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The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13
AN OLD MANS ESCAPE.
An Oil Fire in New York that ImperiIed
Several Lives. -.


An Oil Fire in New York that ImperiIed
Several Lives.
New YORK, Sept. 12.-The oil war shouse
and factory ofSwan & Finch, at lis Maiden
Lane, was destroyed by fire this forenoon.
The flames also damaged the stock of leaf
tobacco of Lichtenstein Brothers to the ex-
tent of $4,000. Swan & Finch's loss is
put at $25 900, and the loss on the building
at $4,000. The fire broke out very sud-
denly in the factory in the rear of lis, and
surprised the people in the building. Be-
fore some of them bethought themselves of
escape, exit by the stairs was cut off by the
fire. John Selgler, an aged carpenter, who
was at work on the third floor of the build
ing, ran to the window through the thick
ening smoke, shouting for help. None was
at hand, and the old man let himself down
from the window frame and hung there,
crying piteously for a ladder It was his
only chance. In the room, or standAg in
the window, he would have persisted
As it was, his hands and arms were
badly burned before q step-ladder tall
enough to reach to the second-story was
found, with man to climb it and risk
catching him in his arms A hundred
uoHuo SoCouOu Oho sWdJluS SSIuCbuE0 Willie
the feat was performed, and others stretch
ed horse blanket, hurriedly brought from
an express wagon, under it to guard against
aceident.) Seigler is seventy-two years old.
John Donnelly, one of the pressmen in the
factory, cut off like the carpenter from the
stairs, slid down the rope through the
hatchway in the factory through sea of
fire, and reached the street ablaze from
head to foot. He received fearful burns.
Captain Thomas Carlin, of Engine No. 4,
was blown from ladder by a fierce gust
of fame from bursting oil barrel, and,
falling two stories to the street, received
bad injuries. He was also severely burned.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13
The Drum Corps EnioIned.

NEWARK, Sept. 12.-The congregation of
B'nai Jeshurum have complained that Gar
field Posts G.. A. R. drum corps is NUS
ance They practice with fife and drum in
building adjoining the Jewish Temple,
and at the times when religious exercises
are in progress there. The congregation
made application to Chancellor Runyon for
relief, and he has issued an injunction re-
straining the drum corps from praeticing
hours of 8 and 9 of each Friday evening
hereafter.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13
FACTS FOR ADVERTISERS,

THE SUNDAY TATTLER has A CIRCULATION
MORE THAN THREE TIMES THAT OF ALL
OTHER HUDSON COUNTY NEWSPAPERS COM
BINED. ae
TBts Is A FALsEHooD ON THE FACE OF IT,
BUT WE CAN SAY IT WITH AS MUCH TRUTH AS
THE Journal AND PROPOSE TO KEEP ON SAY
ING IT UNTIL IT HAULs DOWN THE FALSE
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13
Miss Jewett,s school.

AS the season for the opening of the pri-
yate schools is at hand the TATrLER desires
to recommend school for little children
to its readers in the South Bergen section
of the city. It is that kept by Miss Jewett
at No. n Linden avenue, near Bergen.
The TATTLER knows Miss Jewett to be an
unusually competent teacher Of children,
and it speaks volumes for her treatment of
the little ones that they would rather spend
the day with her than in play at their
homes. The school will open tomorrow
morning. Those who have not already
selected schools for their little children
would do well to pay Miss Jewett's class
room q visit.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13
Miss Rafter,s Birthday PARTY,

! Among those present at surprise birth
day party rendered Miss Alice Rafter at the
residence of her parents few evenings
ago, were the Misses. Katie Rafter, Della
Conner, Lizzie MeGregor and sister, May
Bash, Lottie Denny, Masters Frank Conner
and brother, John Rngge. James uarlin and
brother, Warren Heideck, George Ludlum,
Charles Seifert, Wells Witter, Eddie Doyle,
Rich Welsh, Willie Van Berner, 9. Smith.
There was singing, dancing, and instrument
tai music to the hearts content, and after a
fine supper at midnight the surprisers de-
parted for their respective homes.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13
AnotIher 1aoh InrersolI.

