The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-27
THE NEWS OF HOBOKEN.
END OF THE ToUNG NEWS CHRIS
TAN Association CONVENTION.

Death of John j. Endres, the Engineer
Conservation of st. Francis italian
Church-A Young Man with Delirium
Tremens Bites His Mother.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton Convention closed yesterday. In
the Association Hall, at nine a. m., a
conservation meeting vas held. State
Delegate More was president.
At four o'clock in the afternoon Mr..
Mornay Williams addressed a large
body of young men at Cranes Hall,
on Washington street. His subject
was personal purity, and he succeeded
in arousing the interest of his audi
ence. He told his hearers that moral
purity or an absence of gross immor-
ality was not the only requisite for per
sonal purity, but that the actions,
speech and thought must be pure. The
failure to feel and show a proper re-
spect for the opposite sex he believed
to be at present the great failing of
young men generally.
In the evening platform meetings
were held in the Reformed, Methodist,
German Evangelical and German
Methodist Churches. There were no
stated speakers and delegates were
allowed to speak as they liked. The
topic of conversation, generally, was
the growth of the Young Mems Christ
ian Association and its value as a
moral trainer for young business men
whose hours of leisure are spent in
comfortable parlors, instead OF in
saloons.
He Bit His Mothers Face.
Mrs. Jaeger, an elderly woman,
stood opposite her house, No. 16
Grand street, yesterday, bedraggled
and bleeding from a number of
wounds on her face and neck. She
implored each passer by to go in and
help hold her son, who was in a fit.
On entering the house the visitor
saw a young man of herculean pro
portions being held down on the floor
by six men. Instead of a lit he was
suffering from delirium tremens. He
was employed as a brakeman on the
Erie Railroad and had been working
long hours.
On Saturday he had consumed a
considerable amount of liquor. He
was seen home by some friends. There
he was a perfect maniac. There was
not a whole piece of furniture in the
room after he had done with it.
He had attempted to throw his
brother out of the window, and would
have fulfilled his design had it not
been for the mother, who chung to
H. Gla .,oe 4I,A r,Arf MI fo rnanfxTn
attention from Aim, and was badly
beaten. Neighbors came in and over
powered him. His mother threw her.
| self on him, and he bit her face and
arms. Policeman Weihe also had his
arm bitten, and a hole torn in his uni
form by the crazy mans teeth. A
stretcher and straight jacket were
called for, and the man was taken to
the Police Station. His mother stayed
with him.
Conservation of st. Francis Church.
The st. Francis italian Church, COR
ner of Jefferson and Third streets,
which has been in course of construc-
ton since last summer, was yesterday
formally consecrated. The proceed
ings and addresses were all conducted
in italian and Latin. The ceremony
was imposing and the habili-
ments of the priests were very
handsome indeed. The Right Rev.
John Conroy, formerly Bishop of
Albany, N. Y, officiated. A solemn
high mass was celebrated with the
Very Rev. Joseph Sesen, d. d., of
Syracuse, as celebrant, assisted by the
Very Rev. F. Zabo, of Je~ffersonville,
Ind, the Rev. Father of st. Francis
Church, and the Rev. Father Downes.
The congregation exceeded the capac-
ity of the church.
Broke Windows to Wake His Father.
Andrew Grogan was arrested yes
terday on the complaint of his father,
John Grogan, of No. 1877 Second street,
for deliberately smashing the windows
of the above house. The father made
a rule that if his son were not home
at a seasonable hour at night
he would be locked out.
This morning the son, under the in
fuence of alcohol, arrived at the
house at aquarter to four. His parents
were in bed and i'll order to arouse
them he smashed windows indiscrim-
inately, The Recorder fined him So
and the cost of the glass.
Engineer Endres Dead.
John j. Endres, of Pittsburg, the
engineer who built the Hoboken horse
car elevator, and the elevated cable
road, died at the Park Hotel, Ho-
boken, on Saturday morning of a
complication of diseases. He was a
native of Bonn, Rhenish Prussia,
and was forty-seven years old. For so
young a man the deceased was highly
prominent in his profession. The
funeral will take place from the pri-
vate apartments of the Park Hotel
this afternoon.
Hoboken Notes.
The Independent Club had its an
nual excursion yesterday. A large
number went by the steamer and
barge, which left Fifth street dock at
nine O'clock for ldlewild Grove, on
Long Island Sound.
DR.. Rudolph Schoenfeld and Miss
Bella Ritter, the daughter of the we'll
known ieweler, will be married at the
latter's residence, May 20.
w. Buckholtz, a newsdealer of Hud-
son street, has decided to ply his pres
ent vocation in California. His bust
ness has been sold to MI. Alfred