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Gunnison news-champion., 1923-05-18

FOR SALE-Piano, glass china closet,
dresser, small kitchen cabinet.
19-tf GEO. RUCK. Phone 107J2
Gunnison news-champion., 1923-05-18

FOR Excellent building lots
in Block 70, First Addition, near
College. Sell two, three or Ave
lots as desired. Trees, water, fence,
seeded to grass.
HENRY F. LAKE JR.
Gunnison news-champion., 1923-05-18
FOR SALE
GOLD BAND BUTTER

FOR SALE-A Kimbail Piano. Phone
70k3 l8-tf
Gunnison news-champion., 1923-05-18

FOR SALE-7 room house, five corner
lots, southeast front; price is right.
II interested, phone 40J. l5-tf
Gunnison news-champion., 1923-05-18

FOR SALE-One thorobred Rose
Comb Rhode Island Red Cockerel.
20 w. A. MANUEL. Phone 30J.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30
DRINKING DAYS

Drinking among passengers has been steadily get
ting less and ess for the last 20 years. T. D. Smith makes
this He chief steward of the White Star liner
Adrac and he has been 35 years in the North Atlantic
service
The decline in drinking is a genuine prohibition move
men and not because liquor costs have up Smith be-
leves.
He Says Efficiency in business-vth telephones wire-
le radio taxcabs electrical and the general de-
mand for speedhas destroyed the old idea of doing
business the forenoon and deyong the rest of the day
and night to drinking
That just about sums of the prohibition movement in the
last analysis matter of efficiency, rather than
of morals.
Smith says that when he first sea the ships were
hardy individuals cared for the North Atlantic trip except
IN May June and July when there prospects of fine
weather. -
He recalls many of the od-time liner passengers
hardened topers who could drink all day and of
the night without getting drunk.
Their favore breakfast served at IL in the morning
deved bones with champagne.
The best whskey in those days only 80 cents quart
with gin 80 cents and lower Beer served at cents
bottle Maybe this explains the origin of the expression
"good old days"
The odtme passengers bought their hooch aboard
ship, by the bottle. And dinner time in the frstclass
dining saloon 80 ago champagne on every table,
Liquor flowed freely at all hours of day AMI night Many
OF recall when John Bareycorn the silent partner
OF business shore ao it being customary for drummer
to take prospective and throw dozen ronds
OF drinks into him before inducing him to sign the dotted
line.
People have been tapering away from liquor gradually
but steadily IN the last 20 Many have the notion that
prohibition put over tWnking They forget that
out of about 2500 counties the United States only 15 or
even fewer still were wet when the prohibition amendment
adopted.
Such drinking still takes place is viewed through
magnlfymg glass Smith, veteran seaman SAYS drinking
aboard ship has been steadily declining for 20 years but most
andsmen to have the notion that ocean travel re-
sembles "Ten Nights in a Barroom
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30

Q. What was Rooseyelt's attitude
toward becoming vice president? A.
G. T.
A. Bradley Gilman quotes him as
saying, II see no attractive outlook,
shall probably end my life as q
professor in some small town."
Q. When will the auction bridge
rules be revised again? H. H.
A. Milton e. Work, the chairman
OF the card committee of the New
York Whist Club, Is authority for
the statement that no revision of
the Laws of Auction is contemplated
at present, as the laws which became
effective September 1, 1920, have
given complete satisfaction.
@. How much money has the
Rockefeller Foundation spent? C.
H. Y.
A. From May 22, 1918. to Decem-
Der 81, 1922, the expenditures of the
Rockefeller Foundation totaled $76,-
757,040. The largest item, $22,298,-
54l, was for war work, covering Y.
M. c. A, knights of Columbus, jew
ish Welfare, Y. w. c. A. and other
camp and community welfare, medi-
SoA iSSSaiCH anu TSlIeIb anu nuInAu-
itarian aid, including the American
and International Red Cross.
@. What was Booker 7. Washing
toms attitude toward the use of the
word negro? J. T. H.
A. He made it a practice to write
and speak of members of his race
as negroes, and when using the term
negro" as race designation he en-
ployed the capital I'M.
@. How many comic strips are
published in this country? f. j. w.
A. Vanity Fair says that there are
about 200 such features. Over ninety
per cent of the newspapers OF the
country carry some comics.
Q. Did Mrs. Stowe make fortune
out of Uncle Toms Cabin?" D. L.
H.
A. Mrs. Stowe was paid 5000 for
the serial rights for "Uncle Toms
Cabin" and for the stage rights she
received little or nothing. Had she
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30

