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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-05
MYSTIC SHRINE CARNIVAL.
VIII Take Place at Madison Square
Garden January Is.

The great Mystic Shrine carnival will be
held at Madison Square Garden, New York,
on the evening of the 18th inst. This is one
of the occasions when the Shriners allow the
outside world to come in and witness what a
jolly, good natured lot of people they are. A
great feature of the reception this year will be
the music. Fred Innes, with his immense
band of 200, has been engaged. Being a
member of the order, he takes an unusual
pride in it, and proposes to introduce new
music from his wi pen, in addition to the
works of Strauss, Waldteufel, Trotere, Las
sen, Braham, Metra, Gounod, Mascagni,
Gillet, Greene, Scharwenka, Furst, Phuger,
Aseh, W~einberger, Collier, Innes, Barnby.
Jakobroski, NORM, De Koyen, Lecocq, Eel
Ter, Zradier and Langey, and for the first
time, Deue Temps, the New York Herald,
by Rosenfeld, duets by Bent and Whittier,
MERRY War; elsie of Champagne PAN
iandrnm," mecca Temple March, first
-time}, hines, and, most Important of all,
lines win introduce his new Grand Descyfp-
tfre Fantasia, "a Trip to the Worlds Fairi'
For the Carnival, which is a great feature
and one of the drawing cards, Fred Solomon
Ia member of Mecca, who made such q sue
cess of the Carnival last season, has the mat
ter in hand this season, and has been hard at
work for weeks, and will continue until the
Reception and Carnival, with rehearsals
daily. He has engaged a vast number OF
celebrities In the dansante line. 1t will be q
grand musical spectacle, entirely new and
original, invented and produced under his
personal supervision. and entitled "Moham-
med's Return to Mecca"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-05
NEW JERSEY CLUB.
Meeting of the Board of Governors
Last light.

HlGeLlll2 u tllt AbO&TA VI wv
Last Night.
The Board of Governors of the New Jersey
Club met last night in the clubhouse, Grand
street, to wind up the business of the old
year. President Alva A. Bedell was in the
chair.
The secretary's report, presented by Mr..
William J. Henderson, was satisfactory IN
every way. So, too, was Treasurer c. j..
Cronin's report.
Several candidates for membership were
admitted into full connection When the
routine business matters were disposed OF
the board enjoyed an excellent supper.
The new year sees the oldest chartered
club in New Jersey in a position not excelled
by any in the State, 1t numbers among It's
members the most influential men in polftl-
cal. business, professional and social circles,
and when its doors are opened to guests
these don't easily forget the old-fashioned
courtesy and hospitality extended to them.
Among the changes made in the personnel
of the club is that of the steward. The pres
emit man is a competent person, a good chef
and one who knows how to administer to the
comforts of the members.
The clubhouse is in splendid order, and
1894 promises even greater prosperity to the
club.
At the head of this institution is Mr.. A1va
A. Bedell, worthily assisted by Capt. Hooker,
Mr.. Henderson, Mr.. Cronin, Mr., Montgomery
and other men yersed in club matters. This
is Mr.. Bedell's fourth term as president. and
this compliment paid to him is only a slight
reward for his valuable services in the chair.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-05
HOME OF THE HOMELESS.


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The annual election of officers of the Home
of the Homeless took place last night at the
institution, Grove street. The only change
made was on the Board of Lady Managers.
Mrs. Joseph A. Dear, who has served as
President of the board, declined to act again.
Mrs. Dear, during her term, has been a most
Jealous and Woodworking president, and the
present efficiency of the Home is due, in a
| large measure, to her uutiring labors for its
welfare. Mrs. Dear, however, win continue
to be an active patron of this worthy char
ity.
The board will be as follows:-Mrs. J. An
ness, President; Miss Jennie Van Wrinkle
and Mrs. S. Reed, Vice Presidents; Mrs. J.
w. Newson, Recording Secretary; Mrs. P.
Van Wrinkle, Corresponding Secretary; Miss
Jacobs, Treasurer.
The committees are as follows
House Committee-Mrs. j.. A. Shawda,
Mrs. H. Hellerman, Mrs. Walter Dear, Mrs.
J. G. WEIGH.
Joint Committee on Applications for Adj
mission and Assistance-Mrs. S. A. Cham
berlain, Mrs. William Reed, Mrs. j. Van
Horn, Mr.. G, A. Holbrooke, Mr.. w. Dear,
Mr.. William Reed.
Nursery Committee-Mrs. Fl. Cumming.
Medical Staff-Dr. /. W, Clark. DIR. J..
Hoffman, DR., Burdette Craig, DR.. J. Loeb
ner.
The directors are:-Messrs. j. A. Dear, w.
Dear, j. w. D~usenbury, S. Reed, J.H. Frye,
T. M. Gopsill, G. A. Holbrook, +. w. Pang-
born, q. K. Pangborn, VIM. Reed and Geo..
H. White.
Immediately after the adjournment of the
annual meeting, the newly elected directors
organized by the election Of Mr.. J; w.
Dusenbury as President; Messrs. W. Dear,
J. H. Frye and VIM. Reed as Vice Presi-
dents: Joseph A.. Dear, Secretary, and T.. NJ.
Gopsill. Treasurer.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-05
FREMONT CLUBS NEW OFFICERS.

