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'Vi four Page Colored Paper cents everywhere—Pa no more Comic Section Four Sections VOL. VIII, No. 12 CARTERET PRESS Extensive Street Program May PRICE THREE CENT? Be CarriedOut_ Here Next Year Great Throng Pays Tribute Flood of Petitions For Street Improvement* Cause* Council To Consider Plan — Protest On Bus Rate*. Siici-ul petitions for street improve To Middlesex County Leader nil-ma r<*ad at the meeting of the I nil the people not a political group lfa.n.ugh Council Monday night re - j the mayor contended. nOnOr At lin ni I Mr^J'Zurilla, apparently arrived at I7l t °* ™ "> *» Dinner By Di.tin vivwi a plan to improve a large ii^he bearing lat«r than the Mayor and thews snid, to snionlli out differences, ald Ku,shed Speaker, and Fifteen Hundred Guest. _ Leader- to conciliate and to bring «ll tle- number of borough street* by means I J J}«^id ^h there. When of a bond indue There were four ship L,kene To That of Woqdrow Wn*on-Wood- nienU of the pai^y into a friendly isHut. There were four the Mayor replied that he had been d wholt' that made bis leadership no Petitions for street improvements. before the board and had testified brutge Mayor and Mayor of Perth Amboy successful. Evidently they all had been prepared early in the hearing, D'Zurilla replied On Dinner Committee. liy the same person as the wording that he should not have left. The speaker pointed out that dur- in each case was identical. Each peti- Attorney Stremlau reported that a (iluwing tribute was paid to David ing the last campaign every force, the tion bore several signatures of resi- further delay in awarding the con- T. Wilentz at a testimonial dinner ment of Matthews was rather an open Republicans could command wa* dents in the street named, and in tract for the Chrome storm sewer Wednesday night In Highland Park recognition of the ability of Wllenti brought to bear upon the tight in Mid- 1 : es a leader, in that hs had accom- dlesex but that under the leadership each instance the Mayor and mem- had arisen by reason of the attitude whicidh drew together a gathering of 'P bers of the council were asked to in- lift plished a thing whiah it was general- of Wilentf, the Democrats held firm of an official of the Reading rail- hundred persons, the largest ly believed could not be accomplish- and put over the jrreatejl victory in spect the street in question and see road who regarded the conditions pro- cmhcririjf ever assembled in the coun- what could be done to make it pass- ed—the welding together of the scat- '* ' '.ory of the party in the county. posed by the borough for an outlet ty at such an event. The keynote tered Democratic forces of Middlesex To succeed, the speaker *aid, a able. Each petition wound up with as too binding. The outlet from the •-lnwh was delivered by former Unit- the statement that the petitioners into a victorious unit. party must be progremivv and l>o in sewer system is planned to pass til States Comm. John A. Matthews. harmony with business an<l nil the were unable to have provisions de- through the property owned by, the 1 uliur speakers were eloquent in their Mr. Matthews declared that Middle- sex County could have Democratic other elements of progress. Wilenti, livered to their homeB because of railroad company. The Mayor express- l>rais<> of the leader but it was Mat- he-continued, reroffnited these prin- the street being impassable. ed displeasure at the continued delay thews who covered the whole field. control aa long as the party had a leader of the type of Wilenti. He said ciples and his leadership was exorcis- The streets named are Heald, Lib- of this project which, he said, should !1< described Wilentz «s a leader of ed in accordance with them. have been under way long ago. There H'i - type of Woodrow Wil»on and the that the secret of the great success erty, Thurnal and Edgar. Following of Wilenti was the fact that he la a the rending of the petitions there was in a belief upon the part of old resi- refefen-ncr e to the great war president Matthews criticised the condition dents that a sewe* outlet in that sec- leader with reason. He is not the into which the party had sunk before con.