The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-27
THE MANUAL TALKS.
Continued from First Page.

in Matawan June ., lobU. aud subsequent
ly became q lawyer. Senator Drake OF
Morris went west in 1879 to grow up and
SO forth, being then TWENTY-FIVE years
old. In Kansas he had a dream In which
he saw Senator Werts made Governor
and the people of the county hunting
around madly for some one to NIL MS
place. He abandoned great prospects
aud came home, and sure enough the
dream came true thirteen years after.
Since his coming back the people OF his
neighborhood have kept electing him as
fast as possible to one Office or another.
George Greeley Smith, OF Ocean, didn'
go west, but grew up in Lakewood. IN
the dry goods business. He has a good
deal of money. He was born in Massa-
chusetts. and is a relative OF horace
Greeley.
Senator Hinchliffe was only a year old
when he went to Paterson from his native
New York, and took up his residence
there. He finished his education in York
shire. England, and then came back and
turned his attention to brewing and
politics. He has been very successful IN
both. Butcher. Keys, McMickIe and
Marsh have been there before. Cornish
has taken his stand with the Congress
men.
THE ASSEMBLY.
Among the Assemblymen Charles A.
Bake, of Atlantic. is a lawyer. He
was born in New York, October 80, 1868.
His father came to live at Egg Aarbor
the following year and took him along.
Wright, Dnpuy and Parker have had
themselves presented before. Mr.. Du-
puy's autobiography is a little larger
thar it was last year.
Micajah e. Matlack has no more to say
of himself than that he WAS born In Mer-
Ger county December 19. 1862, and is an
attorney at law. Clayford Stafford is al
most as brief. DR.. Henry of Camden was
the only Democratic Coroner in Camden
county In thirty-three years, aud he says
that he sat on the corpses in a way that
brought him a high reputation. He was
born in Camden November 10, 1858.
Not a bit OF pride is there about Billy"
Thompson. Six lines and a half he takes
TO tell his story. Born in Ireland October
Is, 1913; for ten years Councilman oil
Gloucester CITY; three times a member OF
the Board of Freeholders: that's all. He
could say he had a nice racetrack and has
been called a Duke" but his native
modes ty prevented him.. Ross was a sea
captain before he shipped as a foremost
h nd on the vessel of State. and Baxter
kept a grocery store. John N. GlasDell IS
a sch DOL teacher. He says that in his
brief experience in the House of AS
sembly he has learned a great deal about
the English language and It's possiolli-
ties.
NEwARK's PHALANx.
William Harrigau of Newark Is serv-
ing his first term since 1887, and he has
prepared himself for it by serving as
SergeaDt-at-Arms during the two last
sessions. He is o simple, guileless old
gentleman who keeps an eye continuously
on the interests of the wnrkipgman. He
manufactures mineral water in Newark
and sometimes samples it. His neigh
lo- NToh,, T aoar Arnitooa hQ0 hpaD
making varnish for years in Newark.
Joseph P. Clarke came to this country
from the County Meath, Ireland. when
he WAS only seventeen. His father was
not a poor man, as the fathers OF most
Irish Immigrants are, but was a prosper
Gus farmer. Joseph P. is q commission
merchant. He never held office before,
but he likes it, and may be coaxed TO try
it agai3.
The sketch of Joseph NJ. Byrne states
that he was born in Newark, October ID,
1861, and, undoubtedly. that he goes tc
church, for it sets forth that his mag
nificent baritone voice Is one of the de
lightful features of the services In st,
Patrick's Cathedral. in that city: He is 9
graduate OF the Notre Dame University
of Indiana. When not engaged IN tnsur-
ing himself by going to church, he insures
other people against fire.
Thomas Atkins Murphey, Assemblymar
from thu Fifth district of Essex, became
a soldier at the outbreak of the wal te
show himself worthy of his first and sec
ond names. During the war be was ap-
polluted Major of q colored troop, aud his
enemies say that it was to please his
command that he inserted an e i'll his last
name. He was born in Sandy Hill, Wash
1ngton County, N. Y. MAY T.. 1841.
MR.. OLvANEY's CoAT.
Perhaps IL was because of haste that
the chronicler of Dennis f. Olvaney's
brilliant deeds omitted TO say what be-
came of the ~latter's coat, and perhaps it
was through consideration for The feel
Jugs of that gentleman's constituents.
He says that MIR. Olvaney in an Alder
manic contest took off his coal as
though he were going to work at the
familiar carpenters bench, went to work
and beat his antagonist. This leaves
those uuacquainted with the people oil
the Fifteenth ward to wonder what be-
came of the arment. as he does not men,
ton it afterward. Mr.. Olvaney, how
ever, has evidently earned a lesson. II
has peen observed that he does not take