John E. Remberg, Of Kansas, will lecture
at Roche's Hall, corner Grove and Morgan
streets, next Thursday evening. His sub
ject will be g Superstition, which he evil
IDENTIFY believes religion to be. For, in his adj
vertisement in another column, he assures
the public that "this gentleman holds the
same views as Bob Ingersoll. The Michi-
gan Democrat says for him that Nhe has the
genius of an orator and the heart to feel
deeply the inspiration of the subject"
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13

The following have been announced by
Sheriff Heintze as the different court
officers for the September term: Grand
Jury officers Godfrey G.. Dilloway, John
N. Masker, John P. Feeney, Frederick
Mersheimer, Peter Fl. Daily and Frank
Short. Court officers Charles Stahl, J.
Yves. Welsh, Thos. Foley, Dennis Farrell,
Thomas j. Cogan, Richard Garrick, Joseph
Locke Edgar II. Carrigan, David F. Hearn
william Wise, Judson G. Francois, John
zoen John Nash and Michael Carroll.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13
Remnants of the Great Fire.

During the past week SO great has been
the demand for the goods now selling out
under insurance orders at Powell's boot
and shoe store, that $1,000 worth has been
disposed of during that time. 1t is expected
that one week more will clear out the entire
stock. Such bargains were never offered
in this city before ..G ns@si
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13
The team Of Newark Turner's who cross

The team of Newark Turner's who cross
ed the ocean to take part in the Internal
ional Turner's festival in Germany came
back complaining that they were scarcely
treated fairly by the judges, who rather
ruled against them because they were Am
orleans. But then the King of Saxony
took off his hat to them when he met them
on the street. and the ladies of the Newark
Turnverein tried to even things up further
for them by giving them grand reception
last Tuesday evening.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13
Best Treatment far ninrherln.

The patient absolutely requires extraordinary
nutrition and gentle stimulation to resist aud over
and also to counteract the deadly growth of fatal
fungus In the vital passages. Immediate use of
DUFFY's PORE MALT WHIsKEY fills, these grand es-
sentials. and will produce wonderfully magical
failure has ever been known. Protect the patievl
from exposure and harmful excitement, but 49,
tenaciously to the remedy until recovery is eoms,
supply it,
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13
A Point for Inve,t tors.

At this particular time Of the year spectators
and investors in real estate commence to look
around for great bargains IN which 10 place ner
money, depending only on Father Time to psy
back not only the interest, at immense rates. bu
to safely return the principle Such bargains in
real estate as those offered by Frank f. Cole arc
seeking home such chances ought not to b
missed,
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13

A woman and baby took possession of
q Gloucester ferryboat the other day. She
became angered at what she considered
the .'airs of some fine ladies'" and she and
the baby drove them to the other end of
the boat. The woman did the fighting and
the baby acted as bottle holder. The
woman had been holding the bottle up to
the time the scrimmage begun. 1t took
half dozen men to reduce her to subject
ion, and even then they were compelled to
lash her to the pilot house.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13
Anothcr Band President In Cnnadn

Medina, N. Y, Sept IA. s. Warner,
the President Of the defunct First National
Bank at Albion, is known to be in Canada,
where he is engaged in business. He says
he is willing to come home and help settle
up the estate il he can be assured Of pro-
lection from the law.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13
stole 81 from Ills EupIove,.

George Petite, a little boy living at No.
$50 Railroad avenue, was arrested yester-
day on complaint of August Ingwersen,
his employer, who charged him with the
theft of 81. Detective Pearson immured
him in cell in the Gregory street police
station. Justice Wanser last evening re-
leased him OH hail. sfa
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13

The Newark Republicans seem to have a
pretty hard time in finding candidate
who dares to run against old Joe Haynes
for Mayor. All that they have asked to
carry their banner for them SO far, have
declined; and the election is only about a
month away, too !
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13

The Hebrew New Year, observed on
Thursday last, processes to be the anniyer-
sary of the worlds creation. According to
the calendar Of the Synagogues, tits 5646
years since an inspiration Of divine creative
genius made the world and all there is in
it. The Christian chronology dates the act
of creation back to 1904 before Christ
which makes the age of the world 243 years
greater than that at which the Jewish
chronology fixes it. It is not likely, how
eyer, that intelligent Hebrews observed
Che feast Of Rowsh- Harshono with any idea
that they were really assisting at the COM
memoration Of the 5646th anniversary Of
the worlds creation. The recently dis
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13
A Chinnev Firc.

