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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-03
IusTIoE PoTTs, BIRTHDAY.

Justic Potts is forty three years old today.
He was reminded Of the fact by an admirer
who presented with a magnificent horseshoe,
made of red roses and a basket of roses and
heliotrope The flowers remained on the
Courts desk until noon.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-03
BERNSTEIN WILL. SCATTER COIN

Bernstein. the c4othier of No 30 Newark
avenue, viii tomorr " x-orning celebrate
the ''Giorious Fourth By ,btowing from the
windows and roof OF his building, one hun
cred dollars in com to vhe boys and girls
Who are willing 20 scramble fo- the money.
Should the street become SO blockaded as 20
be dangerous, Mr., Bernstein viii announce
from the building what means will be taken
to distribute the money.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-03

IDersOnal estate 4J2,560
QUEER VAGARIES
Commissioner Mclean said that it was too
early to say anything about this years
figures as yet but in going over the figures
OF last year he had found that there was a
very great variety of values.
For instance said he, ''the average per-
sonal tax was S35 46 per capita, but in the
various districts the average was nowhere
near the same In the Town of Union the
average was only S14.01; in West Hoboken
it was S1257, and in SIX other districts the
reports were below the average. l should
think that the assessors in making their as
sessInents should endeavor to keep more
even.
Il noticed that Jersey City, allowing for
the increase. had about 56 per cent. of the
population of the county, 81 and 40 OF the
area and paid 60 and 40 per cent. of the tax.
1t is the duty of the assessors to make some
equitable tax and not throw an unjust tax
on Jersey City.
There are sos, PIT lots in the county OF
which Jersey City had 159, ia lots including
Riparian lands, last year. percentage OF 81
and 7-10, while it had to pay 60 and 4-l0 per
cent Jersey City has lost of its total area
25 Der cent $4,000 lots have been taken
down to about % and 8-10O of the entire
county. The population of Jersey City is 5S
per cent of the county.
ssHoboken has habitually returned a very
low valuation. It has 1920 acres, 1850
lots and population of 1890. The water
front Of Roboken has never been properly
returned Take the 1850 lots and value
them at 5000 each, which is fair average,
and the value would be $9,516,000. There
were last year 8, ,S27 houses place value of
81, 500 on each and you would have So, 9,561.-
500 more Add the water front to this and
the total value would amount to So. .000, 600
in round numbers. Last year they only re-
turned S2l, 100000.
MIR. Mclean went on to show that the
same state of affairs existed in Bayonne,
North Bergen, West Hoboken and the
other towns, and urged the assessors to do
better.
UNIFORMITY WANTED.
eve know very WELL" said Mr.. Mclean,
Hthat you are not assessing at full values,
but YOU should endeavor to make the thing
more uniform, and not compel Jersey City
to bear the whole burden"
Commissioner Morgan said that the per-
centage system was very good one, but he
did not think 1t a practicable one. In the
northern end Of the county the residents, as
a rule, were very poor. and did not possess
much personal property, therefore the per-
centage of the districts up there could not
be compared with that of othe,. sections of
the county.
The commissioners will devote the next
week to going over the districts and inves-
tigating tile work of the assessors, and will
meet again next Monday afternoon. They
will then sit continuously for ten days to
listen 20 appeals.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-03
VENRTIA AFL0AT AGAIN.
BIZ Gable to the United Press.

LONDON, July 8, 1S94-The steamer We
netia, which was reported ashore on Stroma
Island, off the northern coast of Scotland,
was towed OF last evening, after having dis
charged 200 tons of her cargo.
The Venetia proceeded on her voyage, ap-
parently undamaged.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-03
Cleaning yIgEiant's Hull.
H1j Cnhie to the TTfffed Press.

GLASGOW, July 5, 1894.-The vigilant
has been towed to the Deny dock at
Greenock for the purpose of cleaning her
hull. She took a preliminary sail with full
canvas yesterday and was much admired.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-03
Vigilant's Entries.

