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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-02
RUBBING IT INTO SMITH.

Enolewood Democrats Send a Pro-
test TO the Treacherous Senator.
Senator Smith was yesterday presented
with the following protest against his course
on the tariff bill, which was signeds by 1913
Democratic voters of Englewood:-
ssENGLEwooD, N. j., JulY,30, 1894.
eTo the Hon. James SMITH, IN, United
States Senator, Washington, ID. q.
SIR-The undersigned, your constituents,
ali democrats, desire to protest against your
action in opposing the Wilson bill as 1t came
from the House Of Representative, and in SO
doing we wish to emphasize one or two facts
which you seem TO have forgotten. In your
|~.contest for the United States Senatorshlp 1t
was distinctly stated as a reason for your
election that you were in full accord with the
| nolicy of President Cleveland with reference
| TO the tariff. and shared with him distinctly
all his views upon that subject. 1t was Ike
wise stated as a reason for defeating Gover-
lsnor Albeit that i'll you we would have a re-
nresentatiye of clean politicsand a high stand
ard of political virtue-in other words, that
| machine politics would end and independent
| action and true reform be exemplfied by
your efforts and conduct. Q Under this inn
preston the democrats of New Jersey were
satisfied.
s.But it is with extreme regret that we
now have to inform you that the confidence
hitherto existing is fast giving way to dis
| trust. n that your present attitude IS even
| arousing doubts whether your course is in
| fuenced bv patriotic motives and a due re-
gard for the opinion, wishes and interests OF
a vast majority of your constituents. Ii you
persist in the policy you are now pursuing
relative to tariff reform. you will material
" assist in disorganizing the Democratic
party by bringing discredit upon it,, and
you will succeed in having the State OF New
Jer sey at the next election swept by the Re
publicans.
"This may be plain talk, but it is our duty
E.stand that the democrats Of our section are
not in accord with you in the policy which
you are now pursuing, and that disaster will
| oyertake us beyond question. We hope that
| as one of the Senators from the State Of
New Jersey, representing all the State and
| not a part Of it, that you will calmly con-
slider what we here say, and that you will
| act in accordance with the wishes OF your
| constituents"
This protest is in strong support OF the ac-
ton of the Hunterdon County Democratic
Convention
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-02
UNUERTAKER
CREMATION INSTITUTES.

With most people the opposition to cremav
ton is based on religious grounds. They
gravely argue that it would destroy popular
belief in the Immortality of the soul, though
why clearly incarceration should be more de-
structive to that which is indeStructible than
loathsome decomposition. it is difficult to
see. The Pope declared against cremation,
yet it is rapidly spreading in Catholic Italy.
1t has been practised in Japan since 700 A.
D., being introduced into that country from
China. The crematories there, are, how
ever very primitive, the only fuel used being
straw and wood.
ideas between the body that shall rise again.
There is nothing in the Christian doctrine to
justify such an idea. Death simply means
that the soul puts off that worn out gar
ment-the body. Is it not better to effect
the necessary change in a rapid, sanitary
and effective manner than by the slow, un-
wholesome process of decomposition! b
late Bishop Fraser remarked
1.-The Sabbath is made for man and not
man for the Sabbath; similarly the earth is
made, not for the dead, but for the living.
No sensible believer can suppose that Chris
tan doctrine dictates in what this,
our mortal body, erumbles into ashes or into
dust. Earth burialS are not only costly,
troublesome aud unseemly; they constitute
IN actual danger
Nothing can be more favorable to the on-
ward progress of cremation than this dam
ger. Nirchow's recent address to the Gre
nation society in Berlin has given the movs-
ment a fresh impulse.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-02
BORN IN WAsHINGToN's TIME.
Mrs. Kate French Celebrates Her
Centennial Birthday.
Special to the jersey City Neus