The still alarm of fire at 1856 yesterday
was caused by chimney at No 6s6 Gem.
munipaw avenue. The house is occupied
y Robert Blewitt, who says the damage
will not exceed $40.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13

The fellows who are working the Guber-
natorial booms seem to be at the Mayoralty
strings, tool They're a mighty previous
lot of manipulators. And such selections
as they have made The TArTLER would
hate TO be forced to support any of them /
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13

It seems to be pretty gener ally under
stood in Newark that the question of the
acceptance of the non-partisan fire and
police commission bill passed last Winter
is to be submitted to the people of that city
at either the charter election inO October or the
general election in November. The bill
places the control of each department in
the hands of commission consisting of
Democrats and Republicans in equal num-
Der. The Republican council, which bosses
the two departments now, is afraid Of losing
its hold, and may omit to provide for the.
taking of the vote of the people on the
question The Newark Advertiser thinks
that possibly the citizens can vote on it
without being invited by the Council. The
act merely provides that it shall not apply
to any city until the provisions shall have
been accepted by majority of the votes
castfor or against it. Does the AdUertiSsr
think that if some crank, anxious to steal a
march on the community, were to go to the
polls and cast his vote forlt, The solitary
vote would force its acceptance because,
forwant of notice, no one had voted against
it? If such an acteis good thing for
Newark it ought to be d good thing for this
city, too. Can't Mayor Collins suggest the
taking Of the sense of the peopls here, 100,
at the November election?
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13

A baseball manager has rather hard
time of this men are always more OF less
on strike, and when they are not out are
trying to run home.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13

They turn up in about the usual order
these hack candidates for the Governor
ship. Ben Lee follows right in the wake
of the great and only Joel. And yet the
Gubernatorial Convention is more than
year away
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13

Of course General Villas has no idea of
resigning the Postmaster Generalship.
Hasn't he promised to stay there to fix
things for Charley Bell?
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13

The SUNDAY TATTLER is not, by any
MEANS distressed by the fact that Mr.. JOS
lin has been reassigned to duty in one of
the schools of the city. The TATTLEB was
never of the conviction that the accom-
plished professor had committed any very
awful crime, and it is doubtless due to It's
treatment of the subject that public opin-
ion here has been rather with him than
with the Board of Education in the matter.
But we are puzzled to know how the gem
tlemen of the Board can justify their very
palpable inconsistency. If they were right
in expelling him from the service of the
city, they are wrong in taking him back. If
they wronged him in expelling him from
the High School, they should right him by
putting him back into it. His reappoint-
ment is sort of confession that they were
unjust in subjecting him to the humilia-
ton and disgrace they forced him to bear
less than month ago. The trouble prob
ably is that the members of the new Board
of Education are a little prudish in their
sanctity; and that what was at most only
an irregularity grew, when seen through
their high moral spectacles, into the mag
nitude of a great public crime. Since they
have learned what slight culpability people
of ordinary every day morals attach to the
business, they have revised their notions
and their punishment and decided to give
Mr.. Joslin chance to redeem himself from
the blow their unnecessary harshness has
inflicted. The TATTLER will say, at the
same time, for the School Board, that it is
thousand times better for its members to
be a little too good for anything than, like
the members of the old Board, good deal
too bad for human endurance. s e
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13

