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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19
WHO'S TO BLAME FOR HIS DEATH?
Investigation Into the Killing of Gal
vanizer George Cordick.

Investigation Into the killing of Gal
~vanizer George Cordick.
The jury ~empanelled by Coroner Brack-
ner to investigate the death of George
| Cordick the young galvanizer, who was
killed in the Erie Railroad yards last Sat
urnay by a locomotive humping against q
car under which he was working, listened
to testimony at the Court House last even
ing.
were Acknowledgements Steel and Fireman
James Tigue, of the engine, and q switch
| man. The two former live in Port Jervis,
| and have not been to Jersey City since
the accident occurred. Both have been
suspended by the company. Their alb
| sence compelled an adjournment of the
hearing till next Monday night. The tes-
| timony of James Snee and others showed
that Engineer Steel was not on his en-
CINE. Nothing, was brought u in the
testimony to show why he was not in
| charge.
James Snee, gang foreman OF car re-
! pairers, could not say whether or not the
foreman had any right to handle the en-
CINE in the absence of the engineer. He
saw the signal on tee bumpers of the care
which was being repaired.
William Kelly, a switchman employed
in the yards, was the essential witness.
He turned the switch. He stood some
moments afterward at the ~switchman's
shanty, and when he observed Engine No.
1877 heading down on the cars upon which
the danger signal was exposed he yelled
to the fireman to watch out for the Ian
ger flag. He afterward asked the fire.
man why he did not stop. The answer
was:--"I heard someone shouting to me,
but could not understand what was
said.h
II then asked him." said Mr.. Kelly,
''why he backed down on a car when
there was No one there to do the coupling.
He said he thought some one was there
for that purpose" Mr.. Kelly also testi-
fled that, in his opinion, Fireman Tigue
was sober. He did not think the accident
would have occurred if the engineer had
been aboard the engine. 1t was possible
for a good, bright man to handle the
engine and look out for dagger signals at
the same time. The fireman, when he
realized what had been done, said
That's too bad. / thought some one
gave me the signal to back down.
Flagman Gibbons was the only II Of
the crew of several who was present, and
he did not give such a signal.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19
A Hnro Labor Combination.

One of the most remarkable move
ments in the current history of labor
organizations is that outlined in THE
JERSEY CRY NEWS of yesterday.
A secret circular bearing the sigma
ture Of General Master Workman
Powderly and General Secretary John
w. Hayes, of the Knights of Labor;
President Samuel Gompers, of the
Federation of Labor; w. N. Sargent,
chief of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen, and others, has been is
sued, with a view to forming an ALL
ance between all the labor organiza-
tions of this country.
Should the project be successful IL
will result in the formation OF the
most powerful labor organization ever
formed.
A sort of huge labor trust, a COM
bination more vast and powerful than
any capital has yet dreamed OF, one
before which Standard Oil would be
insignificant, and the sugar combina-
ton triling. Even the banded rail-
way kings might fear so vast a power
as that which would result from the
union of all the great labor organiza-
tions of the country.
Is it a dream? There is no abstract
reason why it should be, but the ex-
p~erience of the past is against it.
Heretofore labor has spent more force
upon internal dissension than it has
directed against outside oppression.
Therein has been the strength OF its
capitalistic foes. But the world grows
wiser as it grows older, and perhaps
organized labor has profited by the
disasters of the past.
If this great dream should be real
lied, if this huge power should spring
into life, let us suggest a watchword,
a motto to those who are at its head.
1t is one single word, and that n
word Isl
MODERATION.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19

&C. PTOHt tue DfHCuuthee oeHttTtSt.
Belva Lockwood was a practitioner
in several of the lower courts of the
District of Columbia, but was debarred
the privileges of the Supreme Court
until she secured the passage of an
act of Congress in 1879 preventing the
exclusion of women, She graduated
from the National University Law
School, and edited for some years the
Legal WeaDS, published in Chicago.
She has been counsel for the defense
IN numbers of murder trials, and has
1900 clients who are applicants for
places ON the pension roll. She is
not an exceptionally clever lawyer,
in spite of these achievements,
having small gift of logic
or power of consecutive thought, but
is rather a woman of strong personal
ity, much executive ability and a..talent
for getting there ON schedule time.
She has a genius for advertising and
is quite aware that to address II, 200
people in a month at fair grounds,
Grand Army encampments, grangers'
reunions and the like, to be escorted
to grand stands by torchlight process
sions and bands of music will make
ones practice grow. Mrs. Lockwood
is something more than fifty years
old, is personally popular ana has a
fetching way in conversation. Her
hair is gray, her moth umobile and
face expressive.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19
THE NEWS OF BAYONNE.

