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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-28
IN SPITE OF SIMPSON
Board Of Education Resolves to
Sell the New High School
Site-Book Money Dis
tributed.

A small sized row was precipitated at
last nights meeting Of the Board of
Education over the Introduction of a
resolution to dispose of the site for the
proposed new High School building. The
site selected is at the corner of Bergen
and Paramount and it is in
Director Simpsons district. A resolu-
ton was introduced stating hat in
asmuch as the site is desired unsuitable,
be it resolved that the Street and Water
Commissioners be requested to dispose
of it and appropriate the money received
for the proposed new school, No. 8, in
thes lower part of the city,"
MR.. SIMPSONS ELOQUENCE.
Director Simpson was on his feet in
an instant to oppose the resolution.
IF this resolution is passed." he said,
II will go before the Board of Finance
and will there oppose it. I am opposed
to giving away anything from the Fifth
district to any other district. Fer a
long time l have tried to a v an annex
added to my district, but have always
been told that there was nc money. If
we are going to dispose of the High
School site. let the money be used in
building an annex"
A lengthy discussion followed Mr..
Simpsons remarks, during which Direc-
tor Beach said that it did not make.
much difference whether Director Simp-
son opposed the resolution or not.
TN ave my say all the same" re-
piled Mr.. Simpson.
Director Degnan caused some amuse-
ment at this point by calling attention
to the fact that sthe site for the new
No. 9 school was also in the Fifth dis
trict.
RESOLUTION PASSED.
The resolution went through, Director
Simpson voting in the negative. Another
resolution was passed requesting -the
Board of Finance to appropriate $500 to.
provide books and stationery for No.
L. School. Director Simpson was ap-
pointed a committee of one to ascer-
tain what power the board had in ref
erence to placing insurance on the
school buildings, and Director Beach an
nounced that arrangements were being
made for a series of free lectures in
No. Is School,.
The s14, 900 recently appropriated for
the purchase of free books was appor-
toned among the various schools as fol
lows:-Hish School, 81, PAS; No. l, s554.17;
No. 2, $3.50 No. 8, $s14.50; No. 4, $527.77
No. 3. s12O.S1; No. 6. s7ss.4 6; No. Z, $722.9 81;
No. 8, sSOs.16; No. 10, $12S.9S; No. H.,
s655.OS; No. u, $s7S.O 90; No. 10, $1S4.6 60; No.
IA, $685. No. is, sl5O.2O; No. 16. s1O7.03;
No. II, s76.s6; No. 10, $77.s5; No. 20, $69o.2S5
No. p, $415.Ss; No. %. $674.4S; No. %,
s461.51; No. "a. s3s3.27; No. %. SS75.67.
Miss Mary Grimes was advanced from
the 40S grade to the 42S grade, and Miss
Nellie Nets was granted one months
leave of absence. with the loss of mont
tors pay. After awarding the coal con-
tract to James Coyle the board &C
journed.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-28
CITY NEWS T

The Bible Glass and Intermediate De-
partment Of the Summit Avenue United
PRESBYTERIAN Sunday School will have
their exercises tonight.
The Christmas entertainment Of the
Sunday School of Emory M. e. Church
was given last night. 1t consisted of an
illustrated lecture on "A Trip Through
the Middle States by Mr.. G, V. Tuthill.
Captain Jack Crawford, the poet scout,
Presbyterian Church last night.
There was a meeting of Corps 2, Saliva
ton Army, Bergen avenue and Union
street, last night. This evening there
Banker is i'll and unable to attend the
meetings, /.
Revival services which are being well
attended are being held in st. Paul's
Methodist Church on Third street
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-28
COLLEGE GIRLS BABIES.