413 tNI71ED U I4VO 2 TFEltV' I 7 w
LONDON, July s. 1S94.-The Vigilant is
entered in the Mudhooz regatta, on Thurs
day. The rules require that the competing
yachts shall be steered by amateurs, and,
accordingly, Nat Herreshoff will steer the
Vigilant, Lord Dunraven and G.. L. Watson
the Valkyrie, W. Jameson the Britannia
and Robert Ure the Satanita. The prize
will be the Muir Memorial Cup
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-03

wv A--i1>-N- - = ~ y
All of the assessors accounted for the i'll
crease in their values as being due to i'm
plogements and the erection OF new build
inss Assessor George Bruce reported that
Norti, Bergen had lost S20,000 by exemp-
tiaiis. Assessor John O.Donnell explained
fhe decrease in values in Weehawken by the
fact that the Erie Railroad property, which
was assessed last year at $3.50, 900, had been
taken frola thon by tho State Board of
Assessors. The actual increase, therefore,
was SD, 400.
The decrease il personal estate III Kear-
nv was caused by the Essex Chemical
Works having gone out of business, and the
fact that the local board had granted some
exemptions.
according to the above figures the totals
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-03

81 was weak and nervous, but Hood
Sarsap pari1la has made me feel better in
every way" Mrs. A. p. Dunlap, Arlington
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-03
JAPAN AND OOREA.


BIZ Cable to the United Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 8, 1S94.-The Gov
ernment has served notice upon the Govern
ment at Toxic that Russia will not permit
Japan to occupy Corea.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-03
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

New NoRK. July 8. lS9i--Locai forecast for
the thirty-six hours ending at eight P. M. on
Tuesday:-For southeastern New York. including
Long Island; also Connecticut and Northern New
JerseY:--Fair and continued warm today and We'd
nesday; southwest winds
Hartnett's Therm0neGer Report.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-03
4

George BupneIl. UnderraGer and Embaimsr
No. 4 Wayne street. Telephone call 724 A.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-03
HUDSON IS RICH.
Property All Over the Coun-
ty Has Grown S2.b4S,755
in a Year.
COUNTY EQUALIZATION BOARD
Every Assessor Reports His
Valuations on Time--Vast
Railway Inroads.
How Jersey City Is Swindled An
nually By the Tax Sinking
Methods of Other Sections
of the County.

The County Board for the Equalization of
Taxes met yesterday afternoon in the Grand
Jury room of the Court House to hear the
report of the various assessors. President D.
o. Van Reypen presided. Commissioner War
ren was the only absentee
Contrary to usual custom all of the as
SCISSORS were ready to present reports, all OF
them being present with the exception OF
Assessor James Nolan who sent in his fig
ures. The Jersey City Tax Board was rep
resented by Commissioners lahey, Clarke
and Love, and President Lahey made the
following report of rateables Tor jersey
City,
First DISTRICT .,..,,.
Variation on real estate for 1894 S29ISS $50
VALUATION on personal for 1894 26767U0
Incpease i9ess on real estate over a5...s 1910
Inrease on personal over 95. l96,s55
Total increase. ............... s226,sOo
Valuation shnEio pni on real estate for sss45
Valuation on personal for 1871 s202O
Total ............. ss,218.545
Increase on personal over so.--.. 81 KY
Total increase. ........-.---.- SS'Lo'o
yalaaTion iIa;p Dion'te on real estate s
Vainsti0n on personal for 1891. l,7O0
rota, ................. 80. sl2sg795O
Increase on real estate over '93.. SlS9,450
Increase on personal for 3d.. 42,lOO
Total increase. -. .................s1 .s1sl,55O
FOURTH DISTRICT ~ n-,o,eo.-
valuation on real estate for lo94... Sl3Olo0l5
Valuation on personal for 1S94---- oio3Jo
Total ......... .................... SlS.89lSs5
1ncpease fpeat on real estate over '98 ssss, $40
Decrease on personal under '95... 6l,o0
Net increase =. ................- s27e.7eo
valuation on real estate for 1ss4.... S1,4s90
vai,iation on narsonaI for 1874. ........ 6i9 $50
Tofal ....-................. s12.O95640
increase on real estate over 3d.. $s4,sS9
Decrease on personal under '95-. Ia oo9
Net increase. Su,2SO
SIXTH DISTRICT "a
Valuation on real estate for 1894. S2 14Q
Valuation on personal for 1894 -.--..... lV4S25o
Total ...................... S22, 1850
increase on real estate over '9S.... s44t,500
Decrease on personal under '93.. os4oo
Net increase. '-...- Soo1'oN
Total amount assessed in the six districts:
Real estate.
Personal estate. -.'...-..--' '<''S'
Total s9' 99 *
Increase over 1898 S4,oA7'u
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-31
DON'T EXPECT TOO MUCH.