A Long Branch Express in Collision
at Bergen Point.
A few minutes after six O'Clock this
morning a collision took place on the
Central Railroad of New Jersey, at Ber-
gen Point. About ten feet eastward OF
the Avenue d bridge a passenger train
composed of sever empty cars with bag
gage car in the real was standing on the
west bound track when the Long Branch
express train with three passenger cars
dashed around the curve. The locomotive
crashed through the baggage car OF the
motionless train and into the next car.
Fortunately no persons were hurt, but
the locomotive was disabled and the
track strewn with the debris of the two
cars.
In the course of half an hour traffic was
resumed. William Whitton, engineer of
the disabled locomotive No. rs, stood at
his post, but his fireman.. George Martin,
jumped off and sustained slight injuries
to one of his hands. Martin lives at East
Grand street in Elizabeth.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19
TO MAKE THEM SHARpSHOoTERS.

Militiamen VIII Have a Chance for Rife
Practice.
There is but little excuse for members
of the militia not becoming expert rifle
shots now. Beginning with July 20, every
Saturday until August "a will be devoted
to members of the militia desiring prac-
tice. They must pay all expenses except
for ammunition, which the State will
furnish.
Matches that will be contested are:--
Governors Champion Marksman's
match, the prize to be presented by Gov
ernor Green to the winner.
The Governors Championship badge,
only to be won by a score of forty or
more out of a possible fifty, and open
only to those who are excluded from the
Governors Champion Marksman's badge.
The Adjutant Generals match, prize a
Remington special military rifle pre-
sented by General Stryker, is the third
contest. 1t will begin August Is and, ex-
cepting the 18th, will continue every day
until and including August 80.
The Department of Rifle Practice prize
will be a Winchester rifle. The contest
will take place September 2, 3 and 4.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19

increase. And yet there is no orchid
society in England. Such plants as
chrysanthemums, carnations, auricu-
las and roses have each their own So
ciety.
Weak efforts to start an orchid
society have been made, but they
came to nothing. There is, however,
special representation promised for
orchids now, the Royal Horticultural
Society having decided to appoint a
committee of specialists to adjudicate
on orchids alone. That such a com
mittee is wanted is abundantly evil
dent. The number of lei who pos
sess a knowledge sufficient to enable
them to decide which orchids are good
and which bad, what is new and what
is simply an old plant under a new
name, is quite limited. When one
remembers that at the present time
there are close upon two thousand
species in cultivation, not to mention
the most countless varieties and
hybrids, the necessity for the step
which the Royal Horticultural Society
is about to take must be apparent.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19
A PLEASANT OUTING.
Take a Boat for Glen Island and Get a
Cool Breeze from the Sound.

Take a Boat for Glen Island and Get q
Cool Breeze from the Sound.
1t would be a difficult thing to find a
more pleasant sail than up the East River
to Glen Island. There are many places of
historical and modern interest along the
way, SO that cool breezes are not the only
attractions which serve to make the trip
so popular.
The beautiful Glen Island has recently
become an excursion ground, and at con-
siderable expense it has been laid out in
walks, groves, etc., for the benefit of
pleasure seekers, many of whom come as
''family parties" bringing their children
out for q sail and stopping at this island
park for lunch.
The island is delightfully."- located for
this purpose, and when visitors feel SO
disposed they lave the choice of a siesta
in the shade, or sports such as rowing,
bathing, shooting or riding.
1t does one good to lounge under the
shady trees and lazily gaze at the laugh
ing and romping youngsters whom the
sail up the river and Sound has filed
with animal spirits, and to whom fatigue
is q word they won't heal until
at home and prepared for bed. 1t is in
teresting also to watch the bathers, of
whom there are sometimes more han II
thousand in the water at a time. How
they laugh and shout and plunge among
the "rollers!'
Taken for all there is in it, a trip to
Glen Island cannot fail to please anyone
who is not soured beyond the possibility
of enjoyment; n as for the children
well, they ask nothing better. The boats
start from Pier IS, North River, right be-
side the CORTLAND street ferry.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19
The Fad for Orchids.

