The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-26
HAVE NO POLICE PROTECTION.
Boys Interrupt the Motorman's Meet
ing at the Car Stables.

"
The Traction Soul Saving Association has
at last surely launched on its work of con-
verting the employees of the Consolidate d
Traction Company. Yesterday afternoon
they held their second meeting and when it
was over Mr.. Beach was heard to remark to
Mr.. Rink that it is an undoubted success and
that Mr.. Rink could depend ON him to stand
by him and see the thing through. Mr.. VIM.
Fl. Beach of the West Side M. E. Church
and Mr.. Hamilton Rink, a young evangel-
ist, seem to be the prime movers in and chief
promoters of the scheme. The meetings OF
the association have all been held at Mr..
Beach's house and he and Mr.. Rink enlisted
the cooperation of the Traction Company.
The meeting, as it was a week ago, was held
in the waiting room at the car stables. The
association hired a little organ and
this stood within the rail near the
and Beach there were present
Messrs. D. V. Bergen, Cranston, H. S. Girls
void and William Brinkerhoff, all members
of the Association. They brought with
them a number of court stools and some
boys from South Bergen Reformed Church
Mr.. Higgins played his cornet and one of the
brothers played the organ. The service be-
gan shortly after four o'clock and continued
until half past five O'Clock. The service
simple, consisting mainly of singing. There
were only two or three motormen and on
ductors present, and these appeared deeply
interested in what was said and sung. A
short address was made by Mr.. Beach and
Mr.. Cranston talked a short time IN the
third chapter of the Gospel of St. John. AS
at their first meeting they were greatly an
noyed by the boys of the neighborhood, al
though yesterday none of them was
hurt. This, however, was because the
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the intense cold. Not being able to pelt the
~evangelists through the windows the boys
took other ways of annoying them. They got
hold of a bag of salt used by the company
for thawing the tracks, and threw it against
the windows. They also pounded on the
windows SO as to nearly break them; they
boarded a car standing beside the door and
kept the bell ringing, in~terrupting the sing
ing: they also threw the door open conJinu-
ally, and pushed each other in, or else threw
their hats or salt into the room. All these
were continued throughout the
meeting, and never once in that hou and a
half did a policeman put in an appearance to
stop them or to drive them away. The
meeting was held, too, almost opposite and
in full view of the station house. After the
meeting was all over and the people
were going home, Captain Lange sauntered
over to the waiting room and looked around.
The members of the ASSOCIATION are very in
dignant that they have received no protec-
ton whatever from the police and talk of
making a complaint about it both to the
police authorities and through the press.
One of them said:-"It is our right to nave
police protection, and we val it. We are
going to continue to hold our meetings here
and we don't want to be annoyed as we have
been. If we should take the law into our
own hands we would probably get into
trouble, and yet we will lay to do so if the
police don't do their duty and protect us as
they should.n