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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-01
.rch,tect Rroome,s Alteration.

When Architect Broome was confront
ed yesterday with the scathing criticism
of his CITY Hall alteration" published
in the Architectural Record he simply
said that he a never heard of the
paper before.
This was Characteristic. There are
many things connected with the profess
sion of architecture, of which the gentle
man seems to be painfully ignorant. The
''Record' is a quarterly publication. 1t
has been in circulation for many years.
Every architect in the United States-ex-
cept Mr.. Broome-takes it and reads it.
So do many other people who love good
writing and beautiful illustration. and
who are interested in architectural mat
tiers. The next time Mr.. Broone passes
through the Pennsylvania Railway Sta
ton he can buy a copy at the Union News
Stand. for a quarter. Indeed w advise
him to send his office boy there four
times a year to buy 1t for him.. 1t will
pay him to read it. 1t will help MIN to
acquire good taste.
However, the fact that Mr.. Broome
never heard of the Record is a side
issue. It can hardly be accepted as an
answer to the criticism of his work.
printed in that paper. This criticism boil
ed down to a few sentences is embodied
in the conclusion of the article as fol-
lows
If one encountered this ~disreputable
structure in Oshkosh, he would say, how
Oshkoshian; in Peoria, how Peorian-it Is
so rude and raw a travesty of the archi-
lecture of civilization. AS a matter Of
fact. it is in one of the oldest settlements
of the United States, and within a mile
or less of it is a respectable dwelling
erected in 1866. This is not the brutality
OF q laundering beginning, but the hope
iessness Of d completed degeneration.
The building which expresses the mum
CITY. and which would disgrace a MUM
cipaifty of South Dakota by its crudity
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-01
HUGE PIE.

The largest pie ever known was that
described in the Newcastle Chronicle
for the 9Th of January, ITO. It was
shipped to Sir Henry Gray, Baronet,
London, Mrs. Dorothy Patterson, house
keeper at Hawic, being the maker. Into
the composition of this great pie entered
two bushels of flour, twenty pounds OF
butter, four geese. two turkeys, two rab-
six snipe, four cartridges, two meats
tongues, two curlews. seven ~blackbirds
and six pigeons. 1t weighed twelve
stone. and was nine feet in circumfer-
ence at the bottom. 1t was furnished
with a case on wheels, for convenience in
passing it around to the guests
The receipt for this pie given here
* a hint to thosa of our readers wha
may be thinking of getting up a picnic
within the next two or three weeks. A
half dozen pies of this size ought to be
enough for at least n picnfc.-Harper's
Round Table.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-01
DoN'Ts FOR STAMP COLLECTOR

Don't paste your stamps into your al
bums, but use "stickers' o~r"hinges.'
Don't use any old copy-book If you
can afford to buy an album Dealers
can supply albums at any price from
twenty-five cents upward.
Don't trim your stamps. Many valu-
able stamps have been ruined by this
process.
Don't cut envelope stamps to shape.
Cut them out square, leaving a good mar
ginon all sides.
Don't handle your stamps any more
thar you can help.
Don't buy rare stamps from my but
assemble the genuine stamps maxwell
ously. No one not an expert could tell
them apart. :.
Don't buy Chinese locals, "Seebecks,,'
and other philatelic trash, which is
made purposely for sale to stanp-col-
lectors.
Don't expect TO get something for no.
thing.-Harper's Round Table.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-01
oHLoRoFoRMED BY THIEVES
Snccfal to the Jersep Citu Nelrs.

CAMDEN, Aug. l, 1Ss5.-While Miss
Bertha jackson and Miss Mary Fish We're
sitting in an entry of the latter's
home al No. 27 Sycamore street yester-
day morning the former became sudden
ly i'll and fell to the floor. Miss Fish be-
came alarm at her friends sudden Illness
and at once sent for neighbors. In the
meantime Miss Fish was also taken sick.
An INVESTIGATION revealed the fact that
chloroform had been thrown into the
house by unknown parties. It is sup
a. The Young ladies were alone in the
house and it was generally known that
valuable articles were about the place
They have fully ~recovered. An lnvesti-
CATION of the case is in progress
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-01
BUYING An UMBRELLA.