The Fremont Club, the leading Republic
car organization of the Eighth district, held
an election of officers last. night at their
headquarters on Central avenue. The fol-
lowing were elected for the ensuing year.
President, R. N. Henry; First Vice Presi-
dent, H.. n. Williams; Second Vice Presi-
dent, A. A. Johnston, Jr.; Corresponding
Secretary, J. G. Maharg; Financial Score
tary, Amiel Wagner; Treasurer, Peter
vofkman; sergeant-at-Arms, George Nor
gan; Librarian, W. H. Miller.
The retiring President, e~x-Freeholder
Doscher delivered an address, in which be
stated that the club was in an excellent con-
dition, and that it had lone more for the
promotion of good government and the bet
tering of the social feelings in Jersey City
Heights than any other political ~organiza-
tion in the city. He also thanked the mem
bers for their kindness to him and the honor
they had bestowed upon him, and requested
that, they stand by the new President just as
well as they did by him. Mr.. Doscher was
the clubs first President when they organized
i'll 1899. He went out of office in 1890, and
was elected again in 1892, and has been its
President up to this date,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-05
WEST SHORE RAILROAD.
THE NIATAHA FALLS MUTE.
PICTURESQUE Line of Travel to Lake
and Mountain Resorts.

Trains leave 42d st, North RIVER station, New
York, as follows and fifteen minutes earlier from
foot Franklin ST., N. R. Terminal station at Wee
hawken. N. j.. can be reached via trains of n. J. J.
Rd. leaving Penn. r. r. Depot.
$50 A. M.-Daily local to Albany and Saratoga.
915 A. M.-paily for Albany, Utica, Syracuse,
Rochester, Buffalo, Nlagara Falls. Detroit, Chicago,
except saturday for Toronto.
1l,S5 A. M.-Daily, except Sunday. to Catskill
Mountains, New Paltz, Lakes Mohonk and Mime
waska, Albany, Saratoga.
400 7: M-paIdy excent sunday for catsklll
S.i5P. NJ. daily for Albany, Montreal, Utica, SYRIA
cuse, Rochester. Bufalo, Niagara Falls, Toronto
Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago.
$50 P. N. daily, except Sunday, for Newburgh.
Albany, Saratoga and Montreal. Parlor car to
Kingston.
SIS P. NJ. daily for Albany, Utica, Syracuse.
Rochester. Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Toronto, Detroit,
Cleveland and Chicago.
Haverstraw Locals, 200 A. NJ; 2.45, $50, SIS, s.5-
1000 and tl1.45 p, NJ.
*Daily. +Sundays only.
Wagner sleeping cars for Albany, Utica, Syracuse,
Rochester, Buffaio, Niagara Falls, Toronto Detroit
Cleveland and Chicago. on all through trains.
For tickets, time tables, parlpr and sleeping car
accommodations or information, apply Offices;
Brooklyn, No. $s Washington street, No. 76 Fulton
City, Nos. IT'S. z9i, 49,, 7S, 7S5 and 92 Broadway, 14S
Bowery, Nc. 81 East Fourteenth street. No IS West
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, Hoboken, N.
j., No. los Hudson street and at stations.
C.. LAMBERT,
General Passenger Agent,
No. . Vanderbilt avenue,
New York.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-05
TWO HORSES SHOCKED TO DEATH.
Came in Contact with a Telephone
Wire Crossed with the Trolley.

