The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-09

This pQpef IS De9lOcFOttc IN PftHetPt'
and is Independent in cts uieacs on all local
questions.
The ssJournaI'' and ssThe News'' as
Newspapers.
The Eoeniag Journal is completely
ratified by the constant succession OF
..beats" on local news items which
The NEWS daily scores against It. IT
{ has lost its head and taken to para
graphic protests, in which falsehood
and rage are equally prominent
On Monday, this little effort of Mr..
Benson's genius appeared Ia the CITY
News Notes" of our antique eontem-
porarY:-N
Some so-called newspapers clip news from real
newspapers, let the clippings rest until the items
have been forgotten IN the rush Of fresh news, then
rehash and republish them and call them beats
on the papers from which they were stolen. But
nobody gets fooled.
Now Mr.. Benson, when you wrote
that you knew you deliberately in
tended to falsify the facts. You
know that, so far from THE News re-
hashing Journal news, you personally
and individually have our news re-
hashed for the Journal almost every
day in the week. You know you
rehashed that "Mouse trap" story, for
instance, from our columns. You
know that on Monday, the very day
the above paragraph appeared, you
practically rehashed from THE NEWS
of Saturday a long article about
! doings at st. Bridget's Church.
But, yesterday, you printed the fol-
lowing deliberate untruths:-
yesterday the "Journal9 had a couple of dozen
elegant scoops on all newspapers. About two dozen
per day is the average number. The journal is
the only reliable and live newspaper in this county.
Now. once again, Mr.. Benson, you
knew when you wrote the above that
you had not a couple of dozen, nor
even two or three, scoops" elegant
or otherwise, on THE NEWS. You
knew that, on the contrary, The
NEWS beat the Journal on the follow
ing local items:-
HoBoKEN BOYS CHAsED-Progress
of the baseball war in u sister city.
SCENE IN A POLICE STATIoN-A
wife's battle with herself.
n. H.C. r. r. Co. MEANS Business
Several hundred men put to work on
the new trolley lines.
LEWIS Son IsAAc-The story of a
bad boy
REV. D. HALLERoN's REPORT
The best year spiritually he ever saw.
The Journal had ten lines of this.
Perhaps. Mr.. Benson, you will have
another "City News Note" in the same
strain today. Go ahead. Here are
the facts for you: THE NEWS of yes
terday beat you on the followin G
items of local news
BOUNCED Mr.. EvANs-THE NEWS
had "a full. detailed story of this, while
the Journal had five lines buried in
the routine report of the Board OF
Education meeting.
DETECTIVE MCBRIDE DEAD.
A SEWER CEATEs A NUISANCE.
SAY ANNIE KAMPF Is INNo-,
CENT.
GRACE P. E. CHURcH-Children' S
entertainment.
GEORGE H. THOMAS PosT-To pa
rade Memorial Day.
A FAvoRITE PALM STOLEN.
CATHOLIC YOUNG MEMS UNION
Sundays meeting in Newark.
NORTH HUDSON PLANs-Connect--
ing the ZIP road with the streets.
NEW STEAM ROAD TO FORT LEE.
All of these items, Mr.. Benson,
were of great public interest. Not
one of them appeared in the Journal
yesterday. They were not rehashed
from its columns. From the very
nature of thing, they could not be.
We makclthis offerto Mr.. Benson and
the Journal. We viii place the check
of TIE NEWS for any sun from 500
to $3.50 in'the hands OF Mr.. Hulzhizer
of the Title Guarantee and Trust
Company, Mr.. Frank Stevens, or any
other prominent citizsn, II. the Jour
nal will consent to put up a similar
forfeit. We will then submit the files
of THE NEWS for any period in
she past year. q month, six months
or the whole year to three i'm
partial arbitrators-say Mr.. Steele
Of the Newark Nesos, Mr.. Spinney Of
the New York Times and Mr.. Rieck
of the New York Herald, or any
other three competent newspaper
men,-for compassion with a. file of
the JostrneJ covering the same period
The question for these gentlemen to
determine shall be: Which paper has
printed the greatest number of bona
nde news items, and news specials
within the period selected. The win
ner ia the contest shall receive back
its check. The loser shall guarantee
to publish a full and fair report ofsthe
decision of the arbitrator c~onspicu-
ensly in its own columns. and its
saneck she'll be used to pay tor the
publication of the am report as an
advertisement in such papers as the
winner may select.
Now, Mr.. Benson, here is a fair
offer. We are not afraid of the out