- derahie discussion of tho street brought a long round of applause. kind, the speaker said, that attsmpts Wilentz took the leadership. He urged nituution. The Mayor said that there tion of the borough was guaranteed The tribute of the former senator in an old agreement ana that this to throttle individuality. He is in the Democracy of the county to stick IM n large number of streets that tn Wilentz was straight from the touch with the trend of the times. to the plans end advice of Wilentz In xhmild be improved and that the work still holds. The attorney was instruct- shoulder and unqualified. But it was order to bolster up the party so that ed to make an immediate investiga- The day Is past, declared the speak- HIIOUU he taken up in earnest next oddly interpreted by some. One er, when leadership can successfully it would remain in control of the year Ho proposed that provision be tion and ascertain if / Carte-ret has writer in an out-of-town newspaper county Indefinitely. such a right. operate on a plan that contemplates made in tbe 11130 budget for this siw in it a challenge of the leader- the party men patting themselves In Prosecutor John E. Toolan was tha plan. There was a time, he said, when ship of Frank Hague of Hudson, per- the position of listening solely to the toastmaster and in Introducing tbe Carteret could get along with a few haps because the writer in question master's voice. Differences of opinion speakers he made many reference* main streets improved. That time is works for a paper that has been unj-l must be respected to the ability of the leader end tha passed now, he declared, because formly hostile to Hague. _The com-~ti It was the ability of WiUnt*, Mat- power which the party bad gained i« every one has a car and wants to have Roomers Driven From We county since Wilenti took th* k street that can be used in safety helm, Each speaker In turn paid the and comfort. By making reasonable- leader the same unqualified compli- provision in the budget, the Mayor House By Flames CO. Banquets Members Legion Honors ment. said, the interest on the bond issue Commissioner William L. Dill said and some of the principal could be Thirty-Five Spaniards Rush that during his campaign for govern- met each year and the people could Out In Cold Early Sunday Of Board and Team or laat year Middlesex county give have the advantage of passable Football Team him great support and encourage- streets. Morning When House Catch- ment. He lost in this county by only Speaker* Praiae Football Play- Banquet Laat Night At Sokal This idea was generally endorsed «aFire. DAVID T. WILENTZ • few hundred totes, he said, and he by Councilman Ellis, Andre* f*nd D.mocr.tic Counly Ch«irm«n who wa. given . groat testimoni Hall Attended By 200. was unstinted in his praise of the great testimonial dinner er* At Spread In High ability of WllentK as a leader. others, and In the meantime, the WtdnMd.jr night m recognition of hii foniut in Lading party t o victory. street and road eomnstttee 'waa In- Fire that started from an over Fifteen hundred perioni •tt»nd*d School. More than 200 guests' tut at the thanked both WUents and Matthew* structed to make such temporary re- heated furnace pipe ba^ly damaged board last nght when Carteret Post for the aid th«y gave him in that pairs to the itreeUqNsted in the peti- the house at the corner of Essex The victorious football team of No. 263, American Legion gave a campaign. He added that if every tions as to make them pasjabl* for street and PersHRir avenue, early Carteret high school and the mem- banquet in: honor of the victorious Democratic organisation in the state the winter. * Sunday morning and drove thirty-five Letter Writers Praise ber? of the Board of Education were football team of Carteret high school. wa* headed by such men aa WiUnta Spanish roomers out in the cold. The Two Are Injured guests of honor Monday night at a The .banque t was held„ in th„e Soko« ,l the party would be in control. He Reporting for the police committee blase waa discovered at 3:65 A. M. uu u sees the best in others and give* the Councilman Ellis said that eertaln banquet given by the General Or-, hall in Wheeler avenue. The hall was by the police; and an alarm was sent ganiaation of the student body of the j crowded. Flash light photos of the best in himself, said the commission' changes should be made in the nolle* in by Sergeant John Andres. The Christmas Seal Drive When Car Turns Over! er, referring to Witenti. ordinance at once In order that ths high school. It was held on the stage euest* and the team were taken. The engines arrived but only a few' men ' C of the auditorium of the high school, speakers included leading men of the Commissioner Frank Connolly of police raise may go into effect a* besides the drivers came.