks job, which is in
Burlington county on Route 2. Smith
had engineering experience as a
member of the army in France.
I'VE want to demonstrate that
prisoners can build a better road
in quicker time than free labor"
said Mr.. Lewis today. TT is, there
CONTINUED on page S.)
Nbco Household Brush demonstration
now going on. Perth Amboy Hardware
Souvenir Brushes free. 24s1S-5-17-St"
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'MEN. WOMEN AND CHILDREN CAUGHT
IN UPPER STORY OF FRAME SCHOOL
DURING THE CLOSING EXERCISES
South AmbOy-keypOrt
Traffic Survey Soon

TRENTON, May 1S.-At the meet
ing of the state highway commission
yesterday it was decided to name an
advisory board of three members to
make a survey of the traffic prob
lem from South Amboy to and
Through keyport and to the shore
points in Monmouth county on
Route of the state highway sys-
TEN.
The grade crossing at Morgan has
a great deal to do with the tieing up
of traffic along this stretch and it is
probable that an overhead bridge
will be proposed by the advisory
board members. 1t is also probable
that the Old Bridge -Matawan road
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the trolley company could lay IT.
tracks. The road later became the |
main thoroughfare to the shore re-
sorts From the Jersey Central
Traction Company tracks in Ste
phens avenue. South Amboy, 10
right of way the company ran the
cars over the Public Service tracks
in Main street.
Whether the Public Service or the
Jersey Central Traction Company
should have the use of the bridge
over the Raritan river between this
city and South Amboy was where
the company made its first real
fight. The freeholders were inclined
to grant a franchise on the bridge
/ to the Public Service. The alder Z
men of this city, however. looked
with favor upon the jersey sey3sszzif
Traction Company, and cIaEasd tina
/ ownership of the right of way from.
1 Market street to the water line on
/ the structure. The outcome of she1
matter was that the Jersey Central
| Traction Company built the line, and
for a number of years. the Publis
Service operated cars over it IN cen
junction with the cars operated by
the Jersey Central. Under this
agreement the Jersey Central used
the Public Service tracks in Perth
Amboy.
Since the war the Public Service
cars have ceased to operate over the
bridge and the Jersey Central Trae-
ton Company has discontinued the
operation of a shuttle car on the
State street line of the Public Ser
vice from Smith street to the Wood
-. To-
however, continue to operate over
the Public Service tracks from the
Public Service car barns in Smith
street 10 the Staten Island ferry.
In 1915 an effort was made BY
the aldermen to have the company
extend its line into the northwestern
section of the city. via Market street.
Convery Place bridge, Amboy avenue
and State street. Nothing came OF
this however.
Some months ago the company en-
deavored to have the Public Utility
Commission allow it TO abandon ths
line extending from Matawan "a
Freneau but this application vas
denied. The company, however,
abandoned the line extending from
the main line at Keansburg 10 the
steamboat dock at that place.
When the state took up the prop
osition of building a new bridge
+ across the river, the original plans
showed no arrangement for troIlev
/ tracks and Representatives of ths
/ Jersey Central Traction Company ap-
/ peared before the Highway Depart
ment at Trenton and finally got fhs
commission TO include tracks on ths
new structure.
/ It is probable that the Public Util-
i ity Commission viii set a date for
a hearing on the application. Some
months ago the Public Utility Com
1 mission granted the company an u
/ crease in fare to ten cents. This fars
! continued for period of six months.
after which time the company made
1 application that the fare be reduced
4 to eight cents. When the Public
/ Utility Commission granted the lat
/ ter application the company posted
i notices in the cars that if the eight
! Continued on page s.
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will be favored as second route to
the shore.
The commission will ask the free
holders of Middlesex and Monmouth
counties to name their respective en-
gineers, Morgan +. Larson and
George *. Allen, to accept this work
to serve without compensation. The
third member of the board will be
State Highway Engineer William G.
Sloan. ,..
At yesterdays meeting no action
was taken by the commission on the
request of Stillman, Delehanty and
Ferris for an additional payment of
S45, for their construction of the
Hackensack river bridge between
Newark and Jersey City.
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Explosion of Oil Lamp Be-
/ |ieved to Have Caused
Fire .....,.-.
!, f-t
-
ONLY ONE EXIT
Many Who Leap From Win
doWs Die of Injuries
Search Ruins
BULLETIN

