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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-27
DOCK OWNERS. LOOK OUT
Riparian Commissions II Threaten tt
COnfiscate Unless tEae state rs Paid.

h61DdHAdH SOEaEhhlkS9RO ASE 4hfGaGCD ~
Confiscate Unless the state rs Paid.
The first meeting of the newly organized
Board of State Riparian Commissioners took
place yesterday afternoon, in Governor
Werts' cottage at Sea Grit. The Governor
presided. Among the grants passed was one
to the Jersey City, rutherford and Hobo
ken Railroad Company, permitting that cor
p~oration to build a bridge across. the Hack
ensack for their projected electric road to
Rutherford. For the riparian rights OBJ
tanned, the company will pay to the State
1,500.
A tract of land ON the Delaware River
was sold for $500, and one on the Shrews-
bury River front for $3.50.
Engineer Robert C. Bacot reported that
about eight docks nave been built on the
Hudson River, between the State line and
the West Shore ferry, in direct violation of
the riparian law. No permission has been
asked, and no money has been paid intQfthe
State Treasury for the lands SO taken.
Some docks have also been built on the
Shrewsbury River and Arthur Kill, and no
grant was made. The commission instruct
ed the engineer to notify the offenders to
come before the board and pay for the
riparian rights or their docks will be confis-
Gated, according to the provisions of the
law.
Assistant Engineer Payne and Mr.. George
L. Record, of counsel to the commission,
nave been vigorously hunting up offenders
against the law. Both gentlemen have made
a careful examination of the shore fronts
within the State lines, and have carefully
ascertained who have and who have not
paid for lands taken from the State. In the
case OF some Of those who have not asked
for the grant and simply went ahead build
ing cocks, without paying the State for the
| privileges, the engineers believe they broke
the law in pure ignorance. They were not
aware that a riparian commissions permits
sion must first be obtained before pushing
out a deck into the river. They will soon
learn differently.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-27
The Senate Tariff Bill.

A large number of people are will
ing to accept the Senate tariff bill
with all its iinperfections for the sake
of getting a settlement of the ques-
ton. 1t is in many respects better
than the Mckinley law, they say--so
much it could hardly escape--and be-
cause it seems difficult to get any
thing better, they clamor to be given
this at once. With this position we
have no sympathy. We believe a
genuine tariff reform measure, based
ON Democratic principles, should be
passed at this time. or else none at
all.
The passage of the Senate bill will
simply retard any real reform. It
will disgust one set of people; it will
satisfy another. 1t will tire the pub
lie of the whole subject and will
utterly destroy confidence in the
good faith of the Democratic party
in the tariff reform cause. Mean
while it will give neither consumers
nor manufacturers any relief worth
speaking of, and through the com
bined operation of the sugar tax and
the income tax it will once again roll
up a surplus in the treasury.
On the other hand, if the bill is
beaten altogether through the pro-
tectionist proclivities of the Senators,
the fight for reform remains just
where it was in the campaign of 1892,
OF, if anything, its advocates are more
determined than ever. The fight
will have developed into a direct con-
test between the people represented
by the President and the House of
Representatives and the trusts and
monopolies represented by the high
tariff element in the Senate. 1t may
be, of course, that the Republican
party may flop over to tariff reform.
It is by no means impossible. That
will DO bad for the Democracy, but
the people will get the benefit all
The N
At any rate, as the fight stands now.
every good democrat and every sin
sere tariff reformer must hope that
the German abomination will be
beaten, no meter what the con-
senuenca
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-27
G. REPUBLICANS.
Greenville Lcasuers Annoyed by
Practical Joke.

