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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-07
TOTTENvlLLE

Mrs. Charles Brockett had as her
guest this week, her sister, Mrs.
Osborn. of Richmond Hill.
A marriage license has been Issued
TO Miss Rebecca Levenson, of Main
street and Alexander Kriss, of Perth
Amboy.
Miss Margaret Osmundson has re-
turned to Brooklyn, after visiting
relatives in town.
Mrs, George NJ. Totten has bee
i'll the past week.
Detective Sergeant James Graham
and Detective Romolo Pagano have
gone up the state on three weeks
vacation.
Police Inspector William Bailey
Is still away from his office on ac-
count of illness. Deputy Inspector
F%'alconer is in charge of the island
police while he is away.
Fred Burke, twelve years old, and
Hyman Peshkin, fourteen years old
two runaway boys from New Bruns-
wick, were caught at the ferry by
Patrolman James T. Smith last night
and held at the station house until
the arrival of their parents.
The third degree will be CONFER
red on two candidates by Richmond
Lodge No. so, knights of Pythias
tonight at Odd Fellows hall. The
nomination of officers will take
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-07
Annn Hughes Entertains

TOTTENVILLE, Dec. 7.-MiSs
Anna Hughes entertained a few
friends at her home in Amboy road
on Wednesday night. Dancing and
games were enjoyed and refresh
ments were served.
Those present were: Nancy Chris
tian, Anna McTiegue and Helen
Wills, of Newark; Dorothy Sweeny,
Dorothy Lake, Grace D>.ton and
Fanny Blake, of Manhattan; Cath
crime Haynes and Catherine Par
son, of Tottenville; Irving Zyfers,
Joseph Quinn, of Newark; Edward
Masse. Charles Muller, Frank Dali
las, Fred Bush, Jack O'Keefe and
John Waters.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-07
u lumber Dealers Will
Assist Camping Site

The park and camping site project
sponsored by the Middlesex County
Recreational Council, composed of
the leading organizations of the
county, was given a new impetus
when the MiddleseX County Lumber
Dealers Association at a dinner at
the Westminster last night gave
their assurance that they will fur
nish to the council a limited amount
of lumber necessary for the purpose
of erecting a simple wooden strue-
ture on the park site at Menlo Park.
This promise was given by the
lumberman following a talk made by
DIR. Charles 1. Silk, president of the
council. The speaker told the lum-
bermen that their plan for the play
ground is similar to hat adopted in
Trenton. The building to be erected
would house probably fifty to one
hundred children, both boys and
girls. The dwelling would have two
wings, one for the boys and on the
other extreme end for the girls. The
speaker said that the labor unions
have made tentative promises to fur
nish whatever labor may be required
in putting the building or buildings
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-07
OLD DOBB|N IS
SOLD AT AUCTION
Carl WalIing, New Owner of
Horse in Hands of Police
for Two Weeks

TOTTENVILLE, Dec. Wash
Funk with his old horse, or Barney
Google with Spark Plug. could not
have drawn a larger crowd than as
sembled in front of the Tottenville
police station at 3 o'clock yesterday
afternoon for the sale of Old Dob
bin in possession of the police for
the past two weeks. For a time it
looked as if the reserves would have
TO be called out to keep the crowd
in order and to regulate the heavy
automobile traffic at that point with
many prospective buyers in the line.
Old Dobbin. who was being
brought from the farm of Harry Sc
guine in Annadale, was a little late
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-07
PLEASANT PLAINS

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Stewart, of
Manhattan. have been visiting at
Prince Bay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus G. Mar
scher, Jr., will reside at Prince Bay,
after a wedding tour, in their new
home, which was given as a wed
present from the groom's father,
Augustus G. Marscher, ST..
Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Shulman are
moving from Amboy road, to their
new home, in Brighton avenue,
Perth Amboy.
Miss Yetta Lipman, of Manhattan.
was the guest of her sister. Mrs.
Nathan Alschuler over the week
md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Matthes
have taken up their residence in
Prince Bay road.
Miss Nina Orser, superintendent
OF nurses at the Richmond Memoir
ial hospital, who resigned the first
of the month is with her sister in
Brooklyn. Miss Katherine Carroll is
in charge of nurses in her place.
DR.. Santos Fazio, business manager
at the hospital. who resigned his
position at the same place, has gone
to Washington. D.. C.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-07

