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FURNISHED ROOMS


ELM sT, 265-Near Market Street. fur
nished room for gentleman.
FIRST ST, ISL or ? Housekeeping
rooms; all Improvements adults.
GORDON ST. SOL or 2 large rooms for
light housekeeping.
HIGH ST, 1Ss-Large front furnished
room all improvements.
HIGH ST.. 24O-Desirable furnished
rooms; Parkview Apartments.
HIGH ST, 889-Two rooms for light
housekeeping
HIGH ST. 2l8-Large, furnished, fro.,.
room; kitchenette il desired adults only.
HOTEL REMINGTON-877 Smith Street.
Furnished rooms by day or week: rooms
steam heated meals served: also regular
KEARNY AVE- 149-The Westminster;
nicely furnished rooms; all Improvements.
LAWRIE ST, 429-Furnished room all
improvements; private family
MARKET ST, 131-Furnished room; also
light housekeeping room.
MARKET ST, 49, furnished rooms and
bath; complete kitchen. Tel. 14s4-R.
MCCLELLAN ST, 267-l single room. /
double room; all improvements.
RECTOR sT, 22sA-2 connecting rooms,
housekeeping privileges; references.
SALVATION ARMY HOTEL
Furnished rooms for men by the day or
week; baths, reading room. eiecCric lights
3l6 Madison Avenue. Tel. 20S9.
WALTERS HOTEL AND RESTAURANT
U~p-to-date Furnished Rooms BY
Day or BY the Week
Regular Dinner. 45c-Served From
II A. M. to 8 P. NJ.
A La Carte All Day
Open Day and Night
1852 New Brunswick Avenue
WATER ST. 253-2 room furnished apart
ment for housekeeping all improvements
WOODRUFF PL, 43-2 nicely furnished
housekeeping rooms; all Improvements.
FURNISHED APARTMENT rooms to
rent; excellent location. Tel. p. A. 1864.
SMALL ROoM-For gentleman. Inquire
2$6 Brighton Avenue.
2 LIGHT-Housekeeping rooms: all im-
proyements; residential section. Tel. sew
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tRANfOhD, ~. D..
$500 CASH-Workingman's opportunity,
$500 cash buys one family, 6 rooms, bath,
heat, electric, driveway; newly decorated
throughout; sacrifice $4,000; easy terms.
80 johnson Ave, Crawford, N. j., or
Gross G. Gross, 20 Clinton St, NewarK,
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HANS NIELSEN CO.-Real Estate and
Mortgages. 1876 Smith Street. Real
Estate Exchange Building. Telephone
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ROOMS WITH BOARD

HALL AVE, 229-Room and boards in
private family.
WOODBRTDGE-4O Green Street, I h
Green Moore rooms with board; also
table boarders.
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REAL ESTATE BROKERS

CARL JACOBS-Real Estate. Mortgages,
Insurance Agent; Life, Fire. Automobile.
Liability. 179 Brighton Ave. Tel. SOL.
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DWELLINGS rooms, bath. electric light,
lot 5Ox1OO; price 5000. B. Williams,
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MISUNDERSTANDING lots; near trolley
line, 1850 each; easy terms. Hans Mel
co, 10 1ac Smith Cfraat
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CHARLES BLITZER-For quick re-
suits list your property for sale or ex-
change. Raritan Bldg. Phone 1853,
COWARD & CoMPANY-ReaI Estate and
General Insurance. 102 Smith Street.
Perth AmboY. N. j Phone 219.
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FRASER BROS.-We have a number of
desirable residence properties for sale.
210 Smith Street. Tel. sos
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INSURANCE-Fire, Automobile, Work.
mems Compensation, Liability. etc. NJ. II.
Madison. 175 Smith St. or 40 Brace Ave-.
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REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

BRIGHTON AVE-, 153-Very fine. modern
flat and garage: top floor. Inquire ].
S~lobodien, lab Smith Street.
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AUTO REPAIRING, ETC.

AMBoY AUTO RADIATOR WORKS :
Radiators. bodies and tenders repaired.
l54 New Brunswick Ave. Tel. 1907.
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'wANTED-IN THE ELECTRICAL TEST
ING LABORATORY OF A LARGE IN
DrsTRIAL PLANT IN PERTH AMBoY,
BOY OVER 1s YEARS OF AGE tHIGH
SCHOOL GRADUATE PREFERRED.
coon CHANCE FOR ADVANCEMENT.
ADDRESS p. L f." P. o. BOX sO7,
PERTH AMBoY.
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WHERE TO DINE