When the history of English horti-
culture in the nineteenth century
comes to be written its remarkable
feature will be the position held by
the orchid family. In a period of less
than fifty years the cultivation of or
ehids has developed into almost a pas
sion, and has become an important
commercial industry. There are mil
lions of pounds invested in orchids in
England alone. Collectors are in all
parts of the world searching for them.
They are objects of interest to all
classes of the community.
There are a few horticulturists who
profess to despise orchids, and who
constantly discover that a reaction
against them is setting in. But these
plants are more popular now than
ever, and this popularity Gems on the
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19
THE GIRLS ROBBED HIM.
Two Old Offenders Capture George Fen.
toms Watch aud Money.

Two Old Offenders Capture George Fem
toms Watch and Money.
Georgia Ellis, aged twenty-three years,
and Nettie Duggan, aged twenty-one
years, of No. 3151s Fifth street, were
charged before Justice Stilsing this morn
ing with larceny from the person.
George Fenton, of Ninth avenue, New
York, testified that he was coming from
the Monmouth Park races last evening on
a Pennsylvania railroad train when he
met the two young women The Duggan
girl, who is tall and fine-looking, took his
fancy and he accompanied her to the
house on Fifth street. While he was
there his vest, containing q gold watch
and chain and about 81 in money, was
stolen.
When he discovered his loss he went to
the Grove Street Station n had the girls
arrested.
The Justice committed them for further
examination. The police say the girls are
old offenders.
The police have driven them from two
houses and had lost track of them until
Mr.. Fenton complained of them yester-
day.
When Chief Murphy heard of the occur
renee he ordered the arrest of Annie
Lewis, who keeps the house, upon a
charge of keeping a disorderly house.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19
The Snake Charmer's Peril.

At about eight o'clock last night,
when the tent was filled with specta-
tors, Mrs. Wallace mounted the plat
form and took from the box the
fifteen-foot boa constructor. She
twined it around her neck and body
and then petted it as though it was a
kitten. After handling the reptile for
several minutes it began to get away
and open its enormous mouth. The
spots on it's body grew darker, and its
skin glistened in an unusual manner.
In it's movements it became more
lively, and it was with difficulty that
the charmer could keep it around her
neck. 1t uttered a low, humming
sound as it swung its head from side
to side. This noise grew faster and
louder until it broke out into the
appalling hiss of the king of reptiles.
The audience, who, up to this time,
were enchanted with the scene, drew
away from the platform, while they
kept their eyes fixed on the brave
woman, who endeavored to pacify the
snake by drawing her hands in rapid
succession over its body. The snake,
instead of quieting under her efforts,
seemed to increase in anger. Its skin
kept shining with a peculiar hue and
the hiss was prolonged until it could
be heard across the street. The snake
turned its head on the charmer, and
it's eyes flashed as it suddenly swung
itself around her neck and the coils
began to tighten. The woman
uttered q scream. Her husband,
who had been watching every
movement, told her to choke 1t.
AS soon as the woman heard her
husbands voice she became remarka-
bly, cool, and while the coils of the
serpent were slowly but surely chok-
ing her to death, she quietly moved
her hands down the body of the snake.
The snake saw the movement and
opened its jaws, but at the same mo
ment the IN had clutched it
around the neck. With both hands
she squeezed it, and then the coils be-
gan to relax. While holding the neck
with one hand she removed the coils
with the other. When the snake was
put back into the box and a large
coil of iron cable thrown on top the
audience breathed a sigh of relief.
Mr.. Wallace said that he bought the
snake three months ago in New York
city from a dealer. Last year the
same snake crushed a woman to death
while she was handling it in a New
York museum. 1t is about to shed its
skin, and is apt to be ugly during this
time of the year.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19
school No. 9.