!. axnected to have a committee
Is eAPeot hefore the Board of Free
snT ! and urge them to take den
nor action in reverting the large
n rsct Of land to the free use Of aY'
I IA Children OF the county. Mis-
1ng T. Packard, interested IN the
nave for the children said this
m]orning hat the people of the coun-
t y, bava been most responsive to well
fare plan Of the children and be-
jieved that everything will be IN =
Grafton at the camp before 1he
spring arrives.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-07

place at the same time.
CONGRESSMAN Aiming S. Prall OF
the eleventh congressional district
that includes Richmond and part of
lower Manhattan took his seat in
Washington at the opening of con-
press this week. A number of his
friends went down with him.
Master Masons night was observ-
ed by Huguenot Lodge No. SS1, f.
& A. NJ. at the Masonic Temple last
night.
The bazar of st. Paul's Ladies' Aid
Society heled last night at the
church attracted many members
who came out for the supper at 6
o'clock.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-07
PLAN CHRISTMAS PARTY

METUCHEN, Dec. arrange
mems are being completed for n
annual Christmas party to be hela
under the auspices of Mt. Zion chap
fer lis, of the Order of Eastern
Star on Friday or Saturday night
preceding Christmas. -.
Ar that time Santa Claus n ms
we'll filled pack will entertain .ne
children of the members ana uie-
tribute gifts and candy. Inc eve
ming will be spent in playing games'
singing and speaking by the emf
dren while awaiting the arrival OIL
the old white whiskered fellow.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-07

Decay of wood is not due to direct
chemical action or the action of the
elements. but Is always the result
of the activity of low forms of plant
life which feed upon the wood and
DESTROY it.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-07

Two years after China invented
bank notes the currency of the
country became SO inflated that a
500 note would only buy a pound of
rico
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-07

Among the famous inventions OF
the Chinese are the following: me
compass, printing, photography, sus-
pension bridges and gunpowder.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-02
GERNAN CONSUL
SPURVED BY
WIFE
Through With Him and coun-
try, She Says, Asking
Citizenship.

Mrs. AppolonIa seibert, who with
her ten.year-old daughter, resides
al 1900 Water stree, southwest. has
applied ar the District Supreme
Court for citizenship papers, de
claring that she was the wife OF
Theodore seibert, formerly secre-
Iary OF the German consulate Ut
Seattle. WASH. who is now a resi-
dent OF Dessau, Germany.
Mrs. Seibert told the court clerk
that her husband left this country
at the outbreak Of the German war
going with Count Bernstorff, then
the German ambassador here. Ar
riving home he went to Vienna 20
take charge Of passport work Tor
his government.
Mrs. Seibert said she saw her nus
band when on q visit to Germany
last year, but that he desired 70
stay in that country, and was sat
isfied for his wife return to this
country with their child, which was
born in Seattle. Mrs. Seibert, who
first arrived III this country In 1900,
said today that she Is thru 2
with Germany and through With
my husband" and intends TO spend
the rest OF her days In this country
She was informed that her little
girl was an American citizen. and
that II was not necessary to take
out papers for her.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-02
What's Doing Today
and Tomorrow

the United states Department OF Labor.
for children under three years. Center
No. .. Freedynen's Hospital, morning.
and Center No. Z. 1850 IS street south
east. afternoon.
Card party-Benefit Of the Casualty
Hospital, 200 Sixteenth street. after
noon.
Concert Dance Brown University Mu-
steal Clubs. Wardman Park Hotel. eve
ming.
Dinner--zonta Club. at the Grace
Dodge Hotel. evening.
Meeting Columbia Women. at 171s
street northwest p. m.
Cabaret Fantastique-Benefi Of the
Noel House, at the Hamilton Hotel,
evening.
Social and Dance-Hope Council, No,
I. sons and Daughters OF Liberty.
evening.
lecture .BenalC McFadden. ball room
Of the New Willard Hotel. evening.
Meeting of Columbia Die
tetics' Association, Mt. Alto Hospital
bance--sociai Club or Wilson Normal
School, Eleventh and Harvard streets
northwest, $3.50 p. m.
Address-Mrs, Medill Mccormick, al
the luncheon for Business and Profess
stonal Women. 1888 r street. x. w. G. A.,
Meeting -Girl Reserve Club. 1888 F
street northwest, 8 p. m.
K Lunch6on-Civitan Club. at the La
sfRyette Hotel 1890 p. m.
Forum Luncheon City Club, 1880
u. m. $g
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-02
CARRIER PIGEON
EUTTERSINTO
OFFICE
Exhausted Bird Falls Into Win
dow of Cong. Cummings
Rooms on Capitol Hill.

