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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-27
BALL AND BAT.
The Baseball Season Will
Open in This Vicinity
Tomorrow.
NEW JERSEY YACHT CLUB.
Many improvements Made-The
Athletic Carnlyai-Wheel-
fng Notes.
NEW JERSEY YACHT CLU]

The baseball season will open in this
The players have become so desperate
thas u light t IL OF rain will not deter
them. They have had Il surteit of wet
weather on Saturday. II it is Il decent
day for the pastime every field in this sec
ton will be occupied by ball players.
One of the contests that has aroused
unusual interest will be decided at West
Bergen. The rival tennis of that section
will meet-State Athletic Club and the
B .rgen B. b. G. 1t will be a spirited bat
lie from the start, as a bitter rivalry be-
tween the two exists, and the entire
population of West Bergen will be at the
ground to witness the struggle.
The young folk in West Bel gen will 90
to the Culyer avenue grounds where the
Bergen Juniors will meet the Bergen
Stars.
1t will be dead comparatively in Green
vile. The Y. M. G.. A. team is TO play at
Spring Valley and the Puritan A. G..
will journey to New York aud meet the
Pastime A. G.
On Monday the majority of the base
ball cams have engagements for the
morning and afternoon. The Lorillard
Clubs team will play two games at Oak
land Park. States and Aromas, Bergens
and Summers, at West Bergen in the If
ternoon; and Bergen Juniors and Cy-
clones, of Newark, at West Bergen in the
morning and with the Equitable. ut La
fayette, in the afternoon. Titans, in their
new uniform Of black aud white trim
nings, will go to Brooklyn and meet the
Wyandottes, and the Y. M. C. will go to
Spring Valley and play TWO games.
The State Athletic Club will visit South
Orange on Sunday afternoon and cross
bats with the 1ropsides, of Newark, u
strong semi-professiopnl team. The glme
will be played at the Shooting Park.
The Aromas will be represented by a
splendid team. The club mas q neat uni
n competent manager in II. II. Hirsch-
biel, No. 543 C~onlmupipaw avenue. The
club will play all its home ame at Aro-
ma PARK, Ocean aud Ciareinont avenues.
1t has II few open dates, aDd the manager
would lie pleased to hear from frst-class
clubs without engagements for August G
and Z and September 3. The schedule
DrranFrd TO date is ~apreDded:-
May 80, p m.-State A. G. at West Bergen.
June 4-Beecher, Schenck & Co. at Aroma
Park.
June ~1l-ruritan A. G.. at Aroma Park.
June 1S-Bergen b. b. q. at Aroma Park.
June a5- Sumner B. B.. c at Aroma Park.
, July 2-Lorilllid A. c.. at Oakland Park.
July 4, p. m.-Bergen B. B. Z. at West
Eergen.
July 9-Greenville Y. NJ. G. A. at Green.
vile.
July i6-Exceliior of Arlington at Aroma
Park.
July 23-State A. C. at Aroma Park.
July 30-Puritan A. G.. at Greenville.
August G-Open.
August i3-Greenville Y. NJ. c. A. at Aroma
Park.
August 2O-Excelsiors of Arlington at Ar
lingttn.
August 27-Open.
Sept. 3-Open.
Sept. 5-Bergens at Aroma Park.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-27
Notice to Contractors.

CEALED PROPOSALS Will BE RECEIVED
= at the ofico of the Board OF Street and Water
Commissioners on Monday, June Is, 1Ja2. at 10
nue. from the northerlY curb OF Congress street to
q point about 100 feet northe rly therefrom in ac-
cordance With specifications on file In the office Of
the CuieI Engineer. corner OF Jersey avenue anu
Mercer street, where blank forms Of BID and
agreement OF surelies must be OBJ ain ed.
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES.
About 90 cubic yards of earth excavation.
About 2Uu cubic y ard s of rock excavation.
About rs cubic yards OF sand or gravel filling.
About 40l square va DIS Of stone paving.
About $50 llnoal feet of now curb stone.
Auout Is square feet of new bridge stone
About 1.5Ut square feet OF new tagging.
About % square Yards OF repaving:
About 70 lin cal feet OF reset curb stone.
About 50 square feet OF relaid tagging,
About 20 lineal feet of cribbing,
manhole head 10 be brought tograde.
Time allowed for the completion of the work,
sixty (60l working days.
The making Of the above improvement and
the remonstrance OF the ners OF the properly
liable TO more than one half the assessment there
for. b
Proposals must be enclosed In sealed envelopes.
endor- ed, proposals for Improvement OF ogden
Avenue" directed to =. !. pugaa. ESQ, Chairman
and handed TO the Clerk of the Hoard in open
meeting when called for in the order OF business
relating to sealed proposals.
The attention OF bidders is esp cially called to
Section Z, Chapter 1874. Laws of lsbl, under the
terms whereof NO contract shall bs binding upon
bondsinen offored by the contractor have been APP
proved as TO efficiency BY this Hoard. and "a to
form by the Corporation Counsel. the PRESIDENT OF
this Board having power to examine the proposed
bond smou under oath.
BY order of the Board Of street and Water Com
missioners- ~
Dated, Jersey City, May a, 1892.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-27