been rewarded on the present rovaI-
ty basis her earnings from the plav
alone would have been about So
100000. She died in very moderate
circumstances.
Q. What is the technical name for
eating clay or dirt? ]. NJ.
A. The practice of eating some
kind of earthly matter, such as CLAW
or chalk, is known as geophagy or
geophagism.
@. Is King George related to
Queen Mary other than by marriage?
II. D. S.
A. Queen Mary is the second
cousin once removed of King George.
Q. What is the exact wording OF
the Presidents oath as formally de.
manded by the Constitution? NJ. A.
A. ] do solemnly swear that I will
faithfully execute the Office of Pres
ident Of the United States, and will
to the best Of my ability protect and
defend the Constitution of the Unit
ed States"
@. Who was the first Japanese to
come to Washington with the rank
of ambassador? l.. J. p.
"A. Viscount Aoki, the successor
of Mr.. Takahira.
Q. Where was Marie Corelli born?
w. H. C.
A. She was born in Italy in 1884.
Q. When was natural gas first
used in this country2 H. +.
A. The earliest economic use of
natural gas known in the United
States occurred In 1921 when 1t was
used for the illumination of the VII
lage of Fredonia, New York. A we'll,
one and half inches in diameter,
was drilled to a depth of 27 feet near
noted gas spring and for many
years supplied the village with thirty
street lights.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30
HINGTON ELM Is DEAD

elm is dead. All pupils and all who have
plie schools must remember the picture of the
bridge under which Washington took COM
ental army, and will deplore its passing 1t
prime on that famous July 3, 1775, and as it
nts succeed Washington and could remem-
IN the midst of the Great War, it was no long
8 once was" Its limbs were bandaged or en-
s. the wounds on its trunk were treated with
"a it had been hoped to keep it still alive until
came suddenly. 1t was announced Tuesday
emit director of the Arnold arboretum of Har-
letter to Mayor Edward W Quinn of Cam
life are now gone from the Washington elm, y
z, and there is no longer any chance of keeping
|umn. So far as l am concerned it can be cut
r. The tree will likely be felled and the trunk
is to be distributed as souvenirs among the mu-
Is of the country.
school children may have to make contribu.
lderstood that Mayor Quinn is eager to raise a
chool children of the country to erect shaft
oric spot where the tree has disappeared.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30
USE OF RUSSIAN OIL BY u. S.
TOLD OF BY HASKIN
Daily Letter by Frederic J. Haskio

unmapped areas of timber; and coal
and iron are believed to exist in
quantities large enough TO excite
the covetousness of any nation. In
/ addition there is the tremendous
agricultural resources.
Moscow, the Soviet capital, is said
by returned travellers to present an
interesting spectacle. 1t is overrun
with foreign adventurers seeking
concessions. Many of them, feeling
that they are SO far away from
home that no one can check their
statements, make all manner of
promises to Soviet officials. One will
declare that he is the personal rep
lresentative OF the President of the
United States and Russian recog-
milton will Immediately follow the
granting to him of a valuable con-
cession.
Another will declare he represents
group of United States Senator's
or French deputies; still another
that he is John d. Rockefeller's or
j. P. Morgan's confidential agent.
AT first some of the Russian Of
hcials were taken in by these ex-
travagant claims, but experience
has made them wise and very little
credence is placed in claims of high
foreign connections, even when doc
umentary evidence is offered, be-
cause it has been discovered that
many credentials have been forged.
The man who is most likely to
gain hearing and, possibly, Il con-
,cession from the Russian govern
ment is the one who can prove that
he is a responsible business man, not
representing any government Of
hclals, but merely seeking a straight
business opportunity to 60 into an
industrial development project. The
blue sky agents and confidence men,
the professional concession hunters,
are beginning to thin out under
pressure of diseouragament and the
tiIre has come when actual business
transactions of great magnitude are
Just around the corner.
Ore thing of which both the So
Wet and the Americln Government
warn the world pubic Is the blue
sky stock selling scheme based on
Russian concessions. 1t is expected
that several such schemes will be
f1oated and stock offered to the pub
lie in fabulously rich Russian con-
cessions. Government officials de-
clare that prospective purchasers of
such stock should make very care
full inquiries. II is believed more
than likely that, in most cases, they
will find that the concession on
which the whole stock-selling
scheme is based is largely imaginary
and that the real source of wealth
being exploited by the concession
aires is the pockets of the public.
1t must not be thought that these
new Industrial developments will be
on precisely the same basis as de-
velopment in other countries. Rus
sia does not have the formal recog-
milton of the United States and will
not have 1t, so long as the present
Russian foreign policy Is in effect.
This will prevent as free an inter-
course as otherwise would obtaia
but the important fact is that the
barrier is beginning to break down
and the gradual increase of in
dustrial development in Russia at
the hands Of American and other
foreign capitalists is expected to
bring about conditions which will
show a steady nnproy ement in the
land of the former Car.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30
-6M|t&
Ilf|tA&
WOEl(1
BY MILTON BRONNER
lNEA Servica Writerl


