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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07
THE NIGHT SCHOOLS NEED.

To the Editor of The jersey CITY Nel1s:-
DEAR SIR-In your issue last even
ing is an item concerning night schools
in Jersey City. An appropriation was
made last year to pay salaries of
teachers in the now school No. IS. II
has not been used, because the school
house is not completed. This appropria-
tion was levied upon the taxpayers of
Jersey City, for the purpose OF providing
children with instruction, and not for the
purpose of increasing the salaries of
principals or other teachers. Some peo-
ole lave an idea that the school tax was
invented for the purpose OF paying large
salaries to teachers, and that the educa-
ton of children is a mere secondary CON-
sideration. This is a mistake. However.
| any teacher who thinks he does not re-
ceive sufficient pay for his services. can
| remedy the slight by resigning, and de-
voting his talents to some more lucrat1 We
employment
IL is the duty of the Board OF Education
to so employ the funds entrusted TO its
charge that as many children as p ossible
shall have an opportunity TO acq uire an
education. For this purpose tn ey have
u leg Il right to maintain the sch oolS in
summer as well as winter, sc night as
well rs in the day. Why, then. should
The schools be kept open at such seasons,
Ah0 hSaAof SAA - - 49,
rem are unable to attend?
According to the report OF Superin-
5endent Matthews, published in your
paper last evening, nine Thousand eight
hundred and twenty-one children in Jer-
seq City above the age of eleven years, do
not attend any schoo. They are obliged by
The circumstances OF their condition TO go
out into the world n hustle for d living.
You will find them in the factories ana
shops, in the stores and offices, laboring
from mora till night. They COM
prise the portion of u Juvenile
Lopuiation most deserving Of the
States fosteting care, and public
aid towards acquiring The means of
knowledge. Totling all day Tor food for
their bodies, the only opportunity which
hey can have to feed their minds is in
the night schools. II these are not pro-
vlded they must grow up to manhood
ignorant and %unleained, and with just
cause to curse those in authority who
have failed to use the public funds ap-
propriated for educational purposes in
suca II way that they can share the
benefits.
If necessary let one or more Of the day
schools or the high school be closed. and
take the money thus saved and open
night schools. Certainly the money pro-
vided by the taxpayers to give instruc-
ton to children in school No. 25, should
not be perverted to the unjustliable in
| crease OF salaries.
The present attempt of certain people
to make a present of a few hundred dol
| lars out of the public funds TO each of q
small number of teachers may be pleasant
for the teachers. but l hope the Board
will rather consider the claim TO that
money of the ten thousand little men and
women in Jersey City, twelve years of
age ana upward. who are a%nxiously
awaiting the opening of night schools.
STUDENT.
Jersey City. Jan. 4. 1898.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07
The Rejected Water Bid.

1t is said that the Street and Water
Board will readvertise for bids for a
water supply on Monday. Let US
hope so. 1t would be too bad that
the present opportunity, when the
public mind is directed to the subject,
should be allowed to slip by without
a solution to the problem. 1t is really
a matter of urgency. The Passaic
water is not only al outrage on COM
fort; it is a standing menace to the
health of the whole city.
But it is not easy to see just how
the Commissioners are to act. II they
draw such specifications as will satisfy
the critics of the bid of the Moffett.
Hodgkins & Clarke Co., the issue
must still come down to the very same
point on the award of the contract.
Shall they accept a supply on which
another city has a prior lien9 Shall
they accept a supply the greater part
of which is derived from New York
State? If the answer to these ques-
tions is to be yes, why, there may
be quite a number of plausible pro-
iects; but in a few years hence the
whole city will condemn the Commits
sioners who accept such conditions,
and men like DIR. Gordon will lead
the cry. If the answer is to be no,
why. then what is the use of leaving
the restrictions out of the s%pecifca-
tons?
AS for the Moffett, Hodgkins &
Clarke Co., it is presumably safe to
reckon them as out of the %competi-
ton. They have made such offer as
they could. and it has been rejected.
Plainly there Is no room for them to
bid again. Even if they reduced their
figures, they would not be any nearer
to meeting the structures of DR.. Cor
don and those who were with him in
his opposition to a contract with the
company. We shall be curious to see
who the new bidders will be. We shall
DG CuTlOuS w 0C0 II ally OOh3RSpASOA
appears against the East Jersey Water
Company. We shall be specially
curious to see if any of the great pro-
~iectors, who unfolded their glowing
schemes to the Board of Trade, will
materialize when it comes right down
to business.
Perhaps the wisest course for the
Street and Water Board will be to
vary the call for bids this time by
leaving out all question of buying by
the million gallons. Supposing they
Just ask for offers to sell the city suffi-
Gent water rights and construct res
ervoirs and a pipe line for it. This
will lead to an examination OF the
subject from a new side. and perhaps
will more clearly bring to light just
what there is available in the State in
the way of potable water systems, and
just who has anything of value in
that line to sell.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07
NOTABLE SOCIAL EVENTS.
Mrs. Smith D. Mackey's "At
Home"-Miss Van Horne's
Dance-N0tes.

