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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08
no CLEAN THE STREETS.
Henry Byrne's Contract Continued
Seven Hours for Clerks.

The Street and Water Board this morn
among the Clerks of the Water Depart
ment by adopting the following resolu-
tom
Resolved, That the Office hours of the clerks
in the Water Department are hereby fixed be-
tween the hours OF nine M. and four p. m, with
the exception of the months of May and June,
when the hours shall be between eight ssiii. and
three pm, during which time with the excep-
tion or an hour for dinner) the clerks must be at
the rooms; and the Assessor shall prepare and
keep record showing the arrival OF each clerk.
The books of the Water Assessor for
this year show an increase of $33, 771.56 in
water rents over the figures OF last year.
Last year the figures were $28S, 4g161; !;
this year they are 1922. 263. 1S.
In accordance with the provisions of
Assembly bill No. 228. introduced by Mr..
Mullone and passed, the contract for the
cleaning of streets, awarded three
months ago to Henry Byrnes, was con
tinued. The bill gives the Finance Board
the power to increase the appro-
ing on temporary loan bonds. Mr..
Byrne's contract called for the payment
of S31 ,050 Before the passage of the bill
but $4,000 had been appropriated for
street cleaning purposes. The Board this
morning adopted a resolution calling for
an increase of the appropriation of $l3 050.
from which Street superintendent Tum-
ilty's salary is to be paid.
The Committee on Pumps and Reser-
voirs was authorized to advertise for
proposals for furnishing and delivering
according to specifications 10000 tons of
anthracite coal to be taken from either
the Jeddo, Spring Mountain, Spring
Brook, Highland or Packer mines.
A resolution awarding Architect George
w. Labam $500 for his work in connec-
tion with the plans drawn for the new
Police Headquarters was also adopted.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08
FOR SASSIN' De COP.
James O'Reilly Gathered in Before His
Place of Business

James O'Reilly Gathered in Before His
place of Business
James O'Reilly, of No. 443 Grove street,
was a prisoner before Justice Ssilsing
this morning. He was arrested by Patrol
man Dooley, of the Second precinct.
Dooley arrested him because he became
saucy about an arrest Dooley had previ-
ously made, and remarked: THAT cops
d fresh -. I'd like to smash him be-
tween the blinkers."
Reilly said the policeman punched him
in the eye after he had left the station
house and while he was standing in front
of his place of business.
What kind of place of business?'
asked the Judge.
Il decline TO answer" said O'Reilly.
"Humphf calculated the Judge.
Then he proceeded to catechize the
prisoner, and as a result drew forth
the information that his place of bust
ness was at No. 443 Grove street, a
shanty near the trcstle work, occupied
by the William Brown Association.
O'Rellly was the janitor. The Judge en-
deavored to ascertain If dog fights were
carried on there, but did not succeed, and
Dooley testified that the club was legi-
innate organization. However, O'Reilly
was paroled till tomorrow morning and
requested to bring witnesses, and the pa
trolman was told to do likewise.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08
HEALTH BOARD DOINGS.
Cholera Breeding Garbage Heaps On
Lafayette Meadows to Be Inspected.

The County Board of Health met yes
terday afternoon. A communication was
received from the New York Board of
Health, calling attention to gross me-
glect of duty on the part of the ticket
collectors at the ferries.
The communication stated that the coll
lectors failed to take up the coupons at
tached to all permits for the removal sof
dead bodies from the city furnished by
the Hudson County Board. The conn
munication was filed.
A petition was received from John w
Heck, George Hitler and Henry Steffens
protesting against the dumping of gar
bage on the Lafayette meadows by the
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company In
spector Kleit will inquire into the mat
ter
The Merchants Protective Association
petitioned the Board to secure the re-
moval of the heaps of garbage on Rail-
road avenue, between Henderson and
Warren streets, and to prevent the firing
Of steam through sewers.
The Board refused to register the de-
ploma of DIR. Salter, a graduate of the
New Jersey Medical College. This is the
institution on Montgomery S treet, which
is now fighting the Board through one of
its graduates in the courts The diplo-
mas of Edith H. Bance, j. Alden Radley
and James Logan Shlrland We're regis
tered.
The Inspector reported that the cellars
of the buildings. Nos. 102 and 104 st Paul's
avenue, were full of water, and q danger
to the inmates of the buildings. The
clerk was directed to call the attention of
the Board of Street and Water Com
missiouers to the necessity of a sewer in
in that avenue.
The situation there is somewhat pecu.
liar. The lnhabitants of the south side
of the avenue have private
drain, while those on the north
side have none whatever The
North siders want sewer but the South
siders object, and the requisite number
cannot be induced to petition for the
drain.
1t was reported that the cases of conta-
geous diseases during the past month
:-Diptheria. Ill; scarlet fever, IA;
membraneous Group, IS, and measles,
g. Mr.. Lewis Geyer, of Union
Township requested the Board to require
the West Shore Road to drain two ice
ponds in his neighborhood which the
company owns.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08
WITHIN TWO YEARS.
The L" Road Will Be in OPP
GRAFTON to West Side
Avenue.
ACQUIRING RIGHT OF WAY.
Many Legal FOrmalities Retard the
Work but the Engineers
Are Busy.