Greenyille Lcaguers Annoyed by a
Practical Joke.
Three years ago a Gothamite named Ben
jamin Worthington became an aspirant for
Assembly honors in the big city across the
tion in his district. His political ambition
received such a set back on eiec ton day that
he retired into obscurity and shortly after
died.
Among the effects left by Worthlngton
were a number of posters bearing his name,
which in some manner fell into the hands of
a membe of the Minkakwa Club of Green
vile. About this time the Minkakwa Gu
was holding its primaries. to elect represen-
tatives to the County Committee. Among
the candidates whose name were placed on
the Irregular ticket was Justice of the Peace
Louis H~ennemeier, Jr., Hennemeier at
the. time had a few enemies in the
club who resolved to defeat him and
on the night of the primary when one mem
Der engaged Hennemeier in a game of check
ers, others doctored up the tickets by FASTING
the Worthington pastors over Hennemeier's
NAME. When the vote was counted it was
learned that the dead New York politician
had overwhelmingly defeated the Justice. A
row followed, but Hennemeier never went to
the County Committee as a representative
from Greenville. This episode took place a
year ago last spring, and Hennemeierf was
satisfied that thetname g, W~orthington, would
never again jar his organ Of hearing. But
he was doomed to disappointment.
AT a recent meeting of the Greenville Re
publican League Club a letter was received
by Secretary Hutchinson, which contained
one of the regular proposition CARDS of the
club. On the card, written in a large, bold
hand, and after the words For member
ship" was the name Benjamin Worthington.
On the bottom of the card in the space re-
endorsing applicants for membership
were the names of Louis Hem
nemeier, Jr., and Henry C. Petty.
When the Secretary read the card Petty
and Hennemeier created an uproar, and after
denying that they had anything to do with
the card, demanded that a committee be ap-
pointed to investigate the matter, and learn,
if possible, who sent the card to the club.
President Rose appointed Justice Henne-
meier to do the work. Hennemeier has not
yet learned the names of the guilty parties,
but he is giving the matter all the time he
can spare. When interviewed yesterday by
a reporter of The JERSEY CITY NEWS he
said:
1.-THE card was sent to our cldb as a hoax,
but the party or parties who are implicated
in the silly joke will soon find out that the
matter is not quite as funny as it seemed to
them. The matter was cooked up in the
Minkakwa Club, and in a day or two l will
know for certain who signed MIR. Petty's and
my name to the card. Those signatures will
prove a case of forgery, and when we learn
the name of the guilty party Mr.. Petty and
L will prosecute. We will receive all the
support we need from the club"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-27
CHASING THE UNLICENSED

Detective Hottie secured the Fourth pre-
cinct yesterday in search of saloon keepers
who had not yet procured their licenses. AS
soon as they heard Hottie was on the war
path many of them who had no licenses
closed their doors and made arrangements to
get them Immediately.
Margaret Catell, who keeps a saloon at No.
264 Johnston avenue, was the only one Hol-
tic found selling liquor without a license.
He arrested her, and this morning she was
arraigned before Justice Douglass. She said
the brewing company had promised to get
her a license, but had failed to do SO. She
was paroled.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-27
PICNIC OF THE PLEASURE CIRCLE

The Independent Pleasure Circle of Jersey
City celebrated their second anniversary last
evening by holding a picnic at Pohlniann's
Pavilion.
Among those present were President
Frank Hennjg, Miss Lena OFT, Miss Julius
G.. Happ, Miss Mary klanke, Frank Gilso,
Miss L. Hoop, Fred Hoop, Miss N. McCrarn,
Henry Nj. Hoop, Miss Fannie Meisner, Aug
ust Miasegaes, Miss c. Hanson, George
Henning, William j Kirkland, Miss Dora
Hansen, Henry Holm, Miss Katy Hansen,
Miss Anna Gilso, Charles Davis. Miss Katy
Riley, Robert, and Miss Annie Rusch.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-27
THE SIDE PARDNBR's MIsHAP.

While Officer Wines of the Sixth precinct
station was patroling his beat on the Noun
tain Road at the foot of Franklin street,
near the Hundred Steps, last night, he saw
a man stagger against the low wall on the
road and fall or rather roll down the the
hill a distance of about so feet. When the
officer reached him he was unconscious. He
was removed to Christ Hospital where it
was discovered that he had only received a
few slight scalp wounds.
He soon returned to consciousness and said
that his name is John O'Donohue and chat
is a side pardner" of Weary Walker
When asked what he meant by that, he said
he was a tramp and had no home.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-27
TO HELP GRACE NILE CHURCH.