Mrs. Smith d. Mackey gave a large "At
Home' at her residence, No. BOT YORK
street, yesterday afternoon from four to
seven O'Clock. The decorations were In
yellow, large clusters tof yellow 1onquils
standing upon the tables. Mrs. Mackey
wore yellow brocade aud diamonds. and
was assisted in receiving by Mrs. Nathan
Woodruff Condict and Mrs. Marcus
Beach. AT the tables ana through the
drawing rooms were Miss Mary ADDICT,
Miss Post, Miss Jean Mcbride, MISS
Dixon and Miss Lillian Pearsall. From
beginning to ID the tea was undoubtedly
the most successful attempted during tne
season.
The parlors were filled to the last de-
gree, among the guests being Governor
ALBEIT, Mrs. Mary Dodd. Judge and Mrs.
Marcus e. Beach, the Rev. and Mrs Cor
nelius Brett, Miss Maud Brett, MIR. and
Mrs. E. +. O.. Young, Mr.. and Mrs. Il. L.;
Young. Mrs. C. M. Shipman, Mr.; and
Mrs. Daniel Toffey, Mrs. E. r. Case, Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Mcbride, Mr.. and Mrs.
Nathan Condict, Mrs. George Miller, Miss
May Miller, Miss Morgan, Miss Matnide
Mcbride, Mrs. Jeremiah Cleveland,
Rev. and Mrs. George S. Benn1tt, d
and Mrs. Nathan Dixon. the Misses
Dixon. Mrs. j. Warren Hardenbergb,
Mrs, Sduuel AllfSUus MISS ooSio 1AAAloous
Miss Ivers, Mr.. aud Mrs. Thorn T. Sher-
wood, Miss Julie Sherwood, Mrs. Mar
shall, Miss Lucy Nelson, Miss Jean
Toffey, the Rev. Frederic Mortimer, Ma
jor and Mrs. q. K Pangborn. Mrs. VIM.
Il. Durrie, Jr., Misses Sadie and Mamie
Traphagen, Mrs. Joseph Mccoy. Mrs.
Mary f. Brown. Mrs. Frank H.. Molten,
Miss Kingsland, Miss Maude Chiffon, Miss
Mary Lamberton. Miss Grace Eeury.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew J.. Post. Mrs.
Alexander L. McGill, Mr., and Mrs. Bum
stead, Miss Perry, Miss Grace Tetfey.
Mrs. Jacob W. Eye, Mr.. and Mrs. w. G.
Doubleday. Miss Katharine Mallory Mrs.
William Pearsall, the Misses Mamle'and
Tillie Condlct. Mr.. Elmer Underhili, Mr..
George Benditt, Mrs. john Butts, the
Misses Post, Mr.. William Nelson, Mr.. A
j.. Post, Jr.. Mr.. Will Post, Mr.. George
Beach. Mr.. Fred Feury, and MI. Rolf
Marsh,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07
A New Chicago Fair scandal.

