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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17
PEANUT BILLS PROSECUTORS.

A Gang of CowardIy Young Roughs on
Ocean Avenue.
Captain Nugent of the Fifth precinct,
who is conducting a crusade against the
toughs and corner lcafers in the Green
Vile section, will acquire the gratitude
of the residents in his precinct if he will
make au effort to break up the gang of
hoodlums who congregate almost every
evening on Ocean venue IN the vicinit y
of Metropolitan Hall. The members of
the gang are not young men, but are old
enough to know better han assault tnno-
cent cripples as is their practice.
They never assault robust pedestrians
who happen to pass by their ''hang out.''
They are too cowardly to do anything of
that sort. Their chief delight IS to Sc
cure some old man who is weak or Grip
pied, or some one who is under the 10
iuence of liquor. When a victim of this
sort fails into their hands they either
tear the clothes from his back and beat
him or turn water IN him from a hose.
Within a few feet of their haunt, an
old man who is past fifty-1ve years old,
and a cripple, known as Peanut Bill,'
manages to exc out an existence by sell
ing peanuts and candy IN a small shauCy
which he has erected for that purpose.
To save expense he sleeps. wnen the gang
allows him to, In his small shop 4.
Dill, uOWSFers lIeQu6ubly LdhoS Il QEOp
too much, and When he is under the iu-
fluence he is sure to cenfe as near being
murdered as any mortal being ever did.
He is never demonstrative when In this
condition, but closes his hoo and lies
down TO sleep. This Is when the toughs
get in their fine work. They force open
the door OF the shanty, drag the poor
cripple out into the street, and subject
hiEl to all sorts of abuse. On Tues
day night last, while Bill was sleep
ing in his shop the gang lifted the roof
off the shanty and through the opening
thrust a hose. turned on the water aud
almost drowned the unfortunate occn-
pant. When Bill began to remontsra g,
they pulled HIM out and still further
abused him. When they had flushed
with him, they laconically told him TO GO
TO the police station for protection.
Such S Genes as these can be witnessed
almost a ny night in that vicinity.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17
R CLASS ROOM.

III an assembly room is needed a truss
roof with sufficient height above the sec
ond floor of the main building won Id
admit of the construction of an assembly
room there. The first and second floors,
as the diagram shows, would be cut into
class and clothes rooms.
LIGHT N AIR.
The plan provides for an abundance of
air and light for every room.
IL does away with the slidin Q
glass doors now In use. The rooms would
be separated by solid partitions, The
water closets would be in the basement.
The Easements would be cut into the
GROUND three feet aud the ceiling of the
basement would be tive feet above
ground
President Jones has submitted the plan
to men befs of the Street and Water
Board, and, without exception, they en-
dcrse it.
This plan is the fruit of several months
Of study and Investigation by President
Board of Education. President
Jones said today that he was
impressed with the sincerity and
practical common sense of the men,
bers of the Board of Education. He
thinks there has been altogether too
much of red tape about the investiga-
ton Of the repairs needed. The School
Board notified the Street and Water
Board early IN June of renal RS suggest
ed by the school principals and
urgently necessary. The Street an a
Water Board asked the Finance Board t O
provide for the repairs. The Finance
Board has At last got + iGfneer Ruggfes
and Building Inspector Macarthur invest
igating the school nouses. When Sep
TENDER II, the day for opening the
schools, comes some of the building will
have to remain closed il repairs are com-
pleted.
The School Board will meet next on
August 10.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17
Highest Of all in Lcavening Power-Latest u. S. Govt Report
Re-! B Bsxdsg
ABSOLUTELY Pure
DIED FROM S%UNSTR0KE.
No Ambulance to Take Ward to
the Hospital So ne Expires
in the Station House.