Mrs. Faweett's recent visit to Girton
and Newman colleges armed with
stacks of photographs of fine, fat babies,
was rather amusing. The bales in ques-
ton wer the little sons and daughters
of former students of the colleges, which
Mrs. Fawcett had collected and carried
in triumph to the scene of their moth
ers' hard study to contradict the idea
that clever and studious women are I'M
fit to be mothers or that they have
weakly babies. The photographs, which
might have served as advertisements for
somebody's food, settled the disputed
point forever.-"An American Woman"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-28

M
with Later On, and will hold the stage
for the balance of the week.
Bon TOn,s Growing Popularity.
The Bon Ton continues to grow in pop
ularity and if it continues as 1t ls
now going on, the management will
have to get a larger theatre if 1t wishes
to retain it's constantly increasing
patronage. Next weeks programme Wall
be a fitting one for the beginning Of a
new year, and includes many attractions
new to Jersey City. They will be well
worth seeing, especially at such low
prices as prevail at this popular place
cellent performance is continually going
on at the theatre from one O'Clock until
eleven O'Clock.
Press Eldridge, who, like good wine,
improves with age, is funnier than ever,
is a whole show in himself, and he is
only a single item of the good things
which the programme presents. The
same can be said of Dolly Hour, Tom
and Matte Webster, James Campbell,
Little Annie Robinson and every other
one of the performers. =
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-28
ADJUSTMENTS.
New years Week at the Academy.

There will be fun in abundance at the
Academy of Music New Years week,
when happy-go-lucky BILLY Barry, the
favorite eccentric comedian will present
his new comedy, by William Gill, who
wrote "Adonis'' and other stage sue.
cesses, entitled THE Rising Generation.
The plot of the play deals with two.
the humber walks of life, the Van
Tykes from high society. The Rising
Generation will be given a new and
US company includes a number of peo-
Sic well known in this class of comedy.
He also carries all of his own scenery,
aepicting different points of interest IN
great hit With New York critics when
reduced at the Park Theatre where il
made a long run last season. Hallen inc
Hart continue to amuse large audiences
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-28
STOOKT0N-DAYTON.
Genera Stockton's Eldest Daughter
Married 10 william l.. Dayton.
Special to the jersey Citu Meas.

bPOOFUt ~ wv OtH ~FVVNOs
TRENTON, Dec. %, 1S94.-The second
wedding this season in the family of
Gen. R. F. Stockton occurred yesterday
afternoon, when Miss Harriet NJ. Stock
ton, his eldest daughter, became Mrs.
William L. Dayton. The bride is well
known in New Jersey society. Her
grandfather was Commodore Stockton.
She is a sister of Mrs. William S. Bur-
leigh OF New York. who was Miss Isis
Stockton and who was married four
weeks ago. The groom is the son of
Hon. William L. Dayton. who was Min
ister to France and a candidate for
Vice President of the United States.
He was himself the Minister to The
Hague. He is a member of the New
Jersey bar.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-28
PRIZES FOR REAL MERIT.

At the recent annual meeting of the
French Academy the prizes for virtue
and literary merit were awarded, Lud-
ovic Halevy presiding. The M~onthyon
prize for $500 francs for virtue went to
the Able Theury, who in 1870, at Loigny,
under a heavy FIVE, saved more than
diers and tended them in his church, and
later collected $40, 000a francs to erect a
memorial church over the place where
the French dead and buried. The Colbert
prize of 10000 francs for the best his
torical work published since 1890 was
awarded to Albert Tandal for his Ma
poleon at Alexandra" Prizes We're also
given to Paul Deroulede for his patri-
otto songs, to M. Parodi for his La
RENE Juana" and to NJ. Angellier for a
book on Rober Observation-Disclosures
Press.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-28
Welcome

