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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-11
CORPORATION NOTICE.

CORPORATION NOTICE,
Notice is hereby given that the Commissioners of
assessments for Jersey City will meet at their
lie Works, corner Of Mercer street and Jersey ave
nue., Jersey City, N. j., on Thursday, june 20,
1859, at ten O'Clock a. M, to appraise the value OF
the lands to be taken for the opening of.
NEPTUNE AVENUE,
from Bergen avenue eastwardly to Ocean avenue
and the damage which any owner of such lands or
OF any interest therein may sustain by reason of
such Improvement, and win. then and there hear
sire to be heard before them on the value of lands
to be. taken for said Improvement. and the damage
therein may sustain by reason OF such improve
ment.
At which time and place all parties may appear
and be heard.
JAMES HUNT, Commissioners
CONRAD REICHENBECHER, OF
JAMES TUMILTY, Assessment.
". W. RUGGLES, Chief Engineer.
Jersey City, n. j., June q, 1889.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-11

A. McGinness, P. Ryan and Albert Seer
ing, all of Madison, N. j.: w. H. jacob
N. J.; Mrs. r. Grindle, of Spring. Valley,
N. Y; j. Williams, of Yonkers, n: Y; +.
Pyne and H. Appleton, of Riverdale, y.
Y; p. Fitzgerald, of Astoria, 1. l.; j:
Muller, of Dutch Kills. L. l.; r. Dean, OF
Astoria, L. l.; j. Keller, of Bay Ridge, l..
l., and Charles Alberts, of Summit, n. j.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-11

AN OLD NURSE FOR CHILDREN Don't fail to
procure MRS. WNSLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP
for children teething. No mother who has ever
tried it will consent to let her child pass through
this critical period without the aid Of this invalu-
able preparation. Gives rest to the mother and
relief and health to the child. Cures wind collie
diarrhea, and regulates the bowels. Twenty
five cents a bottle. -
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-11
Boys Clothing.
EASEMENT

100 Tea Trays, only &c. each; 5000 scalloped
Pie Plates, &c. doz.; Steel Butcher Knives, only
Sc. each; 100 Water Coolers, at Csc. each; Small
Cedar Tubs G sizesl, at DC. and 13c. each.
Full-size Mexican Grass Hammocks, rec. each.
Gas or Oil Stoves, at soc. Acme Frying Pans,
sc. each; Refrigerator Pans, &c. each; Large
size Palm Leaf Baskets, at 29c.; were $50.
Frames for Window Screens, 10c.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-11
TOWELS.
Bargains
On 4tI1 Floor.

@tBy eleyators.1
Good, substantial Baby Carriages, reed body,
plated springs and siesia parasol, $3.50; worth
$3.50.
Wall Brackets, &c.,; worth 79c. and Sl,W.
Coat Hangers at &c.; were 12c.
Toy Tables, lie. and 10c.
Toy Kitchens, 29c.; were SOC.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-11
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PlTTsBURG, TUESDAY. JUNE IL, 1889.
THE WORK SHOULD NOT STOP.

The transfer TO the State, of the sanitary
work at Johnstown, in the line Of clearing
the streams and removing the debris, is
what was desired by all concerned. Yet
there is danger that the Misunderstanding Of
the situation may hinder the work, if not
materially nullify the necessary part of it
that has been done.
1t is right that the State should furnish
the funds to prosecute the sanitary work,
and it certainly seems more appropriate
that whatever extraneous control of the stu
alton at Johnstown is necessary should rest
in the hands of the State rather than of a
committee which has only the official char
acter that is given it by the fact that it
met the emergency. But it does not
follow that the immediate direction
Of the work should be changed. The
men who have started the work and direct
ed to the necessary end will, if the policy of
the State is an intelligent one, be requested
to continue their labors.
The transfer of work should not include
q stoppage of work. How far the general
discharge of the men employed at Johns
town is due to the apparent policy of the
Governor, that he is going to reform all that
has been done, may be an open question.
There is no question about the fact that the
dubitatiOns, delay and red tape of the State
Executive has produced such results as that
of taking away the relief funds which Chi
cago has raised forthe sufferers, as was done
Yesterday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-11
THE SUPREME COURT ovERRuIED.