LONDON-Even in this most con-
servatiye of cities, one by one the
famous old street cries are dying out.
In Shakespeare's day the streets
were musical with this chanting OF
tradesmen, calling their wares, each
to his own particular Hitting tune.
The last to be heard in modern
London is that of the lavender ped
dlers:
Sweet lavender, sweet lavender!
Wont you buy my sweet lavender?
Sixteen branches for a penny!"
It's still heard on the side streets,
but its days are numbered. It's
easier to walk to a drug store and
get mothballs.
Just as the street cries are dying
out, SO also are the London flower
giris-famous in song and story
disappearing.
Once they were to be seen all over
the city-these girls" whose ages
ranged from sixteen to sixty. Picca-
dilly Circus has been their last
stronghold. But there are signs that
they're being ousted even from this
favored spot. The other day, when
I passed there, all the flowers offered
for sale were in the hands of men,
mostly ex-soldiers out of regular
jobs.
The French have a sense of the
eternal fitness of things, which we
don't seem to possess in the United
States, and neither do the British.
Not long ago the Paris commun-
lists declared they were going to hold
a big pow-wow right in the Place de
rOpera. The government promptly
turned out a lot of police and
troops to prevent it.
The officer in charge gave this in
struction to his men:
"Allow nobody to pass the lines
except officers in uniform, reporters
and pretty women"
You can find anything in Hyde
Park of a sunny morning-anything
from frowzy soapJbox agitators, ex-
pounding the beauties of commun-
ism, to royal kids.
It's a great place for nursemaids
and their charges.
For instance, the other day saw
a white-clad nurse pushing "pram"
with an infant inside. The baby
looked to me just like any other
baby but one of the cops, in an awe
struck whisper, exclaimed to his
favorite nursemaid:
"YoI know who's in that blinkin'
pram? Princess Mary's baby.
Yuss.'
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30
RIAL BRIDGE PROJECT

|he county meeting of the American
the World War, as far as Middlesex
Ind the memorial bridge proposition
sion held in Piscataway Monday night,
ointed to follow up the action of the
ynatter to the attention of the gov
Commission.
f the American Legion in Mddlesex
eat weight in furthering the project.
to the state organization of the legion
fort will be made to get that body S
th interest is being shown by members
hnmission. 1t has been noted that sew
Ee been erected in different parts of the
found that this form of memorial has
2 because bridge, especially one that
ptly before the public thereby serving
ing fresh the memory of the boys who
= e Raritan river as a part of route No.
ystem furnishes an exceptional oppor-
memorial, as it forms connecting link
Jersey and is travelled by thousands
rom this state but from practically every
is one of the longest bridges that is en-
bqd offers. exceptional opportunities for
4 -,
/ any memorial features is to cost about
x state adopt it as the memorial for the
e World War and the legislature decides
one hundred thousand dollars for the me-
ID be made one of the handsomest struc-
ID would be feature that visitors would
| to the credit of New Jersey.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30
THE REFEREE

