The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-18
UP THE WRONG TREE.
A Newspaper Sensation With
"a T7sai Trasedy for a
eenrff''hax& y

al exultant look, though inquisitive ex-
pressions predominated, and as anatural
consequence there was unusual ~sociality.
People who previously had had little
more than q bowling acquaintance fell
into easy and apparently confidential
conversation. Pulpit orations that Sun
day morning, unless extempore disserta-
lions, proved wanting in Inspiration"
and failed to touch the public heart.
Artist quartets, doing their most harmo-
NOUS work, felt the lack of responsive
sympathy.
Monday morning anne. Evidently
''the stew had simmered and dubbed
and boiled" l3n1i1A.
Suddenly the clear morning air bore
the clangor of a bell and the words
"Lostl Lostp AHm aaa =
No one seemed to know what was
missing, but the masses took up the cry,
and before darkness bvooded over the
city tender hearts were wrung at the
thought that lone poor little child was
lost" and the story swelled till it chad
been kidnapped by pirates who made a
OuSAlCooO VI tLhtb4AlH b14dtA CAbIcS anu Sbcdl-
ing children" A slight diversion, bat
Tuesday the public generally, with the
morning paper at hand, found o "sweet
morsel," and though it was all told in
the head Neutrality-suspicious. Disappear
ance of a Prominent C~itizen"-"For the
Sake of Friends, Much That Might Be
Told Is Withheld'-it grew and magni-
fed till when the evening papers were
issued, the unprecedented demand took
every one while yet moist from the
press. The most enterprising published
a two column article. Such another
piece of perfection as the aforesaid citi-
zen had been during his previous thirty
five years of life it would be impossible
to find, and as a smaller sheet that was
given to moralizing sententiously re-
marked: "Greater was the fall" After
most remarkable surmising it was ru-
mored that there twas q woman in it."
Such q mar couldn't have gone astray
under other circumstances. People here
and there were interviewed. Who was
it? Some said a prominent clergyman;
others, a popular lawyer, and for q few
hours people Of every profession seemed
to be connected with the scandal, and it
must have been a relief to anxious and
sad eyed women, whose husbands had
been out over night sat the LODGE or
somewhere, to have it definitely stated
on Tuesday morning that Mr.. Trow, the
bank treasurer, had not been seen since
Saturday night, though the report that
he had absconded with vast deposits
taken from the bank vaults exploded
after a visit to the other officials, who
denied it and positively asserted that his
own financial status was good and that
not one of them had faith in any of the
rumors.
"Mr. Trow left the bank Saturday
noon apparently in good health and
sound mind" but they had to admit,
reluctantly" gossip had it, that when
asked, "Just where are you going, old
fellow" he had answered in his jovial
way, "For q bona fde vacation; you
won't hear till you see me-"
The men "couldn't and wouldn't be-
Heve it," but each day more was learned,
and the people who had a thorough
knowledge of his personal and domestic
affairs were legion and added mite after
mite 'sfor the public good" or s'because
humbugs and frauds should be exposed"
till free trade, trusts, talk of war with a
foreign country, even cabinet making,
sunk into utter insignificance, and every
body was qui vive with an Unsuitable
thirst for ''more, more"
AS the demand grew the supply in
creased. On the bulletin boards the
words, "The Trow and Schoolma'am
Scandal" called attention to the phrase
that had been seemingly inexplicable.
The printing presses never did such
rapid work nor turned out one-half the
number Of dailies as on Wednesday,
when, at white heat, the community ex-
pectantly waited. (Which teacher It
was "school vacation" and what rem
dered it specially tantalizing several of
the young ladies were out Of town. Peo-
pie got names mixed, but after a day or
two, as might have been expected, the
s'common sense of the public rescued
''the innocent" from embarrassing posi-
tons. and it was understood-though it
was noticeable that the name was not in
print-that the one, prominently the
handsomest and most attractive, was the
guilty party. rfs 9Yt
An undergraduate facial caricature
of the young woman sold hundreds of
papers Friday, when people had begun
to weary and cry s'antique;' but Some
thing New, " instead of u rehash, tempted
them all to read the following:
st Is generally understood that Mr..
Trow and the fascinating young teacher,
who eloped last Saturday night, who,
previous to this weeks developments,
were thought to be entire strangers,
have been in the habit of meeting at
the bank at a late hour, when his de-
voted wife supposed him busily engaged
in overwork. 1t is not yet known just
how the pretty and guilty schoolma'am
escaped the argus eyed woman in whose
house she boarded, and who very deeply
feels the disgrace. The lady admits that
while she would not have entertained so
vile a creature for one hour, she did
begin to have suspicious. 1t Is even
said in some quarters that, though quite
young, it is not her first compromising
ENHANCEMENT.
"While few Of Mr.. Trow's friends still
profess "a to believe that everything will
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