A New Chicago Fair Scandal.
1t would seem as if scandal was to
mark every step in the history of that
disgraceful National exhibition known
as the Chicago Fair. Having swim
died New York out of the Columbian
Display, which she alone could have
made truly great. n would think
Chicago would make the small
amends of placing every advantage
the Fair afforded at the service OF her
injured and defrauded rival.
Not at all. Chicago is not built
that way. She is determined to be
cynical, impudent and injurious
straight through the whole business.
She is determined to freeze out New
York altogether if she can.
We really do not understand why
New York condescends to countenance
the show or condone the crime OF
Platt. Harrison & Co. at all. We
have always thought the New York
building, New York commissioners,
New York lady managers and New
York appropriate ms, wanton COM
promises with falsehood and villainy.
We have not even much regard for
New York private enterprises, which
want to help the affair along by ex-
hibiting. But that is not the point.
The point is that if New Workers
choose to go there, common decency
would require Chicago to give them
first option everywhere.
What is the fact3
Just this
New York has been given "no
show at all" in the big inchoate bar
barism which Chicago is preparing
for the amusement of the world.
There has been a determined and sys-
tematic freeze-out OF New York mer-
chants and manufacturers. They
cannot get space. they cannot get ex-
plantations of the refusals, they can
not eyen get answers to their en-
quiries.
The result is that the private en-
terprise of New York; its commerce,
foreign and domestic; its manufac-
lures and practically its arts will be
unrepresented. All the better for
New York in the long run and all the
worse for Chicago.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07
STATE OF NEW JERSEY, DEPARTMENT o.

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, DEPARTMENT oa
~ State.
Whereas, In the Judgment Of the Bo ard of Direc.
tors of the NV York Bank Note Company, a cor
poration organized under the laws of this State 1t
mas been. deemed advisable and most for the
benefit OF such corporation that the same should
lie dissolved bef.' re the expiration OF the time llnl-
TIED in It's Certificate OF Organization, as ap ears
by q duly autr enricated record OF the proceedings
Of said Board of Directors of such corporation
held in accordance with the provisions OF an act
entitled An act concerning corporations" ap-
proved ApriiI. 1875. and the several supplements
thereto which said record. including the consent
in writing of 1.-TWO thirds In interest OF all tho
stockholders" OF saio corporation that such disco.
luton should take place, MS by. said act requii ed
ONCE;
Now thelefore, I, Henry G. Kelsey, Secretary of
State OF the state Of New Jersey. being satisfied by
due proof that the requirements of IAN act con-
and the supplements thereto, relative to the
dissolution OF corporations, have been fully COM
Piled with by the said corporation. do hereby car
thy that The New York Bank Note COMPANY did
on the Thirtieth day OF december, 1899 nile In my
office q duly executed and attested certificate of
consent to the dissolution of said corporation by
two-thirds in interest OF all the stockholders the e.
of, with said certificate OF consent, and the req rd
record In my said Office as provided by law.
In testimony whereof, | have bereunto set my
3 hand and affixed my official seal at Trenton.
this Thirtteth day of December. A. u. eighteen
r.. 81 - HENR @. KELSEY,
Secretary OF state,
NOTICE
The business OF the New York Bank Eote Com
been transferred to and will be con tinued by The
New York Bank Note Company, u corporation
or 5antzed undec the Laws OF the State Of Nest Wig
ginia.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07

by the Rev. G. L. Sites of New York. Revival
services next week.
SIMPSON NJ. e CHURCH. Central, near Newark
avenues, tine Rev. D. Halleron, Pastor. Preach
ing by the pastor at 10. 80 A NJ. and 7.30 P. NJ.
SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Third street,
near Jersey avenue Services at 1899 A. NJ. and
{ 80 A. M. Preaching by the Rev. Hiram Con-
dit, D. D.
EMANUEL REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH. the
Rev. j. w. Treen. rector; the Rev. W. r.
Esher, assistant. Services at 1880 A. NJ. and
$50 P. N.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, Grove strest, be-
tween Mercer and Wayne streets, the
Rev. Theodore Heisig, Pastor. Public
P. NJ. Preaching both morning and evening by
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07
AM u
New opera House.

Gus Hill and his popular company will
make their first appearance in Jersey City
az the Opera House on Monday evening
This is the best and most ambitious show
ever put out by Manager Hill. who has
made a fortune by his liberality ia organ
izing the very best of vaudeville CON.
panies. This season he has made unusu
efforts and claims the most refined anu
artistic vaudeville company on the road
The company consists of such stars as
Harty, Bryant and Savilie. Estelle Well
ippton. Harris and Walters. Gus Hill, the
marvellous Baggesen, Dillon Brothers
and Leonard and Flynn.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07
MIR. REIDPs SLEIGH RIDE.