A peculiarly sad case OF fatal sunstroke
| occurred in Hoboken this morning. The
| accident brought forcibly to mind the
penny wise and pound foolish character
| of Mayor Fagan's method in regard to a
city ambulance.
John Ward YVES the victim of the sun
stroke. He was thirty-three years old, a
member Of Court Castle Point, A. o. E.
Of a., and the father OF five children. He
lived with his family at No. 225 Willow
avenue. For the past three wee ks be has
been in i'll health and DR.. Simon, the
City Physician visited him occasionally.
Yesterday be was feeling we IL and when
the sun came IN this morning and he
realized that today was to be hot he de-
termip ed TO visit Staten Island.
Shortly before ten O'Clock he lefG MS
home with his eight year old sol Willie.
He walked along Willow avenue to New
ark street. and reached the corner OF
Garden street. when he suddenly reeled
aud fell.
A crowd quickly gathered. and some
wanted to send for AN ambulance. But
there was no ambulance to De had. In Q
patrol wagon which had been doing the
the work of conveying prisoners TO snake
Hill. and also carrying HI anu Wouuuou
people to the hospital, was broken, and
despite the fact that h handsome new
patrol wagon lay idle in the uptown
police station, Mayor Fagsn would not
allow it TO be used, and hired an express
wagon at a large cost to the city:
While the stricken mat was lying on
the sidewalk someone ran into the police
station and told Sergeant Marnell of the
accident. Luckily there were half a
dozen patrolmen in the station house and
they were sent out with a stretcher.
They brought Ward TO the station house.
DR.. Simon looked at him and said his
case was hopeless. R~estorasives were OF
no avail and Ward died in ten minutes.
Shortly after his wife entered. and when
she saw the dead body of her husband in
the corridor, her grief was painful to
witness.
Councilman 1imken happened to be
present when the MAI expired.
This is an outrage said DR.. Simon,
addressing him. "In this kind OF weather
we should have an ambulance ready ut
a moments notice. Councilman Timken
10 a member of the Committee on Police
and Militia. Anothe: member of the
committee is Councilman Offerman.
They held a consultation and decided
that there was immediate necessity for
the ambulance, Notwithstanding the OBJ
i~ections of the Mayor. and they ordered
Van driver DAILY to take 1t out of the
stable. The ambulance is now in service.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17
THE BIG FAIRS FINANCES.


From the estimates which have been
given, it would seem t, be mora than
probable chat the stockholders OF the
Exposition and the city of Chicago, from
the simple standDoint of dollars and
cents, will be loser to the noun of six
or seven millions of dollars as a result OF
the Exposition direct. to which should
doubtless be added at least as much more
for losses and depreciation Of property in
the enterprises indirectly connected with
the exposition. IL is likewise probable
that, should the attendance at the Fair
be what is reasonably anticipated, an
equal amount OF money may be gained
by the citizen, although not by the same
people, as Il rule. who are the subscribers
to the stock. The gains will be largely
by the proprietors OF hotel s. boarding
houses, restaurants, saloons, newspapers
aud places of amusement, and by the
various people and corporations engaged
in the business of trausoortatIon.-
Franklin II. Head in July Forum.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17

IT is a pity Mayor Pagan insists
upon attaching himself to the
Davis kite. He is too good a mar to
be dragged down in the chaos that
will very soon be the end of the Hoo
doc Boss. his Bad Senator and all the
rest of his gang. Mayor Fagan's be-
setting sin is a virulence of personal
feeling which makes no allowances
for the weaknesses or even for the
rights of other people. He has done
some exceedingly good things for Ho-
boken, and the prospect is his term
as Mayor will be a brilliant one and
profitable to the city; but he goes too
far when he assumes that what he
thinks is abstract truth, what he wills
is absolute law, and what he con-
demns is a~nathema.
If His Honor would first come down
on the ground and then turn his back
on the boss who is making a catspaw
of him, he would be a very important
figure in Hudson County politics.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17
SECRET ORDERS.
OF malta

Malta, met IN humboldt Hall Saturday night
and initiated two candidates. Two proposals
for membership were also received. Among
ME- Ns1,i r,s, af co prese Gs I wepe cd pass Gomman Nsg
York. and Past Commander Schultz. Al ha
Commandery will picnic at Poulmann's on
August 2. On Saturday evening next there will
Hall. Past Supreme Commander of the Con-
tinent of North America. T. G.. Jones, II. D.,
and Grand Commander Young will be present
to assist in the exempliflcation of the higher de-
grees of the order.
Palestine Division, Uniformed Rank, X. of p,
has been invited to give a .puohc exhibition drill
at Coney Island. The invitation will be con-
siiered at tonight's meeting 4
Supreme Prelate Ralph Donath has accented
a position on the brigadier generals staff with
the rank of major.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17
CATHOLIC SUMMER SCHOOL.