The Jersey City Athletic CLUBS wheel
men will have u run to Passaic tomorrow
afternoon. They will leave the club
house at three O'Clock.
The Hudson County Wheelmen will
have n run on Sunday.
Charley Kluge's unfortunate accident
will prevent him from taking part in the
twenty-five mile road run on Monday.
He had been training to break the
record.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-27
NOTICE

TO HENRY T.. LILLIENDAHL. HERMAN
L Bencke, Harshaw Scott and the Mayor and
Aldermen of Jersey City
Railroad Company has made application in
writing by petition to the Honorable George T.
Werts, one OF the Justices of the supreme Court
Of the State of New Jersey, for the appointment
Of three disinterested, impartial and tudicious
freeholders, resident In the County of Hudson.
as Commissioners TO examine and appraise
the value of a certain tract OF land,
a description of which IS hereto annexed,
owned by you and in which you are interested,
and necessary and required to lie taken by said
company for its proposed railroad and to deter
mine aud assess the compensation for and the
damages to- be sustained in consequence Of
such taking and whatever said Commissioners
are by law authorized or required to assess and
that the said Justice has assigned Saturday the
twenty-eighth day of May, eighteen hundred
and ninety,two, at eleven O'clock In the fore
change place, Jersey City, when and where he
will proceed 10 hear the said application and
ten days notice of the time and place assigned
to be given to you.
BY order of said Justice.
THE VEST SIDE CONNECTING RAIL
BY WALLIS. EDWARDS & BunsrrD,
Their Attorneys.
A particular description of the lands required
by the West Side Connecting Railroad Company
above referred. \
q StAtOJt AAo oo y @>h@ @<@@
hundI ed and one GOD, one hundred and three
(103), one hundred and five Q05), one hundred
and seven GOD, and one hundred and nine GOD,
In block % on o certain map on file in Hudson
County Registers office entitled. MAP OF
property belonging to Thomas j. Jones situated
In Grsenyllle, Hudson County, New Jersey.
January, 1870" comprised within the filed right
of way of tho West Side, Connecting Railroad as
filed In the office Of the Secretary of State at
Trenton, New Jersey, together with certain
lands included within said right Of way lying
within the proposed avenue called Danforth
avenue on said map, which parts Of lots may be
more particularly described as ~follows:-
Commencing at O point In the centre line OF
Danforth avenue, IL extended. In the continue
ton of the division line between lots one huR-
dred and nine t109) and one hundred and eleven
0lD In Block one % on said Jones' map;
thence running northwesterly at right angles
to D~anforth avenue. extended, one hundred and
three and ~tifty-ive ene-hundredths (103 so feet
to the southeasterly line Of the right of way of
said railroad; thence south fifteen degrees sixteen
minutes(l5 deg. l6 min } west along said line one
hundred and sixty-one aud sixty-one one-hun-
dredths (l6l SD feet TO the centre line of Dan
forth avenue, extended; thence northwest erly
along said centre line of Danforth avenue, IL
extended, one hundred and twenty-four and nine
one, hundredths Cl24. 90 feet to the place of be-
ginning.
Containing six thousand four hundred and
twenty-five (6425) square feet or one hundred
and forty-eight one-lhousandths of an acre.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-27
HO! For Niagara Falls.

