The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-20
EGAN LEADS OFF,
Sixty-one Votes the First
Tally for the Popular
Detective.
WILL HE co TO CHICAGO?
Not If a Dozen Other Promi-
nent Police Officers Can
Stop Him.
WILL HE co 70 CHICAGO?
The Great ''Fair' Ticket contes
Opened Some Of the Men
Who Will Be in 1t.


first day of THE NEWS popular polio,
contest for the round triD'ticket to tn Q
Worlds Fair with batch of sixty-one
votes, that number of coupons bearing
Eagan's name having reached the Office
of THE NEWS this morning.
The rarest article in Jersey City last
night was copy of The JERSEY CITY
NEWS without hole nepr he top of the
first page. In the homes, in thu stores,
the saloons, III al! places of business ,
wherever copy OF THE NEWS was seen
a slip about four inch by Two had been
clipped from it. The slips were coupons
or ballots to be used in the great contest
to decide VINO is the most popu lar mem
ber of the Jersey City Police Depart
ment. The winner will be p res ented ~
The JERSEY CITY NEWS with a round
trip ticket 10 the Worlds Fair. Darticu-
lars of the presen tatiun of which Will be
found in au adjoining column. The first
of these coupons were published yester-
day. As soon as they made their
were eagerly sought Tor. not
only bv policemen who are working for
some particular favor1te, but by every
body who has a friend III The department
whom they would ike, 10 ASSIST III Will
ming such popular victory.
There is not a man in the department
who would not delight in achieving such
an honor, and there are few in the de-
partment who have not ~ host Of friends
who will gladly assist them in such a
contest.
The coupons will be published daily I'D
to July %. Every coupon counts one vote
ard every copy CT The NEWS contains a
coupon.
SPIRITED CONTEST.
The contest mas already become very
spirited and the relative merits " varl-
GUS policemen whose popularity Is al
ready wides pread has been the subject of
conversation in police circles ever since
connection with such contest.
Vacation season is now on.
and some deserving policsnlan whose
life is ALWAYS in dauger when on duty
protecting the property OF others. Will 60
to the great show, his pleasure mater
tally heightened by the consciousness OF
duty well performed and appreciated by
those who voted him the MosJ faithIui
and popular policeman Of tue department.
in his native city.
Who will 1t be2
1t is not the purpose of THE NEWS to
land any particular tavorite. From tlfiie
10 time 1t will mention a few whose good
traits are commonly spoken OF, as reflect
ing the opinion OF thoss wac are wa tch-
ing the contest. Already it begins to
loOk as though the fight would De waged
| between the various precincts.
The gentlemanly department of
Roundsman Hopkins of the First pre-
cinct has been subject of comment ever
since he joined the department.. But the
roundsmau says he is not in the race.
Hopkins is modest. Watch him. men.
He's like Brer Rabbit. "He lay low."
He knows he's regarded as one of the
finest OF 1.-The Finest" especially by the
respectable residents in the vicinity of
the new City Hall site. And some of
these fine hot mornings. while some
..cop" is tossing big bundle of coupons
around the First precinct Station house
TO excite the envy or his unrecuperated
comrades, Hopkins will astonish their
gaze by momeutarily decorating the ser
geant's desk with bundle of coupons as
big as football.
ALL HUsTLING FOR IT.
\ Sergeant Kelly is another OF few words.
bat his friends are legion. There are
some desposed to think that young Pat
rolman Nugent, perhaps the nattiest and
best dressed man of the force when off
duty. will poll tremendous il not the
hignest vote, He is popular not only
among the business men down in Ex-
change place. but his friends alleys that he
has more friends" among the shop girls
and sales women VINO daily Cross anu
recross the ferries than any policeman
who ever patrolled Exchange place. His
handsome partner. Frank McMann of
wonderful athletic build, however, is not
at all euvious OF Nugent's popularity.
Braumwald and Devlin havs d host OF
friends among the merchants OF lower
Montgomery street.
'Pm going to fight for that ticket"
said Patrolman Dawson, the patrol
| wagon driver Of the First precinct.
Dawson has charge OF "Ben." the wnite
patrol w agon horse, who is the pride, not
| only of the department. wnen OH parade,
but of every man. woman and child in
Jersey City, "Ben's" FRIENDS Will give
Dawson great lift.
But added Dawson, half regretfully,
II suppose some of those Lobg Dock fell
| lows over in the Second will get it.. You
see they're great hustlers. Now. was
born and raised right here in this reign-
borhood; right down there In that old
| house that used TO be used rs q powder
magazine during the Revolution. I've al
WAS done my DUTY, and l ani As much en-
titled to that tickeG as any one else in the
| fight"
'sBut, suppose Prison Keeper A lex
| Watson makes a fgntr'
''Well, hope he won't. That's all. "
| The contest over in tile Second pre-
cinct thus far has been quietly con-
| Quoted.
| Ii Sergeant Battersby enters the race
| for fair. aud his seductive smile is as ef.
| fective in drawing coupons from his
| friends as 1t has been. he will capture the
prize.
There is not throughout the entire
| department an officer more personally
popular tnan Ruundsman Flame lly
''Shon" Murphy anu "Con Noonan'' viii
| give Vocalist Sullivan hard tussle. Bnt
| they've put Sullivan way over In TWEEN
| tieth street to guard the cisy's interests
J against the entertainments Of the ID. l.
! & w. Railroad Company at Jersey
1 avenue The Citizens Street Improve
| ment Association. however, will look
after heir Interests as well AS those of
Patrolman McGark.
WOMEN ON THEIR SIDE.
The maids and the mothers OF the
blessed babies that infest Hamilton Park
these hot summer days Will all vie with
each other in heaping up Iile OF The
NEWS Chicago trip coupons for PATROL
man Martin Hare and "Shon" Murphy,
whose duty it is to see that the little ones
are protected from the toughs and buns
VINO would mnnopolize the park were it
not for The police.
Sergeant Barney Wade. OF. the Sixth
Precinct, Is popular. Barney is lugrAtia-
ting himself into the good Rraces Of his
constituents in view Of The NEWS list oI