somehow or other the impression has
gotten abroad that work has been sus-
pended upon the elevated railroad which
IS to be erected from the Central Railroad
Terry at Communipaw to West Side ave-
nue., aud many facetious persons have
improved the opportunity to make obser-
vations about s'lost, strayed or stolen on
elevated railroad"
There is 10 reason for these remarks
or any apprehension for the speedy COM
pletiop of the road.
SEARCHING LETTERS.
Ever since Mayor Cleveland approved
the ordinance granting the road a fran
chise, the proprietors have been busily at
work upon their enterprise. In order to
secure The right of way over certain por-
tions of the city it has been necessary for
the company to purchase large tracts of
land. Before this could be done, how
ever, thorough searches of the titles to
those lands had to be made. AS some of
the claims OF title were considerably
complicated the labor of searching
was long and tedious, and it has Just been
completed. before any work can be
done, however, another legal step must
be taken. Application must be made to
the Circuit Court for commissioners to
conuemn tne r1ght OF way over the streets
and Tx the damages which will accrue to
the property owners fronting on the
sUreets and avenues over which the road
will run. Preparations are about COM
pleted for the step and the application
will soon be made.
ENGINEERS BUSY.
While these legal preparations have
been going on Messrs. Earle & Harrison,
the engineers in charge of the construct
ion OF. the road, have not been idle. A
corps of their assistants have been over
the ground stalking out the route and
making soundings as to the nature of the
soil, the depth to which piles must be
driven and other work OF that nature.
This, too, has been completed, and as
soon as all the legal formalities have
been complied with work upon the
foundations for the elevated structures
will be commenced,
The plans for the structure have been
practically agreed upon. 1t will resemble
the Ninth and Third avenue roads, of
New York. more than any similar struc-
ture in this vicinity. From the ferry al
most to the brow of the hill it will run on
each side of the way like the roads run
ming through the Bowery and Greenwich
streets From that point to West Side
avenue it will run over the centre OF the
streets like the New York roads on the
avenues. 1t is thought that the road will
be in running order within two years.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08
FIVE YEARS FOR TAFT.
Trenton's Counterfeiter Sentenced and
Photographed.

Photographed.
Special to the Jersey City Ne,os.
TRENTON, May s, 1890. John Williams,
alias Samuel TAFT, was tried yesterday in
the United States District Court. He is
the fellow who was captured by Detec-
tives Pilger and Leahey at the Clinton
street station on the night of March IL,
and who, with another man, had worked
off number of counterfeit silver pieces
in different places in this city. He was
traced to the station and taken while he
was waiting for a train. The witnesses
were Chief McChesney, Secret Service
Officer Henry N. Burnet, Detectives Pill
ger and Leahey. Parker Stout, John
Britt, Walter Adams and Simon Fallacy.
The jury convicted, and the sentence of
the court was fine of 81 1000, five years
Imprisonment and the costs OF courts
The prisoner had been kept in irons al
most from the time of his arrest. He made
one effort to escape. Bert Moore, with
his instantaneous kodac, tried to get a
photograph of TAFT yesterday morning as
he was brought from the Jail, but the
wary fellow espied the Photographic aD-
paratus just as the amateur photogra-
pher was preparing to expose his piate.
He immediately turned his back and
said:-"Not today, young man." Bert
followed him to the u. S. Court House,
where, by permission of the Court, he got
a good likeness.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08
WOULD BIZ BIZ JAIL gaI.. BREAKERS gsssl. K EEs.s.