CAMDEN, >. C., May Is lBy Inc
Associated Press) s).-Deaths in the
Cleveland school house fire today
,tood at seventy-three, with one per-
Jon missing. The body of Donnie
Truesdale, previously listed as miss
hg, was identified and that of Huey
Hinson, not previously reported
lmong the dead. was found.
CAMDEN. S. c., May Is (By The
Associated Press) Tragedy, stalk
ing in the wake of comedy today had
.urned Kershaw county into coun-
y of mourning.
As the aftermath of a commence
nent play of the Cleveland school
eight miles from here, more than
seventy persons, including whole
'amilies are dead, and many are in
ured.
As the play reached its climax, an
oil lamp on the stage overturned and
exploded. In an instant the stage
vas a mass of flames. Panic seized
he audience of 800 parents, borthers,
listers and relatives of the gradual
ng class, come to honor the young
,ters that had crowded the little au-
itorium.
There was concerted rush for the
Jingle exit that led to narrow
wooden stairway. The weight of the
mass was too much for the steps and
hey collapsed, hurting scores in a
angled mass, numbers being crush
I'd to death.
In a breath, it seemed to persons
Who escaped, the entire building was
wrapped in flames. And within an
hour, the building was little more
than a heap of smouldering ashes.
The funeral pyre of more than three
and half score of Kershaw county
citizens.
Nearly every home in Kershaw
county was affected by the disaster,
Many Camden people had gone to
witness the playlet and some of
them are numbered among the vic
Tins. Five injured are in the hos
pital here, but all are too badly
nurt to talk about it.
The Cleveland school is located in
the center of a fertile section but
CONTINUED from page 81
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-05-18
Sale of Real
Estate

Mrs. Minnie Kramer will sell
TO the highest bidder the fol-
lowing properties: 341-o4o
Madison Avenue, 115 fayette
Street. 370-S72 State street.
The Madison Avenue and Fay
cite Street property will be sold
either Jointly or separately.
Sealed bids will be received at
the office of Margaretten & Lo-
bel, Inc, on or before 8 p. NJ.
May 21st, 1928.
The owner reserves the right
to reject any or all bids.
For terms and further infor-
nation inquire at the office of
Margaretten & Lobel, Inc, Rari-
tan Building.
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100 Ways
To Make Money
By BILLY WINNER
Could Finish Floors

III Could Finish Floors
7 f YOU have ever moved into
flat or house and have found
it necessary to have floors
done over, you will appreciate
what it means to find the person
TO do the Job.
The person who can clean,
scrape. sand, stain or varnish
and oil floors is always in de-
mand. If l could do these
things; that is, do them right. !
would let no time pass before
getting my name in the Want
Ad columns of the Evening News.
Just think of the sigh of re-
lief and pleasure such an ad
would evoke from the thou
sands of housewives who read
the Evening News Want Ads
every day.
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Copyright. lsas. Associated ndit.rs,
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RESCUE NURSE
IN APARTMENT
Had Been Dragged From
Street in New York by
Band of Youths

NEW YORK, May 1S.-A woman's
screams and the crash of a window
pane through which she thrust an
arm to wave a frantic signal for help
led police early today to the rescue
of Miss Claire Breslian, thirty-year-
old nurse, at Bellevue hospital, who
had been dragged from the street by
a band of youths.
The nurse, stripped of clothing,
battered, bleeding and hysterical,
was found in a two-room apartment
on the second floor of a tenement
on East 34th street. Reserves who
surrounded the block arrested Jo-
seph McShea, It, when they found
him crouching behind an ash can at
the rear of the building.
McShea is reported to have given
the names of eight companions,
whose arrest is momentarily expect
ed.
Miss Breslian lives at the Nurses
Training Home on East 26th street.
She was returning there after mid
night, when, she told the police,
three men Ieaped upon her from a
dark hallway, smothered her screams
and dragged her to the upstairs
apartment where six other men
waited.
They tore her clothing off in
shreds. She fought and screamed
and before she could be subdued
crashed the glass which guided po-
lice and a gathering crowd from the
to her rescue. AS the
police entered there was a Gathering
down fire escapes and only the nurse
was in the apartment when the po-
lice smashed in the doors.
Miss Breslian was taken to Belle
vue for the treatment of multiple
contusions.
The Chevrolet is superior in all essen
tia g. Jefferson Motors. Inc. Phone 10.
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Accountants -Bookkeeper wanted fn-
wholesale produce business Apply ~
letter. P. o. Box 2s3, Perth Amboy. n J.
24s21-5-17-ets
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Nibco Household Brush Demonstration
now going on. Perth Amboy Hardware.
Souvenir Brushes free. 34Sf5-5-1T-st.
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Mortgage money available for immedl-
ate use Boynton Brothers & Company,
81 Smith Street, Perth Amboy. N. ].
s43s7-5-5-12ts
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The Chevrolet is superior in all essen
tia.s Jefferson Motors. Inc. Phone is.
5-14-tf'
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-05-18