During the frequent use Of umbrellas
in the spring showers we should keep in
mind the of~t-repeated caution concerning
care in drying them. They will last
much longer if they are always placed
when wet with the handle downward to
dry. The moisture then falls from the
edge of the frame and the fabric dries.
uniformly. When it stands handle ups
ward, which is commonly the case, the
top of the umbrella holds the moisture
hut ii soon Injuries the silk or other
fabrics used for the cover and rusts the
fhe umbrella wearing out before any
other part. Umbrella cases are also re-
sDonsible for the rapid wear of the silk.
The constant friction causes the tiny
holes that appear so provokingly early.
When not in use leave the umbrellas
loose.-Exchange
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-01
THE CHEF BROKE HIS RIB.
TeaIosuy of u Pretty Waitress Causes
an i'm a Seashore Hotel.
al to the JERSEY CITY Neirs-

TOMS RIVER. Aug. /, 1Ss5.-Because
one of the pretty mattresses at the
oceanic Hotel, Barnegat City, gave a
ci1p of coffee to one Of the assistants
aboa,t the hotel, the establishment has
been without a chef for two days.
TIL chef. a Cuban, named Frank Mar
tina. spent last night in the County jail
at this place. and the helper. George
Thomas Garrish. Is in the hands Of a
pas rrisnn in his ~afidavit before Squire
r5Iilibridge, swore that ON Friday last.
While he was drinking q u Of coffee.
the chef first ordered re pun oT 70 90 90 s sef
n mon him with the steel, which he was
'u,pinr To sharpen the carving knife upon.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-01
THURSDAY. AUGUST I, 1895.
THIS paper as Democratic IN principles
and is Independent in its uiews on q" local
questions.
A. TO secret court Proceedings.

We are glad to see the press OF the
State take up in vigorous fashion the
attempt of Vice Chancellor Pitney to ex-
rlude newspaper reporters from MS
court and to suppress reports OF the pro-
ceedings therein. This is a matter OF
the first im~portance-not to the news
papers, but to the people. The guarantee
of purity and impartiality IN the ad-
ministration of justice is publicity. To
restore the secrecy of the star Cnaih-
Der or the Inquisition is to create at
once a possibility of the renewal OF the
crimes and abuses which have made
these tribunals bywords in history
Neither is there reason or safety In
leaving to a Judge any discretion as TO
what proceedings in his court shall be
neported and what shall be suppressed.
1T is obvious that the granting OF sueh
a power establishes every possiolhty OIL
abuse that is inherent in the idea OF
secret proceedings.
This is a matter on which every news
paper in the State should take up d
definite position All should stand To-
setber for the general good. The bio"
aimed at one falls on all. If the pre-
cedent is once established, the extent
TO which the evil may grow cannot be
gagged.
In New York, the codes prescribe GER
tain classes of trials which, out OF con-
sideiation of public decency, may De
heard in camera. This law has LED 10
the grossest abuses in that State al
though it is in fact almost absolutely
ignored. 1T is only necessary TO cite
the famous Flaack divorce case to estao-
fish the point. In fact, such legislauoh
is wholly unnecessary. Newspapers are
liable under general avs for they
nubIish. Even the privilege of court
proceedings does not extend TO matter
improper for general reading. 1t is the
daily practice of every newspaper to
exercise careful discretion as to what
It prints. Considerations of public good
and private right are daily and hourly
weighed in the writing and selection OF
matter for publication. Mistakes occa-
sionally occur; but they are as nothing
in comparison with the sum total OF the
news published, or with the amount OF
good done by its publication.
II is the business of a Judge to hoio
court. to keep the utterances of lawyers
sitigants and witnesses within the bounds
of propriety and relevancy. to control
mis- own u~tterances, likewise, so that
they shall not be rash or inconsiderate'
irrelevant to the case before him, offen-
siye to public opinion, unjust to individ-
uals or contrary to public policy.
1t is the usine of the newspaper 10
watch the proceedings of the courts mn
utely and to select everything from
their proceedings which seems to nave
any value as matter of public informa-
tion. 1t is especially their business to
report fully and accurately any action
or utterance of the judges or other public
officials. This is just what newspapers
are for.
But in a court conducted in the manner
we have described above, neither judge
NOR litigant. pleader nor witness has
anything to fear in the most searching
p,,hlicitv-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-01
OCEAN GROVES ANNIVERSARY.
Celebration of the Twenty-Fffth Year
of Religious Meetings.
Specidl tJthc JefscD Citu Nclcs.