MooREsTowN, Aug. 2, 1894.-seated in
her quaint old parlor with its antique fur
niturea and surrounded by her defendants Of
four generations. Mrs. Kate French, popu-
larly known as old Aunt Kitty" yesterday
celebrated her centennial anniversary and
received congratulations from hundreds OF
town people, who crowded the house all day.
Among those present were one son nine
grandchildren and eight gr~eat-grandchil-
dren.
The day was observed as a general holt
day here. All the church and fire bells were
rung and whistles blown. In the evening
she was serenaded by the Firemen's Cornet
Band
Mrs. French was born August 1, 1874, just
on the outskirts of Moorestown, and has
made this place her residence for a lifetime.
She was the daughter of Samue n Han
nah Slim, and had three sisters and two
brothers. La 1915 she was married to Joseph
French, a wealthy farmer, VINO during his
lifetime owned the greater part OF West
Moorestown and had the largest nursery In
the State, being the founder of the Fairview
Nurseries. He was also an extensive grower
| of small fruits. They had five children
Sarah, Samuel, Horace, Lewis and Joseph,
of whom only Lewis now lives. Sarah dice
| at IA wears, Samuel at 10, Horace at 5,
| Joseph at AZ, and Lewis is now 70 years Of
age.
Sarah married William ~Derachbrune, and
had two children, Anna f., who married
| Walter N. Souder, and Mary, who married
John A. Frask of Philadelphia, where she
resides. Joseph was married and had
one child, who died in infancy. Lewis, the
| only survivor of her children, is married and
RESIDES in Moorestown. He has eight chill
Adren and eight grandchildren.
lLSsa Kitty's' father died at eighty and
her mother at seventy-four years. She is
Still in possession of her faculties and has a
most r~etentive memory. Up to within a
| wear ago she attended to all he1 own bust
ness, and at the present TIE o after her
finances personally. She visits her neigh
bors daily unattended, and takes an active
interest in the daily happenings of the town.
| During her entire life she had no sickness
and has not taken any medicine for forty
| two uaarc
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-02
NEWARK BAY BRIDGE
The Department Amendments TO tine
Dunn Bill Sure TO Pass.

Dunn Bill Sure to Pass.
WASHINGTON, Aug. /, 1S94.-The favor
able report which has been anticipated upon
the Newark Bay Bridge bill has been sub
mitted. In place of the bill originally pre-
sented by Mr., Dunn, the committee has
framed a substitute upon lines suggested by
the War Department. The most important
addition is a proviso authorizing a draw
bridge not less than l00 feet vide, Inns
d~rawbridge, in the opinion of the Chief OF
Engineers, viii protect the interests OF naVi-
cation.
The substitute bill, with its endorsement
by the War Department, can be passed as
soon as it can be reached. 1t reads as fol
lows
sBe it enated, &C., That the boards of
chosen freeholders of the counties OF Hudsop
and Union, in the State of New Jersey, or
the legally constituted authorities OF the
CITY of Bayonne and the city OF Elizabeth,
as may be determined by the authorities OF
the State of New Jersey, now or hereafter
to be granted, shall be, and they or either or
them are hereby authorized to locate, build,
maintain, equip and operate a nr4age across
Newark Bay, in the State OF New Jersey,
between the city of Elizabeth, in the county
of Union, and the city oft Bayonpe, In the
county Of Hudson, at a point not less than
five hundred feet above the present bridge
structure known as the Central Railroad
bridge. IrOV1ded, llaU Inc DTIu2e HoISlh
authorized shall be built as a drawbridge,
with a draw giving a clear width Of opening
of not less than 100 feet, and said bridge
shall be located and built in such manner
and under such regulations for the security
of navigation as the Secretary of Wal may
prescribe; and to secure that object the par
ties proposing to build said bridge shall sub
init to the Secretary of War, for his exami-
nation and approval, a design and drawing
of the bridge and a map of the location, and
Until the said plan and location OF the bridge
are approved by the Secretary of the War
the bridge shall not be commenced or
built: and should any change be made IN
the plans of said bridge during the pro-
eress of its construction, such changes shall
be subject to the approval of the Secretary
of War: Provided, also, That the draw OF
said bridge shall be promptly opened, upon
reasonable signal, for the passage of vessels
and boats: n the owners of said bridge
shall maintain thereon, from sunset to sun
rise, such lights and other signals as the
Light House Board shall prescribe. !
8Sec..2. That this act shall be null and
void if actual construction of the bridge
herein authorized be not commenced within
one year, and completed within three years
from the approval of this act.
.'Sec. 3. That the right to alter, amend,
or repeal this act is hereby expressly re
served
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-02
KNOCKED HIS BOOM ENDWAYs.
Republican Leaguers Won't Have
StraddIerS.