Nbco Household Brush demonstration
now going on. Perth Amboy Hardware
Souvenir Brushes free. 24s13-5-17-3ts
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BODIES IN SCHOOL FIRE
WEATHER

Fair tonight,
Saturday increas-
ing cIoudiness:
not much change
in temperature;
diminishing north
west winds be-
coming varia BILE.
, 1923-10-25

the Leo country the first of the week
after a stove. He got back to town
on Sunday evening.
The folks at the Long 9 ranch
have ben busy for the past few
days digging potatoes. The crop was
good.
My. but we are the most un-
fortunate" person. We live away
out in the country where the coyotes
howl and the bobcats yowl and we
hear the boot owl and grey wolves
growl, and-let's see, what else?
we'll that is enough anyway to show
you Just how it is. and we have
to talk about common cows, horses,
sheep, cabbage anG taters, while the
city correspondents can ave about
informal teas, bridge and five hun
bred parties, beautiful gowns worn
by Mrs. and Miss So-and-So. 1t must
be great to be allowed all these
privileges, but such fortunte has
been deneid us. (P. S. We are
not positive that bobcats yowl and
if there is anyone who believes they
do not we hope they will keep it
to ~themselves).
NJ. Park has been a business
, 1923-10-25

Ellis house in the Bow this week.
where Mrs. Wray and the children
will spend the winter. and poor
Dave will batch at Point of Rocks.
All his friends extend most pro-
found sympathy.
Harrison West was a business
visitor in Medicine Bow OF Thurs
day, returning home the same day.
The first killing freeze of the sea-
on came on Friday night. Ice was
formed on water which was stand
ng still.
Miss Strange arrived from Kan
sas last week and has charge of the
school at the TB ranch.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Finkbiner and
George were visitors in Rawlins
the last of the week, where they
visited friends and attended to mat
ters of business.
Joe Lane was in Medicine Bow on
Sunday and Monday counting sheep
and attending to other matters of
business.
The Richards and Chace sheep
were dipped in tn Chow the first of
the week.
VIII West made a trip down in
, 1923-10-25

DOfA8S &

: it is quite badly needed. The
north end of the line has been out
# commission for several months.
Mrs. Lawrence Sullivan and child
en- and Miss Margaret Sullivan &C
companied Miss Margaret Pyle to
Medicine Bow on Sunday. They re-
turned home on Monday.
The first of last week. deputy
sheriff c. e. Cooper was notified to
come to the head of Sage creek and
capture a crazy man who had de-
cided to smoke things up a bit in
that neck o the woods. 1t was said
that the night before the man had
been armed with various pistols,
'ifes and a shotgun all of which
he insisted on using on all his ac-
quaintances, but the friends and ac-
quaintances not relishing such Wig
orous arguments sen word to the
sheriff. Mr.. Cooper left town with
good intentions Of getting the man,
ON whom all the firearms except
the shot gun had been coniscated by
frightened neighbors. At the Rich
ards ranch something went wrong
with the ar. and Mr.. Cooper and
cd. Anderson whom he had depu-
tized to accompany him, were COM
PEELED to stay there until the fol-
lowing day. When they at last
reached the ranch on Sage creek
they found the man had returned to
quite his normal condition, but they
him back to town with them,
nd he will be investigated as to his
'anity.
Dave Wray took a load of furni-
ure to town the last of the week.
and brot back a load of coal. The
Wray family will move into the