NATIONAL LUNCH-And Restaurant;
home cooked meals reasonably priced.
High Street Corner Emith.
presto ~LUNCH-And Bakery: home
pastries. popular prices; open day and
night. ll3 Smith Street
GL,a EQlR RESr aIIR NT-E anlo,s e.
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FRED p. HANSEN-Reai Estate and In
snranca. PA Smith Street. Phone 15ll.
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FORDS-Fairfleld Terraces new duplex
home; 6 rooms on each side; all i'm
provements except heat; lot 6Ox1OO;
$500. Inquire ] .Kreielsheimer & Son,
J92 Cpof4b sCtraet
Evening star., 1923-01-01
Las One Of Most Eventful Years in History

the school for tubercular pupils on
the Upshur street tract was taken to
court Justice Bailey granted an in
junction and the Commissioners failed
to complete their appeal in time. A
review of the decision was asked and
denied by Justice Bailey. An appeal
from the refusal to grant the review
was argued in the Court of Appeals
and decision is expected early in the
new year
Mrs. Nina c. Van Wrinkle, lieutenant
in charge of the woman's bureau, Sc
cured writ of certiorari against the
District Commissioners and Justice
H1tz heard arguments for and against
her petition to compel the Commits
sloners to rescind their approval of d
portion of a finding of the police trial
board, which, in acquitting her Of a
charge of characterization, added
words indicating that she was lack
ing IN proper conception of disci-
pine Justice Hitz has not yet sign
ed FORMAL order in the case, but S
understood to have sustained the
cialm or Mrs. Van Wrinkle and direct
eo the preparation of such order.
Evening star., 1923-01-01
DRY LAW ENFORCEMENT

Lieut.. o. T. Davis. Seret. lanes
Nceuade and Private Harry c. Baur,
S"ihposlhS the central squad of police
ury law enforcement members of the
department, assisted by thirty police
men IN the several precincts. have
uispiayed an activity during the year
lhat mas brought commentators
from their superior officers.
II is related of them that thew did
NJ pray faVorities in their work of
enforcing the Volstead act, arresting
poor ana rich. They We're forced 10
,dt bdje 'icipate rii1 IN many exciting automo-
" nlAe pursuits and fights, but managed
10 escape serious injury.
assisted by Lieut. Nina G. Van
Wlhkle and other members of the
Monlah bureau. Lieut.. Davis and his
..btaa btnau Fdiued dance halls and so-called
oooHe parties, and caused con-
sternation among gatherings Of rich
ly Rowned ladies and men in evening
costumes.
Records Of the department show
@ eilaI arrests for violations of the sew
eraI provisions of the Volstead law
totaled more than 1900. agents of
the internal revenue assisting the police
IN many of them.
The greatest number, 1928. involved
cnarges of illegal possession of in
tiohs OF the sections dealing with
certain phases of the law were as
follows: Selling liquor 1904; illegal
transportation. S59: manufacturing
liquor, 90; operating stills, :: Illegal
possession Of stills. 2S; destroying
evidence, 10; maintaining a nuisance.
D; conspiracy in connection with
liquor traffic. .; falling to pay rev
enue ee;nue tax, %: illegal transportation Of.
Illegal sale Of and holding stills for
sale, 8 failing to keep record, 81; using
cancelled prescription, p
records show total of 1922 ar
rests for intoxication during the
twelFe months. 431 for driving We
hicieS while under the influence of
manor and 234 for drinking in public.
Seizures by the police and revenue
agents was means of depriving
oootleggers of large supplies of in
tcXlcants Whisky seizures alone
amounted to approximately 5000
gallons while more than 200 gallons
OF gin is an item in the list of
seizures.
Other seizures included 1883 gal
| Ions of wine, S,449 bottles of extracts.
364 gallons of homebrew. 4S7 gallons
of alcohol, s gallons of brandy. l.2u4
bottles of beer, $50 bottles of tonics.
20 gallons of cognac, - gallons of
assorted beverages and 1895 gallons
of mash Eighty three automobiles.
two boats and two wagons were
seized.
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PUBLIC UTILITIES.

