The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-08
CIRCUS AND FUNERAL.
A Small Boy Guys the "Majah' at
Woods Hall-Bergen Hall
FiascO.

A Wanser ''raIly" was held at Woods
Hall last night. The hall was well filled.
but the most bitter partisan could not say
that there was such a crowd or so much
enthusiasm as at the McDermott meeting
In the same hall a few nights before.
Most of the occupants of the hall were
attracted by the playing of a band. which,
by the way, was simply %atrocious, and
some fire works.
order. and after Frank o. Cole had bored
the audience for a time DR.. P%angborn
was introduced. The Doctor looked posi-
lively pretty. His gray lilacs were neatly
trimmed. allowing no room for the wind
to whistle, and the few hairs on his head
were tenderlv cared for. He wore a suit of
black and an immaculate white shirt and
tie. Just before Dr.. Pangborn COM
menced to talk several young men and II
small boy crowded into the northeast cor
ner Of the gallery. The small boy was
worse than any edition of "Peck's." and
during the course of the evening he
caused the speakers many a blush. AS
soon as Dr.. Pangborn began to
speak he accused him of having
a wniskey tenor voice. The audience
smiled and the Doctor was visiblv ratified
dlo AAAS DC - eH - ~ VaS o0o
sided for O time. The Doctors speech
was rather queer. He had a great habit
of stumbling over q lot of statistics which
completely bewildered his audience.
aud then winding up with an air
of smartness which was a signal for
FIavel MCGEE to look wise and pleased.
clap his hands while his example would
be followed by a red faced man in the
front row and several other heelers.
After DR.. Pangborn sat down the red
faced man left the hall and Flavel Nc
Gee looked displeased as with him went
the enthusiasm of the meeting.
j. ID. Miller, whom the Chairman intro
duced as q Democrat who was going to
vote for Wanser, was next introduced.
Mr.. Miller is a young man prematufely
bald, aud spoke in a cold. harsh voice,
II when he attempted to be funny he
was very funny indeed.
When the audience began wondering
what would come next, the execraDle
band played, and Wanser, followed by
that decentralization OF ignorance and
brutality, Graham, entered the hail. The
red faced mai crept up the side aisle and
there was considerable hand clapping.
Then Henry G. Gruber was introduced.
He proved to be the clown of the circus.
MIR. Gruber ~paralyzsd the audience by
starting off something like this:-"A
policeman gave me some Information
when I entered this hail, but l ain't to be
blnffed, see; l know I'm right dis dime,
and dat goes. see." Chairman MCGEE
looked bothered and the audience was
more than bothered.
Then Gruber went on something like
this:-" Dey say Allan McDermott is &
union man. May be he is. He has q
union card. / am the only labor repre-
| sentative in de county, see. l was asked
to preside at a McDermott meeting, see.'
Mr.. Gruber was using the first personal
pronoun so recklessly and lavishly thai
the small boy in the gallery yelled ont
dat fellows dead stuck on himself"
Graham bristled his thick neck an6
made a threatening move toward the
small boy.
"Dere is dis man O'Brien." went oil
Gruber, "who saws he is a labor man, HI
belongs to New York and came over here
LOOKING for de dough-"
Gru0er was disconnected beyond meas
ure when the small bov in a piping voice
asked him if be wasn't out for the dough
himself. Finally Gruber got a nod from
| MCGEE and sat down.
Farmer Wanser was introduced. and thu
red faced man had another aud NOR,
serious fit. Mr.. Wanser EN- barrassed hi
hearers for about five minutes. and thei
Flavel MCGEE realizing that something
must be done 10 Keep The crowd Iron