If there is any one place in the
world which should not be unhealthy,
that place is the public school. School
should be the place where children
grow up, wholesome in body as well
as mind. Foul odors, filth and miasma
are as much out of place as ignorance,
falsehood and impurity.
What then shall be said of such an
institution as our School No. 6, OF
which the engineer of the County
Board of Health speaks thus in the
temperate language of ofiicialism;-
He found no water in the cellar. but evidences
of some having been there. The drains under
the cellar cannot run off the water because
another drain under the old building interferes.
The leaders on the building do not connect with
the sewer, but instead the waste water falls on
thespayements, which are sunEen.
Water also leaks In through the stills. The re-
port was filed and the Clerk was directed to
notify the Commissioners Of Streets and ewers
to have the repairs made.
If it was the last dollar the city
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19
MODERATION.
ERSONALS.

Alexander Reitluger has applied for a permit
to keep a factory to tan kids. He must be a
school teacher.
Messrs. Ernest Fackert, Fred. Landrigan, Mr..
Fuchs, ..andEDruggist Ferdinand Bongartz hooked
forty-eight fine specimens of blue fish yesterday
at Long Beach, weighing from four to eleven
pounds.
Ex-Freeholder Aaron S. Baldwin is steadily
improving in health. He INDUCES in a drive
every pleasant morning-and holds the lines over
a team of beautiful bays.
Tailor Birdsall, who was at Asbury Park yes
terday, said that he went down as a Young Mems
Christian Association devotee. The humor of
this explanation can be appreciated only by
those who know the Tailor.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19
T

Some of our friends have intimated
that the Telegram is ''poking fun" at
Judge Baird in advocating his claims
tor State Senator, but they are mis-
taken. The Telegram believes that an
able, aggressive, scholarly gentleman
should represent Camden county in
the State Senate, and Judge Baird
comes up to all these required qualifi-
cations.-C0md6N Telegram.
1t looks as though State Committee
man Butts would have to move at a
livelier gait than usual to hold his
place.-C0mden Telegram.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19

From the st. Louis Critic.
"I1l tell you what | like" said a
fruit tree salesman from Quincy. Il
like to go down in South Hannibal
and get an invitation to a party or
social. South Hannibal is the place
of all the world for fun, and don't
you hesitate to recollect it. The last
time | was down there l fell In love
with a girl. She was freckled a little
under her ears and forehead, but the
rest of her face was peachy, blossomy,
yummy yulnmy. And her lips. Why,
kisses seemed to dance ON 'eln, and
dare you to come and take. / dared;
but you never saw a girl fight as she
did. She scratched and clawed, tore
off my necktie, bit my fingers, lost the
ribbon out of her hair and got herself
into a perspiration. But l got the
kiss. 1t was good, despite my ex-
haustion and perspiration. She was
very angry. She sulked a long while
and refused to speak to me. Finally
l found her out ON the back porch.
She was alone. You hateful thing'l
she exclaimed. 4 believe you have.
impudence enough to kiss lie again.
If you do, | will choke your wind Off
And then she threw her arms about
my neck and gave Inc a terrific squeeze,
by way of showing me what she could
do"
"And did you beg off and make
your escape?"
beg off? Make my escape? Say,
do | look like a greeny? l kissed her
seventeen straight times without stop
ping to draw my breath. know
these Hannibal girls, / do, and when
of them likes q kiss SO well as to
give me a hugging invitation to take
another | stand up to the rack like a
little man. That is the kind of u coo
l ann
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19
ONE POLICEMAN WAS ENOUGH.
Fireman Osmon Learns Thai This City Is
Not Antwerp.

