The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-23
THE NEWS OF HoBoKEN.
CHIEF APPLEGATE'S
AGAINST LIBERTY HOSE.

His Fine-The Suevia's Officers Ac
cused of Cruelty to the Dying Emu
grant, Wilhelm Aldag.
The Council Committee on Fire ant
Water, consisting of Kelly, Thinker
Bruggeman and Erlenkoelter, heart
testimony last night in the charge
made by Chief Engineer Apologize O
INSTRUMENTATION and ~disorderly con
duct on the part of members OF LIB
erty Hose at a recent fire.
Chief Apologize said that he heard
the alarm and ran to the spot before
n apparatus was there. The t1rst
to arrive was Oceana Hose Company,
which Immediately connected VIII
the hydrant. No. l steamer ana Q ;
wagon came up next, and AFTER THEM
Liberty Hose. The steamer rather
overshot the hydrant, n the en-
gineer. finding he could not connect,
Wanted to turn his horses round and
bring the other side of his engine up
to it. He was completely blocked In
by Liberty Hose carriage and IL was
fully two minutes before they could
be induced to move it. 1t was finally
got out of the way and taken 10
Washington street, and the steamer
went to work. !.
Several of Liberty's men then Went
round the engine and attempted TO IN.
terfere with the engineer. The ald OF
Policeman Peters was obtained ana
anybody interfering with the steamer
in any way was threatened with
arrest. Glynn was in charge, although
Assistant Foreman Mulvey was there,
and it was Glynn who made all tne
bother. This same man has made
trouble before.
The Chiefs statement vas corrobor-
ated by Councilmen Thinker and
Erlenkoelter, who were also present
before any apparatus arrived.
A GENERAL DENIAL.
Assistant Foreman Mulvey and Sec
retary Glynn, of Liberty Hose Com
pany. made a general denial OF the
charges. The Chief said that he was
willing to overlook the offense and
open the house again on an apology
being given. The committee will re-
port back to the Council at their next
meeting.
Glynn and Mulvey made statements
decidedly damaging to their foreman,
James Quinlan. They say that he Is
frequently so drunk that none OF the
men will obey him. To that is at
tributed the trouble which the com
pany usually gets into at fires.
Another peculiar statement was
that the hose carriage got to the scene
of the fire on Monday night without
being pulled there. None of the com-
pany were in charge, and from all &C
counts nobody else pulled it there. By
this statement it would be a valuable
machine if it could be properly edu-
Gated.
QUINLAN STILL IN A CELL.
Foreman Quinlan is still in a cell in
the police station in default of the
Recorder McDonough for ringing a
false fire alarm IN Tuesday evening.
He insists that he will not pay the
fine. and that the police al take any
action they like in the matter.
He says that he was the victim of a
9sjob'' put up ON him by the boys Of
the Company, as they are in the habit
of taking advantage of him for practi-
cal jokes when he is in drink.
Two little boys were sent to him, he
says, who told him that a fire had
broken out at No. rs Park venue.
He ran to the nearest alarm, rang 1t
and waited for the arrival of the de-
partment.
A meeting of the company will be
held this evening. Fireman Quinlan,
Secretary Glynn and a few other
members will probably be dismissed.
Was Emigrant Aldag Cruelty Treated?
Grave charges of inhumanity are
made by the friends and relatives of
Wilhelm Aldag against the officers of
the Hamburg steamship Suevia. The
matter has been kept very dark by
the steamship officials, who will give
no information about the matter.
Wilhelm Aldag was an immigrant
on the steamer. He died on the barge
while being taken from the Hoboken
dock to Castle Garden. He had been
suffering from pneumonia during the
voyage from Hamburg, and died just
before touching American soil. Mrs.
Aldag, who is in needy circumstances,
says that although her husband was
very ill, he was exposed to the rain
and chill for more than an hour. The
officers of the ship knew that he was
very sick, and they were rough in
their usage of him, she says.
The deceased leaves a widow and
eight children. The body was buried
in the Hoboken cemetery yesterday
afternoon. Even at the graveside
Mrs. Aldag accused the officers of kill
ing him. Mrs. Kueppel, of No. %
Bloomfield street. Hoboken, Mrs.
Aldag's sister, said that apartments
had been secured for her brother-in-
law and sister at No. 1874 Grand street.
sThey could not earn money
enough to keep them in Germany"
said she, land they wrote to me for
assistance. l sent them passage money,
and Mr.. Kueppel, my husband, would
have found employment for Mr.
Aldag. When the steamer arrived
last Sunday my husband and l went
on board only to find my brother-in-
law very sick. We asked for the
privilege of moving him to his apart
ments without going to New York
first. Our request was denied and we
We're put off the vessel. Mrs. Aldagi is
destitute, not thirty years old, and
has eight children dependent upon
her"
Mr.. Keuppel made much the same
statement as his wife. He is an agent
for a provision dealer in New York.
What | most complain about he
said, lis the roughness with which the
poor man was treated. We had him
in Hoboken, and could have taken
him home in fifteen minutes. As it
was. we were syiolently hustled from