Essex is the only county in the State
that raises Oranges.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13

covered stories of the rocks dispel the old
time notion of the youth of the earth and
shows that its beginning is such countless
ages back that the imagination can not be 8
gin to conceive of it, and that it was
brought into shape by such series of pro-
gressiye developments fitting it first for
one form of lifeand afterwards for higher
forms of existence till finally it became
habitable for man-that it would be hard
to say when the anniversary of it's COM
mencement should be celebrated if
the time of creation were within the reach
of human knowledge. The stars that light
us on our way reflect the history of the
earth's birth and growth. There's Saturn,
only a nebul@; Neptune, fiery vapor; the
Sun, molten furnace; Mars, a heated
crust that no human foot could rest upon;
Earth, in the prime of manhood, teeming
with life; Mercury on the decline, and the
Moon, following us around for fear of be-
ing lost in the great immensity of space, a
cold, hard, dried old woman that will fall
by the roadside some day for want of
vitality the earth has been some of these,
and, if nothing untoward happens to her.
must be the rest. Millions and millions of
years must havebeen consumed in the pro.
cesses that gathered the floating nebulae of
the universe and welded them with fire and
water into this beautiful globe we live up
on, before man could find nourishment and
existence here. And it may be that earth,
in these successive stages of evolution, sus-
tanned other forms of life, and that whole
procession of unknown creatures, able to
live upon her varying crust and in her
variable atmosphere, have dominated her,
one after the other, till finally Man came
to play his little part on the stage as the
self-styled Lord of Creation. That is where
the Jewish chronology and the Christian
chronology assume to fix dates, and even
as to that little fact the story of the
rocks confounds them. But then it
isn't probable that the Hebrews. in their
anniversary festivities, pestered their brains
over the historical aspects of the matter.
They just saw holiday ahead and went in
to make the most of tin which they
we're ust right.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13
.ere'just rig


If cholera, Or any other epidemic, should
seek our shores next Summer, we know of
no place where it can SO readily find lodg-
ment as in the slums back of Jersey City
and Hoboken, particularly known as the
meadow district. There are acres, we might
say miles, of this territory, and more dis
gushing and dangerous district it would be
hard to find. From Weehawken down to
the Morris Canal the surface is covered
with fostering, stagnant pools, that invite
if they do not breed disease, and yet no
effortis made by any one to abate the nuis-
ance. There is law enough to correct the
evil if it were only enforced. Health boards
are empowered to abate nuisances sum-
narily wherever they exist, and this one
can not be too promptly dealt with. 1t
might be an expense to fill in this property,
but since it must be done before the lots
can become available for building purposes
why may itlnot be done now as well as at
any other time? II will cost no more to-
day than year hence, OF, ten years. No
man has any right to endanger the public
health in any way, and if the people who
own this meadow land will not fill it in let
the authorities step in and do the work,
assessing the expense upon the owners /;
then, if they do not pay, let the reclaimed
lands be sold. Hoboksn has made sras-
mode efforts to deal with the evil, but has
experimental only with drainage plans,
which entail great expense without ensur-
ing success. Sewers viii not answer be-
cause the lands in question are lower than
the river, and water, unfortunately, will
not flow up hill. Pumping is therefore the
only resource, and pumping is not only
expensive but continual source Of expense
Filling will do the work effectually and per-
manently and SO do away with any expense
but the actual first cost. Ultimately, of
course, as the meadow lands come into the
market, they will be filed up, but that may
require many years, and in the meantime
the community has a right to protect itself
regardless of individuals, so long as indiv-
idual rights are respected. h
, 1885-02-10