Tie West Shore Railroad will sell special ex-
cursion tickets to Niagara Falls and Buffalo, on
Saturday, May IS, good going Oh special train
leaving New York at 5 p. NJ, good for return
passage Oh or before May 81, 1892, at the low rate
OF S. for the round trip.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-27

The team of the Lorillard A. G. will
play its first game at home this season ut
Oakland Park tomorrow. Its rivals will
lie The team of the College of the City of
New York.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-27

ia hereby returned without signature. the
helper and laborers designated were APP
pointed by committee. An appointment
by committee is not an official act OF the
Board. ! refer you to the case OF Lewis
VS.. Jersey City, % Vroom (5l N: j. Law
Reports) page 243; where the employment
of one Mclaughlin was passed upon,
Mclaughlin claiming that he was q gen
eral workman at the Belleviile wafer
Works and that he was employed oy the
Board of Works of Jersey CITY. Inc
Court In its opinion says:
"The relator (menning McLauRhlfnl
was not employed by any official act or
the Board: he was put to work, by the
chairman of the Board. The only oinclai
evidence of his employmentis the appear
apce OF his name on the pay TOLLS Inc
appointment by committee Is no more an
official act than the appointment py the
chairman of the Board unless the Board
acquiesces by resolution. In the case be.
fore the Supreme Court as In the case OF
the men named in this resolution, the
only official evidence OF the employment
is the appearance OF the name Oh the pay
roll. This ia not an official act that cures
the lack of a former proper official act
making the employment in the nrst In
stance the of1icial act OF your Board,
Very truly.
PETER f. WANsER.
Mayor.
Received and laid over for one week
under the rules aud the subject matter
therein contained was ordered to be eX-
nmined into by the Committee on Streets,
Sewers and Lighting.
From the same officer:
In matter of condition of special street
account.
Received and ordered filed.
From William Heller, Water Assessor:
Submitting annual report.
Received and ordered filed from the
Board OF Police Commissioners:
Requesting permission to erect a re-
viewing stand.
Received and referred to the Commit
tee on Streets. Sewers and Lighting with
power.
REPORTS OF THE CHIEF ENGINEER.
The Chief Engineer reported certificates
in favor OF:
tract No. $50.
q Michael Curley. $l37. 30. retained per-
centage on contract No. 627.
Henry Byrne, 81, S65. 20, on account Of
contract No. 634,
Received and referred to the Commit
tee on Streets, Sewers and Lighting.
PRESENTATION OF CLAIMS.
The following claims were presented:
James Tumulty, s120; N. j.. Staats
ZeitunR. S154. 20. $5S. so, $47.4 40, $40. 80, $l5.0s;
Evening journal Association. SAG. 10.
SSS IS, 1872. 80. $24. 20, $3.50, SIS, 10; z. IT..
Is Ter, s1l0. ~; National Meter Co., 1899;
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-27
YACHT CLUB
viii Have It's Opening Sail on Dec

Will Have It's Opening Sail on Decord-
ton Day--rhe improvements.
The New Jersey Yacht Club is the
veteran organization of the State aud is
now one of the most prosperous. The
club has made many improvements to
the house. Nerandas have been built
and an annex added and water has been
introduced in II sufficient quantity to ac-
commodate the steam launches. The
club Will have its opening next Monday
and the members are active in getting
their boats in shape. Commodore Ort-
leib's cabin cat Henry Gray. the flagship,
IS overheard after II thorough overhaul
ing. She has been reftted IN mahogany.
The sloop Charon, Vice Commodore
Ketcham. has been rebuilt. She will be
in commission in q few days. The Vixen.
Captain Louis Wunder, had n trial trip
Oh Monday and did SO we'll that no
further changes will be made. She met
with IL mishap. but suffered no damage.
Captain J.. e. Drew's cabin sloop Lottie
Is ready for the trial trip on Saturday.
Captain Feely recently purchased the
Cora, n thirty-two foot cabin s!oop, and
expects she will be IA hummer. He has
nut a coat OF paint on her, and she looks
like o smart boat. Captain Il. c.. Greten
has a new boat, a twenty footer. which
he has christened the Emma A..
S0e was pullL " / VI
Bayonne. Captain Greten is enthusi-
astic and in'ends entering her
in MANY races. The Nymph is a new boat
in the fleet. She is the properly OF Messrs.
McArdle and Syder. and Is % feet over
all. Other additions to the squadron are
Captain BuckholtZ's cabin sloop Galaxy,
Captain Auderson's Shamrock and Cap
tain Wenzel's Wanderer. Captain Dieter
ing has put a cabin in his open sloop
Bertha, and the cabin cat Vivid has been
uttered to a sloop. The Eagle Wing, ex-
Commodore Scott's spry boat, is being re-
built aud will not he IN commission for Il
fortnight. The finishing touches are be-
ing pnt on Captain Sherman's Reliance,
captain Helger's Can't Tell. and Captain
S%alter's Eddie.
Winner Will Wear Diamonds.
Miss Maggie Bradley, who claims the
title of champion oarswoman Of Hudson
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-27

