The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-05
THE MAYOR BEGS WE'LL.
Last Nights Meeting at the
Academy of Music Pro-
duced $4,000.
FOR THE JOHNsTOWN SURVIVORS.
Everyone Gave something---Jersey
City Athletes to Give the "Pirates
of Penzance."

When everything else fails Mayor
Cleveland, he has brilliant future before
him as pleader.of any good cause that
needs financial aid
Chaplain McCabe, who has the reputa-
tion of being the most successful sub
scription gatherer in the Methodist
Church, and whose services are always in
great demand by the churches desirous of
lifting debt or erecting new edifice, is
nowhere alongside of Jersey City's chief
magistrate.
From an audience numbering less than
two hundred in the Academy of Music
last evening he collected $4,000 for the suf-
ferers from the flood in the Conemaugh
Valley.
The meeting was held in answer to a
call issued by the committee appointed by
the Mayor, and it was no doubt owing to
the fact that there was but little time in
which to advertise it that the meeting
was poorly attended.
WHO WAS THERE.
1t was within a few minutes of nine
o'clock when DIR. Gordon called the as
semblage to order and invited the audi
ence to come up nearer to the pulpit.
There were then present, among those on
the stage and in the orchestra President
Allen of the Board of Aldermen, Superin-
pa;1rood EraoL StavanS fnhn po;d
Thar,as pashol ay -Nsyo,. w;ii;ann,
Sinri-o Do,,;d w o1u,amgo Ton,as q
Hasking, Isaac Romaine, DR.. L. j. Cor
HI, W SoLZov pata. Ienda,.so,, WI
iiam Henderson 'nronr;etor of the acad-
emv Of Mnsic. Darid Guiick William r
Pearson. George Watson, Charles S.
Furst, John NJ. Jones, Daniel Cleary,
Princlpal Lindsey, samuel II. E1nney,
J. A. walker, John Edeisteln, Alderman
Horace Scnermernorn, John u. Carscal-
len, Colonel John McAnerney, Dr. Ben(a-
nun Edge, John A. Mchalg, Charles
Beresford, Gustav Metzier, PreSldent
John Feeney, OF tne Pohce BOARD;
George W. 1oung ana Wllllam Muirheld.
Mayor Cleveland was enosen chairman,
ana in taxing me chalr SAD tnat lhey naa
been brought there Dy one OF the most
solemn occurrences that ever brought an
American audience togeCher.
y " esterhs Fshnsyiyanla mas Deen
stricken down" sald ne. Accounts Oh
the alsaster nave pes u puplisheu IN tne
neWspa5sPeIfs, p5s III ouS alt sofry " say enat
one-nalI OF tne dreaoIul caianlty mas not
been told; Inc great neart OF 1ne amer,
lcan people, Whicn mas Always respono.ed .sl
nobly on sucn occasions, Is stlrred 10 lus
deptns py thls terriple calanllSy.
me Mayor enen lneLouuIeu N.s aie Malor u N:
dangoeWyn 1S W,sT mo ~ 4rtm tSe az Picsufe
OF 1ns valieS VI Cne SonnSnlauSn as ~
was before ene noous' anu grap1lcaily
portrayea Ihe scene ol horror anu uesoia,
Ilon Wnlc4 now H1 IlalkS 4 enaI peautllui u:
spol. tle enanheu A uou ., C.t.e o.nel s~eSuions ~
ot tne country nad contrlDutea 10 ghe re-
T Iney now looheu W Jersey Ci.y W uo i's
duty.
WHAT MIR. RECORD SAID.
Mr. q r. Record followed Major panu-
horn and said that every Calamity has lis
comnensation. and the conversation of
this calamity is that it affords the Ameri-
can people an opportunity to exhibit a
side Of their nature which is not seen in
their daily walks of life. He closed his
remarks with an earnest appeal to those
present to aid the movement for the relief
Of Lhe sufferers with money.
Mayor Cleveland. in asking for contri-
buttons. declared that he could scarcely
talk upon this great calamity, and said
that ali he could do was to ask those
mresent for their aid.
THE railroad companies he said had all
volunteered to send supplies to the scene
Of suffering free OF charge, and the
United states express company had sent
one Oh iIs pnGeIs ti so W MS oiiice W say chat
~ WouIq 40 lHe sdl1e.
Leu Jersey City 40 ail ~ gan, anq ieave
the rest TO God and the future, !" he said
In conclusion.
Principal Frescott, OF Pupnc Scnool no.
lS, said. .that MS chliaren had peen so I'M
bued with the ldea OF nelplng the suffer-
ers that they nad contTlD9ted quite sum
OF money, whcn ne had sent 10 JOINS
town.
Then Mayor Cleveland began TO exer-
else ms powers OF persuasion ana In rev
minutes there was line IN Iront OF the
stage which poured IN suoscrl pfions rang
ing from II 70 SlUO Iaster tnan Dr. Cor
don. VINO had been made treasurer OF the
fund, could get them down;
DE. Gordon stated that ne had sent
despatch TO Johnstown, stating that
relief meeting was IN progress heresand
directing AdJutant General Hastings to
draw at sign5 on the second Natlonai
Bank for 81 900.
Manager Harry Hyams also dld good
service. He went down among the audi
ence, ana every time ne returned TO the
stage ne carried one or more snbscrip-
tons. hounds OF applause greeted the
announcement OF each contribution, and
many who had subscribed once, In their
enthusiasm walked up TO the stage with
a second gilt.