Reductions in gas, electricity, tele-
phone and street car rates were made
during 1922 by the Public Utilities
Commission. The cuts were as fol-
lows;
Street car fare, from five tokens for
35 cents to six for 40 cents.
Gas, from s1.1O to $1.05 per thousand
cubic feet to householders who use
less than $4,000 cubic feet per month
Electric rates, a discount of per
cent on practically all classes of serv-
ice.
Telephones, a reduction of so cents
per month in the rate for unlimited
residence service.
Toward the end of the year the
Federation of Citizens Associations
sought another reduction in fare on
the lines of the Capital Traction
Company only, but the petition was
turned down.
The motor bus continued to develop
during the year as a medium OF trans
portation in the District. The WASH
ington Railway and Electric Company
entered the field with the establish
ment of four routes. namely: On Park
road northwest, into Geological Park,
into Rock Creek Park and one from
Connecticut avenue and Columbia road
to Wisconsin avenue and Macomb
street
The Washington Rapid Transit
Company continued to develop, estab-
fishing route on Rhode lsland
avenue, busses alternating between 9Th
and Pennsylvania avenue and Potomac
Park This company started another
line on Massachusetts avenue from
Union station to Sheridan Circle, but
found no demand for service and dis
continued it.
The Capital Traction Company was
given permission to extend its tracks
across the new Georgetown .bridge
and to charge special fare of half
a cent for each passenger transported
across.
The commission rejected the petit
tion of the Capital Traction Company
to remove it's trolley poles on Con-
necticut avenue between Calvert and
Newark streets from the center OF
the street to the curbS.
The application for an extension
of the 10Th street bus line of the
Washington Rapid Transit Company
from Buchanan street to the District
line was rejected, but a few weeks
ago the commission decided to give
another hearing on this question.
During the year the commission
received frequent and numerous
complaints from citizens associations
against the operation of one-man
cars by the Washington Railway and
Electric Company, but adhered to it's
previous decision that these cars are
safe and adequate.
AS the year drew to a close the
records of the commission showed
that there now Ia mcre than S3.oe0s~
Evening star., 1923-01-01
POLICE DEPARTMENT,

Retirement of Maj Harry l.. Cess
ford, superintendent, and promotion
of Inspector Daniel Sullivan to the
vacancy were tho most important
changes in the police department the
past twelve months. Detective Henry
G. Pratt was made inspector and as
sistant superintendent, vice Inspector
Francis f. Cross, retired
Capt. Albert ]. Headley was pro-
NOTED to an inspectorship and given
full charge of the traffic bureau
while Capt William s. Shelby was
designated acting inspector and
placed in charge of much of the more
important work in Maj. SulIivan's
office.
Other promotions included those of
Martin Reilly. Ira Sheetz and L. J.
Stoll, who were made captains and
placed in charge of precincts. o. T.
Davis, ]. NJ Walsh, J. F. Beckett. w.
+. Hess and Maurice Collins were
made lieutenants. Davis was placed
in charge of the vice squad and Col
Inns was designated hack inspector.
More than 1900 arrests were made
by members of the detective office
working under Inspector Clifford L.
]
service. Forty-one homicide cases
were investigated during the year
according to Inspector Grants rec
ords, and only one remains unsolved
| Arrests were made in thirty-eight
cases. In another case it became
| known that the slayer. a Greek. had
returned to his native country
Identity of two colored slayers In
another case became known. but they
were not captured: while in the re-
naming case, that of an Italian
| storekeeper, identity of the slayer
was not established.
/ Total number of arrests for the
: year numbered 66.426. the number be
| ing made much greater than it other
! wise would have been by reason OF
| the strict enforcement of the traffic
| laws. Arrests of housebreakers mum
| bered 654, while there were 81 ar
| rests in murder and manslaughtel
| cases. Charges of robbery were pre-.
| ferred against 184 persons.
Evening star., 1923-01-01
DISTRICT CORONER.

An act of Congress deprived the
coroner of means of transportation,
requiring that official to defray such
expenses out of his salary, which is
the same as the salary provided for
the office more than quarter of a
century ago The work of the
coroner necessitated trips to all parts
of the District at all hours. and it be-
came necessary for him to furnish his
own automobile
During the course of the year Cor
oner J. Ramsay hewitt viewed ap-
proximately $500 bodies, and held in
quests in all homicide and most of
the fatal accident cases. F'orty-eight
suicides claimed his attention during
the twelve months.
Coroner Nevitts most Important
inquiry was the inquest held in the
Knickerbocker Theater disaster. and
he was highly commended for the ex-
peditious manner in which he con-
Quoted the investigation.
Evening star., 1923-01-01
DISTRICT AFFAIRS.