The reported decision of United States
District Judge in Missouri that the long
and short haul clause of the interstate
commerce law forbids the levying of q
greater rate on the local traffic of road,
than the proportion of the through rates,
which that road receives jointly with other
companies, necessarily creates a consider
able stir among railroad men. limo through
rate can be made which is lower than the
sum of the local rates, it will occasion q
universal revolution in railroad methods,
and will do good deal to justify the op-
position to the long-and-shoft-haul clause
which was made by railroad men at the time
of its adoption.
But before accepting this decision as
final, it should be remembered that the au-
thority of district court is not by any
means equal to that Of the United States
Supreme Court; and it SO happens that the
United States Supreme Court united with
the Supreme Court of Illinois, in declaring
principle which is practically conclusive,
in the exactly opposite direction from this
decision. ItispIaln that under the long
and-shorthaul clause, if a through rate is
considered as single rate, SAY from New
York to 0mahz, = the law simply requires
that none Of the intermediate rates shall ex-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-11
A Tough Yarn,

After the ambulance had brought tough
young Thomas Burns. who had been shot by
his old enemy, James Poole, on Mott street,
Sunday evening, to st. Vincent's Hospital, and
after the doctors had found that the wound in
Burns neck was slight and had dressed It,
Burns got up, put on his clothes and cleared
out. First he went around to the Mulberry
street station house, and told the officers they
needn't bother hunting for Poole. II amt
agoin' to die" he said. "and I'll look after
fndin' him myself and tend to all the biz, sect"
Burns had bandages around his neck. and as
he walked down to Mott and Hester streets
he was bigger man than he had been for
many day. He hasn't had any regular work
OF, late. and it's only few weeks since he was
IN a row with fellow named Doyle, who cut q
slice from his thigh. To-day at the Tonbs
Poole was held in 81, SEQ bail for Swapping his
pistol at Policeman Donovan, who chased him
after he had shot Burns. Poole could not be
held for shooting Burns because Burns was not
there to make complaint. The police having
let Burns go, now went to work to catch him
again for witness. Poole says he shot Burns
in self-defense. Burns called him names and
appeared to be getting out a knife. II pulled
out my gun" relates Poole, "but while was
jerking it out it fell to the street. There it lay
for both Of Us. Whichever could get it first
was goin' to use it He jumped for it; so did ],
but got there. He was goin' to do me If he
could, and couldn't do anything else than de-
fend myself"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-11
HUMoR IN WAGES DISPUTES,

The view of the proposed reduction at the
Homestead steel works taken by the en-
ployes, as stated in another column, is GER
tainly very pleasant one. They regard it
as large joke and decline to take it seri-
ously. The renewal by the firm of an ex-
tension Of the time for signing their scale
seems to lend mild if not hilarious aspect
to the affair so far. 1t undoubtedly would
rob wage disputes of half their asperities if
they could be treated on the humorous basis,
and taken as a jest clear through. Un-
fortunately this has not been the usual.way
Of looking at them heretofore, and there is
consequently the danger that the fun of the
thing may disappear as the dispute pro-
crosses. Still it would be a novel and
pleasant way Of solving the labor question
to put the whole thing on the jocose basis
provided always that it is kept out of the
field of professional humor.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-11
APARTMENT EXAMPLE.

The disclosures made bY the Cronin in
quest in Chicago, that some hundred thou
sand dollars of the Clan-na- Gael's fund was
lost in stock speculations by the eustodians,
affords fertile ground for some pertinent
moralizing.
In the first place it should suggest to con-
tributors to those funds, that the money
which they have been raising for the sup
posed liberation of Ireland was thrown
away. Intimations of this sort that the
contributions of Irish men and women were
used simply for the support of professional
patriots, have already been made, and they
seem to be pretty thoroughly Endorsed by
this disclosure. 1t would puzzle even an
Irish intellect to understand how Ireland
can be liberated by the purchase of five
thousand shares Of Chicago and Northwest
ern stock at 126.
The other point is on the inevitably de-
moralzing character of gambling. Whether
these funds were wisely contributed or not,
they were trust funds. If men of eminent
character among the Irish have used the
trust funds, placed in their charge, in a
way which would have been Just as useful,
if they had coppered the ace or played it in
a jack pot, the lesson is so obvious that ii
hardly needs TO be specified.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-11
DEMOCRACY OF DISASTER.
Reflections, by a WeIi.Known Gentleman,
on Barriers Flooded Away.

