The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-01
STRIKE OF THE KILNMEN.
NO WORK 1T ALPAUGH &c M4GOW-
AN,S TRENTON POTTERY.

Not a kilnman was on hand at Alpaugh
& Magowan's Empire Pottery, Trenton,
yesterday morning. For @ number of
days past a notice has been posted in the
biscuit kiln sheds signed by the firm,
which conveyed the intelligence that on
and after September 30 they would allow
but seventeen days for filling biscuit
kilns with sanitary and toilet ware,
which they claimed was the same as all
potteries allowed for the same goods,
same work and same sized kilns. Form
erly the firm allowed nineteen days on
kilns / and 2 and twenty-one days on 3, 4
and 5.
For all general ware, the notice said.
the firm would pay the same price as IS
paid for those kilns-same kind of work
and same sized kilns-as in other potter
les. This is also intended as a reduction,
though to what extent is not known as no
number of days is specified.
For drawing biscuit kilns, the notice
sets forth nine days would be allowed,
which is again claimed the same as al
lowed by other potteries for the same
work. The notice winds up with the
remark, "As you perceive, we ask no re-
duction, but for the same as our COM
petitors are paying"
In the glost kiln room was a similar
notice, reducing the numbe of days al
lowed for filing kilns from twenty-seven
to nineteen, and for drawing from eleven
to ten.
Master Workman John O'Neil, of the
Potters' National Trades District Assem-
bly,, when asked if more was required of
the Empire Pottery people h OF other
employers, said:-
"No, sir. The organization will not al
to demand more than their competitors
pay. There is q difference of opinion
with regard to the cost of the kiln work
at Alpaugh e. Magowan's as compared
with other sanitary shops, h men claim
ing that by reason Of having a different
sagger and a different system of filling
kflns, it makes a seventeen foot kiln
worth more to fill at the Empire than the
same sized kiln at other places.
"There are many things to be taken
Into consideration. Fol instance, with a
biscuit kiln the distance from the ware
house is a consideration. A seventeen
foot kiln In II pottery might be worth
three more days than the same in an
other, by reason of the kind of saggers
used n the distance from green ROOM"
Other kilnmen spoken to about the mat
ter insisted hat the change was a reduc-
ton.
Bob Ingerson win Appear for Her.
About four years ago the late George
ID. Randell, Of Newark, was brought be-
fore the Brooklyn courts charged by Miss
Emiline Morecraft, who claimed to be his
wife, with falling to provide for herself
and her child. The case excited much
interest on account of Mr.. Randell's
prominence in this city and in New York
when the case was brought into court.
Mr.. Randell denied that he had ever been
married to the woman, and also denied
that he was the father of her child.
The woman swore that in the summer
of 1884 she met Mr.. Randell at Coney
Island. that they became intimately &C
quainted and that they were married in
1856. Mr.. Randell was defended by ex-
Judge McCarter, who has since died, and
Judge Fullerton, of New York. Much
testimony was taken and a number of
prominent Newarkers appeared in the
case as witnesses, both for the accused
Inc the plaintiff. The woman swore
positively that they had been married and
that Randeu had stolen the marriage GER
t~iicate. Had the jury found Mr.. Randell
guilty he would then have been arrested
for bigamy, as he was then married to
his third wife, a Miss Winants, of Brook
lyn, who died but a few months previous
to her husband. His second wife was a
Miss Conklin, who died in 1878.
Mr.. Randeu left three children, two by
his first wife, q boy and a girl. The lat
ter is now married and living in Newark.
The youngest child, a girl, is not yet of
age, and is living with her married sister.
Mr.. Randell, 1t is said, feared that upon
his death the woman would cause trouble
Tor his heirs, and remarked it to several
of his friends. George r. Gray and George
Is. Duryee are the executors of his estate,
which cannot be disposed of or divided
until the younger child becomes of age.
The woman who still lives in Brooklyn
will do just exactly what Mr.. Randell
suspected. She has engaged Lawyer
Robert G.. Ingersoll, who will contest the
will in her behalf in the Essex county
courts. A number of people spoken to
yesterday in regard to the matter were
unusually reticent and would give no in
formation in regard to the subject, though
their manner betrayed the fact that they
knew of the impending suit.
The case, If again brought into court,
will attract more attention thar on the
previous trial on account of the promin-
ence and fame of the plaintiffs counsel,
who has a faculty of making all of his
cases interesting.
The Cumberland Prohibitionists.
The Prohibitionists of Cumberland
county nominated Rev. M. Gilbert, a
Unitarian clergyman of Vineland, for
State Senator; William G. Lopez, of
Bridgeton, for County Clerk; James M,
Newcomb, of C~edarville, for Assembly
from the First District; William Bing
nam, OF MlllVllle, Tor Assembly rom the
Second District, and Harmon Dilks of
Bridgeton. for Coroner.
DR.. Charles Z. WEIGH, of Vineland, was |
elected chairman of the convention. and
Samuel M. Bassett, of Bridgeton, secre-
tary. About sixty of the party workers
were present, representing all the town
ships in the county but two.
The resolutions adopted urge all Pro
~hibitionists "to avoid all compromise, and
stand aloof from all bargains and trades
that may be proposed by either of the old
parties," and declare that the evasive
n in which the Republican party
expressed itself upon the question Of
Prohibition at Trenton, together with its
well-defined attitude toward Prohibition
in the past, leaves nothing for the New
Jersey Prohibitionists to do but to 90
straight forward, nominate their candi-
dates and do their best to elect them.n
This evening a massmeeting was held.
addressed by Candidate Lamonte and
Others.
A Missing Ticket Agent.
Last Friday morning r. Linwood Eng
fish, West Jersey Railroad ticket agent at
Cape May, secured leave of absence for
the day to go to Philadelphia. Not hav-
ing returned the auditors caused an ex-
animation of his books, and, it is said,