Enactment of legislation recurring
the District government to get upon
cash basis within five years was
the most far-reaching event of the
year in municipal affairs.
Congress at the same time mada
two other important changes in the
operation of the machinery of local
government, namely:
increasing the assessment of real
estate Tor taxation purposes from
two-thtrdS to full value and reuuir-
ing that half of all taxes be paid in
november and the balance in Nav
OF each fiscal year.
by BGttlnS on a. cash basis Congress
meant that the District should raise
Such a surplus of revenues as wonld
after ls21, enable the city to meet
edcn month Its proportion of the ex.
pense of running the city. Hereto
fore practically all of the city's reve-
nues were collected in May, which is
near the end of the fiscal wear. THE
treasury would advance the money
Ior District expenses and in Nav all
District tax monty would go into fbs
Treasury to meet the local govern
ments share of appropriations for
the year.
Maj. Donovan, auditor. estimated
that TO create the required surplus
the city should raise $500, 600 annually
from now until 1927, making q total
OF $3,0O0,OO0. He figured that such a
sum together with the payment of
haif OF the taxes i'll November would
enable the Commissioners to meet their
Obligations from month to month
Early in the year Engineer Commits
sioner Keller began the task Of re-
NlSlng the building code, which work
Is StlH In progress.
The collapse of the Knfckerbocker
Iheater in January served to concen-
trate public attention upon the in
adequacy OF personnel and salaries in
the building inspectors office. Congress,
as result, appropriated $4,000 addi-
llonal funds for temporary employees but
MADE no increase in the salaries of
building inspectors force.
Another aftermath of the KnicI<er-
oockef tragedy was the formulation
of Legislation to provide for the
licensing of architects and construc
tion engineers.
Commissioner oyster, in charge of
the health, fire and police depart
mentS, engineered a city-Wide clean
up campaign in the spring, a feature
of which was u war on high weeds on
vacant lots.
In April the Commissioners ordered
3.6 per cent reduction in the wages
OF the 1000 per diem laborers and
mechanics in the employ of the city.
bureau of information was estab-
ltshed in the District building early
IN the year. with DR.. William TindalI
do ulItCloi. LIT. j lnudiI Is nlmSelt a
walking bureau of information. A
District emDloye since the days OF
Gov. Shepherd, he served as secretary
to every board of Commissioners un-
til a few years ago.
In June the Commissioners removed
DIR. Lewis A. Griffith from the posi-
tion of superintendent of insurance
of the District, after he had declined
to resign. The ousted official took
the matter to the District Supreme
Court, where it is now pending. Burt
A. Miller was named superintendent
to succeed DR. Griffith.
Maj. Cary III. Brown, assistant en-
Eineer commissioner, was relieved
from duty at the District building by
Evening star., 1923-01-01
THE MERCHANT MARINE In THE
CAMPAIGN OF 1904

eighteen
in
ng party a neglected
expected
Quite existence, Confederate cruisers,
s
aS. II SUBSIDIZED shipping should be SO dePided
me
difference? A
t
w nat else but for the
TO for all
o nd o he were
then W hy Suchco mmotion
II you subsdze
it., al end
We YOU
we can vote private gifts of all small
good
II
NOR goodw whip
ana a new day will dawn for American shipping.
Evening star., 1923-01-01
nd Injuring many others.

the chief of engineers and sent TO
camp humphreys in September. Mai.
Raymond Wheeler was detailed to
succeed Maj Brown i'm charge of Ger
tain branches of the engineer de-
partmeut
The Chesapeake and Potomac Com
pany during the year made a survey
of the city, on which engineers of the
company based a prediction that in
1943 the population here would be
$4,000.
On October "a, portrait of the late
former Commissioner Henry B. +.
Macfarland was presented 10 the Dis
trict government by Mrs. Macfarland
and unveiled in the bOardroom with
impressive exercises.
Late in November civic leaders
banded themselves together in the
Washington Safety Council and set
out TO cut down the toll of deaths and
iuiurieS on the streets The first
step was the staging of an intensive
seven day campa ign.
In December the Commissioners fol-
lowed up safety week with the APP
pointment of committee of city OFF,
cialS and II few outsiders to make a
thorough study of the entire traffic
situation and report on methods of
Improvement.
Toward the end of the wear Com
missioner Keller began the prepara-
tion of a bill providing for a tax on
gasoline used by motorists as a means
of bringing about automobile reCi-
procity with Maryland. That state
has already adopted the gas tax and
offered to talk reciprocity with the
District if similar legislation is en-
acted.
Evening star., 1923-01-01

