The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-26
GOVERNORS DAY.
A Great Gathering of Not
ab1es at the Fair at
Waverley.
PHELPS OF BERLIN's RED TIE
Governor Albeit Sat in the Tent
and Senator Mcdonald Re-
ceiyed an Ovation on
the Field.
PHELPS OF BERLIN's RED TIE

Z G0vernOr'S Day at the WaverlY fair
yesterday afternoon was one Of the big
Eest days in the history Of the New Jer-
sey State Agricultural Society. It was
said by enthusiasts that there were 40, ,0o0
people present. That may have been ex-
aggerated, but the grounds were crowded.
uncomfortably crowded around th6
grand stand, the exhibition halls, and the
cattle pens, and it takes a great many
people to crowd such vast space as Is
inclosed in the ugly red fence around the
fair ground.
OF course the crowd was made up Of
the same elements which have been going
to Waverly on Governors day ever since
that festival was appointed, with the pos
sible exception of the raw boned bicyiist,
who insisted upon displaying his skinny
calves in drab colored stockings. There
was the ancient and honorable hayseedex
from Caldwell and Sparts beyond - with
mother and the girls. There was the
Elizabeth or Newark dudo in his dog
cart and sure, who is so much above the
ordinary crowd that he sits uncomfort-
able in his carriage all day seeing
nothing. The giddy damsels who screams
and starts back every time the big
Holstein whisks his ears, and who goes
into ecstacies over the little piggies aud
re title lammies." was there too
AT THE PRESIDENTS TENT.
The speeding and trotting were good,
the exhibits admirable and the music en-
joyable. The usual contingent of fakirs
were present, both inside and outside Of
the grounds, and the buckwheat -four
man with samples free did a lively busi-
ness. But the chief attraction of the day
was the gathering of the statesmen on
the hill crowned with the presidents
tent. The crowd began 20 arrive early.
and by three O'Clock the champagne had
run out and the second requisition Of
hard and soft stuff was rapidly approach
ing the same end. A stout, forid police
man stood at the tent, and only those
got in who appeared to him to be an office
holder, present or prospective. The
stout official made very few blunders, and
the number of unwelcomed persons who
passed by him was small. He made one
bad break, however, which almost ruined
his reputation. Chief Engineer Brooks.
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Frank
Bergen, the well known Elizabeth law
yer, presented themselves at the tent enc
trance and asked for the president. The
stout policeman gave them searching
glance and declared that the president
wasn't around and he could not tell where
he was. Mr.. Brooks and Mr.. Bergen pre-
sented their invitations, but they only
aroused the stout policeman's contempt.
Anybody could get invitations, you know.
and they couldn't bluff him.
At that moment the President thrust
his head out of the tent and greeted the
genial engineer and little lawyer in a
manner which made the stout policel an
wish he had never been born.
WILLIAM WALTERS RED NEcKTIE.
President II. Hayward Ishain, Secre-
tary Thomas w. Dawson and the direct
ors of the society made the visitors Wei
come. Among the directors was President
Thurston, of the Hudson County Park
Board, and every man from Jersey City
who came under Mr.. Thurston's eye was
made doubly welcome. Governor Alb
bett sat inside the tent and received his
fellow citizens, while ex-Governors Bedle
and Green exchanged stories
near the entrance. just OUT
Walter Phelps and his bang direct from
Berlin. The Minister Plenipotentiary
and Envoy Extraordinary wore gray
suit and brown German shaped derby
which appeared to be two sizes too large
for him. A flaming red Windsor in a
neglige knot threw SOIL of haol around
him and somewhat dazzled the farmers
who grasped the hand that has shaken
the Kaisers'.
Mr.. Phelps was beyond doubt the prize
exhibit of this section of the fair, and did
the pump handle act as though he
would rather represent the north end of
JERSEY db w HSulukIOu Budu lA6 WUQlG Aki-
tion at Berlin
Senator Mcdonald was as great an at
traction as Mr.. Phelps, and the way in
which complimentary congratulations
were showered upon him would have
turned many lnan's head. Republl-
cans, Democrats and Prohibitionists alike
grasped the hand of the next Congress
man from Hudson, and Senator Gran
mer, away from Ocean, who al
most wept when under the sting
of the party lash he voted to
unseat the Senator last winter, warmly
shook hands with Mr.. Mcdonald. Sena-
tor Mcpherson smiled upon his constitu-
ents and bowed to them with all his old
time grace. Ex-Congressman George A.
Halsey caught his high hat in the tent
rope as he rushed out TO meet Mr.. Phelps
and almost ran over little Charlie Trefz,
who was the baby of the last House.
THE STATESMEN" WHO WERE THERE
Comptroller Anderson and State Treas
urer Toffey were pointed out as the bene-
ficiaries of the theft of Senator Nc
Donald's seat, and Herb" Potts, with q
hat which came down over his ears, dis
cussed the complexion of the next House
with Speaker pro tenn Marsh. State Com
mitteeman James G. Young was pointed
out as one of the coming Republican
leaders of Hudson, and Foster Voorhees,
introduced Mayor Rankin, of Elizabeth,
to everyone as the next Senator from
Union.
Assemblyman Trier, who ran away
with the Newark Elevated Railroad bill,
told some of his fellow members that he
would have to come back to the Assembly
next winter just to show the State that
his constituents endorsed his course.
Secretary of State Kelsey. with one of the
badges of the society on his breast, had
kind word for everyone, and General 4.
Burd Spencer ably mainta ined the dig
nifty of the State military. Doorkecper
Tom Titus listened attentively while AS
semhlyman Bale, of Sussex. told soma
how his milk bill was de-
feated. Jackson, of Belleville, was about
fixing up his fences for q reelection. and
Kalisch, of Essex. quietly worked up q
little boom for the Sreakership OF the
new house.
Hudson was well represented. District
Attorney Winfield, Judge sAl' Hoffman,
Counsellors McGrath and Dougherty and
Sheriff Davis upheld the judiciary. Di-
rector ad interim German and the Free
holders came over in u Coroner Cranes
carriages. President Somers, of the
Street and Water Board. Tax Commits
sioner O'Donnell, Financier Edlestein,
Corporation Attorney Hudspeth, Come
missioner Van Keuren, Police Commis-
sioner Kelly Assemblymen Bryne and
Murphy, Justice Farm Wanser, Chief
M urphy, Captain Farrier Chief FarrieI
nd John p. FeeneY were also present.
Building Inspector Clarke was there too
leading his little brother Charlie by the
hand. Jimmie didn't have much fun,
thOugh for it took all his time to keeH