West New Yoris's Town Clerk Routs d.
Gang with His Revolver.
An unsuccessful attempt to rescue four
prisoners from the West New York Town
Hall was made early yesterday morning
About one o'clock Town Clerk Welsh,
who sleeps over the Town Hall, was
awakened by noise in the yard. Taking
a revolver he started to investigate A
man appeared through tine opening in the
fence in the rear of the yard Welsh
pointed the revolver, which was un-
loaded, at the fellow, and he made rapid
tracks. The fellow evidently had some
accomplices, as Welsh says he saw two
or three suspicious looking characters
hanging about. An attempt had been
made to force the bars in the rear cell of
the Town Hall, which faces the yard
One of the bars was twisted, and the fell
low had started to work on the other one,
when the noise awakened Welsh.
The police have a good description of
the would be jailbreaker, and expect to
capture him today
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08
RURAL DEANS NOW.
The Title of Archdeacon Abolished by
South Jersey Churehmen.
SnecinL to the Jeraeu Citu Neuns

The Title of Archdeacon Abolished by
South Jersey Churchmen.
Special to the Jersey city Ne,cs
BURLINGTON, May s, 1890 The second
day OF the Episcopal Convention began
with celebration of the Holy Eucharist
at seven o'clock yesterday, Bishop Scar
borough being the celebrant. The fol-
lowing were elected the Standing Com
mittee of the Diocese:-The Rev. DIR.
Joseph +. Garrison, of Camden, presi-
dent; the Rev. Levi w. Worton, Railway,
secretary; the Rev. Alfred B. Baker,
Princeton; the Rev. Charles M. Perkins,
hoy; McRee Swift, New Brunswick;
y. 3. Woodward, Bordentown,
and DIR. J. Howard Pugh, Bur-
lingten, Charles Z. Merritt, Of Mt. Holly,
was elected treasurer. Benjamin r. Car
ter of Woodbury.. was chosen member
of The Board of Trustees of the Episcopal
Fund to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Abram Browning, Of Camden.
McRee Swift, of New Brunswick, was
elected for a three years. term to the
Board of Trustees of the Aged and In
firm Clergy Fund, and for similar term
Of the Widows and Orphans Clergy
Fund. DR.. j. Howard Pugh. of Burling-
ton, was chosen a member of the Board
of Trustees of the Missionary Fund and
OF the church property of the diocese to
serve three years.
The afternoon session was taken up
largely in discussing proposed modifi-
cations of the canonical laws relating to
Diocesan Missions. The committees re-
port, after the making of numerous
changes, was approved.
The term archdeacon, adopted two
years ago by the convention, as the title
Of the head of the Convocation, was
changed to rural dean.
The question of empowering women to
vote for members of church vestries and
other officers brought out spirited de-
bate and was finally lost
Grace Church, Plainf1eld, was selected
as the next place of meeting.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08
The o'Neiil's New Club House.

The O'Neill Association have leased for
ten years the lot upon which stands the
old building known as No 100 Mont
gomery street. 1t is the intention of the
O'Neills to tear down the old building
and erect on elegant wooden structure,
two stories in height. 1t win have
fancy front, a bay window in the second
story, surmounted by tower. On the
first floor will be the bowling alley and
will be lighted by three ventilating sky
lights. The entire building will cost be-
tween $4,000 and $1,000,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08
DAsHEs ABOUT TOWN.

The annual fair for the benefit of st
Nicholas Parochial School was opened
Saturday evening at Kessler's Hall. 1t
will be continued every evening until
May 10. The hall is well supplied with
tables and booths.
Lodge No. II, 4. & A. NJ. at Cranes
Hall, -Hoboken, tomorrow evening, May
8. will be an interestin ng event. mime
host, Ernst Appel, proprietor of Kess-
1er's Hall, will receive the master mason IS
degree, and many of the craft from the
Hill will be present.
For the first time since last summer,
Oakland avenue from Newark to Hobo
ken avenue was relieved OF its surplus
mud yesterday. The block yielded nearly
a score Of carr loads,
Mary Morrissey, q colored girl, Of No.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08
Demoniacaliy Loaded. .

