The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-01-22
KISSING THE CHILDREN.
A Pretty Spectacle at Gov
ernor Abbett's Popu-
lar Reception.
THE BALL A DISARMAMENT.
1t was Only a Club Dance, But Gov
ernor Albeit was There.
Special to the jersey ctr .Neags.

TRENTON, Jan. FL, lS90.-It had gone the
rounds of the town that Governor Albeit
would be at the Executive Chamber at
three O'Clock to shake hands with the
visitors who desired to call on him; and
after the inauguration exercises were
over there was general rush for the
State House. Promptly at three.the Pat
terson Guards of Philadelphfa marched
through the crowd to the music of band,
and made Straightway for the Executive
Chamber All the doors were closed, and
they wondered why, till some one stepped
from inside and posted a notice that the
reception had been postponed till between
four and five o'clock.
The orga nization wheeled abont, and
to the beat of drum filed sorrowfully
out. Not so the rest of the crowd, how
ever. They fingered till the great double
door at theeend OF the hall WAS thrown.
open. Even then they couldn't geJ in, for
ropes stretched across it at the entrance
barred them. s i
q THE THaoNG PRESSES IN
Presently the door leading into the
sacred of sacreds in the executive depart
nlent was opened to let the crowd in on
one side of the hall ;and the door of Private
Secretary "LonN Abbett's room was
opened to let the crowd out on the other
side of the hall; and the polio pressed the
throng into single lille. while Cappa's
band gave notice, with March, that the
procession might begin. And in they
tumbled-old men and young men; ladies
and little girls; gray-headed badgers, and
boys with their school books under their
arms-and there were some colOred men,
too. General "Will" Albeit stood at the
entrance TO the big room to keep the file
back close to the wall; it filed left en-
reaching the opposite extreme and
passed in front of Governor Albeit who
stood with Surgeon General John ID. Nc
Gill and Colonel John T. Van Cleefat the
centre mantel to receive. Some, of the
old fellows wanted to stop TO talk politics
with the Governor; he. pressed their
hands moving them forward as he
did SO, and they got out of the way.
One 4 man unloaded an armful
of bOquets upon him, but most of them
passed by with q little compliment. The
Governor made low bows to the ladies,
and they courtesied becomingly in return.
girls, and even was at pains to follow Que,
man to press the lips of the child he bore
on his arm. One little one sulked and
cried because the Governor kissed her
but the faces of most beamed with the
consciousness that it wasn't every little
girl in New Jersey who could walk away
with a Governors kiss upon her lips,
and altogether the children made a happy
feature of the procession,
MISS, ALBEIT, TOO. a fb{e
Nv hen the emu OF the line haQ been
reached Miss Mamie Albeit gracefully
fell in, and, as the rest of the multitude
had done, congrat ulated her father upon
the fresh evidence she had seen of his
popular L. J, and probably said 2 word in
praise of The tenderness he had shown for
the little ones. .s
Mrs. Dodd. Miss Post, Judge Albert
Hoffman, General B. w, Spencer and
others were interested spectators OF the
scene.
Among those who paid their respects
were Louis Broome, William Farrier, j.
ID. Bedle. Jr, Tax Commissioner O'Don.
nell, Finance Commissioner Kelly of the
Police Board. City Collector O'Neill.
Sheriff Davis, Fred Frambach, r. p.
Wortenayke, DR.. King, of the Snake Hill
Asylum; Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Furst, f.
G. Wolbert, w. r. Barlicklo, Fred Kis-
sam, Colonel William Taylor. Surrogate
O'Neill, and many Others from Jersey
City.
THE FULL DRESS RECEPTION
The full dress reception which the Gov
ernor held in the evening was brilliant
affair. The staff of ex-iovernoe Green
in full uniform acted as ushers and Gov
ernor Albeit was attended by several of
his new staff. The brilliant uniforms of
the soldiers and the handsome toilets of
the ladies' combined to make a most brill
liant scene. The reception lasted two
hours and during that time steady
stream OF people passed before the Gov
ernor's party.