Ii isn't great while TO wait to learn
how the Congressional election OF next
Tuesday will result, but between now
and Tuesday night everybody has got
to have shy at predicting.
The News has analysed the situation,
and has shown that the probable result
will be Republican House, while the
possible result is Republican Senate.
Ii must be remembered that there are
tremendous odds to overcome 10 win the
House, and that to secure bare majority
of its members means glorious victory
for the Republicans and tremendous
defeat for the Democrats.
To win the Senate would mean the
virtual destruction of the Democratic
party, or the total extinction OF the
Peoples party. To bring that about
always promising the continued exist
ence Of the Populists-there must be
traditionally Democratic states captured.
1t is perfectly reasonable to hope that
the Republicans will secure two
members of the House from Virginia,
but it is scarcely sensible to expect that
Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, the
Carolinas, Tennessee. West Virginia or
Texas will choose Republican Legisla-
tures-or Legislatures that will elect
Republican Senators. The Republicans
will win tho Senate, however, without
either of these States if they hold all the
seats they now have and win one each
in New Jersey, Montana, Kansas and
Wyoming.
While, therefore, there is likely to be
political avalanche next Tuesday in
all Northern States, so called, the great
majority 10 be overcome in the House.
and the character of the States that are
to elect Senators TO the Fifty-fourth
Congress, renders anything more than a
bare control of the next Congress vain
to hope for.
This condition may as well De recog-
nized now as awakened to after election.
The future of Republcanism-fo the
next two years at least--prolnises moth
ing but hard work, and an opportunity
TO enjoy the fruits of the indifTerentism
that has grown since CLEvELANDs first
election and eliminated in his second.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-31
STOCK SPECULATION DEAD.

1t is apparent that the history of stock
speculation in America has part that
is finished. In all probability there will
be no such speculation as there has been.
The dealing in stocks is evidently to be
conducted in more business-like man
ner, and there will in the future have to
be better assurance of permanence of
value and earning capacity than has
heretofore been offered.
The enormous amount of money that
has been absolutely lost and that is now
unproductive and fettered, through specu-
lations in stocks, renders the wild plung-
ing Of the past impossible, as we'll as
weaving mems minds from the habit of
speculation.
Only four of the big railroads now in
the hands of receivers need TO be con-
sidered to discover 81 900, 900, 900 50 tied
up that it is absolutely lost to the bust
ness Of the country, and will return to
use only in lame and broken fractions.
Add to the total loss shown by these
four railroads the losses of like ch arac-
ter through speculative manipulation of
stocks Of other railroads and other enter
prises, and the mind can scarcely con-
ceive the tremendous damage done to
the country as whole and TO private
enterprise through the operation of the
stock-gambling habit.
Thir:y-fve millions were sunk in
General Electric, S3i. 900, 900 in Cordage.
S35 200, 600 in the WhislSey Trust, $ls,-
OO0, 900 in Linseed Oil; and like sums in
similar concerns. It is easy to trace
sums now quite odt of sight and out of
use, the aggregate of which causes one
30 gasp with astonishment andfear.
The tremendous burdens put uponr rail
roads by their fuanciers leads g.
wonder that they can ever pay dividends,
and shows that the shghte { derange-
ment or diminu,ion Of traffic must
operate to seriously lessen the value of
their stock and bonds. Here are few
Of the largest railroad mortgages:
Northern Pacific 900 Ooo
Aichison. ,00a
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-31