The choir of the Bergen Baptist Church,
assisted by Miss Fellows of the South Ber-
Q Reformed Church, gave a concert last
evening at the Grace NJ. E. Church, Tonnele
avenue, Marion. No admission was charged,
but a silver collection was taken for the
benefit of tho church. The entertainment
was given under the direction of William H.
Kirchum of the Bergen Baptist Church.
John Podmore OF Trinity Church, New
York, gave a piano solo, and Louis Nash,
Fred Clerihew, Miss and Mr.. S~patcheil,
Miss Fellows and the Misses Davis sang.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-27
OPPORTUNITY FOR INVESTORS.
Bridgeport Traction C~ompany's
Bonds for Sale. II

Bridgeport Traction C~0npanyss
Bonds for sale. II
An excellent opportunity for investors is
offered by Richmond, Kerr & Co., bankers
of New YORK, and the Fidelity, Title &
Deposit Company of Newark. The are
offering at par and accrued interest 81, 300.-
900 of a total issue of $4,000, 900 of first
mortgage 5 per cent. gold bonds of the
Bridgeport Traction Company of Bridge
port, Conn, due July 1, 1928. The 800, 900
unissued are held in the treasury of the
company to be issued only for improve
ments. The bonds are exempt from tax in
the State of Connecticut and are an abso-
lutte first mortgage upon the company's en-
tire street railroad system, covering thirty
two miles of track, together with equip
ment, franchise, real estate, etc. The
company is a consolidation of three other
street railways. being the entire passenger
system of the city. The earnings OF the aid
companies during the past three years, while
operating onlNthirteen miles of road with
horses, were as follews:4lS91, S141. sos; 1892,
$15s, 979: 1898 S163,S0 Allowing for no
increase in gross earnings, as the result of
increased mileage and Improved service and
figuring operating expenses at 6 per cent,
the net earnings would more than pay the
interest on the bonds. 1t is estimated that
the gross earnings from operation of thirty
two miles of road would equal $500, 600;
operating expenses, 30 per cent. S192, 600; net
earnings, S13S,000; interest charges, $50, 600;
surplus, $63,00Q.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-27
NEW PUBLICATIONS
From Harper's Presses.

published 1.-The Water Ghost Il Others .
5y Mr.. Bangs. which treat of supernatural
lpparitions and psychological phenomena
rom an unusual standpoint: 1.-THE Maiden's
Progress by Violet Hunt, and tsOut Of
step,v by Marie Louise Fool.
saThe Fur SeaPs Tooth, !" a story Of Alaskan
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-27
A VICTIM OF THE RECENT STORM.

Captain J. j. Burton of the steam lighter
ssTh6mas J.. Watson, y yesterday afternoon
picked up the body of a drowned man in the
North River, opposite Seventh street, Ho-
boken. He and his crew lowed it to shore,
and turned it over to Morgue Keeper Crane.
ton.
1t is thought to be the body of some sailor
who was washed overheard at sea during the
recent storm.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-27
SCHOOL GIRLS IN MISSOURI.

There were 412, 963 girls Of school age in
Missouri when the last census was taken
Ecchangc.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-27
CITY NEWS NOTES.

The Independent Fishing Club OF HoboSen will
pay a visit to tie B inks sunday afternoon in the
steamer Crs stall sSring. :lhey have chartered it for
VINO wish to ccompan them. Tickets caa be 90
tanned from any OF the memoers or from $. Hub
bell at No. 60 Newark street.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-27
RELIGIOUS PAPERS IN THE us.

There are about 1,19l religious papers in
the United States. OF these the Baptists
have lsl, ,Methodists l73, Roman Catholics
1874, Protestant E~piscopalians IS, Presby-
~terians T,. evangelical denominations Il,
Lutherans SO. Congregationalists So, unde-
nominational 215, while the balance is dis
tributed among about q dozen other denemi-
nations. - Exchange.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-27
MONEY TO LOAN ON HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE. PlRNlS
T.
, NOTICE TO DEALERS II SCHOOL FURNI