NptOFuF o" ~ Feu"
OCEAN GROVE. Aug. /, 1S95.-Twenty-
six years ago yesterday the first prayer
was held in Ocean Grove, IN a
tent occupied by the late Joseph H.
Thornley, of Philadelphia. The event
of a quarter of a century ago was fit
tingly celebrated yesterday, when a
meeting was held on the Identical spot
Thousands attended the meeting,
which was in charge of the Rev. Dr. Z.
H. Stokes, president of the Ocean Grove
consisted of singing by the Silver Lake
Quartette and brief addresses by several
of the resort. In the evening the Rev.
DR.. Merritt Hurlburd of Wilmington,
delivered the anniversary address in the
auditorium before a large audience.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-01
A PALM READER ARRESTED.
Convinces the Magistrate That He
ID Not n sneak Thief.

Henry Smith, a palm reader, % years
old, of No. 155 Fifth street, 'Hoboken,
was arrested yesterday afternoon by Ser
geant Jacobus of the Second precinct,
Hoboken, upon suspicion of being a
sneak thief. Smith when arrested was
distributing his business cards from door
70 door. He has only resided in Hoboken
a few weeks and knows few people.
He was remanded for examination this
morning when he convinced his honor he
was all right. His wife was in court with
several friends, who testified that Smith
was a reputable man. He was dis
charged.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-01
WoMAN's INDUSTRIAL FREEDOM
How She Has Invaded MANI Do-

The Federal eensus enumerators in
1870 could find in the whole country but
five women lawyers; in 1890 they found
20S. In 1870 they could find but one
woman architect. and now they have
found t~wentyltwo There We're no
woman surveyors and engineers known
to the enumerators in 1879. and now 127
have been discovered. But the list is
worth giving in full as brought out in
a late census bulletin. Ut relates to
women employed in professional services
and in certain departments of trade and
transportation in 1890 as compared with
1870.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-01
JACK aRAHAM's COSTLY ARREST

cantain Jack Graham. City Marshal,
was dined SIS dollars and costs In Free,
hold on Monday for falsely arrestsng
charles q. Bell, a reputable and wealthy
mothers pocket In Asbury Park last
summer.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-01
A DAUGHTER OF BARON Won ROT
TEEBURG.

Al cable dispatch ii the News" o
ces that on Monday last in Berlin, Ger
many, the Baroness Maria wife of Baron
sented her husband with a daughter.
The Baroness ds the daughter OF the
late WilAam Walter Pheane OF New
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-01
FINANCIAL.
Money to Loan on Household
Furniture, Pianos.

and personal property without removal. You
can have the use Of both the property and
the money and you can have the money as
long as you desire. and you can pay 1t by
fnstallments. Furniture leases paid off and
more money advanced. Loans made prompt
ly at the lowest rates.
CARTON & CO.. NO. 11s NEWARK AVE-.
Cor. Grove ST. Booream Building, Room No. l.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-01
HELP WANTED.