Henry A. Heidi Of No. rs Wayne street went
sleigh riding last night all by himself. Return
ing at half-past ten. the sleigh upset in Ocean
thrown. Mr.. Heidi and someone who hap
pened along took off the harness so that the
horse could get up When the animal got on its
feet, it sprang away and ran home. Mr.. Heidi
was not hurt, and he and the sleigh and harness
got home later on.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07
Hoboken Theatre.

There will be a concert OF Ross Thea
tire tomorrow night. Rosatps band aud =
number of s~oloists, including Mrs. Jennie
Bishop. will furnish the entertainment.
On Monday evening "a Fair Rebel will
ommencs d three nights engagement.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07
OFFICERS OF THE H0BoKEN CANOE CLUB

The members OF the Hoboken Canoe Club
have selected the follow ing officers for the ensu-
ing year:-Edwsrd w. Tanner, Commodore;
George v. Strahan, Vice Commodore; Paul G..
Gottschalk, Secretary; Louis Kretzmeir, Treas
urer; Theo Forst, Captain, and Edmund Muller,
lieutenant.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07
Academy of Music.

New England life, "The Old Homestead"
will occupy tne Academy OF Music next
week. Thompson's name has become a
household word. The original company
that was with him in the long run in New
York will also be with hip 1T The Acad-
envy.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07
STEAM
STON INGTON Line.

FAR REDUCED. BOSTON ONLY ss; PRovI-
DENCE, S225. and all Eastern polntA
INSIDE Steel Steamers, MAINE
and NEW HAMPSHIRE, leave new Pier So. N. R.,
one block above Canal St, &C $50 P. NJ. daily, ox-
cept sunday.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07

MUCH praise is due to President
G. B. Thurston and the system of
the Jersey City and Bergen Railway,
which enabled it to cope with last
nights storm and avert all incon-
yenience to the travelling public.
Though the snow fall wasthe heaviest
there has been in years, there was no
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07
sH0YELLING 0FF THE SNOW.

City Hall Commissioner Burke has a force of
men engaged in slovelling Off the snow on the
sidewalks surrounding the City Hall site. The
evening.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07

WHY do not the police officials
station a couple Of detectives some
where near the scene of operations OF
that scoundrel who insults ladies on
Baldwin Avenue Bridge? Two or
three nights close watch from, say z
to 10 P. NJ. ought either to place him
in the tolls or drive him away from
the place for good. Certainly some
thing should be done to stop the
reign of terror which is beginning to
prevail among ladies in the neighbor-
hood. One good effect of the scare is
to draw attention to the miserable
lighting of the locality. This could
and should be remedied at once.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07

THE question which New Jersey
has to answer in electing her United
States Senator is whether shrewd po-
litical management. the control of
county committees, the election of
delegations. the management of cam
paign thunder and the manipulation
of party wires constitute her standard
of National craftsmanship, or whether
she places some value upon the study
of great questions of public moment,
the clear intellect, the long expert
ence and the strong n of right
that lead to wise and honorable con-
illusions upon issues of Justice and
issues of policy, whether she still
holds high in her esteem the practice
of oratory, power in debate, skill and
perseverance in fighting the cause of
good sense and good morals.
New Jerseys answer on this great
question as to her political ideals. will
be judged by the rest of the country
from the choice she makes of a sue
cessor to Rufus Blodgett.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07
REVIVAL SERVICES AT ST. PAUL'S M. E.

Revival services W i'll be held tomorrow even
ing at st. Paul's M. E. Church, the Rev
William Eakins, pastor. Converts Of the New
man Mission will take part.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07
SATURDAY. JANUARY Z. 1898.

This paper is democratic in principles
and is Independent in its Uteaos ON al
Local questions.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07

JAMES OWEN O'CoNNoR, is in a fair
way of being judicially pronounced
insane, it seems: but down to date
James's insanity has Melted him $10,-
600. which he has deposited in several
banks. This sort of madness pays
better than most mems good sense.
Perhaps if his wife gave him another
chance at the other fools in the world
he would yet die a millionaire.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07