NOIlOE ~ bEALEtNN IN SSHOOL HURNls
~ ture. -
Sealed proposals viii be received by the Board Of
Street and Water Commissioners on Monday, August
9, 1884 at O'Clock p. NJ. for such seats, desks. etc.
as are necessary to the furnishing of Public
School Building No. Is, in accordance with specf-
fcations on file in the office OF the Chief Engineer,
corner of Jersey avenue and Mercer street, where
blank forms of bid and agreement of sureties
must be obtained.
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed envelopes,
endorsed, Proposals for Furniture school No, 81
directed to John E. Macarthur, Esq. Chair
man OF Committee on Public Buildings. Docks and
Parks and handed to the Clerk of the Board in
open meeting when called for IN the order OF bust
ness relating to sealed proposals.
No city official will be accented as surety nor will
a substitution of sureties be allowed.
The Board reserves tine right to reject any or all
bids If it considers that the best interests of the
citv can be conserved oy SO doing.
The attention of bidders is especially called TO Sec
ton 9, Chapter 1S4. Laws of 1891. under the terms
whereof no contract shall be binding upon the city
or become effective or operative until tae bondSmen
offered by the contractor have been approved as TO
sufficiency by this Board and as to form by the
Corporation Counsel, the President Of this Board
having power to examine the proposed bondsmen
under oath.
BY order of the Board of Street and Water Com
miSsionerS.
GEO.. BoUToN,
Clerk
Dated Jersey City, July %, 1894.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-27
A WET COUNTRY.

The average rainfall of Great Britain is
estimated to equal 630,0O0 gallons per mere
every ~year-almost 5000 tons. -Erchaage.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-27
D JULY 81. 1894.

This paper is Democratic IN principles
and is Independent in its cielOs on dH local
questions.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-27

adventure, has been a leading serial in the
Young People. while in the Basar of July 81
appear white and black costumes from
Worth, and an article "How to Memofize
Music by Aubertine Woodward Moore.
The Weekly for July Il devotes many
pages to the strike as illustrating the history
of our own times. There are also views of
the much discussed town of Pullman and a
panoramic view of the Fair grounds show
ing the devastation wrought by fire.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-27

jeremiah Cronin to Hannah Cronin Clark, for 81.
land and premises on the southeasterly side of West
Side avenue.
Michael Dewitt to Jane Cosgroye, for 81, 100, land
and premises on the south side OF Monroe street,
Eoboken. 70
Daniel Morgan to William King, for s., 800, land
and premises on Eleventh street, near Henderson.
Richard Schmidt TO Peter Berins, for 5000. lot &c,
Town of Union.
Alice Cannon to William ]. Cannon. release of
dover and land and premises on the south side of
Henderson street, near Second.
Charles j.. Gillies to Edwin Snlork, land and
premises on Midland avenue, Kearny, for $1,000.
Edwin Smock transfers above described property
to Emma Gillies for 81 100
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-27
CoRpoRATIoN NOTICE.

Dated Jersey City. July %, 1879
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-18
NOT SAID BY Mll RELAY

Some of the partisan Republican pa
pers have been having much apparent
enjoyment the past week over an alleged
incident at the ST. Paul Press club re-
ception given to Henry Watterson last
Sunday evening. As the incident as re-
ported was entirely untrue. It's possibly
us we'll to correct it, even though the
truth may never 0vertake the misrepre-
sentation.
As the partisan papers reported it, Mr..
+. IL. Kelly was credited with saying in
the course of few remarks that
cleveland ought to have had his sec
ond term first" implying. of course,
thar he never should have been elected
at all. TO this was added the statement
that Mr.. Cutcheon, chairman of the
Democratic state central committee, in
his remarks. stated that he agreed with
what Mr.. Kelly had said.
While it is true that Mr.. Cutcheon
stated he agreed with Mr. Kelly, the
remark in question was not made by
Mr.. Kelly, but was an ejaculation by Il
gentleman sitting near by white he was
speaking, and consequently neither MIR.
K. nor Mr.. c. was responsible for the
authorship or Endorsement of the senti-
ment.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-18
HOW PROTECTION WORKS

We recently made reference to a
Wisconsin firm engaged in manufacture
ing farm implements which reduced the
wages of its workmen last summer
because Democratic administration
had made it necessary, but whose Jan
uary report shows fractional part of
one per cent reduction in sales and col
lections. Our suggestion that common
fairness and honesty then should COM
pei a restoration of the wages to date
from the day OF reduction calls forth
the admission, which is certainly frank,
however wide it may be from the pro-
tectionist theory, that the firm always
buys its labor and material at the
cheapest possible price. We are GER
tainly obliged to the firm for It's admis-
sion of what free traders have ALWAYS
claimed, that it was not the tariff, but
the law of demand and supply. checked,
If at all, by labor organizations, that
regulated the price Of labor. AS bear
ing ON this, we are informed that the
Nation Manufacturing company, of
Sheboygan. engaged in making furni-
ture, are paying able-bodied men SO
cents day, aud consoling them with
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-18
PAST AND PRESENT.

