The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-04
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VIRGlNANs HERE.
Distinguished Visitors to
Inspect New Jerseys
Roads.
ENTERTAINED BY THE LEGISLATURE
Governor Kent and Party Com
pliment This Slate-Witty
and Eloquent Speeches.
speeio. to the jersey City Neses.

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mas enjoyed the distinction among all
the States of being the father of the com
prehensive State and road system and al
the head of other States In the posses
sion of good stone roads.
Pne State of Virginia has long admired
this Characteristic of New Jersey and
being about to begin a State road sys-
tenn similar to that here, which has ope-
rated SO successfully, decided to fiattes
New Jersey by initiating it. The Cover
nor, State officers and legislators of that
State further resolved to visit this State
and make a general tour of Inspection
of its roads.
This is not the first time that a neigh
boring State has conplirnented New Jer-
sey by coming to look at its roads. Two
years ago the New York Legislature
sent a special delegation here and they
were taken to the roads in lower Cam
den and Gloucester counties. No special
entertainment was, provided for them by
the State, but the Board of Freelolders
in Gloucester and a committee composed
OF William j. Thompson and other citi-
zens gave them a banquet.
1t is said that other State delegations
are to visit New Jersey this year to in
spect stone roads.
Unfortunately Governor Farrell of Vir-
ginia could not the delegation
of sixty Virginians who arrived yester-
day in Trenton. His father-in-law died
suddenly and the duty of representing
the Chief Executive of Virginia was re-
posed in the acknowledgements The
party left virginia's capital in a special
train and reached Trenton at a very
early hour yesterday morning.
The party. consisting of Lieutenant
Cnpa-o1 D 9 LXaa+yorl e., g.
of the two Houses of the Legislature,
were met at the station by the Joint Re
ception Committee, and taken to the
Trenton House in three of the Traction
Company's best ~trolleys. where they We're
entertained at breakfast. After break
fast they We're escorted to the State
ouse where they were introduced no
Governor Griggs.
After a brief Informal talk the visitors
proceeded to the Senate Chamber, where
Senator Voorhees, introduced them to that
body. President Thompson welcomed
them. and Lieutenant Governor Kent re
piled. Then the visitors went over to
the House where they were welcomed by
Speaker Derousse.
Lieutenant Governor Kent, in reply,
cemplimented New Jersey on its roads. He
said the people of that State resembled
the Romans, in that particular, and when
Virginia undertook to improve her roads
her Legislature directed the committee
TO go to New Jersey and study the excel
4 1fat b g4aa 81 sys T4ant there wbens H he sp Nsw 1e Of
sey and Virginia troops fought side by
side and were. the rescuers and founders
sufficient TO form a bond Of a sympathy
which he trusted would last forever.
Senator Musnbaek. Chairman of the
Virginia Senate. was then introduced, and
said it was eminently proper that he
SION. because he was born in Hamburg.
Sussex county. New Jersey. He went to
Virginia in 1865. They called him Yankee.
Tfpn and he iS now a V9DkAn with W5r-
ginia, attachments. All Virginians were
proud of their ancestry. He could trace
them because he was a lineal descendent
of one of these heroic children of Israel
who were CONSIGNED to the fiery furnace,
one of whom was Mushback.
But in sober. earnestness, ne continued,
that was as sober as a man GOULD be who
Legislature ali night, they had come to
examine roads. But looking at the Jersey
roads this morning they appsared very
years. ago they of Virginia had the ION
or of receiving delegations from New
Jersey; The circumstance were different
then. but the object was the same. The
JsTseynen came to Virginia with the
mend their ways, and although they did
not listen to the Jerseymen then as
s hat visit it and anas say S1G to the sA ysrse gym nst that
they are ready to mend their ways. He
"a d there were an parties in the delega-
I'LL IA G1l1O .oio Jul OC lOlA ~ Lit
moss on their backs. the Republicans by
their look as though they had seen bet
ter days and hoped for better things,
and the Populist by the soil on his
boots He paid a tribute to New Jersey
and said he accepted the snow on the
ground as an emblem of that pure man
lie OF peace which, covered the two States
and always would. He hoped that New
Jersey and Virginia would go hand in
hand together with charity for all and
malice toward none.
Joseph Bryan, Editor of the Richmond
Times" spoke of the times of the re-
bellion when ne and a young Jerseynnan
were schoolmates and separated, one to
go in the Union and the other in the Con-
federate Army.
isaac Diggs of the Virginia House, said
ne did not know New Jersey was SO popu-
lar in Virginia until he found that the
palace cars which had been ordered for
the trip could by no means accommodate
the crowds that wanted to Visit iris
State. Virginia had always regarded
New Jersey as one Of the progressive
her railroad law and when she wanted
good roads the legislature said go and
see. the Jersey roads. He spoke of the
pride Virginia had in the thought that
she had given Washington to the country,
but, she remembered with pride that the
name of Washington would not be re-
Inemhered if New jersey. had not given
possible. Virginians took pride In York
Town. where the decisive battle Of the
Revolution was fought, but she was proud
also of Trenton. Princeton and Mon
mouth.
AT the close of the ~speech-malxing the
then took the train to Burlington to in
SUqcf the roads of that Sarfinp A441FN