A carrier pigeon. bearing plain
gold band on one leg and the regu-
lation Identification tag on the
other, with the inscription "A. j.
PA. F.. C. 1897" is being feted
today by secretaries and attaches
Of the House Office building.
The bird yesterday at 1880 a. m.
flew into the open window Of II. w.
Cummings, Congressman from Penn
sylvania, and fell exhausted on the
floor.
When picked up by Mrs. Juliua
Bassett, secretary to Congressman
Cummings, the bird was too weak
TO eat and was fed warm water
with sposn and the last OF the
Gengressman's free garden seed. It
refused all such delectables as bread
crumbs and bits of meat, feasting
solely on the salons free seed.
Not until this morning was the
plgeon-described as a large carrier,
gray in appearance-able to stand
To-Day, however, it struts content
edly about the room and shows no
dispositionNo fly out the open win
dow. The owner may secure the
return of the bird by writing to
Congressman Cummings
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-02

Today.
Meeting--Stanton Park Citizens Asso-
citation, eabody School, night
Meeting---Sixteenth Street Highlands
citizens Association, Sixth Presbyterian
Church, o'clock.
MISUNDERSTANDING Acacia Fraternity,
l719 street northwest. afternoon.
Banquet--Alunni Acacia Fraternity,
Hotel Lafayette, 3 O'Clock.
Carnival Dance Carroll Council,
Knights of Columbus, 91S Tenth street
northwest, 8 o'clock
Benefit Performance--Stormo Aid
Society for Consumptives, six Cylinder
Love-" President Theater. night.
Free Lobby Concert--Y. NJ. G. A. build
ing, 1876 q street northwest, o clocks
Meeting-Petworth Women's Club,
Petworth Community Center. night.
Easter Dance--Woman's City Club,
evening
OF DR.. Ales Hrdlicka, OF the Smith
sonian Institution. afternoon.
Meeting--North Washington Citizens
Association. United Brethren Church,
evening.
Concert-Amherst College Glee and
Mandolin Clubs at the First Congrega-
/. tional Church. Tenth and G streets
northwest, p. m.
Dixie Balk-Robert K. Lee Chapter.
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
Willard Hotel evening.
Observation-Disclosures Grotto, Coliseum,
April Q to II. inclusive.
Dance--Woman's Army and Navy
League, at the Navy Yard. evening.
Tomorrow.
EEsra n, In fteyt-4--Cyhi ldrar,a puraau ri
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-02
D. c. EAGLES WILL HOLD
49, MEMORIAL EXERCISES

Memorial services in honor Of the
deceased members Of Washington
Aerie, No. 1875. r. o. E.. will be
held next Sunday evening at Elks.
hall. according to an announcement
Of William A. Finkel, chairman of
the committee in charge of arrange.
ments.
Judge Robert e. Mattingly will
deliver the grafton and K. A. Full.
Ter Is expected to represent the
grand lodge of the order. Cello
solos will be given by Fritz A.
Mueller and the Elks' band will
play the overtures. Miss Celia
Fioraventi and Ambrose Durkin will
furnish the vocal music. A quar-.
tet OF. the Elks' band will give
selections. Special seats will be
allotted reatives Of deceased mem.
bers and a special reception COM
mite will take care of visitors.
Services will begin at 8 o'clock.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-02
WORKERS To AID
PERSONNEL
BOARD
Postal Employees Are Asked to
Describe Duties of Present
/ Positions.

Postal employees in Washington
win be given an opportunity to. as
sist in their own classification. under
the reclassification act which goes
into effect July /, 1924, it was an
nounced today by Postmaster Gen.
eral Harry 8. New.
A.ll postal workers win be asked
70 describe for the personnel clas-
sification board the work which they
perform, in order to eliminate the
possibility of injustice and to insure
that the board will be fully informed
of the duties performed by each en-
ploye, it is explained.
Thirty-nine per cent of the statu.
tory clerical positions in the depart
mental service of the Postoffice De-
partment are occupied by women, ac-
cording to figures compiled at the
department in connection with. the
reclassification survey. This is a
large increase since December l,
1922.
The women also Jared better than
the men in increases of salary, the
average increase for women clerks
since February Is, 1922 being $44.63,
average salary of women clerks on
February 10, 1922. was $1,230.5S,
plus the bonus, making 1,470.53.
The average now is $1.275.06, plus
the bonus, making $l,515.06. . The
average salary for male clerks in
creased during the same period from
81, 453.S4, plus the bonus, or $1,693.84.
to $1,479.14, plus the bonus. or
$1,719.14.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-02
CENTRAL COMMITTEE ON
SCHOOLS TO ORGANIZE

The Citizens Central Committee
on Schools will meet in the Frank
lin school Wednesday night to form
a permanent organization. Mrs.
Laura G. Williams, chairman Of
the steering committee has sent out
notices to this effect to represen
tatfves Of 200 civic organizations.
Plans for organization and pro.
posed bylaws will be submitted &c
the gathering by a committee com
prising Ira B. Nutter, Miss Eliza.
beth e. Reiss, Ernest II. Daniel
w T. Bannerman. and Thomas W
Short,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-02
BOY IS INJURED
PLAYING At
BANDIT
Nine-Year-OId John Hartnett
Hit by Automobile While
Bound by PIaymates.

