The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-03
MINISTERS GRUMBLE.
Newark Methodist Confer
ence Opens Amid Dis
Couraging Sur
IOundlngs.
TOTTENVlLLES POOR ACCOMMODATIONS
Presiding Elder Faulk's Report
Shows Jersey City District
to Be in a Flourishing
Condition.
officers Elected and Standing Com
mittees Appointed Where
the Hudson Preachers
Will Stay.
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Special to the JERSEY Citp Ns.rs.

TOTTENvILLE. S. J.. April 8. 1886
The entire population, about sixty souls
(some saved. some not), OF this dreamy,
dull little hamlet were in a state of the
most feverish excitement this morning,
and the cause was the opening of the
annual conference of the Newark and
Jersey City districts of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Never since a few
struggling Huguenots started a market
garden. a school house and a saloon as
the nucleus of a to-be thriving city had
an event of such Importance occurred,
and every inhabitant struts about the
village today with a Civis-Tottenvillien-
sis-Sum look on his face and dignity in
his bearing.
Ab the railroad station the station
master. in whom is embodied the ticket
agent, telegraph clerk, baggage master.
porter and track walker. Is in an in
descrsbable state. He hasn't slept for
nights, and this morning was IN the
depot by daybreak anxiously looking New
YORK wards for the SPECIAL train bearing
saiutary effect on the unregenerate in
more particularly anxious about the
arrival OF the Bishop and the Cabinet,
and . whe gpa q :. Jersey im, City ~ se ! report.
somewhat supertiuous and Unnecessary
because Bishop Hurst and four presiding
elders arrived the night before. he nearly
Just to think that such eminent peo-
pie, should honor T~ottenyiile with q visit
and not have a reception suitable TO the
honor Of the same was agony.
II had thought" he oaned "of get
ting a band OF music. but we have only
busted. and the trombone has no side"
ARsIvAI OF THE RRRTHRBN.
L = rhA ok frofn frnra ovrarc
steamed around the curve with the MIN
listers on board. the station master FOR
got his woes ard hustled about, giving
b~are-footed. little ragged boy, part OF
whose linen. which should be sacred
from p ena5lna ss ~ t ~, IN was yeFy p bsS
their way to Bethel Church. where the
opening of the conference was to take
pretty Bethel Church he was handed a.
conference programme and directory;
the former. told him all about what had
been done last year. and the latter what
will be done this.
Methodist readers of 1.-THE Jersey City
the thirty-eighth session of the Newark
jersey City's Churches. but charges il
o ofT sHTa a1 Of eysh eoXFERENcE.
This year it Will be presided over by
Rev. Bishop John F. Hurst. D: D. LII.
u LII O1 dSLliS lCH, lGHO Lie dDlcSt
members of the Episcopal Bench, He
has as able ~lieutenants, forming. his
cabinet. four men. presiding elders of
Newark. Jersey City. Paterson and Eliza
Rev, 8. Ryman. the Rev. James B.
and the Rev. S. P. Hammond. all of
whom are residing near TO the church.
and close to the Bishop, who is a guest
at the Bethel parsonage.
ADDRESSES OF THE MINISTER'S.
BLENDERS OF the Golfer. nee are c4tiler
hotels on the. Amboy Read, the guests
of some of the hospitable folk Of the
ne.ghborhood Some not SO fortunate
boarding houses within a radius of a
Those from Jersey city with their adj
Rsv. J. B. Faulks. Presiding Elder.
Rev John Askin ssssa e West ao SIDE AVE- aye,
Rev, Edwin n. Crasto of Palisade Ave
nue Church, Daniel Butler, Amboy Road,
Rev. Frank Chadwick Of Bayonne. Mrs.
Rev. s. r. boolittle OF Bayonne, n.
Rev. VIM. Eakins Of St. Paul,s, Third
street. at Mrs. Mary Butler, Richmond
eb h 6 = sts 6; Psts aefsl. q Ma Gl%sas ssass'.
if Rev. NJ L. Gates of GRACE Church,
T gap' Da aYspq !, H e. sroset 81 s.m moseI, n.
2. Church. at r. O. sprague. Amboy
Rev. Charles F. Hull Of Linden Ave
nue. Church. at James Henderson, John
Rev. j. G. jackson Of Hedding Church,
at ]. c. Vaughan. Fisher avenue.