Few American homes are so well adapt
ed to such affairs. A square hall paved
in marble leads into a rotunda about
fifty feet high and nearly as wide. The
floor, rs well as the floor of the billiard
room beyond, is of inlaid wood. Three
drawing rooms, with decorations of red,
yellow n blue, occupy the southern
end of the house.
The guests were seated in the, red and
yellow drawing rooms, the stage being
ed with wax candles and lamps. A beau
tiful piece of old Gobelin tapestry
formed the background to the exquisite
tableaux represented. The pictures were
arranged by Mrs. Helborn Roosevelt.
Miss Mary S. McCobb as Mrs. farley
made a running fire of comment and
criticism upon her figures.
REMARKABLE WAX WORKS.
For an hour and a half Mrs. farley pre-
scented a remarkable array of human
wax works. The fairy tale of the Sleep
ing Beauty was pictured in three scenes,
with Miss Dorothy Roosevelt as the
princess, and Miss Mary Kearny as a
fairy. Then came Diana, Minerva and
Juno, portrayed by Miss Lawrence, Miss
GilIett and Miss Speyers, direct from
Parnassus." Then appeared Christopher
Columbus, an American dude, Jupiter,
Thomas Jefferson, George Washington,
Mary, Queen of Scots, Queen Isabella,
and several other historical characters,
presented by Miss Mary Stevens, Archi-
bald Stevens, Alexander Stevens, the
Messrs. Fitzgerald, Miss Alice Duer,
Thornton Warren, Oliver Campbell, the
tennis player, and Henry M. Alexander.
Miss Constable depicted Charlotte Cor
day about to stab Marat.
The was brought in a draped model
which Mrs. farley said was the Modern
Hero" The drapery was pulled away,
and there stood before the spectators a
football player In a badly. battered con-
dition. One eye was black. His chrys-
anthemum locks were full of mud A
bandage covered his mouth. One arm
and a leg were in splints, and his good
leg kicked viciously at a football fasten-
edto his ankle. In spite of the makeup
the audience recognized Edwin Lewis,
Mr.. Lewis once played good football on
the Princeton team
The King of Misrule was then wheeled
on in a state of rightly by Mrs. farley
and several assistants. He was dressed
in red silk tights with long pointed black
shoes, a gherkin of green embroidered
| in gold feur de lis, a red satin pointed
cape with high collar points edged with
gold, and red satin angel sleeves flowing
from the shoulder over black velvet coat
sleeves. The royal mantle was of green
| lined with ermine, and he wore a crown
and carried a sceptre. The King
was attended by four pages and
three lackeys; the pages were dressed
in a Venetian costume of the Fifteenth
century and the lackeys wore white
| satin trimmed with gold lace.
KING OF MISRULE ENTERS.
Marching to the front of the stage the
heralds blew a long blast from their
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-28
OoLoRED EVANGELIST.

Mary Pairing, a colored woman of
Alabama, urgently requested to be sent
to the Dark Continent. saying that all
her life it had been her ambition to
carry the Gospel to her people. When
informed that the Presbyterian Board
lacked the money required to pay her
passage f$400 she sold her little home in
Talladega, and went at her own cost
Philadelphia Press.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-28
QUEER WAY OF GUARANTEEING.

Whenever a case Of smallpox occurs
fn a country town in Connecticut all
roads leading to the house of the patient
are barricaded and a high fence Is erect
ed $50 feet away from the dwelling on
an sides. Food Is furnished the quaran-
tined by the factotum. but no one else
except the doctor is allowed to go near
the house. The peculiar quarantine
laws have been handed down from the
colonial period.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-28
s~ALooNKEEPERs INDICTED.
speeial to the Jersev Cvtv News.

DPIUtUt W tt0 Y ~ 1VNWUs
BENNINGTON Dec. 2S, 1S94.-The Hun
terdon County Grand Jury has found
seventeen ttrue bills of Indictment.
Among Others who will be tried at the
January term of court are the quin-
tette of Lambertville liquor sellers. All
Of the indicted parties pleaded not guilty
and they were released on $500 bail to
appear on January IA.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-28
FRIDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1894.

This ,,ooer is Democratic IN pr7nc1ptes
end is Independent an ats cteeos 0"
questions.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-28
YE MERRIE YULETIDE
Novel Twelfth Night Cele-
bration at the Stevens
Mansion.
JoyIAL KING OF MISRuLE
He Holds Court at Castle Point
and DEGREES Old Time Dances
and Festivities-Guests
Costumes.