Two horses were Indirectly killed early
last evening by the deadly trolley. Mr.. Al
bert Vreeland's house stands back from the
street at the southwest corner of West Side
and ~Communipaw MI. Vreeland
has q telephone in his house, and last night
his telephone wire broke INT fell across the
trolley wire. The end of it fell across the
plank road.
George Walker of Newark was driving to
Newark a team of horses attached to Storey's
express wagon, which belongs in Newark.
He had not driven his team more than fifty
or seventy-five feet onto the plank road
from the horses, a sickening smell of burn
ing flesh and the animals fell to the ground,
kicked a few times and then expired. They
had run against the telephone wire, made
deadly by the trolley wire, which was lying
across the street, breast high. Walker re-
ported the matter to the police of the Fourth
precinct.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-05
TROLLEY IN H0BOKEN.
A North Hudson Company
Change That VIII Settle
the Matter.

The trolley question is the subject of much
discussion in Hoboken. The meeting at the
Council Chamber Wednesday night was a
rank failure, SO far as showing formidable
opposition to the trolley system was CON
eerned. Some of the DIRECTORS We're voted
cranks, men who like to pose as public
spirited'' citizens, while others were I'M
doubtedly sincere. The main objection was
set forth in Mayor Fagan's veto, and his
sentiments may be taken as those of the ma
jority of the citizens. Insufficient renumera-
ton and lax rules of regulation. With these
objections overcome, the request of the
North Hudson County Railway Company
will be granted.
Matters will remain as they are till after
the annual meeting of the company next
Thursday. A change in the officers of the
road will then take place, after which the
company will settle al these little matters.
COL. STEVENS FOR PRESIDENT.
Col. Stevens, in all probability, will be
elected president, although Nicholas Goeltz
Goeltz has been offered the position of treas
urer, and it is thought will accept.
With Col. Stevens at the head Of the COM
pany a better state of affairs will ensue. He
will tell what he wan and offer what he
thinks just, and will carry out to the letter
all agreements he will make.
THE SYSTEM WANTED
The double track trolley on Washington
and Ferry streets will not be seriously OBJ
jected to. The people will stand a single one
on Newark street and Willow avenue, but
will object to double track on the two
streets last named. They will also object
to the switch system with the trolley. This
difficulty will be overcome by laying tracks
on Park avenue, cars going north on Willow
avenue and south ON Park avenue As to
the Second street line the same course will
follow. In the matter of the Grove street
line, where rapid transit is really needed,
cars, it is understood, will run south ON
Grove street and north on Henderson street,
as neither Grove nor Henderson streets will
admit of double tracks.
RUMORED DEAL
A "deal," it is rumored, will be consum-
mated with the Rutherford Company. By
the way, all talk of this company entering
Hoboken by an elevated road from the Hill
is all ''bosh." Those concerned say there is
no truth whatever in the story, However,
the company will nave to enter Hoboken
from the Paterson Plank Road, and, as the
Council seems unwilling to give them the
privilege, they will compromise by running
over the tracks of the North Hudson.
The trolley is needed in Hoboken, many
contend, but, as the privilege is worth
money, citizens demand that the city be paid
a just sum for the privilege.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-05
. QUEER THING ABOUT oAMELs.

Some years ago, when the British troops
were fighting against the forces of the Mahdi
in the Soudan, opportunity was afforded to
many of the correspondents accompanying
the expedition to study the habits of the
camel. Most of the transportation of the
soldiers baggage was done by these sships
of the desert" as they are called, and at
night some of the newspaper men spent a
portion of their leisure trying to learn some
thing new about these strange creatures.
One of them, who was an inveterate
smoker, discovered that the camel Is a great
lover of tobacco. Let any one smoke a pipe
or cigar in the camel compound, said he, and
the camel will follow the smoker about,
place his nose close to the burning tobacco,
inhale the fumes with a prolonged sniff,
swallow the smoke, then throwing his head
up, with mouth agape and eyes upturned,
showing the bloodshot whites, will grunt a
sigh of ecstasy that would make the fortune
of a low comedian in a love scene.
So if any of you nave a pet camel who
seems to be longing for something, and re-
fuses to be comforted until he gets it, you
might give him a cigar. He is usually so
intelligent that it would probably take very
few lessons to teach him how to smoke in a
most expert fashion.-Harper's Young
People.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-05