(By Albert Applet


The champion bull fighter of
Spain-Enrique Robles, profession
ally known as Chicorrito-spends his
this description of a baseball game,
the first he ever attended:
1.-The people made much noise and
could not understand why they
should be so excited. A few men
wearing very dull clothes-nothing
like the brilliant costumes of our
bull fighters--were running around
and throwing a little ball and trying
to hit it with a stick. 1t was very
uninteresting."
That sounds like comment by a
Man from Mars.
Faraway
Buffalo Bill, riding a camel, is
pictured on the cover of American
dime novels translated and printed
in Italy. Another cover shows Bill
in a gondola, rescuing a fair damsel
from a burning Mississippi river
steamboat. A third has Bill at bay
in a canyon, fianked by African lions
and tigers.
The Italians are "eating" this sort
of stuff. Their dime novel taste runs
to Buffalo Bill and Nick Carter.
Some American ideas about Italy
are equally ridiculous. The faraway
always is pictured Historically That's
why wars are possible. Radio and
airplane will bring more interna-
tional understanding and good feel
ing than million diplomatic confer
ences.
Joking?
With the twelve-hour day doomed
in the steel industry, an eight hour
day is doomed for farmers. Its back
er is L. L. Cosline, writing in Ameri-
can Agriculturist.
You can imagine the howl that
would go up from city folks If farm
ers began organizing to reduce our
food supply by curtailing their labor
to eight hours a day.
We have, elaborately disguised, as
complete a caste system as the
orient.
Americans spend a million dollars
a week for gum, according to trade
report by National City Bank.
This is a very conservative esti-
mate, we are told by the janitor Of
a movie theatre who has to scrape
gum wads from their parking places
underneath the seats.
However, it is good news for dem
lists and doctors.
Bosses
We seem not to be in the tolls of
big Business" as much as we i'm
agine. Joseph w. Roe, president of
Society of Industrial Engineers,
studies the last census and finds
that, of the 290,105 manufacturing
establishments in our country, only
1921 employ more than 1000 wage
earners apiece. And 235,S84 manu-
facturers employ fewer than twenty
apiece.
Half of the Americans engaged in
manufacturing are employed by con-
Germs with fro i 20 to 500 on the
payroll.
Our most dangerous near-monopo-
lies are in distribution, no produc-
tion.
Coolidge
President Coolidge is a football
fan, an all-round gridiron expert,
and has been since he was a senior
at Amherst in 1894. Parke Davis of
Princeton furnishes the information.
Football includes the entire
science of warfare. Napoleon and
Foch were, in effect, quarterbacks.
A brain trained in football strategy
has an advantage on the battlefield
and in that milder form of warfare,
politics.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30
EIGHT HOURS IN STEEL

Hills report that the work of placing the industry
t-a-day basis is proceeding steadily. The change
e of the great obstacles which steel men professed
lee in the transformation.
of the excuses given by steel men to explain the
zgn their business with general standards of Amer-
was the fear of larbor shortage. In recent months
#ughout the country had found business good and
loying all the labor available The leaders of the steel
they could not rely obtaining the increased num-
yes necessary to eight-hour day.
ars groundless. The shorter day is attracting
retofore not interested in working in steel mills
oe suspicion that the steel magnates foresaw such
but were unwilling to admit it as a possibility until
of opinion compelled them to abolish the twelve
erience Of the steel men is nothing new.
lat the approach Of reality.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30
Questions Answers

Any reader can get the answer to
any. question by writing The Perth
Amboy Evening News Information
Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Diree-
apples strictly to information. The
bureau will not attempt to answer
medicinal and financial troubles. It
coes not attempt to settle domestic
troubles, nor TO undertake exhaus.
tive research on any subject. Write
your question plainly and briefly.
close two cents in stamps for return
postage. Ali replies are sent direct
to the inquirer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30
The Old Town
Street by Street-KnoW Four City
PEARL PLACE

Pearl place was laid out in 1875
on the Hall property by John OPP
perman. The street extends from
High street west to Miller street and
except for grading has no other i'm
provements. There have been some
improvements to property but this
has all bess done at the expense of
the property owner.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30
NOTICE

NOTICE
All persons concerned may take no.
tice, that the Subscriber, administrator
ect.. OF Richard ID. Garben, deceased, in
tends to exhibit his final account to the
Orphans Court for the County of Middle
sex, on Friday, the seventh day OF Sep
tember 1928, at 10 A. NJ, in the Term of
Aprl 1923, for settlement and allowance:
the same being first audited and stated
by the Surrogate.
Dated August l., 1923
ARTHUR d. GARDEN,
zosSb-s-z-s-l6-2S-3O Administrator
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30
NOTICE OF VOLUNTARY