StraddlerS.
The hot weather and the mosquitoes COM
bined last evening to make the members OF
the Greenville Republican League Club who
assembled at the meeting at the Globe Hotel
as. Uncomfortable as possible, but the league
transacted considerable business, neverthe-
less.
Twelve new members were elected, MAX
ing the total membership 365. The Enter
tainment Committee was instructed to ar
range for a summernight's festival at
Uldrich's Pavilion on the Newark Bay Shore
and to select a date before the next meet
ing.
The matter of erecting a clubhouse was
discussed, but no action was taken owing to
the absence of those members who promised
to give the financial support necessary to
carry out the project.
The old fight with the Minkakwa Club
was revived by the adoption of a resolution
dropping Lawyer Isaac Goldenhorn's name
from the membership roll. He is an active
member of the Minkakwa Club, and is an
a~spirant for Assembly honors. When the
league was organized he saw an opportunity
to strengthen his canvas for the nomination
and Joined the organization. Tn resolution
passed by the Minkakwas compelling those
members who belonged to both organiza-
lions to resign from one OF the CLUBS
knocked G~olnenhorn's aspirations INTO a
cooked hat, but the youthful politician en-
deavored to retain membership in both
clubs. The Minkakwas, however, made
things SO warm for him that he was finally
compelled to send in his resignation to the
League Club. The resignation was accept
ed unanimously.
After the meeting the Campaign Com
mittee went into session and selected cap
tains for every block in Greenville. The
full list of captains will be read at the next
maetinp.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-02
Blowing off the Hydrants.

Well, the hydrants were blown OIL
yesterday, and the water is as bad as
ever today. 1t smells as badly, tastes
as badly and looks as badly. 1t is
fairly pestilential today, just as it was
Yesterday and the day before. Lit is
worse than it has V e before been,
even in this city.
The trouble is not in the pipes; it is
in the Passaic. The water smells just
the same in the reservoir Is it does in
the bath tub. 1t gains nothing and
loses nothing in transit. 1t brings is
richness with it from the sewage laden
current of this river.
What we want is water taken from
some point above the sewage line.
No city a long endure the abomi-
nation to which we are nov sub
iected. Pestilence is SUR to come.
The nuisance is getting beyond en-
durance. and it is about time the city
authorities stopped fooling and did
something.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-02
Highest Of all in Leavening S. Govt Report
R1hL B Bs&i5s'.
ABSOLUTELY PURE
MRS. BRILL HITS BACK.
Repels the Lying Account in
the journal About
Her Suit.

Mrs. Brill of No. 3114 Ocean e
against whom a suit of divorce is brought
py her husband Morris, has through her
counsel, us. District Attorney Henry >.
White. filed an answer to the bill, and this
answer gives q positive and complete denial
to the charges contained in her husbands
petition.
Mr.. Brill complains of the attentions paid
to his wife by other men and hints at two
LAWYER is Mr.. Samuel Kaiisch OF Newark.
On the other hand Mrs. Brill complains
that the charges are groundless and are the
results of q suspicious nature. Some Two or
three days ago the Ecening Journal, IN It's
characteristic inaccurate and reckless man
ner, published o scandalous statement about
Mrs. Brill, not only in connection with her
divorce suit. but as to a carriage incident
which took place and in which Mrs. Brill
was seriously injured. In a heartlesS man
ner the malicious Journal insinuated that
Mrs. Brill and her companion were under
the influence Of liquor.
COWARDLY ATTACK.
Mrs. Brill was called upon last night in
reference to the divorce case, and unequl-
vocally denied the slanderous stories in the
newspaper referred to.
She is a young, highly attractive and re-
fined lady, who naturally was deeply
moved with the publicity of her private
| affairs, but more especially was she indig-
nant at the injustice done to her by the
| slanderous Journal. In a clear and most
convincing manner Mrs. Brill explained the
| carriage accident, and added that the CON
tractor, whose employees had carelessly allow
ed building materials to be left in the drive
way near to the Armory On Bergen avenue,
| Yesterday paid not only all the damage done
to the carriage, but the doctors bill and other
expenses connected Herewith, thus sas-
| suining all blame for the accident.
AS to the divorce suit, Mrs. Brill replied
that her counsel, Mr.. HenryS. White, would
| take up that. Her husbands charges. she
| SAYS, are ridiculous and can easily be dis
proved. Mr.. Brill, it seems, is very jealous
| gentlemen, and views every little circum-
stance, however ri6ing and insignificant as
a sure proof of his wife's Inconsistency. Mrs.
Brill has a private income which her husband,
she alleges, looked upon on the principle OF
whats yours is mine, and what's mine Is
nv owns" but Mrs. Brill wouldn't agree TO
this. She thinks that her husband ought to
bear the household Expense out of his IN
come, and not compel his wife to keep him.
Differences of opinion on this point pro-
duced unpleasantnesses which led to a separa-
ton and now eliminate i'll a divorce suit.
| Much sympathy is expressed for Mrs. Brill,
who has been subjected to slanderous yarns
instigated by her husbands friends, and
spread around by that venal sheet the
| Journal. {
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-02
PLUNGED IN DARKNESS
Greenville's West Side De-
priyed Of 58 Lamps.