III 90 W III A140AA ~ ~A0N SAN~
1t and Cabinet are opposed to
rne tax. We can easily be-
X lis to be true. President Cieve-
and seems to have an unerring intu-
ition, not only of what is just but OF
what is for the best interests of the
people. The Income tax, as proposed
by the Wilson Committee. is wrong
as a matter of principle and at once
Oppressive and uncertain Is a matter
of application.
All taxation should be levied equal
II, pro rata. There is no Q
foundation in justice for the exemp-
ton of incomes less than $1,000 a year
than there is for the exemption OF
i~mportations of less than 81, 900 from
the operation of the tariff. Some
thing might be said for the exemp-
ton of just sufficient income to cover
ti.e n-ecessaries of life, but in that
case the amount exempted should be
the lowest income on which any con-
siderable number of citizens actually
maintain themselves and their fam
lilies from year TO year. that is to say
about $500. Any attempt to tax rich
men simply because they are rich is
a step toward communism, even
though a small one. 1t is a yielding
to all the most objectionable tenden-
cies OF the age. 1t is a concession TO
the spirit of anarchy and subversion
which no enlightened statesman
should be guilty of.
. So much for the principle of the
thing. As for the practical working,
it can only be said that it a never
be successful in this country. In a
country like England, where the land
is owned by a few, where the majority
of interests are localized and where
the government has great means of
enquiry, it may be possible to collect
from sixty to seyenty-ive per cent. of
the theoretic income tax of the coun-
try; but even there an enormous
amount must escape the assessor.
IN this country, where rich men
own land and other securities scat
tered over a multitude of states and
territories. where millions of capital
are involved in enterprises of uncer-
tain and finctuating earning capacity,
where the power of the government
to trace out the facts is limited, and
where, above all, the people are reso-
lutely hostile to any inquisition into
their affairs, it may be doubted
whether the income tax could be col
lected on thirty-three per cent. of the
sums liable to assessment under the
terms of the law.
There are some things about which
tits impossible to develop a public
conscience. One is petty smuggling
we had almost said smuggling in
general Another assuredly is perjury
when committed in shielding ones
private affairs from what is regarded
as tyrannic and unjust intermeddling.
In the past, the best OF men have
sworn black was white in the course
of an income tax examination and
they will do it again and again to the
end of the world and other good men
Will say they have done quite right,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-05
The Trolley in Hoboken.

Mayor Pagan of Hoboken is per-
fectlv right in demanding that any
concessions granted for trolley lines in
that city shall be accompanied by am
pie guarantees 10 the city for efficient
service, moderate fares, and fair com
pensation for the franchises granted.
On the one hand, nothing but the
blindest folly can offer unreasonable
opposition to this great improvement.
The trolley is now well established as
the best of all systems of rapid sur
face transit. Hoboken has as much
to gain by it as any other city. 1t
means new population to her empty
streets and new business to her not
over busy stores. 1t means more
money in every citizens pocket and
more money from taxation in the pub
lie treasury.
On the other hand, the grant of the
use of the streets for this purpose is
one of incalcnlable value. The direct
beneficiarias are the stockholders of
the company. No matter whether
the city grows or not. the trolley is a
benefit to them for it cheapens
enormously the operati IN of their
lines. The city grants them, priin-
arily, the means OF making largely
increased dividends, and they should
be made pay for what they get. 1t
is the custom, as in u own city, for
companies obtaining franchises to
draft their ordinances in such fashion
that the compensation clauses mean
anything the company's lawyers
choose to think. They look liberal at
first glance, but when You come to
figure put the sums recoverable under
Mem, you find nothing tangible
your hand on. This has been
eerience Of Newark. In the
Shen our Street and Water
getting in their fine work,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-05
ITEMS FROM

Officers of Hoboksn Council. No. 80. A. o. F.
were installed Iasr night.
The fifth annual masquerade ball OF the Hc-
boken independent Pioaaers win he given at
Odd Fellows Hall on January 20.
This evsning the Board OF Trustees OF the
Exempt Volunteer Firenen's w, and O. Fund
will meet tonight at~ headquarters, Newark and
Bloomfield streets,
The Atlantic Boat Club met last evening and
made arrangements for their bali at Quartette
Club Hall on January 30.
Instead Of the customary passes with bundles
of tickets. the North Hudson County road on
the 18th Of this month will give small books
with strips CT tickets in them. This will entitle
only pass holders to use tickets.
The ball OF the James HARRISON Assoc, alton
will be held on January % at Disrksris Hall.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-05
WHITTIER,s KINDLINEss