Reflections. by Welf.known Gentleman,
on Barriers Flooded Away.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Two hundred of u.s. more or less, found our
selves between Friday and Sunday mornings
May 81, June 2, caught and Gagged in the mount
ain town of Altoona. nearly $50 miles from
Philadelphia and 120 miles from Pittsburg, on
the Pennsylvania Railroad. To all of us it was
a sudden and surprising, and to many terrible
arrest of their persons and plans.
First came those on Friday mornings 'lim-
tied" from the East, turned back from Cresson
by news of landslide further on, deplored at
the time, but disappointment which tidings
of the late destruction at Johnstown turned to
profound thankfulness. Then came those by
the afternoon Limited" also from the East,
stopped at Altoona by explicit orders that no
trains should be moved east or west till further
notice How little could trainmasters or pas
sengers have imagined how long it would be
before that further notice would be given!
How long not the most skillftl engineer or con-
ductor can yet tell.
About in the evening came the "Fast Line''
from the East, after which telegraph poles and
bridges (some of the latter but few minutes
only after the passing of the trains) sunk with
their poles and piers into the undermining
foods Of the swollen Juniata.
Saturday morning, and for days after, came
little companies of those coming East from
Pittsburg on the limited" and the
who had mercifully escaped the terrible
ingulfing of the South Fork deluge; each
with his or her tale, all alike in danger, terror
and deliverance; but each unlike the other in
its details. All was heard with a quick and
tender sympathy that frequent repetition made
only the more tender and earnest. Introduc-
tions were either not needed, or were most
slender and informal. Acquaintances were
made in an hour, and in some instances ripened
into heartfelt interest and affection which,
under ordinary conditions, it would have taken
weeks or even months to form. None thought
of asking of another's station or circumstances
in life, whether capitalist or laborer, unedu-
Gated or educated, poor or rich, professional
man or layman. A common peril and loss and
a common deliverance softened all hearts and
melted all the customary barriers to freest
human intercourse.
Is it SO, that our heaven-born Christianity
must find in some terrible common disaster
only the speediest realization of its own ideal
of common brotherhood and of an earnest
mutual sympathy? Must it be, alas! that the
melted barriers shall be instantly rebuilt as
strong and high as ever, so soon as the dreadful
suffering and danger shall cease to be vividly
remembered2 If so, then this most sorrowful
of our late human tragedies will have failed to
teach US its most important and Christ-like
lesson. ADDISON BALLARD.
INGRAM, PA, JUNE 10.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-11
A CALL FROM LOCK HAVEN.

Money Needed at Once to Clean the City and
Prevent Sickness.
LOCK HAVEN. June l0-At meeting of citi-
zens held to-day a resolution was adopted re.
ouesting that the following be given to the
Associated Press:
To the People of the United States:
This city has been devastated by therecent great
food, and immediate assistance is needed. Our
streets, alleys and homes are In frightful con-
dition, and money is needed at once to saYe US
from epidemic. We are receiving generous sup
ply of provisions, but Lock Haven alone is not the
only place to be supplied from these. Many people
in the nearby small towns have lost nearly every
thing they had, and are dependent upon us for
money and provisions.
We need disinfectants badly, and money with
which to hire teas and men from q distance to
help clean our streets and cellars. There was not
4 SQUARE inch of land within the corporate limits
of tile city proper that was not submerged, and
when the water subsidized 1t left layer OF mud and
filth which, under the strong sun Of to-day,
creates a stencil that is almost unbearable. The
contents OF vaults and cesspoos are in cellars in
our main thoroughfares, and nothing will save us
from q frightful epidemic unless help comes
promptly and generously.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-11
All About n Check.