Ever since the Sixth District Citizens As
ISOLATION was organized the residents Of
Greanville nave made strenuous efforts to
secure more street lamps for that district.
Although the old Street and Water Board
was requested time and again to provide
more light, none of the petitions were
granted. The new board, instead Of provid-
ing new lamps, has ordered that fifty-eight
OF the lights be cut off. This action has
given the Greenville citizens a setback
which was not anticipated, and, as a result,
many uncomplimentary things are being said
about the new board.
The oil lamps which have been cut off are
as follows :-Culver avenue, one; ClairInont
avenue, between Bergen and West Side,
four: Claremont avenue between Ocean and
jackson, three; ORIENT avenue between Jack
son and Ocean, two; Myrtle avenue between
Garfield and Arlington, two; Van Cleef
street and Woodlawn avenue, one Stevens
avenue west of Bergen, two; Bergen avenue
near Cedar street, one; Bergen and Wade
avenues, one; Warner avenue near Bergen,
| one; Gator avenue west of Bergen, one; Rose
avenue near Warner, one; Tefhune avenue,
two; McAdoo avenue west OF Bergen
three; Gates avenue near Ocean, one
Neptune avenue, west of Bergen, two: Sea-
view avenue, west of Bergen avenue, one
Gates avenue, west of Bergen, two; Pamrapo
avenue, west of Bergen, one; Seaview ave
nue., between Old Bergen Road and Bergen
avenue, four; Bergen and Pearsall avenues,
one: Greenville avenue, west of Bergen,
! three; Linden avenue west of Bergen, one;
Noble street, west of Bergen avenue, one
Girard avenue, west of Bergen, three; Bost-
wick avenue near Ocean, oae; Myrtle ave-
nue. near jackson, one; Dwight street, be-
tween Ocean and Garfield, three; Bidwell,
between Ocean and jackson, four; Jackson.
near Stegman, one; jackson, near Bidwell,
one, and Stegman avenue, between jackson
avenue and Van Cleef street, two.
PENNY WISE
The reason assigned for the wholesale re-
duction in the number of lamps is economy
but the Greenville residents do not believe
in economy which will plunge the entire
West Side of Greenville in darkness. One
of the prominent members of the Citizens
| Association, when interviewed by a reporter
of THE JERSEY CITY NEWS, last evening,
said
:s'The cutting off of these lamps is nothing
short of an outrage. Why should the resi-
dents of Greenvilie be compelled to pay for
the lighting of other sections of the city
while Greenville is deprived of the same
privileges. Our police force here is very
| small indeed, and tramps and thieves will
| find this district a most suitable place foI
their operations. Our real estate prospects
will be injured, as no civilized community
can grow when darkness surrounds it,"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-02
JAPAN'S COAL.
Estimates Prove That 1t VIII Last
TyYentY.fiXe Years.


The opinion is expressed by a japanese
writer that the coal supplies of that country
will become exhausted in a period of about
twenty-five years. According to the au-
thority, and taking the statistical returns OF
the yearly yield of native coal from 1882 to
1891, nearly seventeen and one-half million
tons constitute the annual average; and esri-
mating the average proportional annual in
! crease at Is per cent. it is calculated that
seventeen years hence. the amount will fig
ure up to nearly three hundred and three
! and one half million tons Calculating in
| a similar way, too, the conclusion is arrived
at that the total production for twenty-five
wears to come, computed from the current
| year, will exceed i've hundred and fifteen
| and one-half million tons.
AS the latest figures, according to the
official returns, fix the capacity of all the
| coal mines roughly at seven hundred and
| ifty-nine millions and seven hundred and
went thousand tons, and the proportion
available being estimated at three-quarters
the total capacity, it follows that the actual
amount of coal which the mines will yield
for use is three hundred and sixty-nine
millions and seven hundred and ninety
thousand tons: and if from this amount be
deducted the aggregate annual production
in twenty-five years, reckoning from 1881,
there will remain in January, 1916, a supply
of coal only sufficient for some ten months.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-02
FRANCE AND WOMAN SUFFRAGE