IL JS0fiSIIldS was GClCol@ AAoN FSAAAN
in old English style in the Stevens Man
| sion at Castle Point. The affair was
| given in honor of Mrs. Stevens nieces,
the Misses Lewis, daughters of the late
| e. P. C.. Lewis, formerly Minister to
| Portugal, and Mrs. Stevens g~randdaugh-
ter, little Miss Mary Stevens.
The fantastic gathering at Castle
| Point represented about 200 personal re-
| sponses to several hundred invitations
sent out by Mrs. Stevens for a Twelfth
| Night Party" On the envelopes was in
scribed Eye Yule Tide" in gold letters of
old English design. The invitation cards
| were good fo%rerunners of the unique en-
tertainment to follow. Three figures in
water %colors, copied from old English
prints, headed the page n underneath
were these words in old English script
Eye King of Misrule asketh you're
presence in costume at his courte, to be
holden at We Castle Poynte, in H%oboeken,
on We seven and twentieth of December,
from s to Ii of the clocke."
YOUTHFUL GUESTS ARRIVE.
As many as a hundred young people,
ranging from eight to seventeen years
old, were among the early arrivals at
the Stevens Mansion last night, when the
grounds were beautifully Illuminated and
the house decked from top to bottom in
Christmas greens and ~garlands, and hung
with wreaths of holly. Big punches OF
mistletoe hung from all possible projec-
tons. The entire drawing room floor
was thrown open together by the rolling
back of the huge folding doors between
the large, square rooms, all opening
also into the large circular hall, extend
ing up to the dome. To all of the youth
full guests on their arrival was given
the programme of the nights early en-
tertainnent on parchment, with red ard
black lettering. 1t read as follows:-
Yule Tide Doings
Castle Poynte
on we seven and twentieth day of De-
cember.
Wax Works,
Exhibited by We Mistress farley.
PART 1.
Ye Sleeping Beautye.
.HFE ------
Ye King of Misrule taketh possession of
his kingdom
Grand Royal Procession
Ye Wassail Bowie
Ye Yule Log.
Sir Roger de Coverly.
-
Notice, ye Guests,
All We behests of his gracious Majesty
must be obeyed.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-28

A DESPATCH from Frankfort, KY,
printed in ''The News" yesterday told
how the good people of that town had
written a religious letter to each of the
twelve hundred %convicts in the State
Prison, there. In prisons, as a rule, the
warden has to read all letters sent to
prisoners. Just imagine the joy of the
Frankfort Warden when he tackled these
twelve hundred religious missives.
IN The News Of Wednesday,. the
New York aworld" was accused of fax
ing the story tina Indictments had been
stolen from the District Attorneys office.
This was an error. The fake appeared in
the Recorder We hasten to set this
matter right. The Worlds own sins
are quite enough for it to bear.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-28

with Later On, and will hold the stage
for the balance of the week.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-01-16

"Hew to the lire, let the chips fall
where they may" is a motto quite com
monty adopted by the newspaper profess
sion, and while it savors of an honest
purpose in the journal which quotes it
as its policy, what a sham 1T is in fact.
independence in thought may be whole
somely enjoyed, but In action it is much
different.
An honest newspaper is regarded as a
medium through which the sayings and
doings Of the people of the world are
communicated; the incidents are chroni-
cledi public neccessitiesiare discussed in
ternal reforms urged; wrong rebuked;
justice administered, and so on ad inini-
tum. The experiences of a newspaper
man are variegated, metaphorically
speaking. He Is smiled upon and con
graduated by this one, only to turn
around and be snarled at and kicked by
the next; he Is dined and wined on this
hand, andsnubbed and frosted" on the
other; he is proclaimed a public bene-
factor today and tomorrow he is voted a
nuisance and a boor. And thus he runs
up and down the social barometer until
he feels something as Hamlet did upon
receiving the announcement that his
mother was 80 soon to wed his uncle.
Still there is a spice about Ills life which
at times elevates him into a high state
ecstacy. He occasionally scores a Scoop
on a sensation and is patted on the
back and called "a bully boy with a glass
eye;" he is invited out to weddings and
given a piece OF the "bride's cake" to
sleep on; he writes a Eve dollar compli-
mentary notice of some dear friend and
receives a hearty hand-shake, a summary
smile and a five cent cigar; and all those
distinctions considering Gas the illus
trious Burns has said) that "man was
made to mourn" we are not sure but that
the editor is something of an eli" after
all. But IN speaking about "hewing to
line" why, if he did that, he would be
meaner than than a Digger Indian and
"there would be not where to lay his
head" in the community in which he
%lved and moved and did his lying"
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-01-16
Educational.

The territorial educational conven-
ton, held at Albuquerque December
%, 20 and 30, seemed to have been a
very successful one. The number Of
teachers and educators was the lar
gest that ever attended the convention
in New Mexico, and unusual interest
was manifested from beginning to
end. Judging from the many interest
ing papers read and the logical discus
sions Of educational subjects general.
~, we have reason to be proud of the
rapid growth and Improvement Of our
educational institutions. Those from
Grant county who read papers were
Mrs. w. l.. Jackson Of Silver City,
Miss Nettie MunsOn of the Lordsburg
school, Prof. Geo. Selby, principal Of
the Deming school, and Geo. w. Miles
of Silver City. Grant county, as usual,
captured her share Of the hOnors, hav-
ing returned with two Of the most
important offices, /. g., Prof. Geo.
Selby, president OF the association for
1894, and Geo. w. Miles, chairman OF
the executive committee. Miss Ada
NJ. Cutler Of Albuquerque, al ex-
teacher of Grant county, was elected
treasurer, ami Prof. j. p. Owen of the
agricultural college at Las Cruces, vice
president at large. The convention
adjourned to meet at Albuquerque on
December q, 1894.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-01-16
An Important DIseorerr.