Policeman John A. Bromily of the fremont
squad, took his vacation last week. On
Wednesday he was in Duffy's Hotel, at Ford
ham, when Contractor James A. Leeson asked
Mr. Duffy to cash check for STAT. Mr.. Duffy
could not accommodate him. Bromily grabbed
the check and said that he'd get 1t cashed. He
went out and Mr.. Leeson was good deal wor-
ried. but Mr.. Duffy assured him that Bromily
was honest Mr.. Broniily did not return, and
Mr.. Lesson compained at the fremont station
house. Inspector Conlin heard that Bromily
was at the races at Jerome Park. He went
there, but didn't find Bromily. Bromily's vaca-
tion was up on Saturday at s P. N. He didn't
report for duty, and on Sunday he was arrested
at his home in Petnam avenue on a charge of
grand larceny. He said that he got the cheek
cashed at John Ittner's, in fremont, and spent
the money. He was held in 81 500 at the Nor.
risani Police Court this morning Captain
Stephenson advised Bromily to resign. He
refused, saying that the board couldn't break
him. A charge Of being absent from roll call
and duty for II hours has been preferred against
him to the Commissioners.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-11
WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION.

The work of the past ten or twelve days
in the line of destruction presents a remark
ably appalling total. Leaving out of the
question the fearful total of mortality, esti-
mates, which of course cannot be taken as
exact or official, put the losses at Johnstown
at $50, ,00O, 600; those to railroads in other
sections of the country at 81, 25O, 900; and the
damages at various cities, outside Of the
Johnstown district, from food at about 3d.
O0O, 900 more. Add to this the loss by the
destruction of the town of Seattle by fire,
stated to be SIS, 900, 600, and we have loss
of nearly $50, ,0O0, 900 in the period of few
days. Losses of such an immense charac-
ter will naturally exhaust the surplus pro-
duction of considerable portion Of the
year. 1t is gratifying to know that a few
months production of the United States
will make up such loss as this; but it is
also evident that very frequent repetitions
of such losses would be greater than the in
dustry of the country could stand.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-11
PERSONAL FACTS AND FANCIES.

REV. DIR. PHILLIPS BROOKS goes abroad
again this month, and will come home by the
way Of Japan.
GAsToN PLANTE, inventor of the electrical
aceumulator, is dead He was brother of M.
Francois Plante, the musician.
FATHER A. A. LANDING, of Williamsburg.
has arrived in Johnstown to assist Fathers
DAWN and Tahaney in their arduous labors.
IT has been decided in Russia that women
may be physicians; but they must confine their
services to children and adults of their own
sex.
famous people of the world who celebrate their
seventieth birthday this year. She is still
painting industriously.
FRANZ VAN DER sTUcKEN will give con.
cert of music by American composers, done by
American performers, in Paris during the ex-
position, and hopes to hire the Tricadero for
July 4.
HENRY GEORGE has made wonderful i'm
preston on the Britishers. The London and
provincial press agree In saying that he has
swayed the masses more powerfully than any
man who has appealed to them from the plat.
form in generation.
Mr.. DAVID LAURIE, of Glasgow, has refused
$1,000 for the famous "Alard" Straduarius
violin, but Sl2 500 has now been offered on be.
half of an American, and the matter is under
consideration. The "Alard" formerly belonged
to J. B. Vuillaume, the expert, who gave it to
his son.in-law, NJ. Dolphin Alard, violin pro-
fessor at the Paris Conservatoire, who sold it
to Mr. Laurie. It is dared 1715.
CAPTAIN RIGIo, who recently died at Grand
Isle, La is said to have been the last survivor
of Lafitte's famous band of pirates. He was
the Oldest inhabitant of the island, having
lived there from the time the band was dis
persed. In his early days he participated in
most of Lafitte's raids, but when the band was
broken up took TO eultiyating oranges and
other fruits, and made snug little fortune.
Mr.. BRADLAUGH's motion to abolish per.
petual pensions has shown up the peculiar
history Of one of them. On the list is a small
pension standing to the credit of a Scottish peer
for the fulfllment of sinecure Office. For
two generations not penny has gone into the
family Golfers. This peers grandfather, being
in need of ready money sold the pension to a
Portsmouth rnoney7lender, whose heirs and
assigns draw it to this day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-11
AN ENnuRARIE HARDSHIP.