John Marshall, the Newark avenue
store keeper, who was remanded by JUS
tice Stilsing yesterday as .disorderly
haracter. was discharged this morning.
Marshall, when arrested on the avenue,
was bowling drunk. He carried a
hatchet in his hands and threatened to
demolish everything and everybody that
flashed athwart his demoniacal vision.
10 this state it is said he was brought by
an insane jealousy.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08
Mrs. Baker who secured the necessary
bonds for his release

Mrs. Baker who secured the necessary
bonds for his release.
Baker gave his name as James Becker
when arrested. Ike girl has for TWO
years been an Inmate of his home.
Monday evening the twain went to New
York and to the Alexander House, at No.
151 East Twentieth street, where Baker
introduced the girl as his wife. The
housekeeDer suspected something wrong,
and sent for q policeman who took charge
of the couple. Baker was arraigned in
the Fifty-seventy street court, Tuesday,
and held in 81, 800 bail on the charge Of
abduction. The girl was placed IN charge
of The Society for the Prevention of
Crime. She stated that for several weeks
Baker had tried to induce her to leave
Jersey City with him, and that he took
her to New York, Monday evening,
promising to take her to IL place OF
amusement, and to purchase jewelry
for her.
The Society will prosecute Baker. and
apply for the appointment of guardian
for the girl
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08
MRS. VANDERBILT CONVICTED.

Special to the Jerseu Ctr Nesvs

Special to the Jerseu Ctr News
MOUNT HOLLY, May s, 1s90.-Mrs. Car
rie Vandergrift, who was accused Of at
tempted murder in giving her son. Frank
G. Norman, croton oil. was found guilty
as charged this morning. Immediately
upon the announcement Of the verdict
her counsel, Charles E. Hendrickson,
moved for new trial.
The application will be argued here
after. The judges charge was delivered
yesterday afternoon. Then the jury re-
tired. but could not agree on verdict
So they were locked up for the night
About 9:15 this morning it was rumored
that the jury had agreed on u verdict. A
rush was made for the court room, which
was soon crowded to suffocation.
Mrs. Vandegrift was brought in to hear
the verdict of the jury. Not even when
the foreman said, during the most pro-
found silence, Guilty, as she stands
charged In the Indictment" did she show
any emotion. She was at once taken
back to Jail
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08

At the meeting of the Union Hill Town
Council last night ex-Mayor Schlemm was
granted a liquor license. Although Mr.
Schlemm was chairman of the last Board
it refused to grant him license. When
the new Council organized Schlemm
managed to get appointed chairman of
the License Committee. At the meeting
last night Councilman Conway objected
to the granting of the license. The Fire
Department received permission to
parade on Decoration Day. Assembly
mam Usher, who was present, informed
the Council that the bin empowering the
town to appropriate $4,000 for a new
Town Hall had passed the Legislature
The meeting nights We're changed from
Wednesday to Monday, and the Board
adjourned
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08
Coolsee wants Her Culver.

a WeII-dressed muIatto woman, mailing
from Roanoke, Va, is at Police Head
quarters awaiting the appearance of
William Culver, who was to haEe met
her yesterday at the Pennsylvania Rail-
road depot. The woman says she came
in response to a letter from Mr.. Culver,
with whom she was engaged as cook
She was delayed aday aud does not know
Mr.. Culyer's address. The city directory
contains a number of Culvers; none,
however, who have yet been approached,
know anything about the woman.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08

ing Machine factory which was destroyed
by fire Tuesday night
1t is the intention OF the company to
begin building at once and have the en-
tire works running again as soon as pos
sihle
The company expects to employ at
least two-thirds of the 5000 employees by
promptly putting uD temporary struct-
ure for the use of the different depart
ments which have been burned out.
A large number of the employees were
put to work this morning clearing up the
premises
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08
The J.. c. s. b. II. r. Co.'s First Electric
M0for

The first Of the electric motors with
which the Jersey City and Bergen Rail
way Company propose to supplant the
horse cars on its lines, was received at
the car stables yesterday. Much cnrios-
ity was manifested among the employees.
1t is not the intention of the company,
however, to put the motors in operation
for several months. No contract has yet
been made for motor power.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08
A Runaway Dog Cart.

A horse attached to dog cart belong
ing to Mr.. Charles v. Drescher, of No. 161
Academy street, ran away yesterday
afternoon. upsetting the vehicle and pre-
cipitating Mrs. Drescher on the cobbies
of Foy place. A child of Daniel Platt
was knocked down by the horse. No one
was seriously injured.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08
HIS WlFE's NIECE.