How He Became the Mister of iinlon,
His Personal Appearance.
lsan francisco Cor. Globe-D Democrat
Claus Spreckelz, commonly known a the
sugar King OF the Sandwich Islands"
wields a power more democratic, II not
greater, than that OF any other monopolist
in tho world Sprsckels is a South
German, born In Hanover, a man
Of small education. who cams 10 this
country about 1880. and started ia thu
retail grocery business in Church street. New
York He made the impression On th0e who
knew him there as a man Of graat business
shrewdness and OF the thrift which Is pro-
verbal Of his race. He zane out to Cali
fornia soon after the goli fever broke out,
and at once engaged in tho grocery business
in this city. preferring It 10 the hazards and
hardships Of mining. Everything which he
touched seemsd to turn to gold He made
large profits in his business Combining with
several OF his brothers who had come out
TO the coast, he bought a quarter interest
in the Albany brewery. In this city, for Sf0,-
000. This was the foundation OF his present
large fortune and m Importance.
After running the brewery a few years, his
keen business instincts saw In sugar-rsfinIng
a far more profitable fisld Of enterprise.
OF Spreckels' wealth 1t Is impossible TO
form any accurate estimate, because much
OF his property Is m~ortgaged, and It Is I'M
derstood the greater part Of his fortune Is
embarked In the sugar business, which Is apt
to depreciate. He mikes daily, the year
round, however, coo barrels Of sugar, con
tanning 275 pounds of sugar each, worth an
average OF $50 a barrel This makes a BUSH
nes Of $4,000 a day, or $4,000 a year.
He makes a clear profit OF $40 a barrel, or
$1,000 n day, which amounts to 81, 100, 900 a
$500 II. ~rFnrT A. III ---.- -
tho coast, which represents so, 900, 900 a
year. Down at Honolulu he puts on more
the airs OF an autocrat, ond his course there
lately has put him into disfavor with both
tho native and foreign population Last
January he loaned the king 81. ZOO, 600.
Among his employees Spreckels Is probably
more popular than any other millionaire on
the coast, because he has always treated his
people we'll.
flo is OF medium heigbs compactly built
and dresser neatly He has the face Of a
typical German, with the ~high-cheek bones,
fair skin and blue eyes OF tho Fatherland.
His eye is as clear As that Of a young man,
and his skin, though Drowned by exposure,
is also clean and healthy. His round head
is covered with a thick growth OF hair, rap
idly changing from gray TO white. This Is
the only indication Of his yearz. He has the
alert look and movement OF a man Of 80. and
in his steel-blue eyes is n look which goes far
to reveal his character. He married years
ago when he was a poor man, a comely Ger
man girl, who was then employed as a de-
nestle in the family OF a large eastern sugar
%refiner, and she has proved a good wife and
mother. They nave four sons and one
daughter. The father and the three older
sons, among whom Is Adolph, who shot De
Young, are Members Of the Pacific club, in
this city, where the sons are general favor
iteA They arc all fne-looking men OF pol
hhed address, and have Travelled much In
Europe.
, 1885-02-10

BLooMNoroS. Ill, Feb. "a man
named Douglass Ennis spent Sunday
here, saying he was in search of a man
named Chauncey McCallum, whom he
would kill on sight for keeping company
with a girl whom he Ennis) had fol-
lowed to this city from Memphis. He
went to the neighboring town Of Danvers
this morning, bought a revolver, and be-
gan drinking in the village saloons with
John Parr, a farmer, and both got drunk
and went to PARIS house. This evening
Ennis undertook to load his revolver, Parr
objccting, when Ennis shot him twice.
PARIS son came to his fathers rescue,
and Ennis also shot him. Both men viii
probably die. Ennis escaped
, 1885-02-10

III ~
When Bismarck had boon appointed TO the
legation at Frankfort "a post which he owed
to the delight with which Frederick William
" had read his bluff speeches In the
Prussian lower house, he was present at n
public ball, where a member of the French
corps ~legislatif, NJ. Jouvois do Clancy, was
pointed out TO him as a noted fire eater.
This gentleman had been a Republican, but
had turned his coat after the coup d'etat
He was a big man with dandined airs, but
evidently not much acchstomed TO society,
for he had brought his hat-not a compress
sible one Into theb ballroom, and in waltz
ing he held 1t in his left hand. The sight of
the big F~renchman carsering round the
room with this hat extended at arms longth
was too much for Bismarck sense OF fun;
50, as NJ Jouvois revolycd past him, he
dropped a copper coin into the hat.
One may imagine the scene. Tho French
man, turning purple, stopped short in his
dancing, led back his partner TO her place,
and then came with flashing eyes to demand
satisfaction. There would have been assault
and battery on the pot II friends had not
interposed; but On the following day the
Frenchman and the Prussinn mot with pis-
tolls and the former was Wounded. Unfor-
tunately Tor Bismarck, NJ Jouvois knew
Louis Schneider, the ex-comedian, who had
become court councillor to Frederick Will
lam ~, and was that eccentric monarch's
favorite companion Schneider had but a
moderate fondness for Bismarck, and he
represented his act Of gaminerie in so I'M
favorable a light to the king that his maj
esty instructed the foreign office to read the
newly appointed diplomatlst a severn lesson.