that the reduction in tariff on woolen
cloths and by free wool made by
your law will lower the price of
such a suit as you buy not over s2 or s.,
and of one made of such cloth as j use no
more than 81. This is businessmen the
ory--and being from merchants whose
business and interest ii is TO sell all the
foreign goods possible, must be considered
reliable; therefore concluded that 81 on
a suit or an overcoat-s2 on my years
supply-is the most | can save on them.
Putting these together / find that the
tariff duty on all my clothing will be re-
duced by s3.03 year; that Is Qf your
claims were true) | might get il for SO
much less. In the same manner l find the
reduction on clothing for my wife aud
boy may possibly amount TO $3.50 more;
making altogether S5.63 year for me
and my family, and including everything
a total OF $3.50 year on our necessaries
of life.
But while making this reduction OF $3.50
yearly you have increased the tariff on
sugar, which was before free of duty, and
thereby force me hereafter TO pay S2.S3
more year on the quantity of that article
use. Taking this increased sugar tax
from the S5.56 reduction on other things
leaves me final claimed saving of S2.73 a
year (91 cents for each person) on the
necessaries of life, for me and my family.
The Whole Saving.
The whole saving made by the law 70
the entire working class OF the country
$1,000, 900 persons) 1 find would amount,
at the same rate per head, to about
s15,470,O0O year. On the other hand,
your process has already cost US
81 1872, 100000 Increasing several millions
a day) in lost time and wages, and fully
sos, ,O00, 900 mofe in savings and money
spent by 2,385,000 workingmen to live
while idle-a total OF 81 ,6S2, 800, 900 or los
times the saving you offer; in other words,
we have together lost in the last IS
months alone Gs much as your process bill
would save us in about one hundred and
eight years time.
Great Jehoshophsti Is this the kind OF
work for which we have been paying you
over s1e each working hour during the
past eighteen months Why, Mckinley
did better than that, for h., with hardly
any blowing at all, saved me through his
bill 1855 (s2.52 for each person) year In
the retail cost of my sugar alone.
A WORKING MAN.
October %. 1894.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-31

the man who is the ''friend OF labor" for
the reason, chiefly. because he says he il.
But when the man who talked raised
50 much Of rumpus that the man who
had little TO say. but VINO owned ~ big
factory Mat supported in comfort
happy communties WAS compelled to
shut ~ his iactory--then' the laboring
man learned something.
The man who talked might amelior-
ate the laboring mans condition" but
it was the despised employer. the hated
mauufaciuYer, the darned old capitalist
alone who made it possible for the
workingman to have any condition
at all.
And after the laboring man had been
cut of work awhile he expressed a
strong desire to get back into the con-
dition that existed before the man who
talks broke things up-and he was glad
TO get 1t with or without any further
amelioration from the influences OF the
man who talks.
Which is why the laboring man is
willing to confess that he knows more
than he did two years ago.
Which is why, here in Rhode Island,
he will vote to send to Congress the Hon.
WARREN O. ARNOLD and let DIR.
Chrysanthemum GARvIN talk TO the in
habitants of the Cumberland duck ponds
as long as he chooses.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-31
w HAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
Brown Alumni.
Brown Daily Herald.


We are In receipt OF a communication from
one Of Browns most loyal alumni In regard
10 forming and extending alumni associations
in our great cities The good TO be
deriyedfrom identifying ones self with such
organizations is too apparent to need further
emphasis, and yet many graduates should
have this matter more thoroughly impressed
upon their minds These alumni assoria-
tions are benefit in many ways, but
principally in two First, the one who
allies himself with an association Is personally
benefited, and second, the interests OF
Brown are greatly furthered. This is par
ticuarly true in our large cities where
n graduates identity is nearly lost but may
become quite strongly felt when in LEAGUE
with number OF other graduates. Anoppor-
tunity is afforded for becoming acquainted
with prominent alumni OF long standing who
in many ways may prove serviceable to
younger graduates The sons OF Brown, In
whatever place they may be, should join hands
in one common band OF union and form united
interests. This is not only pleasant when
considered from social standpoint
but at times quite advantageous, though in
directly, when viewing IL from financial
phase. From college fraternity life most of
us know the benefit and pleasure of mutual
s. mpathy and close union, and it is the
same broad fraternal spirit that the
various alumni associations endeav-
or To engender and uphold. The
Brown University Club in New York now
numbers over two hundred and thirty MEM
bers. We hope that our other alumni located
in large cities will endeavor in so far as 1t may
be possible to unite themselves closely in one
common interest of Old Brown.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-31

DIR. Chrysanthemum GARvIN allows
that he is responsible, personally and
solely. for all the legislation in behalf of
"the people" from the BoURN amend
ment to the ten-hour law. OF course
neither DR.. GARvIN nor the Democratic
party had the least bit to do with either
enlarged suffrage or reduced hours of
labor. A Republican General Assembly
accomplished both.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-31

