The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-19

The readers of THE JERSEY CITY NEWS
are responding generously to the invita-
tion to subscribe for the relief of the
widow Of Patrick McTamany, the switch
man hero, who lost his life in rescuing
Willy Delrowsk from an awful death.
The suggestion of This JERSEY CITY
NEWS has borne fruit so quickly that the
sixteen dollars acknowledged yesterday
has now nearly reached a hundred, and
by this time tomorrow will doubtless go
nearly into four figures.
Much of the credit for the large amount
already raised is due to the two little boys
of Colonel John ]. McAnerney, Frank and
Joe, who are working very hard and have
already accomplished great deal They
deserve great praise for their disinterested
devotion.
Beside the canvassed subscriptions,
however, good deal of money has been
sent in and brought in to the office of THE
JERSEY CITY NEWS, without solicitation
There are several persons already canvass
ingfor subscriptions, and every one should
remember that it is unsafe to pay any
money to any one who has no credentials
not otherwise responsible.
MRS. M'TAMANY NOT BEGGAR.
The widow, though left without re-
sources, is not asking for aims. She has
but one wish now, and that is to keep her
family together. She has some hope of
being able to start a little shop from which
she can make enough to preserve her little
household The money she will receive
from The JERSEY CITY NEWS subscription
will go a long way toward helping her
accomplish this.
Mrs. McTamany was a little puzzled
yesterday when strange man went to
the house and got her to sign her name
and write her address on blank sheet
of paper. She could not make out just
what it was for, and the stranger was
quite indefinite. MEs. McTamany would
in her normal condi&o1, but she has been
in a state of such nervousA0 0xcMement for
the past two days that Siae would have
signed anything S2st then.
THE AFFEFTED FAMILY.
The children of the martyred man are:--
MARGARET, pretty girl, fifteen years
old, who wears her life out for So week
in Whitney's box factory, at the corner
of Desbrosses and Greenwich streets, New
York
MICHAEL, bright lad of thirteen, who
goes to st. Bridget's parochial school and
sells newspapers In the afternoons.
PATRICK, a jolly little fellow eleven
years old, who is at once the joy of his
mother and the pest of her life when he is
not at school, as he, too, goes to ST.
Bridget's.
MARY and KATY, respectively nine and
six and half years old, who go to school
with their brothers, and
NELLIE, the baby, the pet of the house
hold; a little toddler only three years old.
Their mother says that she will die if
she has to part with any of her children
and that she will keep her family to-
gether if she has to work her fingers to
the bone. There is no doubt as to her
success from the generous response of the
readers of THE JERSEY CITY News.
GONE TO HERo's GRAVE.
The dead mans body was buried this
afternoon. First were the services at the
House, No. 339 Newark avenue, and then
the body was taken to st. Bridget's
Church, where the Rev. Father Patrick
Hanley read the office for the dead. The
burial was in the new Catholic Cemetery
west of the Hill.
The dead mans face, as it appeared in
the coffin, bore an expression of ineffable
content.
He had done his duty.