The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
CONFLICT OF DATES
Two Distinct Entertain
ments Last Night in St
Johns Free Church.
CONGREGATION TOOK SIDES.
Old Folks Listened to the Music
Young People Admired
the Athletes.

The Sunday school choir of girls and the
Junior boy choir of st. Johns, Free Church
last night gave a musical reception to the
congregation, at least they invited the con-
gregation, small fraction of which was
present The programme was an excellent
one and well carried out 1t was as fol-
lows:-''Ave Verum," by Mozart, girls;
piano solo, Florence Hutchinson; SIN Man
nus Tuas," boys; piano solo, Josie Smith;
vocal duett, Lillian Benson and Laura Bass;
banjo and vocal selections, Mr.. Joseph Tay-
lor; solo, Mary Benson; christmas Bells"
by Anna Burger and a chorus of girls;
piano duett, Ethel Adams and Prof. Boys;
solo. Dreaming as She Sleeps" Lulu Jor-
dan; chorus by boys and girls, 80 Zion Blest
City" The boys are trained by Mr.. Stod-
dard and the girls by Mrs. Stoddard. Mr..
Stoddard acted as musical. director and Mrs.
Stoddard as accompanist. The audience
was composed mostly of the parents of the
children who took part In the performance.
THE ATHLETES.
The athletic department of st. Johns
Chapter of the Iron Cross last night gave u
gymnastic exhibition to their friends, in the
gymnasium. There were not many people
present to see them but they did extremely
well never thelesS. The bows were assisted in
their performance by three members of the
j. G. A. c., Messrs. VIM. Suter, G. Bowley
and Jos. A. Dear, Jr. The members of the
class are Weiting, Robt- Green, Seeley Hig-
gins, Haskin, Stanaway, Voorhis and Neale
Ransom. When the performance had con-
cluded Voorhis made neat speech and pre-
sented Mr.. Mattocks, their instructor, with
silver watch charm sin token" he said, s.of
the high appreciation of the Iron Gross for
him u
Mr.. Mattocks said: ''Boys, highly appre-
ciate this compliment to me. 1t was entirely
unexpected. All l can say is that shall de
my best to make athletes of you. All ask
OF you is that you attend the class regularly
and give me your attention while there"
A LITTLE ROW.
1t must have cost Mr.. Mattocks struggle
to make that little speech, as it was only the
night before that he had talked of dropping
the class entirely. In the past few weeks he
has had a great deal to complain Of and
although it is not generally known, the
whole gymnasium class are very much in
censed over the actions of Mr.. Stoddard to-
ward them. They spent some time in..prepar-
ing for their exhibition; the date was ar
ranged long ago, and Mr. Mattocks invited
some of his friends of the J. G. A. c. 10 as
sist the boys by performing with them. He
told Mr. Stoddard two or three weeks ago
the date he had set, and thinking that set
tied the matter he told the boys to invite
their friends. After it had become talked
of all over that there would be an ex-
hibition on the Wednesday following
Christmas, Mr.. Stoddard informed the
boys that they could not give it that night
as Mrs. Stoddard had arranged for a Sun
day school festival. They were very indig-
nant over the matter, but not half as much
so as Mr.. Mattocks. He told Mr.. Stoddard
that he would have to give the exhibition on
the day set, or not at all, as he had invited
his friends and could not break faith with
-lz<Ls
to change the date, but he was obdurate and
would not listen to such a proposition. Mrs.
Stoddard would not change the date of the
festival, so Mr. Stoddard decided to have
both the same evening This made Mr.. Mat
tocks madder still, as he had spent great
pains in preparing the boys and wanted them
to appear before a good audience. he had,
however, Gained down somewhat over that
matter when another arose, which aroused
his ire.
MAD AT THE BIBLE CLASS
When the Bible class held their reception
in the gymnasium some weeks ago the
parallel bars were removed for the dancers.
These the proper authorities neglected to
have returned, and consequently the boys
could not drill on them. The instructor
spoke about the matter, and every instruc-
tion night looked for the return of them,
but they were not put up. Finally, when it
came to the last instruction night before the
had to hunt up the carpenter hirG-f and
help him put them in place. 1t then
that he threatened to end his e---.section
with the class.
In consequence of the audience being
split, there was slim attendance at each ef
the performances. All the young people of
the church attended the gymnasium, while
the older folks listened to the children sing.
The gymnastic exercises were late in be-
ginning, and consequently were later in
closing than the musical entertainment.
When the latter was over the audience
focked to the gymnasium.
''wE HAD THE DATE FIRST
Mrs. Stoddard when interviewed on the
matter said:-"We had the date for our Sun
day School entertainment set first, and any
way, they have no right to make arrange
ments for anything without first consulting
Mr.. Stoddard, because he might have all the
rooms engaged for the same night"
President Voorhis of the Iror. Cross feels
very bitter over the matter. He said:-'We
had our date arranged first and told Mr..
Stoddard of it before Mrs. Stoddard got up
her entertainment. 1t isn't right, no matter
how you put it. /"
Rev. Mr.. Forbes, the Assistant Pastor,
stayed with the boys the whole evening" Mr..
Stoddard saw no part of the exhibition, but
Mrs. Stoddard dropped in for few moments.
The joints and muscles are so lubricated by
Hoods Sarsaparllla that all rheumatism