The City National BANK Of Perth Am
boy located at the City Of Perth Amboy
In the County Of Middlesex ana the State
Of New Jersey. Is closing its affairs. All
note-holders anT other creditors OF the as
ISOLATION are therefore hereby notified to
present the notes and other claims for
payment.
Dated July End. 1928.
WILLIAM H. PULLEN.
Cashier.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30

Not half enough straw hats with
colored bands have been set on since
last spring.
Only one case of a woodpecker
lighting on campers head has been
reported all summer.
Those planning all along to get
back to work this fall will postpone
it until winter.
A cold snap is when the coal man
snaps his fingers at you.
First thing you know it will be
cool enough for shiek and sheba to
set in the same chair.
Bathing beauties who have been
tanning their hide will soon start
hiding Stheir tan.
Magazine writer's are working on
their Christmas stories already.
When a girl speaks of her trunks
next year you will wonder if she
means baggage or bathing.
Flies swatted this summer placed
end to end reach the conclusion ii
isn't enough.
Great thing about cool weather is
all these funny named new soft
drinks will be gone.
The bath tub will not take its va
cation until winter.
Do your Christmas shopping early
and avoid this warning.
This climate does not always agree
with the calendar.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30

Practically every ant in the United
States has enjoyed at least one pic
mic this summer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30
'hought For Today

BEWEL There is gold, and a multi
! of knowledge are a precious jewell
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30

Where is the money you saved on
coal during the hot months?
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30

Summer passed, leaving too many
spring poets unsung and unhung.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30

Autumn comes in like cup of
hot coffee and goes out like a saucer
of ice cream.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30

The greatest surprise of the sum-
mer came to a mosquito who lit on
a mans wooden leg.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30

September is upon us. First fall
month. Melancholy days have come,
the gladdest of the year.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30

Biggest liar since June was a fish
erman with arms long enough to tell
the biggest lie.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30

Not half enough straw hats with
colored bands have been set on since
last spring.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-30

Is1ss--7.a-dIy J m0nLha
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-24

Court as the result Of the disaster
and before the end OF the week
about thirty or forty more arc 81
pected TO be filed. bringing the
total up to about $500, 900.
Damages amounting to SIS 900
are asked by Bernard Breslau and
his wife, Sadie Breslau, demands
500 900; the husband wanting to be
reimbursed for the loss Of his
Wife,s services and Mrs. Breslau
on account Of injuries receiYed.
Mary Young fixes her damages TOR
INJURIES at $4,000 and the other
four suits were filed by representa-.
these demand $4,000, which - the
limit placed by the law on injuries
resulting in death. William j.
Forsyth sues Tor the death OF his
sister; Josephine =. Lyman Tor the
death OF her husband: Norman T.
Martindale for the death OF his
wife. and others which Will be Gled
tomorrow and thereafter will be Cor
similar amounts.
Want Sale stopped.
There is another suit and that
Is the proceedings which Mary
Young, William Forsyth and Jc-
sephine q. Lyman brought asking
that the court inquire into and
enjoin the contamination Of the
sale OF the tl1eater property from
the Knickerboclxer Theater Conn
pany TO Harry Crandall peraonaIly,
which was made at public auction
last June. Mr.. .CrandaM 1t was
stated, borrowed $3.50, 900 Tor the
purpose OF the purchase.
Numerous contentious are also
pending in the probate court. They
s slsfe others e shoss o ne 1s,t qisd III ss
there IL also q dispute among sur.
vivors as to whether Nathan Or:
dong Or his vile met death first Ia
the disaster. ne. s5
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-24
COAST GUARD ORDERED
TO ASSIST DRY NAVY

NEW YORK. Jan. 24.-The Fed
eral Government yesterday gave ir.
dication Of it's intention 10 wipe Iodt
rum running along the Atlantic
Coast, which in the last two weeks
has received added impetus through
the presence OF the rum armada of
the Jersey coast.
This was the Interpretation placed
upon an order Coast Guard Officials
said they had received from Wash.
Tington, to regard prevention Of SNUG.
Cling as one Of their most important
functions.
The order. 1t was stated, followed
a decision Of the Federal Govern.
ment to use anti-smuggling forces
OF the Treasury Department vtrtu.
ally AZ an addition to the prohibition
forces to destroy the rlim-runninG
trade by making 1t foolhardy and up.
profitable.