Playing bandits" cost nine'year'
old John Hartnett, 819 Seventh
street southwest, dislocated shout
der yesterday afternoon, when he
was dashed to the pavement by an
unidentified automobile as he was
helplessIy bound with a quantity
of wire.
Discovering telephone pole with
a loose coil OF wire, Hartnett, in
company with Raymond Lester, Gas
Eye street southwest, and Mike
Garner, S19 Sixth street southwest,
began to play in an alley near 64O
Eye street southwest yesterday
afternoon.
Hartnett was elected to be the
"prey of the bandits" and the boys
playfully wrapped him with the
wire and stretched an end across
the alley. Without warning an
automobile SKINNED through the
alley and dashed Hartnett to the
pavement. He was rushed to the
hospital, where it was found he
had a dislocated shoulder. His
condition Is said not to be serious.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-02
DRAGGED ALONG STREET.
SHE ASKS FOR DIVORCE

Alleging that her husband on ONT
occasion dragged her along the
street for a half a block until
arrested by policeman, Mrs. Eta
Lois Hilton has filed suit in the
District Supreme Court against
James Or fin Hilton, for a limited
divorce and alimony. ..
Plaintiff, represented by attorneys
Fischer & Fischer alleges that on
another occasion her husband threw
her out Of their apartment and
blackened her eyes and that she suf
fered physical illness on account of
his forcing her to take long walks
with him and to play tennis with
him.
Mrs. Hilton itemizes about twenty
places where they have resided
since Their marriage December 10.
1914, moving from place to place
and from one city to another. Mrs.
Hilton also asks for the custody of
their child and requests the court
to enjoin her husband from modest.
ing her.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-02
GIRL HELPS TO CAPTURE
ALLEGED RoY BURGLAR

NEW YORK, April Due to
the vigilance Of Miss Dora Modico.
Frank Desimc. seventeen, was ar
raigned before Magistrate Doyle IN
the Fifth avenue court on charge;
Of burglary and was held In $500
bail.
Miss Modico saw Deaino and
another man coming from the
apartment house IN which she
lives with several suits Of clothing.
she led the chase which resulted In
Desimo's arrest. The other man set
away.
groups other than bona nde stu
dents or graduates Of higher insti-.
buttons of learning.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-02
PUT
ON Bic 1924
ROSTER
New Senator'S Name Quietly
Pushed as Democratic Can
didate for President.
BY GEORGE e. DURNO,
international News Service.

TO the long and growing list OF
aspiring standard bearers for the
Democratic party in the 1924 Pres
dental election, a new name was
added today-that of Senator Royal
s. Copeland of New York.
Capitol Hill Is rumbling with Cos
sip and run1or electing the indie
pendent Democrat who unseAted
Senator Calder, stanch pro-Admin-
istration leader, last November, as
the logical nominee for the Presi-
dency. Whereas several weeks ago
DIR. Copeland was being mentioned
as a running mate to the 1924
Democratic nominee, his name now
is being elevated to the head of
the ticket by many astute leaders
of the party.
Democratic leaders more and
more are becoming convinced that
their nominee OF necessity must be
a comparative dark horse" OF
the outstanding Democrats now
being potentially groomed for the
Presidency, there is not one but
who is encountered by previous
public commitments on various
moot and embarrassing questions
"Mr. X' Of the Party.
It is for this reason that the
former Health Commissioner of
New York City is being pushed to
the fore. DIR. Copeland looms as
the Mr.. x" of the Democratic
party. He Is not publicly COM
mitted-at least to the point of
possible embarrassment on such
matters as the League OF Nations,
prohibition, etc. Further, he IL q
progressive OF the first water, and
his strategical political foundation
is firm.
That Senator Copeland would
have the support OF Tammany at
the convention, after other booms
had subsidized from deadlock or other
causes, Is conceded. In addition
the new legislator has secured as
his secretary Chesley Jurney. for
n1er secretary to Senator gilbert
son. Jurney Is a power in Texas
politics, and thus. the party dope.
sters argue, Copeland's boom would
swing under way with a vengeance
headed by the New York and Texas
delegations.
Others Are Handicapped.
Prominent men now being pushed
are not being regarded hopefully by
the wise politicians in the Demo.
cratic party. There is some draw.
back to each. McAdoo faVors Gov
eminent ownership of railroads:
Underwood is undesirable geograph.
ically. to say nothing Of a pro-
nounced wet leaning; Cox and Clark
are radical on the League, and Gov.
AL Smith also Is attacked for his
wet tendency by w. j. Bryan and
other party leaders.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-02
EXPRESS RATES
RAISE MEETS
PROTEST
Merchants Association Makes
Investigation in interest
Of Members.