A. r.. Blake Of Pennington, N. NJ, has
had the Sheek company boring a we'll for
him. They have gone down through
different formations to a depth Of .285
without the desired effect as regards
water; for aside from the surface water
struck ut a slight depth no water has
been reached. Last week, however, they
struck a flow OF gas that now comes bub-
bling up through 200 feet Of water with a
decided force and escapes at the surface.
When a match is put to 1t, it will burn
beneath a lamp chimney giving a strong
light equal To 10 OF 10 candles, without
d%iscolorlng or smoking the chimney in
the least.
The Importance OF this discovery a
hardly be realized. When natural gas,
lighting, heating and manufacturing
can be carried IN at a comparatively trIh-
ing figure, new interests will at once
spring into life and IN a short time our
little town will hrob with industries little
dreamed Of today. Nor does this strike
end hore, with II has again been revived
the talk OF boring for oil. But a few
years we the late w. G. Markley was
obliged to abandon a we'll that he was
digging on account of the oil that rose to
the surface Of the water. Other instances
similar in nature have been reported.
When one looks az the formation Of
the country, he will see that the San
Juan valley from Alcatraz TO Pennington
lies directly in the center Of a bowl-like
Formation, in which the coal, forming the
sides, ZONES to the surface at Durango,
ChacO, Clio and AmRrgo. As a conse-
quence with these enormous coal fields
on all sides of as what would be more
natural than that the oil from these de-
posits should underlis this whole coun-
try. The late Prof Baldwin has repeat
eddy told the writer that coal could be
found at a depth OF 700 feet at Largo,
arguing from these same premises,
AS is well known, Mr.. Baldwin was
a geologist and coal expert and at vRri-
on times in the employ Of companies pros
pectiug the country south and east Of us
for coal and other natural deposits.
We confidently look forward TO the
time not long distant when extensive
arrangements will be carried forward 10
ascertain whether there is any oil Ia pay
ing quantities beneath US.
just now the drilling is stopped but
It Is hoped that the gentlemen viii start
up again immediately or at least as soon
as they can wipe the surprise out Of their
eyes.-San Juan Times,
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-01-16

The Deming Headlight receives the
best support from the business men Of
It's town Of any paper in the Territory,
and the SOUTHWEST SENTINEL and Enter
prise, two Of the best papers in the Ter
fitory, receive the poorest. This is a
fact which ought to make our merchants
blush. Very few Of them appreciate the
value of iudicious advertising, preferring
rather that our citizens spend their mon
ey in neighboring cities. Can At be that
the stocks Of merchandise carried in
Silver City are so inferior that our mer-
chants do not regard them as worth ad
vertisingS Are they so indifferent that
they do not care for the patronage Of
our peopleP or, have they no goods to
self They complain that their sales have
fallen off from one third to n half dur
ing the past year, and yet they make no
effort in their own behalf. There ap-
pears TO be plenty Of money here; why
should not this be true2 The value Of
the mineral product Of Grant County
was greater in 1893 than IN former years;
such prosperity IN the cattle industry
has not been enjoyed in this County for
seven years; the value OF the hay gath
cred TO cay nothing about the amount
standing on tho ranges) viii amount to
between City and seventy five thousand
dollars; the people are here and oil APP
pear TO live as we'll and dress as we'll as
ever; there is work for every man who Is
willing to work, and all this we declare
Is sufficient to warrant the S%oUTHwEsT
SENTINEL ia saying that II our merchants
are doing a light business il 10 their own
fault. This town Is being flooded today
with catalogues OF every description
from eastern houses, quoting prices on
every Conceivable article, and the result
10 that thousands Of dollars are sent out
Of Silver City 10 these houses every year,
aud all because u merchants lack the
basKloss quality Of advertising.