The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-09-29
TN TIE ACADEMY.
The Long Hour Before the
Meeting Entrance Of
the Crowd.

The stage of the Academy was set as
a drawing room scene and was devoid of
decorations appropriate to the occasion,
with the exception of fairly well ex-
ecuted portraits of Bryan and Sewall
painted on Chinese mating crossed with
strip of red, white and blue bunting.
These stood on easels at each wing.
AT twenty minutes. to one o'clock the
curtains at the rear of the bleak, empty
auditorium parted and a young man ian
wife and two daughters. They were es-
corted to the centre seats in the second
row from the stage. For almost a half
hour they were the only occupants of the
theatre.
A committee from the Robert Davis As
sociation next came upon the stage with
a crayon portrait of William Heller and
placed it in front of the speakers table,
directly in front of the stage. 1t was
ten minutes after one o'clock when Cap
tain Farrier marched In with a squad of
policemen, and lining them up at the rear
Of the theatre, gave them their instruc-
tons They We're short and explicit
you see smoking fire him out no mat
ter who he is.
There is to be no standing in the
aisleS. AS soon as all the seats are oc-
cupied. let no more come in
Soon after, Edward A. Stanton, James
Laverty and small number of Hobo
ken politicians were admitted and given
seats in the front row There seemed to
be no head sr tail to the meeting, nor
anyone present to take charge of things
Men prominent in local politics began
to wander in about 1:20. Cornelius sHealey
and ex-AsSemblyman Madden looked in
at the door at the rear of the stage and
then disappeared. sAbe'' Graham came in
behind them, but did not stay long either
ice Noonan and wife occupied one of the
boxes.
1t was twenty-five minutes after one
when low rumble. in the rear of the
theatre, which rapidly grew louder and
louder until 1t broke out into roar, told
that the doors were open. The crowd
poured in.
Those with ladies and influence were
had to go to the balcony and gallery. Ia
just five minutes every seat in the bal
cony was filled and men were standing
up.
Robert Davis came on the stage to see
that the newspaper men were taken care
of and received an ovation
The stage slowly filled up. Among the
first to arrive We're ex-Judge John Gar
| rck, Assemblyman Hoos Alex. Young of
aoboken, Assemblyman Mullin of Kearny
| Freeholder MeNally, City Clerk Michael
J; o'Donnell, Ex-Alderman Day, Alderman
| rion and Michael Fagen.
others on the stage were:-Ex-Police
Commissioner Kelly. Lawyer Pagan,
| Adolph Walter, Jr., Lawyer John DENIM,
| Eddie Dugan, who peeked out from a cur
| tain at the rear of the stage; ex-Assem-
| blyman Michael Coyle, Corporation AT
| torney Minturn of Hoboken Assemblyman
| Hewitt and Counsellor Henry " Condit
| Rev. DR.. Spencer Rice sat in one of the
| boxes In the audience were Rev.
| Charles H. Vail, pastor of the Universal
| st Church; Counselor Charles Je Peshall
| Judge McCoullugh, Assessor Dollard, AS
sistant City Clerk Haggerty of Hoboken
/ and Charles Kaufman.
| At 1:35 every seat in the house except
| the reserved orchestra chairs was filled
The mystery of Dr. Ginner was solved
| Liveryman Duffy came on the stage with
| short, corpulent Teutonic gentleman
| looking like prosperous waiter A cur
lous. person asked: Whats that with
| Duffy?"
Why, that's DIR. Ginner," and the mys-
terry was solved.
| The audience got impatient and when
the orchestra appeared, greeted it with
hearty applause.
MAbey Naar, who was cavorting
around the stage, thought that at last
his greatness was recognized and bowed
The crowd was very cold and the way
in which the distinguished citizens sat OF,
the stage and rested their heads on their
hands produced the effect of first class
funeral.
At ten minutes, of two, the orchestra
struck up the new William T. Bryan
March. which gives appropriate promin-
ence to the wind instruments