The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-08
AT WASHINGTON
State Appropriations - Newark's
Collectorship-Two Nota,
Bile Generals Dead.
specia, to the JERSEY oltv Ne,cs.

WASHINGTON, Feb. s, 1893.-The Army
Fertilization bill has passed the House
and is now on the Senate calendar. 1t
contains the following provisions for the
proving ground at Sandy Hook, N. j.
For current expense and maintenance OF
the ordinance proving ground, including
general repairs and alterations and ac-
cessories Incidental to testing and proving
ordinance, including hire OF assistants
for the Ordinance Board. skilled me-
chanlcal labor, purchase OF Instruments
aud other supplies, building and repair
ing butts and targets. clearing aad grad
ing ranges, $22.0U0. For the necessary
expense of ordinance officers while tenn
porarily employed at the proving ground
and absent from their proper station, at
the rate of $3.50 per diem while SO en-
ployed, and compensation OF dra1tSmen
Sc. 500 and $3.50 for one locomotive engine.
House bill 1855, providing for the ex-
tension of the lighthouse service. appro-
priated So. 600 for The construction OF a
lighthouse and fog sigual station at or
near Big Oyster BED Shoal, at the mouth
of Maurice River, in Delaware Bay; also
$500 for Il suitable light at or near the
mouth of Salem Creek.
NEwARK'S COLLECTOR
1t may not,be generally Known that the
commission of Ell Reynolds, Collector Of
the Port of Newark, expired in May last
wear. n that he has since held over un-
til the appointment of a successor. It
has now leaked out that Mr..
REYNOLDS a been kept in
| office upon very strong Republican
recommendations, most notably that OF
&c, rye A. Halsey. Recently Mr.. Gus
tave Wolber, who mas been u candidate
for the place all through the Harrison
Observation-Disclosures ranpyvQd hjQ 1ffnrrQ IN he
a%ppointedfn the belief that he would not
be disturbed by the incoming Democratic
administration. as the Republicans did
not disturb Mr.. Reynolds. MIR. Wolber's
Endorsements bear the names OF ex-Con-
gresham Lehlbach, Eiitor Fred Kuhn,
Major Carl Lentz aud a host or Newark
Republicans. but it has been practically
decided at the Treasury Department to
make no change in the office at this late
day and to leave the question of Mr.. Rev
nold's successor to the next admintstra-
ton.
TWO JERSEY GENERALS.
During the week two notable generals
of the Union Army during the War of the
Rebellion, in which Jerseymen were
Arlington with military honors, both
having been retired officers of the army.
| General Abner Doubleday was a Colonel
on the retired list and at one time COIN
handed the First Corps. His body was
draped ain the flag that foated from
Fort Moultrie at the beginning of the
war. and was accompanied by a delega-
ton from Lafayette Post, G. A: r.. OF
New York, among them Colonel William
II. Glider, SO we'll known in Newark.
General G. S. Carroll, a ma1or-general
on the retired list, who was also laid at
rest. commanded at one time the Second
Army Corps, containing many New Jer-
sew organizations, Among the comrades
of the corps at the funeral were Charles
E. Troutman and N. NJ. Brooks OF the
gallant Twelfth New Jersey.
During he week many New Jersey
residents registered at Washington Hotel.
While some came on sightseeing and
business trips. not a few were on political
business with an eye to office. Among
the Jersey City residents were MIR. Hill
and a. j. Newbury. General William
j. Sewell of Camden and Cortlandt
Parker of Newark were also here.