France seems to be less agitated by the
woman suffrage movement than any other
highly civilized country. Yet something
happened there the other day which woman
suffragists might p%roftahly remark. Mr..
Smalley, in a letter to the Tribune, recites
the story that when, after Carnots assassina-
ton, NJ. Casinir-Perier was urged to be a
candidate for President, he resisted all per-
the case laid before her. She listened, and
told him that his grandfather, the great man
of the family, would have told him 1T was
his duty to stand. Then she walked out of
the room, and her son yielaed.
The fable teaches that even without a vote
woman may still be a spoke of considerable
importance in the political wheel. The
story, as Mr.. Smalley gives it, is based on
hearsay, but there is nothing improbable
about it, since, as he reminds US, the mother
in France is a sacred parsonage, even more
sacred thar elsewhere, and far more habitu-
ally looked up to as an authority by men in
mature life.-Hdfpei'S Weekly.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-02
COURT COLUMBUS CELEBRATING

Court Columbus. No. S,2s1 A. 0. F. of A..
celebrated its second anniversary last night
by holding a picnic at Pohlmann's Hail.
About 425 couples we're present enjoying a
very delightful evening. Among the guests
daughter, Sub. c.. r. H. j. Burns, Mrs. S.
Wanzenreid, Mr.. and Mrs. William Leslie.
Mr.. and Mrs. James F. Owens. Mr.. and Mrs.
P. r. Doyle, Mr.. and Mrs J. F. Kelly, Mr.!
and Mrs. I. f. O'Brien. Mr.. and Mrs. B:
Anderson. M. Fay, Miss NJ. Black, Mr., and
Mrs. T. Eners, Mr.. and Mrs j. Relish =.
Harrison. Miss M. Herzog, Mr.. and Mrs. M.
Reardon, H. Williamson, Miss Il. Dnffie,
Mr.. and Mrs. B.. Lafferty, Joseph Duane,
Frank Matthes, Miss Ella Mccarthy, Noyes
Thomas, Miss Maggie Wade, Randolph
Spencer, Miss George Thomas, Miss Jessie
Murray, Timothy Murphy. Miss Jennie
Gaffney and many others.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-02
THE SWISS EXECUTIVE SYSTEM

Under the Swiss system the executive
power IS vested, not in a president, but in a
council or cabinet Of seven which holds
office for three years. The Council appor-
tions the departments of state among its
own members, and 1.-THE members of the
Council have the right to speak and make
proposals in either House of the Federal
Legislature, but not to vote" When the
measures proposed by the Swiss ministers
are defeated i'm the Legislature. they simply
return to tReir desks and go on with the
business of their departments, a form of
procedure which has stood the test of expe
~rieace. We have, therefore. a most ~satisfac-
tory precedent upon the one vital point at
which we must depart from the English
model. The Swiss Constitution, like our
own, is Federal, and its Federal Legislature
consists Of two Chambers. The Swiss Exec
utive Council or Cabinet holds for three
years instead of four; the Swiss ministers
possess the right to sit in either House, to
initiate legislation and to debate, without
she right to vote; and when the vote upon
measures proposed by them is adverse, they
remain in Office until the end of their terms.
NORTH ADlerican Reyie,c for August.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-02
CONCERNING PENNsY's LANDS.

Messrs. Andrew j. Post, F. P. Gautier
and John Herman, commissioner appointed
to condemn cetain lands of the United New
Jersey Railroad and Central Company or
the County Boulevard, met in Chancery
Chambers this morning to hear testimony as
to value.
About seventeen lots Of ground are re-
CURED from the company, and these are
situated between Smith and Hicks streets,
near the .tCut."
Although the land is not laid out for rail-
road purposes, the railroad company sets up
that it was intended for yards, and TO prove
that produced a map showing the space
gridironed with tracks.
Judge McGrath represented the county
and James B. Vredenburgh the railroad
company, which is a branch of the p. r. Il.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-02
SWINGING TIT ARMS.

Many people waste a great deal of their
strength by swinging their arms backward
and forward all the time while walking. II
is a curious fact that the practice is followed
by one of the sexes much more than it is by
the other. An observer has taken notes upon
this subject. After standing for a good
while at the corner of Broadway and Four
teenth street he was able TO allcge that near
w sixty men in every 100, and only twelve
women in every 100, swing their arms when
walking. Most OF them move the right arm
with the left leg, ana the left aGm with the
right leg. A man who gave up the habit for
a time returned to it, for the reason that ID
seemed to help him to walk rapidly.