The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-03

during which THE JERSEY CITY
NEWS has been published has served
to completely dispel this illusion, anu
now it would appear that the manage
ment is about to run into the opposite
extreme. The enormous expense
which the concern is about TO contract
in the erection of a new Hoe press OF
| equal capacity with that OF The JEk-
| sEY CRY NEWS is a sign that "a VINO
run may read.n But rumor has 1t that
this step is not a circumstance TO the
radical reforms that are to be efiecteo
in other directions. Indeed, 1T was all
but editorially announced yesterday
that the entire form and makeup OF
the paper would be changed. Let us
| hope that the alteration will be in the
direction of the ideas Of to-day. lt is
further reported that the r~elnodeling
of the paper will be accompanied by a
thorough reorganization of the stan,
and the infusion of a sufficient guam
tity of new blood to furnish the
vitality necessary to support the spirit
of reform. This, it is said, is the true
explanation of the eager efforts made
of late to provide certain employees to
whom the management feels under
obligation with well-salaried pubic
offices.
Among the changes limited at is n
1.-.a.k<z4 r M, A1aVondnf Mo
Lean, the able Trenton correspondent
of the Journal for several years, to h
post of City Editor in place OF the
Rev. Police Commissioner Benson.
Mr.. Frederick w. Pangborn will
doubtless assume the chair of Editor
in Chief should President Harrison
bestow on his father the foreign
mission he so much desires.
This is pleasant news for the reading
public, and we ourselves look forward
with satisfaction to something like
real news competition, which, we are
editorially informed is to begin about
September 10, next.
Before bringing to a close these
words of friendly salutation, we can
not refrain from some slight criticism
of one or two remarks made by our
only competitor, particularly as they
might tend to mislead a few careless
readers. We allude particularly to
the following sentences, which are
clipped from the Eoeni11g Journal of
yesterday
For several years past the EUening Journal has
practically had no competitor in the field OF local
Journalism. u = = Our facilities for gathering
and disseminating the local news are, and have
been, so far superior to those of any OF those VINO
have attempted competition with us, that the
Evening Journal has easily and surely main
tanned its place as the newspaper OF Jersey Guy
and Hudson comfy.
To the first statement no exception
can be taken, and doubtless it was the
lack of competition that threw the
paper into the lethargyfrom which it is
striving to awaken. An unfortunate
omission, however, has been made in
the second sentence. Doubtless it
was intended to insert some such
words as until the advent of THE
JERSEY CITY NEWS" Of course, the
context supplies the want in the
readers mind; but it is a pity, all the
same, that the slip occurred.
Well, with enterprise and care, the
Euenang Journal may in time, and
under it's new regime, begin to share
the local news with this paper; but we
give our new antagonists, whoever
they may prove to be, friendly warn
ing that we will run them a hard race
if they mean to keep with us.
SPURRED on by the zeal for reform
aroused by the recent indictments
the Freeholders are making gigantic
efforts to abolish some of the %sinecure'
which have run up the expenses of the
county. But they find it much easiel
to pass resolutions favoring reform il
the abstract than to really accom-
plish a reform. None of them il
willing that his favorite office holder'
should be decapitated, and they
wrestled long and desperately witt
the problem yesterday. What a con
fession of wrong doing is the state
ment that 80 out of 107 employees car
be dispensed with.
THAT must have been a queer scen'
in the Bayonne Common Council
Monday night, when ex-Freeholde
Post, after being figuratively throw
out of the Council Chamber, walked
up to the tellers who were counting
the ballots which other Councilmel
had cast for chairman and meekl.
asked them to ''please let me vote.
Political warfare must be as mild il
Bayonne as it is here.
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PERSONALS.
Major Mason, of the Fourth Regiment, locke
every inch a soldier as he rode in the parade o.
Tuesday.
Steven Van Ness, of zabriskie Post, has in hi
possession a tooth which he took from an all