Serious Charge Made In New York
Against Railway Avenue Resident.
Anthony Baker, proprietor of res
taurant at No. 70 Railroad avenue. was
arrested in New York, Monday night, on
q charge Of abducting his wife's niece.
Minnie Dolan, . fifteen year old girl. He
returned home yesterday, thanks to
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08
Henry KING Is Dead.

Henry King, who was found lying in
pool Of blood in the yard of No. SO Gar
den Street. Hoboken, died at St. Mary's
Hospital last night. King probably
wandered to the roof of his house in his
sleep and fell into the yard, q distance of
twenty-five feet County Physician Con-
verse will make an investigation.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08

ten secret ballots but the result was
always 4 to T.
A. j. Arata was appointed Tax Com
missioner in place of Benjamin Downing
who tailed to qualify. and the Board
adjourned.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08

The annual May festival, exhibition
and reception by Prof Cartier's Dancing
Academy at Bergen Hall tomorrow even
ing will be fitting ending OF a brilliant
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08
Cool, Northerly winds. wild. Frost.

WASHINGTON. May 5. 1890, Weather
indications for twenty-four hours, for
Eastern New York, New Jersey. and
Eastern Pennsylvania--Co Cooler, norther-
ly winds; fair, preceded by rain near the
coast; frosts in exposed places tonight
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08
TO REBUILD THE FACTORY.

The Singer Company Already Actively at
Work on the Ruins.
Special to the Jersey CITY Neics
ELIZABETH, May 5, 1890 A large force
of laborers began work this morning to
clear away the ruins Of the Singer Sew
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-08

VAS HoUErs's Cocoa, Best I Goes FaFthasl. Y
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-03-28

% the two canoes and the burning O.
the hnts, We returned doh y stream and
continued our journey 10 the north bank
mainland. passing the scene o. the con-
Migration, on which the RonkiA were
beginning 70 reassembic to see what
damage we had done.
| We padded all that day under burn
Ing sun until late in the afternoon. be-
fore we reached the mainland Of the
north shore. Camping for the night in
thick forest Glave shot couple Of
monkeys. which the men cooked for
their supper. and Bukunu baggcd :
horn-bill, which served Glaye and nv
self an evening meal.
We spent the two next days padding
through long succession Of narrow
channels 81 the great river. searching
for traces 81 elephant grounds-and all
though We landed az one or two spots
and had some hours OF hard tramping
through forest and swamp up 70 our
waists In water and mud, or scra,nblinr
over roots Of trees-wc could find no re-
cent tracks of either elephant or buf-
iaio. The natives Of village we came
to In our wandcrings. named Bakanga.
assured US that the buifaloes were 50
numerous in the woods around that they
were obliged % fence in their manioc
and banana plantations with logs and
felled trees 10 keep out these intrudcrs.
and following two OF the men. who Of
Tered 70 guide US 70 spot where We
should certainly find game. we spent
three hours in terribly hot crawl
through thick wood with dense UNDER
growth TO an open patch OF long grass
without coming across any thing worth
shooting Returning to the village. we
determined to remain there all night
and have try at the buffaloes in the
early morning, when the natives assured
US their manioc plantations would be
cverrun by them.
Mongessi. who laborcd under the de- |
fusion that he was great sports man.
had meanwhile primcd himself With a |
big gourd full Of palm wine. and he now
set OF with Glave's Express rifle in |
small canoe, padded by his unwilling |
wife, 70 shoot hippopotamus which
was playing about in the Congo opposite
.he village.
The canoe wobbled fearfully owing
TO Mongessi's wild attempts to stand up |,
right in it, and long ere the canoe
we promptly dispatched after him for
the recovery Of the rifle had been able
70 overtake them. he and his wife were
in the river; but the rife.
fortunately enough, was safe at the bot
tom Of the canoe. Mongessi returned
somewhat damped. and the poor wife
tonsoled herself for her ducking By
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-03-28

restored, would peep out to see IL the
coast was clear. or II there was any
likelihood OF recurrence OF that dread
ful sound. ere they again surrendered
themselves to their natural curiosity to
observe the strange white creatures
who had come to their village and re-
turned to their posts Of vantage on the
river bank. The men were nearly as
frightened as the women on first hear
ing the steam-whistle--and we found it
never-failing source Of amusement.
And then it was we learned the true
value OF a steam-whistle on board a
steamer. RoGER EASEMENT