The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-28
TOO MUCH CONSTITUTION
That'sW Lawyer Peshall
Says Is the Matter with
the Jersey City Ath-
1etic Club.
LIVELY ANNUAL MEETING
Hiram Bennet Defeats samuel
Mattox and the Club Decides to /
Admit Junior Members.

The annual meeting and election of off1-
GERS of the Jersey City Athletic Club
took place last evening, and was one OF
the liveliest gatherings the club has bad
in some time. 1t was also one Of the
largest in the history of the organization
There was no contest over the offices Of
presidents and vice president. and 3 NJ
Tappan and the good-natured Sam Fin
ney were elected to those offices without
opposition. the secretary being directed to
cast the vote of the club for each Of those
gentlemen. Previous to the election
a business meeting was held, at which
the reports of the various committees
were read. These were all satisfactory,
especially that of the Bowling Conn
mittee, which showed that the receipts
from the alleys had been unusually
large After Messrs- Tappan and Finney
had made their prettiest bow and thanked
the boys for the honor conferred upon
them the club proceeded to elect COR
responding secretary.
THE TROUBLE BKGINS.
AS stated some time ago in THE JERSEY
CITY NEWS, there were two aspirants for
only Hiram Bennett. While the ballot
was being taken the excitement ran
high, but it soon became apparent that
Samuel had again mistaken the still
small voice. Hiram was elected By a
handsome majority. the vote standing 120'
for Bennett, to 46 for Mattox
There was some excitement over the
election for trustee. VIII Doubleday.
Dan Bowley, g. A. Leaycraft. Gil Arrow
smith and AL Evans were the candidates.
The opposition was all centered upon Mr.
Arrowsmlth. It was said that at q former
al Ag~r1 -, r. 4 =
curled his delicately formed proboscis
and declared that be would not run on
the same ticket with q Young. The
friends OF the Messrs Young, who in
clude almost every one in the club,
resented this declaration, and
that indiscreet observation cost Mr..
Arrowsmith the election, for when the
votes were counted it was discovered that
he had received but thirty-nine ballots
VIII Doubleday received Ia votes, Dan
Bowley 139 and E. A. Leaycraft 129, and
were duly declared elected trustees. Thev
thanked the boys for the honor and later
EXPRESSED their appreciation more feeling
" at the annex
TOO MUCH CONSTITUTION
The officers being elected the trouble
began State Committeeman Young
started the ball by calling up an amend
ment to the constitution which had lain
upon the table the statutory period OF
time and which provided that the mem
bership Of the club should consist Of ESQ
senior members above the age OF twenty
years and 100 junior members above the
age OF seventeen years, the junior MEM
bers to pay the full iniuiation fees ana
dues, Dut to have no voice In The MANAGE
ment of the club.
Mr. George Young movedas an amend
ment to the amendment that the age at
which junior members may be ad-
mitted to the club should bes
.ffrl1
Reid. whose fricJion WIN President
Voorhees, in the Board of Education has
FURNISHED up his parliamentary kuDwl-1
edge almost to.a white heat raised tho
point of order that Mr.. Young's amend
ment was out of order. He claimed that
under the constitution the constitution
could not be amended until the amend 4
ment has lain upon the table
fourteen days. Before the chair
could decide Mr.. Reid's point. Lawyer G.
j. Peshall said that the whole trouble,
was that they had too much constitution;
and no bylaws. and he moved that com
mittee Of five be appointed to revise the
constitution and bylaws. Some how or
other this motion was carried, but the
discussion on Mr.. Young's amendmentl
still went on when Mr. Peshalll
declared that the discussion wssl
for committee of revision was carried.
Then the president Mr. TapDan, who
was in the chair. decided that the amend |
ment to the amendment was in order and |
proceeded to take a vote on Mr.. George
Young's proposition to fix the age at
which junior members should be adj
mitted at eighteen years.
STORMY TIMES FOLLOW.
A stormy vote was taken in, In which 1t
was difficult matter to decide whether
the ayes or noes predominated Mr. Tap-
pan decided that the amendment was
lost. Counsellor Holmes, of Jersey
City, and Normandy by the Sea,
and Mikado johnson insisted that many
had voted against the amendment under
misapprehenston, and motion was
made for q reconsideration of the vote,
whereby the amendment was declared
lost. This percipitated another lively
but good natured discussion, but the re-
consideration was ordered and the
amendment fixing the age at eighteen
years was duly carried.
Then Counsellor Holmes moved an
other amendment which provided that
the junior members should be entitled
to q voice in the affairs
of the club II they were going
to pay the same dues as the senior MEM
bers Mr.. Peshall was of The same opin-
ion. and said that you might as well adj
NIT girls as to let in the boys and not
permit them to vote.
Second the motion; second the mo-
tion." came an enthusiastic chorus from
the boys. who in the confusion thought
that Mr.. PeshaIl had moved to admit
girls to membership in the club.
BY this time it had become late and
many Of the members had left the hall
1t was finally decided to adjourn to No
vember 6, when the matter will come up
auaiQ.