PLATTsBUReH. N. Y. July II. 1885,
The Catholic Summer School, which was
opened so successfully yesterday, was
continued today. The first meeting
being held at half-past nine A. NJ. the
Rev. J. A. ZHin, G. S. c., of Notre Dame
University, Indiana, delivered the first
OF a series of five lectures by him on
''The Mosaic Hexameron, According to
Parasite Exegesis and Modern Science"
At eleven A. NJ. the Very Rev. A.. T.
Hewitt. D. D., G. S. p, Paulist Fathers.
New York City, delivered an address on
1.-The Authenticity of the Gospels"
This evening Thomas Harrison Gu m
mings will Deliver an illustrated lect ure
on columbus and the Discovery OF
America.n
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17
BIG INDUSTRIAL SCHEMES.
sDecial TO The .7ersev ctr Ne,gs.

ITFOtUtfD To- VFtF -FCTU's
TRENTON, July II. 1893.-Articles of incorpora
tiop for two additional million doliaf comoauies
Saturday.
walter r. Forbes, Of Atlanta. Ga; Fred F.
Chamberlain, of Bay onne, and George G. Ten
nant, of Jersey City, are the incorporates of
the Forbes Fiber Company, a corporation with a
capital stock Of three million dollars, formed
for the purpose of buying. selling and manufac-
shares of SlU0 eacn. OF these S $1,000 will be pre-
ferred st och, upon which y per cent. annually
will be paid. The company will BUSH
ness With $40, 900 paid up stock.
The Double Pick Loom Company, with a CAPT
tai stock OF 5 i,000.n00. is formed for the purpose
Of making cotton. hemp and jute spinners and
doing other business relating TO the same. The
company will begin business with S75O,000. The
iEcorporators are Stillman +. Kneelaud, Will
lam F.. Murray, Eadley Stanley and s. STAN
ley and IS. Stanwood Mencken, of New York,
and Charles N. King, Of Jersey City.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17
RIVAL WIND STORMS,

WINAMAc. Ind, July II, 1S93.-W lille
Sam Jones was preaching his second SER
mon yesterday to SIS, 900 people. a sudden
aud terrific wind storm came up aud lift
ed the huge tent that covered the con-
Greoution kivh into the air, swapping the
large ropes w-hich'anchored them. as was
supposed, ssecureiy TO the around aud
landed 1t against Il large tree at least 100
feet from where it originally stood, This
brought the meeting 10 a close.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17
AFTER A FlENDlSH NEGRO.

BIRMINGHAM. Ala, July II, 1884
posse has been searching since Saturday
night in and around Brierfield for a
nego.. who, it is reported shot and killed
two women near Brierfield. The posse
sighted the negro near IHlera yesterday
afternoon and fired a dozen shots at MIN.
but he fled to n dense swamp aud escaped.
The swamp was surrounded last night,
and the belief is y eDeral that the negro
was captured and lynched before day
light. The cause of the murders is said
to have been both assault aud robbery.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17
PUBLIC LIBRARY CIRCULATION.

The record of circulation of books for
home reading for the week ending July
Is. 1893, was as follows:-
Philosophy, "a; Religion, IS; Sociol-
ogy, 8S; Philology. 8; Natural Sci
ence, f69; Useful Arts, 40; Fine Arts. Sc
Literature. 1913; Fiction. 3.S75; Juvenile
Fiction. 1.504; History, 101; Biography. 98;
Travels. 142, Total. 6,170.
OF this number there were delivered
through the delivery stations, 3.472.
Numbers of borrowers registered dur
ing the week. 81.
l6. 756.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17
ONCE CHAMBERMAIp. NOW BARONESS

CHICAGO, July II. 1S93.-Pretty Aun
Wilokower was until last Saturday a
chambermaid at the Palmer Houae. Now
she is Baroness Sohlberg. wife Of a mill
ionaire Austrian nobleman. The court
ship began about a year age while the
Baron was a guest at the Palmer House.
1t was renewed last spring, and Satur-
dry when the Baron made his third visit
to Chicago the couple were married.
The couple left yesterday afternoon for
the East, and after a tout of the water.
ing places they will return to Chicago TO
visit the Exposition.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17
GOOD NEWS FROM KANSAS.

