The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-09
STARVED TO DEATH
Medico : Legal Society Of
Hudson County Sud-
denly Expires.
THE TREAsURER's K RAYS
Incidents in the Brief Life of a
Headed Organization
Its Epitaph.

The Medico-Legal Society Of Hudson
county is deader than a nail. Sad to
ten. It starved to death, and they say the
doctors are to blame because they re-
fused to give it nourishment in the shaps
OF dollars and cents
For long time certain lawyers and doc
tors in Hudson county thought of form
ing a club where lawyers could get their
medical advice for nothing, and doctors
could get pointers in suing obstinate pa
tients whose ''unremitting'' kindness was
worrying them. Accordingly, a few doc
tors and lawyers in the fall of last year
gathered one fine afternoon in Chancery
Chambers to talk over the project 1t was
a brilliant gathering. There were law
yers like c. C. Black. Gilbert Collins.
Jacob Weart. George L. Record. Flavel
MCGEE, ]. D. Bedle, w c. Fisk, Marshal
Van Wrinkle. William Klink, ]. w.
Queen, H. V. Condict, Jos. S. Erwin. ].
Keller. ]. Griffin, ex-Judge Seymour.
ex-Judge Blair, ex-Judge Garretson, Jas.
5. Gordon. ]. F. Fielder, and other men
well known. Besides these were these
doctors:-Messrs Dickinson, w. A. Durrie.
Jr., W. P Watson and many more pres
ent. When the advantages of amalgamat-
ing the professions into a twin-headed
society We're sufficiently discussed, officers
were elected. committee appointed TO
look up a site for clubhouse, and ex-
Judge r. B. Seymour, in his capacity
as an ex-professor of medical jurisprud-
ence was at once instructed to draw up
Incorporation papers. Treasurer William
Klink beganto collect the $40 entrance fees.
and the society was fairly launched with
heraldic coat of arms blazoned thus:
shield or with three circles azure proper.
Supporters male figures. each with roll
of paper, argent. and motto gules, your
money or your life''
The first meeting of the new club took
place in Taylor's Hotel, when President
Charles c. Black introduced Mr. Clark
Bel of New York. The lawyers and
doctors present first thought they were
there to hear a lecture on medical juris-
prudence, but they were quickly unde-
eeived. Mr.. Bell entertained them with
had done Tor a certain medico-legal So
ciety in New York, and added that when
the history of the last quarter of the CEN
tury would come to be written by a
Bryce Of a Bancroft. the doings of him
self and the Medico-Legal Society would
occupy the central place, and Venezuela,
Cuba and other trifiing matters would
take a back seat. He wound~up by ask
ing the members to subscribe to his
paper and magnanimously offered Jersey
City. his library at just what 1t had cost
This offer almost took the young So
c1ety's breath away, but they recovered
and Mr.. Black took. Mr.. Bell down
to supper, and in the gratitude of his
heart for such a magnificent lecture en-
tertained the New Yorker royalty.
By and bye the special COMMITTEES ap-
pointed to find clubhouse looked at this
house and that. but there was something
wrong with the price. Then when they
wanted to report, to full meeting there
was no meeting to report to. Members
would not turn up, and poor Treasurer
William klink began to grow thin worry
lected, and the x he wanted to collect
All the x rays under the Roentgen pros
cess could not discover money in his treas
ury which did not exist in sufficient
quantities to buy a clubhouse or pay for
In despair he rushed to his colleagues,
and they advised dunning up fees. This
was done, but alas, the doctors were
too busy attending to their patients and
the lawyers were engrossed in their cases
for Medico-Legai Society. 1t is only
| fair to say that the doctors were tha
| sinners more than the lawyers in this
| respect.
"Oh.shaw, we've had enough of this -
| said one of the officers
''If they don't pay up We'll shut ups
| said another, and suited the word to the
| action.
| And thus it was agreed to go no; further
with the project, and Treasurer William
| Klink will begin in a day or two to re-
] turn the x bills he collected at the meet
| ing in Chancery Chambers when 1t was
proposed to erect tablet with these
| lines Inscribed
| sc Beneath these stones,
Repose the bones,
OF the Medico-Legal Society.
For want of cash
| 1t went to smash
| Deatn-f00 r1llch variety "