The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-28
which case people will doubtless be
able to get along with applejack four
years old in 1894. New Jerseys all
right still.
summer work for the Poor.

ocSlno W We SOll0 pTdCtlCdl uiAhO'ANJ -
making a good start in the work OF
providing summer relief for the poor.
The church memberships are mainly
composed of well-to-do people, and as
clergyman puts it, they do not
know of any poor who have any claim
on them for the sort of help here indi-
Gated. Besides they have begging
enough to do for other purposes, 1t is
explained, and do not care to assume a
new responsibility.
But in a city like this, is there not
material for some such organization
as st. Johns Guild is in New York?
Can there not be found among the
church members men, laymen rather
than clergymen, who will start the
work? Are there no ladeis who will
help it along2
In New York the summer relief SER
vice divides itself into two well de-
fined branches, and it is hard to tell
which is the more useful.
First of all there is the weekly water
excursion for mothers and sick chill
dren. About fifteen hundred breath
less sufferers from the tenement dis
tricts are put on board the Floating
Hospital" every Wednesday early ia
the morning. There are sickly moth
ers, and almost dying babies. Pale
cheeks, CLASSY eyes, and tired move
ments show the deadly work of sitting
rooms and miasmatic streets.
Sometimes children die on board
too far gone even for fresh air to cure
them.
But in the vast majority Of cases
| they come back with new life-oh how
changed from the spectres of the sultry
morning are they with the pink and
brown of sea and wind upon their
cheeks and the light of the sun in
their eyes. s
And all this is so easily, so cheaply
done. There are fifty men in Jersey
City who could pay for an excursion
each, and never miss the money.
The other branch of the work, that
of sending older children to the
country for a week or two--or over
worked girls or sick people, perhaps,
is a more difficult and expensive mat
ter. 1t is more limited in it's reach,
too. Yet. in this branch, a good begin
ming has been made among US by the
ladies of st. Johns Episcopal Church.
But we have until July to organize
this matter. Is it possible that we
will let the occasion slip another year !?
There can be no doubt but sooner or
later Jersey City will take up the idea
with enthusiasm. Why not begin
now.
JOE HOWARD said in yesterdays
New York Press
Major Pangborn has done much to redeem
! New Jersey journalism from the slough OF de-
SPAR, and put its feet on the solid s-ubstantialities
of general regard.
Probably you're right, Joe. You
nearly always are. But how did he
do it2 BY taking sugar in his
water, Ell?
THIS appears in the last issue of the
BTidgeton NeDS:-
After reading the report in some of the papers
that General Fisk had left the Third Party, and
that he would support the next republican can
didate for Governor, / wrote him to know the
truth of the report, and he replied in this way
INC, NO, NO truth in it, THos. j. LORE.
OF course. Brother Lore, you have
not ''got ON" to the puzzle. You
should read THE JERSEY CRY NEWS.
Then you would have found that the
General only proposes to support legis-
lative candidates who will pledge
themselves to vote for County option.
That is what he says. OF course you
may put your own construction upon
such a platform.
THE Paterson Press is the most dis
honest paper in the State. 1t appears
to be irreclaimable. When it stole our
interview with General Fisk, we tried
to awaken the editor to some sense OF
shame. 1t was useless. He forthwith
proceeded to purloin u interview
with Mr.. G. l.. Parker.
Now, if a thing is worth copying, it
is worth crediting, and an editor who
is remiss in this respect puts himself
outside the pale of decent journalism.
PERSONALS.
Mrs. Elston, the wife of Principal Elston Of the
Hoboken High School, is seriously indisposed.
President Morton, of Stevens Institute, will
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