Protest against a proposed in
crease in express rates, scheduled
to go into effect April 8, will be
made this week to the Interstate
Commerce Commission by members
Of the Merchants and Manufactur-
ers. Association.
In event the protest is unfruitful,
the association will probably re-
quest differential rate on slow
delivery, it was announced today.
The association has recently com
pleted a survey of express condt-
lions as they affect Washington,
upon the complaint of many of Its
members OF unnecessary delay IN
the delivery of express matter.
The stand of each individual
member of the association Is being
sounded out today III the following
questionnaire:.
ado you believe that circum.
stances are such as to warrant the
express companies in asking for an
increase?
EDO you not believe, on the con-
trary, that the volume of business
enjoyed by the express companies
should in itself warrant decrease
in the rates rather than an in
crease?
would you be in favor Of recon-
mending a differential rate on slow
delivery? For example, 1t is the
conviction of your offices that mat
ter handed TO express companies
in New York at S o'clock In the
Afternoon should be delivered in
Washington the following morning.
This would be demonstrated as ex-
press service. In the event that
there was a delay the rates would
he lower, in consonance with the
extent of the delay"
The replies to this QUESTIONABLE
win be tabulated by the association
and presented to the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-02
SPANISH CLERIC NAMED
AS BISHOP OF SION SUICIDE

MADRID. April 2.--Javier Wales
Failde, nominated by King Alfonso
to become bishop OF Sion, which in-
cludes the patriarchate of occi-
dental India and the chaplain gen.
eraIship Of the Spanish army, was
found dead yesterday. His jugular
vein had been severed with q razor,
1t is asserted by his friends that
difficulties had arisen relative TO
his nomination, which recently was
sent to the Vatican for approval.
The prelate was confessor TO the
king and Queen and was d great
faYorites among HE colleagues.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-02
SUES BRIDES FATHER
- FOR $4,000 DAMAGE

NEW YORK. April 2.-Suit for
$4,000 has been brought In su,
preme court. Brooklyn. by Harry L.
Molden, a dealer in cosmetics,
against his father-in-law, Joseph
Faden, q furrier. for alleged aIiena.
ton OF the affections Of Mrs.
Beatrice Faden Modem.
Molden said he and his wife were
married five months ago, but did
not tell Fiaden until February 81.
Then. Molden said. Faden made his
daughter virtually prisoner in his
home and took away her extra
clothing so she could not leave the
house and visit her husband.
Faden failed to file an answer
and the case was set down for
trial today
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-02
WOODEN MILLS INCREASE
PAY or 1900 WORKERS

PASSAIC, n. j., April Five
WOODEN manufacturing firms, MEM
bers Of the Passaic Industrial Coun.
Gil. have posted notices in their
mills of q wage increase, effective
April 80.
The amount Of the increase was
not made known, but it was under.
stood it would compare favorably
with the recent increase of 1914 per
cent granted by the New England
wooden manufacturers. APPROX
mately $4,000 operatives will be
affected.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-02
BILL HART WAS
CRUEL To HER,
SAYS GIRL
Miss Maoc aulIsy Calls Noted
Screen Star a Harsh, Big
Coward.
.NTE.

2 1 80 - 49, :.
Bill Hart as q cruel and jealous
lover is pictured today by Eliza
beth MacCaulley in the last m
stallment Of her remarkable story
Of her romance with the screen
star, who she declares is the
father Of her five-year-old son.
Miss MacCaulley also gives. a
word Of advice gained from Bit
ter experience to girls and
women who look upon the screen
stars and then rush nnadly into
love affairs with them.
The concluding paragraph OF
the story tells why she related
her experience. That paragraph
reads:
Il pray that some little trust
ing girl viii read my story and
take heed"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-02
DIES AT 100, BELIEVING
ACE DUE TO MAGIC BROOK

NEW YORK, April 2.-CharIes
Smith, Of Newark, who formerly
conducted a health sanitarium at
Patrick's Corners, two miles from
Clementon, N. j., Is dead.
Smith attributed his longevity
to the magic properties" Of Fresh
Pond Brook, which runs across the
farm at Patrick's Corners.
Invalids began visiting the farm
for cures several years ago.