The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-28
AN HDGHVATHR FE7E.
General Grub Entertains
the Correspondents with
Characteristic Grace.
Special to the Jersey city New.

BURLINGTON, May 28, 1890. General E.
Burd Grub entertained the Legislative
Correspondents Club, of New Jersey, at
dinner at his home, Edgewater Park, last
evening. The guests reached the Park
about 8 O'Clock, and spent a pleasant hour
in admiring the man attractive features
of the Generals beautiful home on the
banks OF the Delaware. The fam
Gus game chickens were visited,
and aroused the enthusiasm of the
newspaper men. The general pointed
u his fg-trees, which bear as lucious
fruit as any that grows in Smyrna or
Sicily, n improved the opportunity to
deliver an instructive and edifying homi-
ly upon the biblical fig Leaf. Then he
conducted his guests to the dining-room,
from which such an excellent view is OBJ
tanned of what is by general consent adj
mitted to be the most beautiful spot on
the Delaware. The table was a bed of
brilliant and fragrant flowers, from
which arose Enthusiastically shaped can
delabra, which shed a soft, mellow light
upon the rich crystal and rare old silver
which encountered the board.
WHO WE'RE THERE.
The General sat at the head of the table
with Thomas F. Fitzgerald of the NcU
York Herald, president of the club at his
right and John G. Shreve of the Atlantic
City RcUteap at his left. William Henry
Koons Of the Philadelphia Press was at
the other end almost lost to sight in the
hugh Enthusiastically curved oaken chair
which he occupied with G. A. Ransom of
the JERSEY CITY NEWS at his right and
Matt G. Elytof the Newark EUenfng NeWs
at his left. The other guests were:-
Charles u. Levy, Trenton Sunday Ad-
Gertiser and New York Sun; NJ. b. Ziegler,
New York Tribune; P. Holmes Philadel-
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P PHI pfSss' Re 9Srd,ss E. = &. s ssahi,
New Jersey Stats Zeitung; H. Q.
Buchanan, State Gazette; Ii. G. Valentine
and Edwin Fitzgeorge, Trenton TIMES;
". Il. Deyereux, Asbury Park Spray;
Francis d. Lee, Camden ReUieiv; Joseph
g Kingdom, Mount Holly Mirror; James
r Logan, Burlington ENTERPRISE; E.. d.
Stoke, Mount Holly Herald; Harry Wal
ter, Mount Holly Nel0S: George Moore,
OIL Gazette; Il. L. Murrell, Beverly Ban
qaeY; A. S. Barber, Jr., Woodbury. Constt-
tuttUn, Il L. S. Kite, General Grubb's
private secretary.
During the repast a monograph, con-
cealed in an adjoining room, furnished
music OF a diversified and amusing char
acter.
GENERAL GRUBB NOT DEAD YET.
When the clotn was removed President
Fitzgerald proposed the health of Gene
raj Grubb and asked that it be drunk
Wdo dOu duIAt AlQCH GIL
thusiasm. Rule Is of the club:-'.There
being no reporters present not a line will
get into the newspapers was strictly en-
forced. Nevertheless General Grubb said
that he appreciated the boys kindness in
drinking TO his health as enthusiastically
as they had. But it was always the Gus
tom to drink standing to the dead, and if
the boys thought he was dead they were
yerymuch mistaken. He then related some
OF his experiences with newspapernen
last fall n referred to the blue pencil as
feelingly as though he were a reporter in
his novitiate. He paid an eloquent trib-
ute to che heroism and manliness of the
war correspondents, whose devotion TO
duty he often noticed during the war,
and declared that one OF the greatest
compliments which had ever been paid
him he considered TO be his election to
membership in a club of Philadelphia
newspaper men.
Charlie Stahl, of the Trenton Stats
getting, spoke, and of course Billie
Devereaux sang some songs.
The festivities were brought to an
abrupt end by the arrival OF the train,
aud the club departed thoroughly con-
WINGED that General Grubb is the prince
of entertainers.