There is marked prediction among
people generally to view the history OF
the past and the men who lived in the
long ago with feeling of reverence and
awe, not unmlXed with envy, and 20
contrast the old with the prese Mt time
to the great disadvantage of the latter
Many live in the atmosphere of the past.
They worship its heroes. pore over the
literature and revel in tue musty his
tory Of gone and almost forgotten ages,
and are apparently oblivious of the
present and all that is passing before
them.
To such there is little in the existing
order of things that is worthy of COM
mendation. They call the present age
superficial and time-serving, caring
nothing for what the future may con.
tain, regardless Of the heritage it may
bequeath to posterity, and are certain
that whatever may be remembered of
the present generation will be scarcely
worthy of place in the history of the
world. The past alone is worthy of
their attention, for "there were giants
in those days"
made luminous by the deeds and accom-
plishments of great men. The great
captains of war Will live while time
exists; the men of letters have written
their names upon imperishable parch-
ment; the statesmen OF former genera
tions have achieved fame and honor
that will endure throughout all the
ages. But have the men and the women
OF the present accomplished nothing for
which they will be held in remem-
Drance?
1t is only by comparison that we can
Judge of the relative greatness of men,
and it is the misfortune of the heroes of
the present time to be enveloped in an
atmosphere Of criticism and jealousy
that detracts greatly from their deserts.
In former times the masses were igno-
rant. and could form but crude judg-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-18
Uncle Sans Cats.

Some three hundred and odd cats are
maintained by the United States gov
rnmeht, the cost of their support being
carried as regular item OIL the accounts
of the postoffice department These cats
are distributed among about fifty post
offices, and their duty is to keep rats
and mice from eating and destroying
postal matter and canvas mail sacks.
Their work is OF the uLinos. importance
wherever large quantities of mail are
collected. as. for example. at NewYork
where from 1000 to 5000 bags of mail
matter are commonly stored away in
the basement. Formerly great damage
was done by the mischievous rodents.
which chewed holes in the sacks, and
thought nothing of boring clean through
bags of letters in night. Trouble of
this sort no longer occurs since the Off
cial pussies keep watch. Each of the
postnasters in the larger cities is al
lowed from IS to $40 year for the keep
of his feline staff, sending his estimate
for ''cat meat" to Washington the be-
ginning Of each quarter.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-18
WE HAD sTavIs' TIMES.

Written for the GIebel
Oh, we had stavin' times in St. Paul. don't ye
mind,
And we'll have stavin times agin,
2 If you'll just hold your breath for couple Of
And wait till Bob Smith gets in.
There waz CROWN and BLOWN and thrown
When the kurnel got there with both feet;
And we felt that redemption was well nigh
When Freddy Topped into the seat.
But things didn't pan out as well as they
And a whole lot of people are sore:
They're loafin' around i'll the alleys and
streets,
And maxim a deuce of roar.
AS yer passin' them by you'll hear them re-
markin'. -
~ wonder if Bob will VIM
Oh, we had stavin' times when Bob was ON
deck,
And well have stavin' times agin."
Reform is purity good thing in its way
A very good thing-if 1t works;
When 1t doesn't-deep down in the hearts OF
some folks,
A feelln' of lassitude turks.
It's all very well to talk pure politix
Before the election ensues.
And of every manner of terrible things
The fellows In Office accuse;
But after the battle is over and won,
And the angels rush i'll with YELL
To find that the gang but existed in mind
And their theories all but a sell
A terrible kickih' is sure to result,
But there amt no occasion to shout;
For it's devilish hard to turn out gang
When there isn't gang to turn out.
Oh, we had stavin' times IN St. Paul, don't We
mind,
And we'll have starin' times agin
II you'll just hold your breath for a eouple of
months,
And wait till Bob Smith gets in.
Michael Joseph Donnelly.