The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-07
AWAY TO TRENTON.
Jersey City Committee on
Woman's Work Starts
It's Papers for the
Chicago Fair.
FINAL REPORTS APPROVED.
Last Meeting Adjourned Yesterday
at the Home of Miss Marie
L. Manners.

The final meeting OF the Jersey CITY
Commission in the interest of woman's
work at the Chicago Fair was held yes
terday afternoon ct the residencs OF Miss
Manners. No. 2S7 Barrow street. Every
member was either present in person or
represented by report. Mrs. Abram q.
Garretson was in the chair and Miss
Marie L. Manners acted as clerk.
Only the top of Miss Manners head
was visible over the pile of papers that
covered her table; papers rolled and
folded, tied with ribbons or held together
with rubber bands; some looking like
graduating essays, others like trial-bal-
ances-all mingled in Que grand heap OF
statistics. The sight was enough to
make the committee agree to dispense
with the reading of the reports, and let
them go to Trenton as they are, there to
be compiled and typewritten.
OUR MANY CHARITIES.
The President opened the general dis
cussion by calling on Mrs. Spencer Weart
for statement of any facts of general in
terest gathered during her investigation
of charitable organizations. Mrs. Weart
replied that her report Was as yet 1ncom.
plete, as the exact number or missionary
societies was hard to find, yet she had
discovered many charitable societies not
connected with any church, such as the
Needlework Guild, and kindred organf-
cations. and the numerous orders. such as
the Pythian SiSterhood. Lady FOrester5
and Daughters of Rebekah, which. while
largely benefit orders, dispensed practical
charity TO members whenever needed.
The Ladies of the q. A. r., which has
large following here, comes under this
head Mrs, Weart's report is one of the
most difficult to collect and interesting to
hear.
The President called upon,M Miss George
Welch to read the life OF Mrs. Erminnie
A. Smith, which she has written for the
exhibit 1t was another tribute to the
wonderful work OF q wonderful woman
the facts the same as were recently pub
lshed in The JERSEY CITY NEWS. 1t was
pathetic to hear now the woman that two
continents owned the most universally
learned of ner sex and time, sighed as
almost her last words, "Oh, if could
only put OF paper all l knowW In her
last illness one of her nurses was
plodding through. Schiller with The help
of dictionary, when Mrs. Smith looked
up at her and said, IF | could ouly leave
you all my Gernanl It's SO hard for you,
and so easy for newly CAN'T give it to
you?'' She died at the age of forty-seven.
her work half finished, her longing for
knowledge unabated.
HOUSE CLEANEE.S NOT TABULATED.
\. Subsequent reports showed that the
census of house cleaners, members copy
holders, proof readers and bnttonhoIe
makers would be lacking as fur Jersey
City goes. There was not time for
house to house canvass i'll search Of
women who mend clothes, make button
holes and clean house, and that is the
Only way to find out.
Weeks ago Mrs. G. z. Black, Commit
tee on Inventions of Women, sent To the
Commissioner of Patents at our National
Capitol for the documents necessary. The
application lett this city safely. fell into a
snare of red tape and became so wound
up aud eutangled that it hasn't been able
to get back. AT least tnat Is the most
probable way OF accounting for it. Mrs.
Black hopes to receive the documents
from friend returning from the in
augural ceremonies.
The Commissioners who inserted the
question about the number of women in
charge of farms may set their minds at
rest as far as this locality Is concerned.
There are none. There used to be an old
Irishwoman who cultivated large one
and made it,pay, but the real estate boom
passed in that direction aud left her
demesne cut up into house lots. But IL
there be no woman farmer, there are
women undertakers and woman house.
year or so ago, when she relinquished
active control Of the business to her
soas.
REQUESTS OF WOMEN.
Mrs. W. F. Watson's report on be-
quests of women TO charitable institu-
tions, etc., covered many pages and
proved of great value. The Old Ladies'
Home appears to have had the grentest
number of bequests. although Christ
Hospital presses it hard. Mrs. Garretson
added that since the report had been
made out the Hospital had received s., 900
from an unknown donor.
When Mrs. Bowen's report on literary
work was unrolied, it stretched half way
across the room. written, as it was, on
one large sheet of paper, like an Egyptian
scroll. 1t gave the list of books and au-
thors, published several weeks ago in
The JERSEY CITY NEWS. from Mrs.
Yardley's data. Mrs. Samuel Allison re-
ported that designers and decorators were
few and far between in Jersey City, and
what there were carried on their WORK
principally In New York, where she
hoped to find their home address,. Later
in the afternoon Mrs. Allison brought in
several pairs of gloves, made by the frs t
woman that ever went to Utah, from
Toms River, N. j., in 1857. AS they
could buy no gloves in the wilderness,
they used their worn out ones for pat
terms and cut new from white buckskin,
tanned by the men, beautifully sewed
and embroidered in colors. They have
gauntlet wrists and spra Us OF y1olets up
the back. The Utah women sent them
home to their New Jersey friends as the
only presents they were able to make.
MORE RELICS.
Mrs. W. W. Varick and Miss Dora
Smith presented the report of the Com
mittee on Colonial aud Revolutionary
relics, the main features of which have
be en- published from time to time In The
JERSEY CITY NEws. The list given by
Miss NJ. L. Edge is of great local value.
as it includes picture of Israel Edge's
windmill, that stood when Grand street
was as it is pictured, "a green country
lane bordered with willow trees,' one
part now especially unpleasant being
then a pretty suburb under the name of
Straw berry Hill. There is also map of
the city at that time. IL does seem as II
something must have moved, sometime,
in Jersey City, when one reflects that the
town ended at Warren street, Hudson
was a separate settlement, and where
Lafayette begins, there was an extensive
African cemetery.
In those days, when it showed, the
neigh oors hitched up their teams and
,paraded through the rosds in long line,
breaking way. Now they wait for the
officials TO do it, and the streets show
that they do. The list of documents in
the possession of the Van Worst family
includes several bearing the name of the
only Co." and besides, there are many
pieces of furniture and Smaller wares, In
Guiding "a large bowl In which the Van
That cure of Geo, w. Turner Of Galway, N.
one of the most remarkable on record.