Fireman Osmon Learns That This City Is
Not Antwerp.
John Osmon, a fireman OF the Belgian
steamship Westernland, was charged be-
fore Justice Stilsing this morning with
assaulting the second engineer, Alexan-
der Blackman, and Policeman Coyle.
1t was charged that he assaulted the en-
gineer because he would not give him
grog, and when the policeman came to az
rest him he turned on him. 1t is said that
it takes about seven Antwerp gems
d'armes to arrest a sailor. Osmon was
under the impression that the same rule
obtained in this city.
He discovered his error at his leisure in
a cell in the Gregory street station house,
whittier Policeman Coyle whisked him
before he could say ''boo." AS Osmon
will be severely punished aboard ship for
his conduct to his superior officer, Justice
Stilsing discharged him.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19

tanning $500 the sum of S15, and they
caused the arrest Of the accused. This
morning, in the Court of Sessions, both
were acquitted.
james Quinn, indicted for atrocious as.
sault and battery, retracted his plea of
not guilty this morning i'll the Court OF
Sessions and pleaded guilty to assault
md hnffnrn
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19

Court Emmett, No. 1859, A. o. f., will
give an excursion to Idlewild Park,
August 81. The Committee Of arrange
ments are James X. Murphy, chairman;
Patrick Connolly, Thomas Keele, Thomas
Z. Murphy, and J. Jasper. Two barges and
tug will convey the excursionists to the
point of destination.
Court Jersey City, A.. o. F., will give an
excursion July %.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19

owned or could raise, it would be well
spent upon remodellingthat old school
and everything belonging to it before
its children are called together under
its roof again in September.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19
10 welcome the Federatlon.

Messrs. Fl. f. Trapper and Hugh Clarke
the Reception Committee of the State
Federation of Labor, called upon Mayor
Cleveland yesterday to ask for the use oil
the City Hall as a meeting place for the
State Convention, August 19. The Mayor
received them kindly. granted the desired
the address OF welcome to the delegates.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19

A successful fair was held last evening
In the guild room of Trinity Protestant
Episcopal Church, under the auspices Of
the Juvate Society,"
The Germania Singing Society is pre-.
pairing to hold q picnic on the evening OF
August %, in Columbia Park.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19

SAD story, that of Justice Lanes
widows! These things are always bad
enough, but they are especially gloomy
when they come out in post-lnortem
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19
This paper Is Democratic IN principles
and Is Independent tn its Vte0s on all
local questions.
The Prohibition Pow Wow.

We would as soon undertake to
prophesy the weather as to forecast
the doings of the Prohibition State
Convention, and yet there appear to
be strong indications of the way the
wind will blow down at Asbury Park
today.
in the first place, the attendance
does not indicate any serious diminu-
ton of zeal resulting from recent Pro
hibition defeats. On the contrary, it
would seem that, as a principle at
least, the idea is still very popular, for
there are adherents enough in every
county in the State to send delegates
to the Convention. OF course it is
quite a different question whether the
people who believe in keeping the
idea alive by agitation believe it is
live enough now to waste their votes
upon it. This can only be settled by
the election returns; but it may be
taken for granted that a lively cam
paign will be made so far as talk is
concerned.
We judge that a candidate for Gov
ernor will be nominated, though
probably very few people intend to
vote for him, and the general princi-
pie of prohibition will be broadly en-
dorsed in the platform.
What else?
Well, there's the rub. Quite a mum
Der of delegates are fatuously bent
upon endorsing the defunct County
Option scheme. On the other hand, a
large number, probably a majority,
are in favor of endorsing the liquor
legislation this year as sound temper
ance observation-disclosures, of course,
the Democrats are to be denied all
credit for it, save that of being the
passive medium of good in the hands
of Providence.
Well, there is a rare tumble of ideas
down there-quite a tangle. We con-
lecture there will be quite a heated
debate today. The upshot-well, we
only venture to prophesy that it will
be something uniquely weird and i'm
practicable.
1T will be some consolation to New
ark for her decadence to a p. r. r.
way station if the Lehigh Valley Rail
way gives her another approach to
New York. That is all Newark needs
to be prosperous. So far as Jersey
City is concerned, there can be no OBJ
lection to new enterprises so long as
they are content with a portion of the
earth's surface, and pay their taxes
promptly. =
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19
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Mary Stubenski and Emil Leon were ac-
cused by Michael and Mary hay of
having extracted from q pocket book CON