lating TO companies responding to
alarms OF fire was made. Companies
now respond to the sounding of the
nrst round instead OF the second, as
heretofore, which means a saving of
from twenty to thirty lconds in
reaching fires Members Of the de-
partment participated I'm the base
pau contest with the police. which
netted $l6,30S for the firemen'S re-
lief fund. and the ticket purchased
by President Harding and the pen
used in signing his name were pre-
Organization of NTH battalion
marked the changes during the year.
Battalion Chief Thomas O'Connor was
appointed drill master Members of
the force retired during the year were
Capt. G. f.. Harper. Capt. j. T.. Hooper
Can't. w. j. Seitz, Lieut. w w Virts
and PrivateS y. f. Purcell Henry
Lambert, j. c. HarDer. +. j. Carroll.
A. T.. Cooper. l.. e. Meyer, E. S FolIin.
J.. DZiegielowSki and T NJ. CATER
ton.
No member of the department re-
cefved fatal injuries during the year.
Three died natural deaths The dead
are Sergt Marshall b Long and Pri-
Yates Fl. }. Boyd and u. J. Bradley.
Fire losses during the twelve
months totaled approximately $500.
000.
Sounding of false alarms approxi-
mately 200. caused the department
much concern and loss Of time, and
II was while responding 10 such an
alarm a few days ago that an an
. raratus killed Alfred Bridenbecker
! an elderly man, former resident OF
Poughkeepsie. N Y. Chief Watson
expressed himself as favoring a more
stringent law for persons who send
in false alarms. In three dozen in.
stances fire companies responded to
calls received for fires in Maryland
! and Virginia. One hundred and
/ sixty-three persons, including many
tiremen. were injured or overcome al
fires
Evening star., 1923-01-01
DISTRICT FINANCES.

The government of the District Of
Columbia passed through the year
1922 lin splendid financial condition"
10 use the words of Maj. Daniel J.
Donovan. city auditor.
With net bonded Indebtedness of
only S156,234.3S and surplus revenues
in the Treasury to the amount of So
5O2,9Jl59, the local municipality has
one of the best showings in the list
Of American cities.
The cash receipts Of the District
for the last fiscal year totaled S23,-
IO4,79S60 made up as follows: Reve-
nue. from taxes and mlscellaneou
sources, Sl3,9lT.O05.62 received from
United States as its proportion of ap-
preparations. $9.1S7,1929S.
Real estate tax collections for the
last fiscal year amounted to SS.43l.-
lSO.23; on tangible personal property,
including corporation taxes, $2,670,-
2S4.92. and on intangible property.
$949,05S. Collections from miscel-
laaeous sources aggregated Sl,S66,-
4S247.
! Auditor Donovan and the citizens
joint committee on fiscal relations
had an active year preparing to de-
fend before Congress the city'S claim
to the more than $5,000G00 of sur
| plus revenues.
Under the new system ordered by
/ Congress in the current appropriation
! act taxes now are payable twice a
year. in November and May. AS
SCISSOR Richards and Collector of
Taxes Towers had q busy summer
getting the tax bills ready in time
| for the November payment. when ap-
proximately $5,0OO.O0O of the revenue
! for this fiscal year was paid in by
| property owners.
Washington's bonded debt will be
wiped out by August, 1924. These
| bonds, limited to $15.000,000, have
nearly run the fifty-year period, and
| the auditor hopes to have sinking
fund assets sufficient to retire them at
| the time scheduled.
Evening star., 1923-01-01
TRAFFIC BUREAU.

Fifty-four deaths resulted from
traffic accidents in this city during
the year just ended. according to rec
or7is of Inspector Albert J. HeadIey
chief of the police traffic bureau.
decrease of two compared with the
preceding year. The total number
of accidents for the year was $3.50.
d decrease of SIS compared with the
previous year
Members of the traffic bureau
noint to the activities during safety
week as having an important bear
ing on the question of drivers Of
automobiles taking extra precau-
tlons against accidents and probably
reducing the number.
Provision FOR a new home for the
bureau in the Graham building.
southwest corner of 18th and r
streets, and material Strengthening
of the traffic forces were the out
standing matters of interest to the
chief of the bureau and the public
during the year.
In addition to the fatalities. the
records show that sixty persons were
seriously injured and 1890 slightly
hurt. the figures being substantially
the same as the preceding year.
Automobiles licensed the past wear
exceeded the number of the previous
year by 1.922.
Evening star., 1923-01-01

w. Shea. This company brought the
victory 10 Western for the first time
since 1906. Company H Of Mckinley
Manual Training School ana COM
pany III of Western, took second and
third places, respectively. in the drill.
Books out of Date.
Outstanding of the numerous re-
ports of the school officers during the
year was one prepared by Alexander
T. Stuart. director Of intermediate
instruction. showing that Of the
26,S9J geography textbooks III use IN
the elementary schools, 20.406 are
obsolete. unSanitary and badly worn.
All of these out of date books speak
of the Emperor of Germany, the Gar
of Russia, and make no references
whatever to the frontier changes i'll
Europe as result Of the world war.
Near the close of the year The
school board took far-reaching step
toward the elimination of red tape
in connection with the repairs to
school buildings by approving at the
request of the municipal authorities.
the transfer Of the repair shop from
the supervision of the District govern
ment to the board.