wANTED-GERMAN ! FOR GENERAL HOUSE
work. Must wash and iron well. IA Troy street
Heights, or call at Az Grove street,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-11-22
Growth oT,hs water Hyacinth

Close to the Buffalo Bayou beyond Nor
gan City and in the Teche sugar section Of
Louisiana, passenger on Texas Central
train pointed out ditch full of water ny
acinths. They made bed half a mile
long of green waX-like leaves studded with
upright plumes of pale-lavender blossoms.
This was a month ago. He told how in
the summer of 1891 he and his wife had
been stopping at Monte SanO in northern
Alabama and had found there lotus pond
containing, besides the lotus plants a few
water hyacinths-both brought from dis
lance. He lived in New Orleans, and to
his home in that city he shipped some Of
the hyacinths done up in moss. They
multiplied so rapidly in his garden in New
Orleans that they had to be thinned out,
and the discarded plants were thrown into
the ash barrel and then into a ditch in the
country. A year later they were noticed
along the shores Of Lake Pontchatrain and
in two years were abundant all around the
lake and in all the waters that empty into
it. In three years hunters and yachtsmen
returning to the city brought wonderful
news of the spread Of the plant and de-
clared that it impeded navigation in some
of the bayOus. Great beds Of the waNy
plant, gorgeous in the springtime with a
warm cloud OF color, iloated in all the
bayous and reached in ribbons along the
creeks and branches.
1t is found now that they will offer no
serious hindrance to navigation and no
damage to any interest, because as they
spread they constantly break apart, and
the detached masses float out into the Gulf
and into the ocean where navigators meet
them in the guise of layender-colored is
lands. They do not take root in the soil
but float and subsist upon the water. The
people of the Gulf coast are still aston
ished at this visitation, and are wondering
what has been its cause. They have not
yet learned to utilize the flowers for dec
oratiye purposes or TO cultivate and sell
them to lovers Of natures ornaments. The
boys who peddle Cherokee roses, jestamine
and lilies still pass the wild hyacinth by,
but in time they will know better, for the
leaf is almost as beautiful as the blossom
and that is very beautiful indeed. Chi
cdgo Inter Ocean.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-11-22
A Drop orWntrr.

The water which is now in the ocean
and in the rivers has been many times in
the sky. The history Of a single drop
taken out of glass of water on your ia
bic is really romantic one. No traveller
has ever accomplished such distances in
his life. That particle may have reflected
the palm trees Of coral islands, and has
caught the sun-ray in the arch that spans
a cloud clearing away from the valleys of
Cumberland or California. II may have
been carried by the Gulf Stream from the
shores of Florida and Cuba, to be turned
into crystal Of ice beside the precipces
of Spitzbergen.
II may have lowered over the streets OF
London, and have formed part of a murky
fog, and have glstened on the young grass
blade of April in Irish fields. 1t has been
lifted up to heaven and sailed in great
wool-pack clouds across the sky, forming
part of a cloud-mountain echoing with
thunder 1t has hung in a fieecy veil
many miles above the earth at the close OF
long seasons of still weather. Il has de
scended many times over its showers TO re-
fresh the earth, and has sparkled and bub-
bled in messy fountains in every country
in Europe
And it has returned to its native skies
having accomplished its purpose, to be
stored once again with electricity to give il
new lfe-producing qualities and equip il
as heavens messenger TO earth once more.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-11-22
street-Cnr PoIitrnt.s.