cessation Of horse car communication.
The cars ran as frequently as usual,
and at hardly reduced speed. The
sweepers we're started early and kept
busy with good effect. The double
Jeans did the rest. 1t vas a hard day
for the drivers and the Door horses, but
the inconvenience to the public was
reduced to a minimum.
There is SO little good work of this
sort done that it is d pleasure to
| acknowledge it when one sees it.
THE progress of the railroads in the
means of dealing with snow storms is
remarkable. Two or three years ago,
yesterday mornings conditions would
have caused endless blockades and
delays. Trains would have been hours
late everywhere. Yesterday it was
extraordinary, the way almost
schedule time was made on every road
around New York.
We venture to say if the Blizzard OF
1883 were to be repeated now, not one
of the great lines would be closed by
it, and only a delay of an hour or two
would occur here and there to give
the snow ploughs a chance.
1t is wonderful, too, how the ferry
boats have improved. Every grown
up person remembers how, a few
years ago, they used to be stuck in
the ice for hours, sometimes carried
down below the Battery. Even in
1888, the ice and the wind made the
pilots afraid to leave the slips. The
present powerful fleet of ferryboats
care for nothing but fog. They are
ready to plough through any pack
that the river ever sends do WI to
hamper them.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07
|, Dance to Miss Van Horne.

Mr.. and Mrs. Garrett Van Horne gave
a dance yesterday evening in honor of
their daughter, Miss Elizabeth Van
Horne, at their residence. No. 70 Summit
avenue. The affair was to have taken
place on Friday In Christmas week, but
was postponed on account of illness. The
house was beautifully decorated. n a
large number of young people filled the
parlors to OVERLOOKING. Cranmer's or
chestra played for dancing. which began
at nine O'Clock. At a little before mid
night supper was served after which dane
ing was continued. Among the guests were
the Misses Maude Williams. Clara Dear.
Elizabeth Vreeland, Wilkinson. Eli
Newkirk, Cora Quincy, Carrie and Mamie
Brister, Jean Toffey, Wilson, Bessie
Hunt, Evelyn Flaack. and Messrs. AL. and
Will Dear, j. D. Taylor. Charles Vfee :
land, Howard Quincy, Will Clements,
Lee Clements, Harry Scott, Toffey. e. L..
Mclaughlin, Ed. Rudderow, Vreelan d
Tompkins, William Speer, and Lao u
Manton.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07
srArE or oaIo. Cry OF TOLEDO, | ;.

LUCAS COUNTY,
FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he is the
senior partner OF the firm of II. J, CHENEY q
Co.. doing business in the City Of Toledo, County
and State aforesaid and that said firm wall pay
the sum of IN HUNDRED for each
and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by the use of HALLS CArARRH CURE. -
FRANK J.. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed iu my
presence, this 9Th day Of December, A. D.. 1886.
a.. W. GLEASON,
seal: Notary Public.
Halls catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces OF
the system- Send for testimonials, free.
+. J.. CREME s. CO, Toledo, O.
EE-Soid BY Druggists, 75cs
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07
Events Past and To Come.

Mrs. E. f. C. Young is planning
another delightful evening at the Carteret
Clubhouse. This time it will be a variety
entertainment, to continue until fifteen
minutes past ten. after which there will
be dancing. The tickets are procura BILE
only by the elect and are not transfer
able.
The FortnightIy Musicales held a bust
ness meeting last night at the home OF
Mrs. w. Hunter Brown. No. 9 Clinton
avenue. Matters relative to the invita-
tion of guests, the formation of an active
and an honorary list OF members. and
several minor matters were discussed
and arranged. The next meeting will be
next tuesday evening at the home Of
Mrs, Frank Cavalli. No. "a Brinkerhoff
street.
Mrs. E. W. Fem and her pupils will
give next week an. afternoon musi-
Gale at her residence, from three
to-. six o'clock. Miss Lucy +. Mel
son, soprano, and Mr.. John A. Hol-
land. vioIinist will assist.
Mrs. Schroeder's dancing classes held
their New Years reception yesterday
afternoon and evening. AT 3 O'Clock the
afternoon class, consisting of some sixty
children. began the festivities and in the
evening the ball in Foye Hall was
filed.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07
MEETLNGS.
First National Bank.

JERSEY CITY. December 8. 1892.
Notice is hereby given that an election for eight
Directors OF this Bank Will be hello at the Banking
House on Tuesday. January 10. 1898.
The polls will be open from l2 NJ. to F. Y.
G. W.
Cashier
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-07
HELP TAINTED
WORK WANTED.


CAkPENTER AND BUILDER WISHES WORK
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City.