Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-01-15
COUNTY To PLAY
BIC PART At
INAUGURATION
SiIzer's Message to be Broad
casted by Radio Tomor-
row at Noon
PLANS ARE COMPLETED
MiddIesex Delegation to Lead
arade-Arrangements for
Ball Are Also Made

TRENTON, Jan. 15:-For the first
time in the history of New Jersey
gubernatorial inaugurations the
radio VIII be used tomorrow to
spread the address of the incoming
the oath of office. Governorelect
George S. Silzer will be sworn in at
noon on the stage of the Capitol
theatre and Immediately thereafter
he will read his first official declara-
ton as the new chief executive. A
special wire will convey his speech
from this city to Newark, where it
will be broadcasted by WIZ on a
360-meter wave.
Finishing touches were being put
on the decorations in the State
House today, preparatory to the re-
ceiving of the new chief executive
Atomorrow. He will arrive fro1. Me-
|tuchen some time before II O'Clock
noon and go to the State House
where the outgoing executive, Ed
ward l. Edwards, will be waiting
his successor in the private offices
Mr.. Edwards has occupied for the
last three years. Both men will then
ride to the theatre for the cere-
monies incident to the administering
of the oath.
At midnight tonight Mr.. Edwards
goes out of office under the provision
in the state constitution w. ich reads
''The governor shall hold office for
three years, to commence on the
third Tuesday of January next ensu-
ing the election for governor py the
people, and to end on the Monday
preceding the third Tuesday of jan
uary, three years thereafter" Today
is the Monday preceding the third
Tuesday in January. SO that New
Jersey, as has been the situation on
every similar occasion in the past,
will be without a governor from
midnight tonight until noon of to-
morrow when Mr.. Silzer takes up
the duties relinquished by his prede-
ceSSor.
Middlesex CO ty will have the
first position in the inaugural pa
rade, 1t is expected that at leas.
marching clubs from every one or
the populouS counties in the state
will have big representations In line.
Middlesex being the home county or
the new governor has been given the
right of line. ;,
The parade and the inaugural ball
will be the feature vieing with the
theatre exercises for prominence III
tomorrow's events. Senate Pfesl-
dent Joseph T.. Wallworth Will pre-
side at the theatre following the ad-
ministerins of the oath, the new
governor VIII review the big parade
Of iubilant Democratic hosts from
all sections of the state.
Following luncheon for the execu-
tives party, Governor Silzer Will
hold the usual reception in the ex-
ecutiye offices from until O'Clock
in the afternoon.
\ Revived after about twenty years
fabsence, the inaugura! ball is eX-
Npected to be brilliant event. Mr..
and Mrs. Silzer will hold another re-
ception at this event, assisted by a
committee of men and women, per-
sonal Friends of the new executive
and Tprominent in state affairs and
politics. Assisting Mrs. Silzer in the
receiving line at the social event in
the ballroom of the Stacy-grent to-
morrow night will be the following
Mrs. Edward I. Edwards, wife o1
the outgoing governor and senator
elect; Mrs. Robert f. Norton, of Jer-
sey City, vice chairman of the
Democratic state committee; Mrs.
James Ellington, Jersey City, mem
ber of the Democratic national COM
mittee; Assemblywoman Katherine
w. Browne, of Hudson; Mrs. IT. Otto
-W1ttpenn, Jersey lily, MIS-. CIldTleS
H. Browne, of Princeton; Mrs
Frank S. Katzenbach. Trenton: Mrs
John II. Backes, Trenton: Mrs. j
Warren Davis, Lawrenceville; Mrs
Joseph L. Bodine, Trenton; Mrs
Walter Madden, Trenton; Mrs
Charles II. English, Trenton; Miss
Sara II. Pollock. Trenton; Mrs
Frank Hague, Jersey City; Miss
Helen Sullivan, Trenton; Mrs. Johr
4. Reddan, Hopewell; Mrs. II. D
Gihon, Trenton; Mrs. Edward l.
I<atzenbach, Trenton: Mrs. Richard
Stockton Sd, Princeton; Mrs. Joh1
w. Haulebeek Jr., Trenton, and Miss
Helen Mccormack, Trenton.
Women members of the Demo
cratic state committee will also as
sist. They are: Mrs. David A. d.
yanny. Atlantic; Mrs. Mary Fernan
dex. Bergen; Mrs. Herbert I. Jacoby
Burlington; Mrs. Raymond Donges
Camden; Miss Clara Mccain, Cap
May; Miss Thelrna Parkinson, Cum
&kerland; Mrs. Philip McKim Gar
Hrison, Essex; Mrs. Anna c. Reeves
Gloucester; Mrs. Norton. Hudson
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