KANSAS CITY, July II, 1S93.-Secretary
Moehler has Issued q statement saving
thati If conditions continue favorable Kan
sas will have the largest orn crop in the
States history. with the single exception
of that OF 1889, when the yield was 273,-
coo, 900 bushels from al acreage of $780,
SOB acres. For the first time since he be-
came secretary of the board, Mr.. Moehler
says. he is unable accurately TO estimate
the corn acreage. He obtained his fig
ures from. county assessors.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17
ONLY AN AURORAL BEAM.

NEW HAVEN. Conn.,, July H. 1898 The
Auroral beam which Prof. Frisby of the
Naval Observatory, Washington, took
for a new tail, suddenly developed to the
comet now visible in the constellation
Lynx, was distinctly observed at the
Yale Observatory last night by Prot.
Elkins aud his al assistant, Mr.. Chase. The
beam referred to was in close proximity
to the comet, out in the opinion OF the
Yale astronomers had no connection,
oh ysical or otherwise. with it.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17
The North Hudson and Ha pid
Transit.

Transit.
II the North Hudson Railway
Company insists upon sulking in its
tent over the 5 per cent. commission
to the city as compensation for the
rapid transit franchises which it asks,
why, let it sulk by all means. If it
insists upon withdrawing all its ap-
piications for the use of streets, let it
withdraw them. 1t has a perfect
right to do so.
But the city must have rapid
transit, and must have it in the sec
ton covered by the North Hudson
just the same Is in any other section.
There are other companies ready to
give tine service. The Consolidated
wants in the worst way to parallel al
the North Hudson's lines. If the
North Hudson adheres to its determi-
nation, let the city at once give all the
permits they desire to its rivals, who,
we understand, are not only ready
but anxious to pay the 5 per cent.
demanded by the Mayor.
There is nothing like competition
to bring the coon down.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17

THE Rev. Mr.. William Eakins, of st.
Paul's NJ. E. Church, preached a
model sermon yesterday on the estate
of matrimony. We commend it to
every one. 1t will be good reading
for wives and husbands, for those
who propose to enter into matrimony.
and for those foolish people who con-
denim it. In this age of crank notions
and mock progressiveness. it is re-
freshing to hear stated so just and
beautiful an ideal of welded life and
of the relations of men and women.
We hope to hear further from MI.
Eakins in the same line.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17

to counterfeit in our community the e7 |
effects of the saloon. which the Aldernen
of our city. regardless of our cry, Ia We
forced upon us. Let us be more Iutense
temperance workers Than ewes we were
before.''
Mr.. Beach also spoke and denounced
the action of the Aldermen, aud Alder
man Labey. who voted against the
license, said that If MIR Simpson had
known more about The situation of affairs
he would not have voted for Hiland's
license.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17
COUNTING HER CHICKENS.
Special to The Jersey City Ne,qs.

Special to The jersey City Ne,gs.
NEWARK. July II, 1s93.-Eliza Wynkoop. of
Watsessing, is in love with three young men.
all Of whom want to marry her.
To settle the question as to who shall have
her without a contest with gloves, she has set. a
hen with three eggs and marked each with the
name Of one of her suitors. The egg which
matches out first is the one she will marry.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17
scientific Meteorolocy.