These figures do not, by any means,
represent the mortgage Indebtedness OF
the roads, being only cited as samples
of big mortgages. They are generally
only one of several, or the first of "A
series of first, second and third mort
cages, with other Indebtedness repre-
sented by other kinds of securities.
The stock or these roads. was originally
sold above par-the Union Pacific at 1870,
for example, and Atchison at ia. Yes
terday Atchison touched ), Union
Pacific 1T, Southern Pacific 10, Reading
1T, st. Paul 60l, Northern Pacific Al.
The so-called Industrials" showed the
effects of the slump from their specula-
tive careers, also, Whiskey was " and
General Electric 3i4,
The cause of the loss of apparent
values is simply that the real value was
never in these stocks. Money was reck-
lessly thrown into whatever offered to
take it when the Government began to
buy up its bonds, about five years ago,
and the desire to find prof table employ
ment foy funds the treasury was bound
to dispose of led a great many men to
assume the role of financiers.
The country was thus conveniently
cleared of surplus money. IL is begin
ming to accumulate once more, rs THE
News observed yesterday. but up to the
present there are no signs of It's going
into the stock-speculatlon line. The
country is offering great opportunities
for legitimate investment, and it is
probable that surplus money will be alb
sorbed by enterprises that have for their
object the development of natural
resources or manufacturing.
Such as anticipate revival of stock
speculation, to anything like the degree
of its former disastrous activity, are
likely to discover at last that their ex-
pectations are vain.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-31
ONE BIG MHOOPi

Why not get up one good big Repub-
lican mass meeting in Infantry Hall
say for Saturday night next, or election
eve, Monday It would make every
body feel good and it ought not to be
forgotten 10y sanguine Republicans that
nothing is so uncertain as certainty
aud that the city of Newport election
was 80 soft snap before IL happened
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-31

Hon. WARREN o. ARNOLD, the manu-
facturer, has a business the successful
pursuit of which by capital and labor
united has resulted in the distribution of
hundreds Of thousands of dollars from
capital to labor. Doesn't labor prefer
this sort of friendship to Garvin lallipa-
taft? How much bread will talk buy?
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-31

1T is said that in 10 years, 5000 fallen
women have been rescued by the Saliva
tion Army in London, and 70 per cent.
Of them were reformed. Let the Saliva
tion Army make all the noise it wants
to when it can accomplish practical
work like that
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-31

THERE is plenty of money in the land,
the granaries are full, and we have our
health. All that is needed TO boom
things up to the 92 standard is the cleo
tion of Republican Congress and a
consequent confidence.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-31

BY arrangement with the Sugar Trust,
as is believed TO be the case, the price of
sugar has not advanced-will not ad-
vance until election. Democratic orators
find material herein while at the same
time proclaiming that the "tarf is a
taxi
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-31

A CANDIDATE for Congress in New
York Dragged in campaign speech that
his wife had presented him 1s
children-and both himself and his wife
We're born in the district. 1t remains
for the district to say whether the breed
is worth cultivating or not.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-31
As TO .rEIENps OF LABoR.-

Who is the "aboring mans" friend (?
The man who talks, or the man whose
enterprise builds mp pindastries that invite
aud pay for lalery
The laboring man has in the past
shown an iucxplir able disposition 10
hitch his caIt W the man who talks
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-31

THERE'S also Skim Milk Cure" 1t
need not be heralded as anything nesT.
There's always been skim milk cure !;
the using of it has cured many people of
the habit of drinking milk
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-31

The President will not say the word
HILL has longed and listened for. What S
more, he won't let CARLISLE, or any of
the other Cabinet members. say it
either. Mr.. CLEVELAND is considerable
of mule when he once shuts his eyes
to bundle of hay.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-31

WHAT rubbish it is TO talk of politics
being of no interest when politics can
make the greatest nation on earth pros
porous at home and mighty abroad or
poor and stingy aud weak, according TO
the kind of politics that rules in Govern.
ment.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-31

Mr.. CLEVELAND, it appears, cannot
vote, as he has no residence, in the legal
sense, anywhere. Is he the modern Man
Without Country? If so, why has he
devoted so much time and eloquence to
conservation r
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-31

THE Calhoun County Ca Times re-
marks cheerfully: "With 'possum and
'taters and 'simmon beer and cane grind
ings, southwest Georgia ought to be
happy, despite the low price of cotton
and Populist croakings." 1t is hard to
keep down the optimism of the news
paper man to tine manner born.