The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-11
Jersey City Travellers Land
After a Long Visit to
the East.
Mr.. SCUDDER'S EXPERIENCES
Commissioner Love Enjoys Him.
self-John Edlestein's Adven-
ture in the Catacombs.

| York, at six O'Clock last evening. 1t was
| about half past seven o'clock when the
Jersey Cityftes who returned. passed
| Through the Custom House and crossed
| the river They were all ON the front
| platform of the ferryboat crossing the
| river. and it was the expressed opinion
| of all that they had seen nothing SO
\ beautiful on their trip as Exchange
| place appeared in the distance
| Revs. John L. Scudder and Robert
| Wick. Tax Commissioner Love, Mrs.
Noyes and Miss Gray. a small portion
| of the original party. were met by anxi-
Gus friends who wanted to know all
about the trip in as few words as pos
sible.
MR.. LOVEV IN GOOD HEALTH.
Tax Commissioner Love appeared at
| his office in the City Hall early this
morning. was at once besieged by
friends. He is as brown as q berry and
the picture of health. His hair is about
three inches longer than he is accus-
toned to wearing it. Mr.. Love was
afraid to get his hair cut ON the other
side. He enjoyed the trip immensely
and he has seen so much. he says, that
1t would take him a month TO tell part
of it.
He related to his friends many anus
ing incidents that came to his notice
and also spoke of the people in Eastern
countries and their mode of living. This
country is good enough for him. The
most beautiful city visited. he declares,
was Athens.
SOME OF OUR CITIZENS STILL
AWAY
xxrIo. Had Tyr;oe
only 60 of the original party returned
The Rev. DR.. Brett and his party are
still on the continent. and propose travel
ling ait least another month. Mrs. John
L. Scudder and her daughters are en-
loying the sights of Venice.
President of the Board of Finance
John Edelstein is having a glorious
time. He left the F'riesland party at
Pisa He proposes visiting Florence,
Venice, going through Switzerland, Ger
many, England ireland. Wales. Belgium
France, and many other countries, before
he returns. 1t will probably be July
when Uncle John" is seen again.
DR.. Noble and DR.. Buffet are still
on the Continent enjoying themselves.
They will not return for a few weeks
MIR. Jacob Ringle and party will be
Ringle proposes seeing everything that
is to be seen before he returns. He i'm
tends travelling through Italy and Switz-
erland with Mr.. Edelstein.
LOST ONLY HALF A DAY BY RAIN.
The only rough weather that was ex-
perienced was during the sail from New
York to Bermuda, and the three sue
eeeding days. Since that time the wealth
er was clear and fine. Only half a day
was lost by reason of rain. A few more
of the pilgrims will return on Saturday
next on the steamer Paris of the Amer
lean Line.
JOHN EDELSTEIN'S ADVENTURE.
No one could doubt that the trip has
improved the Rev. John l.. Scudder. He
stepped into 1.-The News" office this
morning looking well and even stout.
He has enjoyed himself immensely he
said and proceeded in his bright, enter
tanning way ITO talk about his trip. He
related an incident in connection with
Mr.. John Edelstein. Honest John" and
the party were visiting the Cataco0nbs.
Suddenly Mr.. Edelstetn was missed. He
had wandered from the side of the guide
and the rest into one of the many dark
passages which run from the main gall
iertes These lateral passages cross and
irptersect each other that it fs extremely
dangerous for one unacduainted with the
Catacombs to venture therein. This was
realized by Mrs. Edelstein and the ladies,
and they promptly tainted right away,
after violent fits of mysteries. Search
was made and the cause of the trouble
was found in one of the dark passages,
smoking one of his own cigars.
Eve had a pleasant voyage home"
said Mr.. Scudder. 1--WE left Naples on
a Sunday afternoon and would have
reached Antwerp earlier only we were
detained in the English Channel for thir
teen hours by a fog. We caught our
first sight of our own land yesterday at
eleven o'clock, when we saw the Shinne-
cock hills We were all intensely excited
and glad the voyage was over, parttcu-
larly those who were sea-sick."
What city most interested you?" he
was asked.
ARABS ARE BLUFFERs.
81 think Cairo. I rode on three
donkeys, not all at once, you know, and
they were named, Mark Twain Hail
Columbia and Lily of the Valley All
the donkeys have names in Cairo. Shep-
heard's Hotel there is a fine place and
quite equal to any American Hotel. All
that Northern part of Africa, once the
territory of the lawless and marauding
Arab is being inhabited by rich English
menawho spend the winter in the neigh
borhood OF towns Nike Tangiers, Algiers,
Tunes, Tarifu and Tripoh."
"tDo I admire Arabs?" said Mr.. Scud-
der, assuming a look of disgust. ''They
the a thievdsh, dirty lot. and great bluff
fers. They will try to bulldoze you and
stick everybody. Why, they squeezed
two francs out of a passenger for prac-
tically nothing at all. The dominfes in
our party maintained a truly Christian
spirit all the way. until they struck the
rascaily Arab One of them threatened
to throw down a brother from the Pyra-
mid if liberal supply of bocksheesh
was not Forthcoming.
DISAPPOINTED WITH THE EAST.
"I was disappointed with the East, and
particularly Jerusalem. 1t is an exceed
ingly dirty place perhaps the dirtiest in
the world. Palestine is a sterile coun-
try. a. wilderness in fact. Jerusalem
is in the midst of a wilderness and sur
rounded on al sides by mountains on
whose slopes there is not grass enough
to feed q goat
"How did you find the River Jor-
DAM
stIt is a muddy creek and that is all.
We were expecting clear, hmpid water,