We cannot but think Mr.. Secretary
Morton has made a grave mistake in
his onslaught upon the scientific
branch of the Weather Bureau, which
is about the only useful branch of the
Department of Agriculture. He falls
into the vulgar vice of being too
practical. He wants to get the Bureau
down to the level of a mere machine
for furnishing results, and to abolish
the progressive portion of it, the Sec
ton which devotes itself to study and
investigation.
Mr.. Morton forgets that without
the study and investigation, the
practical results would not be OBJ
tainable; mol can any further pro-
gress in practical weather ~forecasting
be expected if the study of scientific
meteorology be abandoned.
This science differs from many 9TH
ers in that il presents almost insu-
perable difficulties to private study.
No one student, however Jealous.
however inspired, can retire to his
observatory or his study and culti-
vate it from data procured by hi In
self. The material of investigation
must be collected simultaneously at
hundreds of scattered places all over
the country, and the observations
must be rapidly collected and conse-
qences noted and recorded. Perhaps
some great institution like Harvard
or Johns-Hopkins might undertake
the work, or perhaps some union of
colleges might do it; but then the ex-
pense would be far beyond what pri-
waite institutions should be expected
to devote-or could without special
endowment devote to such an object.
If the function of government ex-
tends at all beyond shooting foreign
soldiers and hanging domestic crimi-
nails, then certainly a work of uni
versal beneficence like this properly
belongs to it. We hope Mr.. Morton
will get no aid or comfort from Pres
ident Cleveland and no c~ountenance
from Congress in the somewhat be-
nighted policy which he intends to
pursue.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17

is less than two years since $25, 900 was
spent on the repair of the schools
About a year ago $40, 000-we think
that was the amount-was spent on
repairing the fire houses. Where did
the money go? The descriptions of
the dilapidation of these structures
now is as bad as it was before the APP
preparations were made. We know
who spent the money. 1t was the
Street and Water Board appointed by
Orestes Cleveland at Boss Davis die
tation,-well, perhaps, that accounts
for everything.
We suppose more money will have to
be appropriated for repairs. Let is
hope the Board of Finance will insist
that it be disbursed upon the con-
tract system only.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17

Notice is hereby given that the Commissioners
of Asse smeDt for Jersey City will meet at their
office in the building occufied by the Board az
Street and Water commissioners, corner of Mer-
Tuesday, the hrst day Of August, 1928, at nine
O'Clock a. NJ, to make appraisals and determine
the value of the real estate to be taken for OPEN
ing seventeenth street. between Jersey avenue
and H0boken avenue.
The laud to. be taken for saiI Improvement may
be more particularly described as follows:
A strip OF land sixty feet in width, being thirty
feet in width on either side OF the centre line OF
said proposed Seventeenth street, which centre
line may bs described as follows:-
Beginning at a point in the westerly side of Jer-
sey avenue, distant D feet northerly from the
centre line Of Sixteenth street. as shown upon the
official city map, entitled Assessment Mao of the
Ola City OF Jersey City, n. j.. 1881 thence run
ming westerly and parallel with SIX
tenth street. and distant 2c0 feet fr. m
the centre line of said Sixteenth street,
to the easterly line of lands formerly owned by
Mrs. Bishop; thence westerly at right angles TO
Hoboken avenue, and will then and there hear
al parties n lerested In said Improvement who
desire to be heard before them on the value of the
lands to be taken for such improvement and the
damage the o. ners OF such lands or OF any inter-
est therein may sustain by reason of such improve
menL
HUMPHREY w. CARR
H SCHULf z, r.,
C~QRNELt0S j. y
Com missioners Of Assessment
Dated Jersey City, N. j. July Il. 1888.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17
If tho BaDy Il cutting veetn.

Be sure and use that old and wel1-tried REM
edy, WIsSLow'S SOOTHING SYRUP for
children feething. IT soothes the child,
softens the gums, allays all pain, cures
wind collie and is the best remedy for
diarrhoea,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17
r. 8.

NoTICE.-THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
~ Ashley Engineering Co. Will be held at their
office at Hawthorne, sd, on Thursday, the 10Th
day OF July, at $50 P. hi. stccknoIders are re-
quested to be present. 15
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17
Gets Above Earth,s Ea~rthiness.

One of the highest caliings a man can have
during the season OF hot weather and country
circuses is that of the men who make the ball
loon ascensions. '-Dstf0it Free Press.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17

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