We observe in some of our Eastern coten-
poraries new outbreak of regret that the
30 per cent tax on works of art will prevent
quite number of the paintings belonging
to N. Secretan, which are soon to be sold,
from coming to this country. 1t is stated
that a considerable number of wealthy
Americans in PARIS at the time of the sale
would purchase these works of art If it were
not for the duties which add 80 per cent TO
their cost, when. they are brought into the
United States.
The 80 per cent duty on paintings may be
an impolitic tax, but at the same time it has
no aspect to the mass of the people such as TO
make it a subject for general lamentation.
So far as the sale of the ruined copper spec
ulator's art treasures are concerned, we
have no doubt that this country can get
along and preserve the prosperity Of the
masses just as well without them as with
them. 1t is also toIerably evident that the
Iccessful American spectators who are
ely to buy the unsuccessful French spec
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ceed the total through rate. If the through
rate on the other hand is considered to be q
group of rates levied by the different
roads, the position OF the United
States district judge applies. But in the
case of Wabash VS.. Illinois, decided in the
United States Supreme Court, both the
United States Supreme Court and the Illi-
nois Supreme Court held that through
rate was lone contract and one voyage"
which affords practically conclusive rule
for the construction of the long-and-short-
haul clause in this particular.
The decision of the District Judge has al
ready been made the subject of an outcry
against the Interstate commerce law. But
before that outcry extends much further,
it should be recognized that the question
has already been practically decided by the
United States Supreme Court. the other
WaV.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-11
DEFENDING THE.GOYERNoR.
A Correspondent Who Thinks He and the
Water Are just Right.

/ ~ n
| To the Editor of The Dispatch:
A question for the hour: Would it not be
advisable to take calm view of the situation
as it now is, and instead of appealing to mems
prejudices and fears make plain statement Of
facts and then to try and find the best way out
of bad situation?
Now. is it best to abuse Governor Beaver for
not calling special session of the Legislature
to do what by an express provision of the Con-
stitution 1t cannot do? See article 3, Sec
tion Is.
mo appropriations except for pensions or
gratuities for military services shall be made
for charitable, educational or benevolent pur-
poses to any person or community"
The State does not. and cannot, undertake
to make good the losses sustained by individ-
uals or communities by floods, earthquake,
hurricanes or fires. This fact is SO patent that
it needs no argument.
But because the State cannot as State,
come to the relief of the suffering, it does not
follow that they cannot be assisted by indi-
viduals and societies. OF course, the State, to
limited extent has control over sanitary
matters; but is the sanitary condition of the
river such as to warrant the Governor in call
ing special session of the Legislature?
think, if we take time to examine the situa-
ton, we cannot help coming to the conclusion
that, as far as the water in the river is con-
cvrned, it is in a better condition that before
the rise. We all know that the drainage of all
the cities and towns on the Allegheny and
tributaries is d1rectlyinto the river. When the
great rush of water came all of the accumula-
tions of weeks would be swept into the river
and pass down stream, and are now well on the
way to the gulf, leaving the water that Is now
coming down comparatively pure.
Not more than 2 per cent of the water in the
Allegheny comes from the Conemaugh. That
stream has been patroled by hundreds of people
searching for dead bodies, and If any remained
in the channel they would have been found be-
fore this time. All of the bodies that remain
have lodged outside of the channel of the
stream, and are covered by the debris or sand,
and can be found. if located, when they will
affect the water.
All of the wreckage that can be burned
should be burned at once. 1t cannot injure the
dead, and ought not to outrage the feelings OF
the living. One live man is better than hun
dred dead ones and to move all of the wreck
age by overhauling and taking it out piece by
piece will certainly cause several deaths.
We do not hesitate to dig through or build
over cemetery when the public good, or even
private gain, seems to require it. Then why
should we hesitate in this case, when the pub
lie health seems to demand it? Let that part
OF the business be disposed of as soon as possi-
BILE. and apply the contributions of generous
public to the relief of the people, and providing
shelter for them until such time as they can get
to work and provide for themselves.
ALLEGHENY, June 10. FEsTINA LEUTE.