The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-20
OPERA B0UFFE FEUD.
Hoboken's Aged Recorder and
Pompous Police Captain
Biting Their Thumbs
at Each Other.


The feud which has sprung up be-
tween Captain Hayes and Recorder Nc
Donough. Of Hoboken, appears 10 pc
more bitter this morning than ever. Inc
trouble has come to such a pass that
the whole police department is arrayea
against the Recorder. and arlarge num-
Der of officers have asked the captain
to go before the Police Commissioners
and request them to investigate the
charges made by the Recorder, SO that
they may be fully indicated.
AS told in last nights Jersey City
News, the Recorder accused the police
of protecting the disreputable women
which infest the lower sections of the
city. Captain Hayes took the Recor-
der's remarks as personally directed to
him. and told the Recorder so. His
Honor said he did not care whether Cap
tain Hayes took his remarks personally
on not, but he really meant 1t for the
department in general.
The Captain and the Recorder have
not been on friendly terms for a number
of years and he former says that the
Magistrate has lone and does now, all
in his power to make him appear small
and incapable of conducting the depart
ment in the eyes of the public, and es-
pecially to his superiors.
HE never misses an opportunity"
said the Captain this morning, "of call
ing me down in public or in private
When the Captain was asked II he nao
anything to say in reply to McDonough,
he replied that he only wanted to state
that the Recorders remarks were I'M
founded and that he had begun the
raids upon the low sailors saloons ana
dives before the Recorder made his al
legations. In conclusion the Captain
stated tina it was only personal spite
on the part of the Recorder and nothing
else.
HIS HONOR USES A BIG D.
His Honor. when made acquainted with
what the Captain had said, replied
Captain Hayes can say what mes a
mind to, and be -. Now, you can't
get me into a controversy this morning,
as 1 positively won't talk upon the sub
ject."
After some questioning, the Recorder
denied most emphatically that he sala
that the police levied blaekmail upon
the women. or that they had ever re-
ceived any money from the ~saloonkeep-
ers.
eff they say that I ever said that they
took any money from those women, It's
a lie,s he went on. bringing his fist down
Upon his desk. Il did say that those
women were protected somewhere and
1 will not retract anything thai l nave
said about the police being Negligent ~
their duties in this particular. why rs
an every night occurrence for respect
able ladies to be insulted by those sailors
and respectable men annoyed by the Wo-
men who infest River street.
tNhPn the time comes Tor me 10 ldlk.
he concluded, with a meaning tone. III
talk and tell the truth"
HAS STIRRED THE POLICE UP.
The police are re more v vlglian mhd oha hab gtul
ate that section of the city and last
night two more women were. brought IN
The neighborhood was comparatively de-
serted. The women have flown to the
uptown districts and many of them were
seen upon Fourteenth street. They are
unknown to the policemen, but one OF
once had some trouble with officer Nc
Curdy and he recognized her Immediate
ly and arrested her. The woman, VINO
address as NorAh Bergen and denied the
charge made against her. She was too
well known. however, and when afralgn-
sent to the County Jail for thirty days.
The other women were sentenced to pay
a fine of twenty dollars or spend ninety
days in the Penitentiary.
The members of the Sympathetic CLUB
have given up trying to bring the Record
er and the Captain to an amicable under
standing. The Captain on his part seems
willing enough to forgive Nhis Honor,
and at least. for the sake of. appearances,
to act friendly towards him., but the
Recorder will not bulge an inch and
says the police deserve the censure he
has given them.
The members of the department and
the friends of the two officials. are won
dering what the outcome of the af-