Monday, The course will be from the
foot of Fifty-ffth street, South Brooklyn,
around Fort Lafayette and return. to
point.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-27

The Winner Will Wear Diamonds.
Miss Maggie Bradley, who claims the
title of champion of Hudson
county, will row against Miss Steward,
II Brooklyn, for u diamond ling next
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-27

Dated, Jersey City. May q. 1892.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-27

Dated Jersey city, May 27th. 1891.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-05-20
AUGUSTA LOCALS.
RlfteMEN
Who Will Compete for Place on the State
Team.

STATE or MAISK. /
GENERAL INSPECTOR % RfrLE Practice, Z
Ar9tsfA, May Is. ls:,e.
The following named officers and enlisted
men. having -igRifed their desire TO enter
the competition for places or the State
Team, VI. V. NJ. will report at the State
range, Augusta. on Thursday. May 2f'th AT
an hour as early as the arrival of trains will
permit. III fatigue uniform, provided with
blankets.
Targets will at once be assigned, and the
competition commenced,
Transportation is hereby enclosed, and
if not used, will be Immediately returned TO
Gen. Henry NJ. Sprague, Adj. General ".
V. NJ Augusta. Maine
+. G. FtgRIs5ToS, |. r. T.. NJ. V. NJ
Col 4. e. Harrington, 1t. Col. W. ;.
Cboate, First Regt; Maj. l.. S. Chiicott,
1t. Col. +. l.. lIoyt Second Regt; 1t. VIM.
Seterquest, Charles Baker, Go. \, First
Regt; Corp. ". W. Cookson, Co. b, First
Regt Capt T.. Fred B-bee W. S. Cox,
Co. E, First Reg't; 1t. J. \. Fairbanks,
Corp. Dana w. Lorejoy, Go. f. First
Regt; Serg. Benz. Goodier. VIM. F.
Cummings, +. J. Cram, Go. +, First
Regt; Capt. \. \. pomroy. Geo. En-
cry, f.. \. Robertson, Co. ~. Second
Regt; 1t. W. \. Paul, j. McMurray
+. NJ Smith, Go. b. Second Reg't; 1t.
{. ;. Belmore. Archie l.. Weston, W. b.
Brown, H. +. Reed, W. l.. Hall Co. f.,
Second Rcgt; Capt. w. f. Pollard, Co. +.
Second Reg't; +, b. Guptill, II. +. Wiley,
J. \. Wilson. T.. \. Guptill, Co. g., Second
Regt; Capt. A. r, Shurtleff Sergt :. NJ.
Morrill,, Go. H., Second Regt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-05-20
BY TELEGRAPH.
N HE HOUSE.
NJ q 0iaad's Silver Anealnests 10 Ssaay
Civil Biil Ruied Out.

WASHINGTON, MAY ia---in the House
the Third Party received recognition this
nernlng- Watson Of Georgia went 10 the
clerks dess and had read resolution
That the committee on WAYS ami means
be requested TO rupert the sab-treasury
bill He asked unanimous consent for the
consideration, hat Beltzhoosers deiaana for
'1Eegular ORDER operated as All objection.
Several other members asked for unanimous
consent to call up measures, and Beitx-
hoover expressed willingness to withdraw
the demand for the regular order 10 en-
able them 10 be- recognized.
The Speaker stated that if the gentleman
Withdrew the demand, he would recognize
the gentleman from Georgia Watson. on
this statement Beltzhooyer insisted on his
demand, and after Il fraiflcss cali of the
committees the House went INTO committee
OF the whole on the sunlry civil bib, the
Chair delivering decision ON the point Of
order MAKE against the amendment offend
hs Bland, Yesterday for the coinage of ali
silver bullion purchased and now in the
treasury. into standard silver dollars, the
cost of the coinage ta be pahi out of the
selgHlorage. OF gain 10 the government. the
remainder of the seigniorage 20 be covered
into the treasury.
II was conceded said the Chair, that the
amendment changed the existing law, there
fore il would not be in order. unless. being
serplane, il reduced the amount covered by
the bill The clause in the bill related TO
the recoiuage of abratled minor coins; the
amendment 10 cottage of the standard sill
yer dollar. The Chair was unable to see
how the amendment was gcrrnane TO the
subject matter of the clause. The mere
fact that it struck from the bill an appropri-
alton of sl0u0DO for the recoinaee of
minor coins did not reduce the amounts.
because it appropriated the seigniorage
y hich might amount TO - 900 900. 1t did
not reduce the amounts covered by the bill,
and might increase the expenditures. He
sustained the point of order and ruled out
the amendment.
Bland then re-ofered his amendment
with the pruyiSa< that the cost of this free
coinage shall not exceed sal 400, 5000 of
which shall be for the coinage of suhsi,l-
iary silver and $4,000 for the standard
silver dollars
Bland said he attached the proviso to the
amendment To remove the objection of the
Chair that it did not reduce the amounts
covered by the bill. His proposition now
nanifestly reduces the appropriations and
was not obnoxious to the rule to which the
Chair referred. He contendee that the fur
ther opinion of the Chair to the contrary
Notwithstanding. it was distinctly germanc
to the subject matter of the clause.
Dingley of Maine said the Chair had al
ready passed upon the gcrmaneness of the
amendment He would not argue that
question, but did argue that the amendment
in its present form did not reduce expenses
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-05-20
NE US NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from North. East, West
and South.

