The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-04
4HE BOXES HAVE GONE.
Gathered From All Parts of
the County and Sent
to Trenton.
A SPECIAL CAR AND GUARDIANS
The Scenes at the Departure Of the
Boxes and Their Custodians
From The Depot.
A SPECIAL CAR AND GUARDIANS

Sergeants-at-Arms Rose and Graham,
appointed by the Senate Election Conn
mittee to remove the Hudson county bal
lot boxes to Trenton for use in the inves-
tiRation of the McDonald-S -Stuhr contest,
called at the City Clerks Office with an
Adams express van this morning. The
Clerk quietly handed over the entire
eighty-six boxes, which were piled up in
the Gagged van, and they were whirled of
to the Pennsylvania depot on their way
to Trenton.
Detective Kilcauley and City Marshal
Timothy Long accompanied the SER
geants-at-arms The City Clerk and the
Corporation Counsel went down to Tren-
ton on the same train with the boxes,
which left at 11:25 a. m. There were but
few people about the City Hall when tha
boxes were moved away.
THE HOBOKEN BOXES.
The Hoboken ballot boxes, sixteen in
all, arrived at the Pennsylvania Railroad
depot at few minutes past ten O'Clock
this morning on one of the wagons OF the
New YORK Transfer Company. On The
seat of the wagon was Policeman Barker
of Hoboken, who kept an eagle eye on the
boxes.
City Clerk McDermott, of Hoboken,
Il6b II pHIb9 Oh w bbftct, Aont~
ken, carrying monster box under his
arm. It was raining very hard at the
time, but the individual seemed not to
care for the elements, and appeared to be
full of Importance. Marty thought the
parcel resembled one of the priced ballot
was informed that he was Town Clerk OF
Gutenberg or, as Marty terms It, The
farm" He delivered the box at the
depot later in the day.
The Senate 8 srie Of special sergeants-
alarms waited upon City Clerk Hamilton
in the Bayonne City Hall early last even
ing and effected with him an agreement
whereby the half-dozen ballot boxes used
in that city last fall were sent to Trenton
this morning. Janitor John Mcdonald,
of the City Hall, was despatched to Jer-
sey City in q coach with the boxes at nine
O'Clock today he was INSTRUCTED ~
Clerk Hamilton to board an expr&ss tram
and TO stay with the boxes until Fhe bal
lots in them were counted and uhen re-
turn with them as quickly as possiAl Ale-
Boxes kept piling in from all paxts o.
the county till half past ten O'Clock.
THE TRAINS DEPARTURE.
Matters were unusually quiet swher# the
11.25 train bearing the balloS boxeA 81
Jersey City, Hoboken and Bayou n
moved out of the station. There we4
few passengers on the train. Nothing
whatever about the station indicated
any6Qln2 OF UNUSUAL Interest AL OcCet-
sional solitary passenger hast
ened up the gloomy platform
few moments before the train
started. In a car near the center OF the
train sat City Clerk Scott. of this city,
and City Clerk Hamilton, of Bay0nne.
Marty McDermott. of Hoboken, prob
ably took an earlier train. James H.
CLARK an attache of City Clerk Scott's
Office, who goes along as an expert paiiul
box-opener, occupied lone seat behind
the two city clerks.
Corporation Counsel Edwards bounced
from the car in which the trio sat about q
minute before the train moved out
The ballot boxes were piled pr0miscu-
ously in an Adams Express car, coupled
to the locomotive. 1t was all closed up,
but the door slid back foot or so before
the start was made. The round face Of
one of the sergeants-at-arms peered
through the opening. Between his legs
the reporter caught glimpse of the group
in the car.
Detective Kilcauley sat putting away
an a cigar gazing steadfastly upon the
mountain of boxes in front of him. City
Marshall Tim Long putfed away, too, and
the other sergeant-at-arms sat comfOrt-
ably esconsed in bstWeen the detective
and marshal