A friend of mine was in a cable car the
other day. After taking his seat he pres
emily began TO be very uncomfortable. For
everybody seemed amused at him, glances
were leveled in his direction, girls giggled,
elderly ladies drew their faces into a
puckeT, and the atmosphere of the place
was as electric as the fluid which sent the
car through space. After a short interval
the puzzled gentleman discovered that it
was not he who was the object of mirth to
his comrades on the road, but a poor, shy.
blushing, fearful, trembling, frightened
girl who was sitting by his side. She, poor
child, was dressed in an outre fashion,
which did not please the set of people in
that conveyance, and, evidently, she had
met with an accident, for her clothing was
tumbled and torn, her face was bruised
and cut, and one hand had been wrenched
and seemed to be paining her very much.
l can imagine nothing more brutally ill.,
bred and rudely ignorant and unfeeling
than the behavior of those silly girls and
boys and still more silly grown-up people
in that car. Can you? They were laugh
ing at a child who had met with an acct.
dent on her wheel
One of the first rules TO be adopted by a
thoroughly polite person is this: Never
show surprise, except of the genuinely
gracious kind, the kind that expresses cor
dial interest and pleasure. Never laugh al
an awkward predicament, at, for example
fall, or a mistake made by another. Be
careful to never pain any one, friend OF
stranger, by ridicule, or by thoughtlessly
plain speaking.-Hdrper's Round Table.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-11-22

The venerable and familiar moral tale Of
the bad little boy who offered the circus
elephant chew Of tobacco is far surpassed
in ethical force by the new and strictly
truthful story of eleven-year-old Harry
Manning, OF Waltham, Massachusetts,
Harry has been learning to smoke cigar
cites, and one afternoon about a fortnight
ago he was sitting on a barrel behind
Northrup's grocery practicing, when he
heard footsteps. Not caring TO smoke in
company, he politely dropped his lighted
cigarette into the bung-h hole of the barrel
on which he sat. The statement is that
when the moral elephant in the other story
received the chew of tobacco he seized
Tommy, the evil-doer, by the coat collar
with the thumb and finger of his trunk
and threw him harshly out through the
roof of the circus tent. The event in
Harry's case was still more preciptous and
surprising. The barrel he sat on had con-
tanned naptha, and rejected the lighted Gig
arctic with an instantaneous burst OF emo
ton which sundered its hoops and gave
Harry all the symptoms experienced by
the boy who stood on the burning deck
whence all but he had fled. Happily Iar-
ry came down in the same township in
which he went up, and was identified, and
is still living with his parents, but another
time he will drop his nose into an empty
barrel before he drops his cigarette into it.
The narrative OF his adventure is here
cheerfully recorded as a warn ing to boys
who smoke cigarettes and for use in
chools.-Hdrper'S Weekly.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-11-22
Eastern and Nye.tern Farming

The census figures show that Lancaster
county, Pa, is the leading county of the
United States in the value Of its agricultu-
raj products, the total being S7,Gj7, 100
Next comes ST. Lawrence county, y. Y,
with S6,054, 100; then Chester county, Pa,
with -, 1858, 800; then Worcester county,
Mass, with 5,4s9, 430, and then Bucks
county, Pa, with S5.41l, $40. 1t will sur
prise the general reader to learn that the
five counties ranking highest in this respect
are not in the great agricultural empire of
the West, but in the manufacturing region
of the East, three of them in one state
There are many drawbacks to farming in
the East, but the advantages Of being close
to a good market are sufficient TO overcome
them and to insure success where it would
otherwise be practically impossible 1t is
not to this fact alone, however, that the
prosperity of the Eastern farmers is attrib-
utable. They manage their affairs in diff
ferent way from that which is followed in
the West. Their farms are comparatively
small as a rule, and they cultivate them
thoroughly, thereby obtaining the best re-
suits. Then they are also economical and
careful to utilize everything that they pro-
duce, whereas the Western farmers, gener-
ally speaking, waste almost as much as
they save, because of their larger farms
and the loose methods that come from try
ing to accomplish too much. A good deal
of this waste is unavoidable, of course,
since the great staples must be extensively
raised in order to yield a satisfactory re-
turn; but it might be materially reduced
by the adoption of a better system of farm
ing. The average Western farmer is at a
disadvantage, furthermore, by reason of
his obstinate reliance upon a single crop
He is welded to corn or wheat, as the