Mr.. Whittier loved the sights and sounds
of nature with the ardor OF Wordsworth
and there is a charming touch of the human
in the way he clings to them
81 am very thankful that I can almost
forget age and infirmity in the contempla-
ton of these lovely dawns and sunsets, and
these still, warm, pictureful moons. Shall
we have them or their like in the new lifea
If not, /, for n must miss them sadly
But His will be done"
Again, in a June letter of this year.
ut seems to me the world was never so
beautiful as now, when | am about to leave
it. But, no doubt, the infinite possibilities of
the future life will more than compensate for
the loss of this"
Whittier, like Longfellow, was very gem
erous in his valuation of contemporaries,
and praised them without the thieving help
of IFS and butts.
On one occasion, a tributary paper to
Longfellow appearing on his birthday, and
Whittier through some mischance not hav-
ing been appraised of its preparation, he
wrote:-
sit would have given me great pleasure
to take part in it: he [Longfellowl has no
warmer admirer than myself"
In reference to Holiness
"He deserved all honor; and, besides, is a
dear old personal friend.n And again, in a
paragraph of another letter, he ~rejoices in
the honors bestowed on DR.. Holmes while
abroad.-ChaTtotte II. Bates IN McCtare's
for January.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-05
LUTHERAN CHORAL UNION.

The Lutheran Choral Union of the Zion
Lutheran Church, one of the most active
musical organizations in the Greenville sec
ton, is preparing for an event which will
take place on next Wednesday evening at
the church, McAdoo and Bergen avenues.
The event will be the celebration of the
unions second anniversary, and if the plans
of the Committee of Arrangements are car
ried out, a treat will be given to the music
loving congregation. An excellent musical
programme is in preparation, and the mem
bers are rehearsing faithfully, so that no
hitch will occur in the programme. On the
Friday evening following, Il supper will be
held at the church. The committee which
has charge of the arrangements is as fol
lows:-Misses Fieda Burkhardt, Eta
Lamcken and William Gansberg.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-05
PRICES FOR OLD MANUSCRIPTS.

The slast will and testament of Lord
Byron was sold at auction in London a few
days ago for SIS. At the same sale a char
acteristic letter of Carlyle to Mrs. Austin,
brought $40, and q letter of Byron to Cole
ridge, 1856. Al letter of George Eliot, COM
planning of the literary criticism of certain
persons, was sold for $25; a letter from Mel
son to Sir William Hamilton for SO, and q
number Of letters written by American
presidents and Statesmen for $125s
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-05
CAPTAIN M,KAIgs SEA GULL.

Police Captain McKaig is trimming in
hard luck.n First he gets his whiskers pulled
out by a Scandinavian and then he gets
ssgulled'' by an ordinary Police Justice-and
the joke of it is he will not know he has been
gulled until he reads it in THE News. On
New Years night John Young brought a
bird to this city from New York. It oc-
CURED to a number of people who saw it
that it would be a great joke to fool the
Captain. After carefully arranging their
plans they announced that the bird would be
ratified off and persuaded the Captain to take
a try at winning it. Justice Kimmerly was
the prime mover in the scheme. 1t was
agreed that the Captain was to have the
bird. AS each man threw the dice he yelled
out less than be really threw. Try as they
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-05
FOREIGN NOVELTIES,

The largest bell in the world is the Krem-
lin, at Moscow, $4,000 pounds.
One of the smallest coins in size is the new
clatroreal gold piece in Guatemala.
Belgium is the first country to make hyp-
nothing an offense against the law OF the
land.
There is a clock in Brussels which is
never wound by human hands. Wind power
does it.
Egyptian temples s,Ia ssss were rs, usually ! ras 4 app srb;op
on each side.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-05

might, however, the Captain always got less
than anyone else. 1t ended in Kimmerly's
getting the bird. He Immediately made a
present of it to the Captain, telling him it
was a young eagle. The skipper took
1'the Young eagle to the station house, feel
ing as proud in its possession as a peacock is
of its feathers. On the way he stopped to
show it to all his friends. He put it in O big
cage in the station house and there numbers
of people have called to see it. 'Twould be
mean to tell the Captain that it is only a sea
gull-and, besides, he might not appreciate
the joke as others who are lin on it" do.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-05
RARTHs TWO HOT PLACES.

The hottest places on the globe are Death
Valley, in this country, and the region
around the falls of the Nile. 1t never rains
in either locality, and the natives of the Nile
region do not believe strangers when told
that water car descend from the sky. In
both places the thermometer often goes as
high as $50 degrees in the shade,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-05
what Doggie Dfdn,t Know.

Littla Dot Ito hsr dug)-.Nnw, Purple, yeu
JUS stop. hat,sths third tisus you've tored
DoIie's drsss, and I won't stand ii another
minute. Itsa pity you didn't hear what Nellie
Highupp said about you, cause / gness II you
behave yorrseif. street s smiths Good