c. F. Appleton, 23s Washington street.
Boston, has gone into Insolvency Liza
bilitie,, $50 900; assets, stock, fixture.
and accounts.
Judge Blodgett of the United States dis
trict court has been appointed assistant
United States counsel in the Behring sea
arbitration and will resign his present office.
Thursday morning at Manchester. Tenn,
Charles Everett, colored, the Iullahomi
murderer, was found i'll a barn. lie was
carried 10 a railroad bridge just above town
and hanged
In the quo warranto case at New Haven
Conn, Thursday, witnesses from Sharon
and Cornwall gayftcStimony. leaving only
Norfolk and Avon to he heard from. Court
adjourned until Monday morning. when the
defense will begin.
The creditors of James e.. Cox \ Co..
shoe manufacturers. Lynn, met at Boston
Thursday. Liabilities are stated 10 be
SIS 900; assets, 81 800. The creditors re
jected an offer of - per cent, and it was
voted that the firm he put into insolvency.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-05-20

The new fire companies were given their
first test yesterday. Feelings of rivalry be-
tween the Ilallowell steamer bows and the
members of the Tiger Engine Company
have been waxing strong and it was decided
to settle the matter, and yesterday match
was arranged. The steamer and the Tiger
were to start from the corner of Winthrop
aud Water streets and run south. The
Tiger vas to turn to the river along the
roadway north of the Eastern Company's
ice houses. distance of nearly 1000
feet 10 the water, AMI the steamer
was tn turn in south of the houses
making Il run of nearly half u mile. The
city team pulled the steamer and s6 of the
Tiger boys ran with their hand tub. The
test was to see which company would have
water first. At & 80 p 2. NJ. the word
was given and the contestants came down
Water street on the dead run The steamer
was first in position hut the Tiger was by
over minute the first al work The latter
pumped out air through the nozzle at a
great rate but the water came not, What
was the trouble; At Is IS 80 L.
NJ water poured out of the steamers
hose winning for her company Il box of
cigars The time. 6 minutes AMI seconds
from the word 70 AMI cold water in the
boiler when the word WAS giyen, is good
record. At AS 90 the Tiger threw 4 small
stream and then stopped again. The trouble
in the first place was that her gates were
no, opened aud in the second place her
packing had all dried up. After half an
hours practically vain work her crew gave
in. They had the satisfaction of knowing
however, that they had made good run
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-05-20
A POSSIBLE CHINESE EXODUS.
MEXICO Apparently Willing to Receive the
MoHsois Of the United States.

CRY OF MExi.o, May l9.-Chins Wun
and hong Foo. the former wealthy Chinii-
Hian of San Francisco and the latter of st.
Lnais have been here for the last ten days,
astl have had two audiences with President
Diaz.
The object of their visit is to secure IA
colonizatioa in the State of Tamaulipa.,
for the purpose of removing almost the ell
tire number OF their eountrymen who noN
reside in the United States.
They claim 10 represent "A society OF
Chinese in the United States numbering
several thousand all of whom are pledged
10 leave that country on account of the tx
elusion act and 10 seek new homes IN
Mexico
The Mexican government favors the in-
migration of Chinese. and there is little
doubt Of the desired concessions being Sc
cured