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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-03
KeRAMTo CLUB z
Mrs. L. r. Smith Receives the club
Medal

1Z Al
The Jersey City Keramic Art Club met
yesterday afternoon in the club rooms.
Hasbrouck Institute. Very little business
was transacted, Mrs. E. j. Pond, of
Plainfeld, Secretary of the New York
Keramic Club, acted as judge of the
competitxn. The member had decorated
tiles for the competition. The subjects
were animals and chrysanthemums. Mrs.
L. 7. Smith was awarded the club medal
by Mrs. Pond. She had decorated her tile
with a study of kittens. Miss Annie
Ramsay received honorable mention for
her pretty tile, which was decorated with
chrysanthemums. Brush and court trays
were given the members to decorate for
next months competition. Holly berries
m mistletoe are the subjects for decora-
ton.
Mrs. Fanny Rowell Priestman, presi-
dent of the club. appointed Mrs. Frank
Price, Miss Florence Dean White and
Committee to nominate officers for the
coming year. 1t was decided to have a
Recording Secretary and a Corresponding
Secretary in the future, instead of having
but one secretary.
The club will exhibit with the New
York Club at the Travellers Fair. which
will be held in Madison Square Garden
December 1928. Announcement was made
that at the annual exhibition of the
National League of Keramic Clubs. held
in Cincinnati. the work of two members
Of the club, Miss Cornelia Post and Mrs.
L. T. Smith. received honorable mention.
Miss Posts work was a set of tiles rep
reSenting the seasons, and Mrs. Smiths
was a handsome pitcher.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-03
THE MI0R0BE EVIL.
German Scientist Trying TO Prove
THAI We Can Live without II.

Some inquisitive German professors have
been trying to find if it is possible for
US to live without the assistance of mi
crobes-uhat is to say, If all the usual pro-
cesses of digestion can be carried on in
spite of the banishrnent of bacteria, says
the London Graphic" Their experiments
were made on baby guinea pigs. and they
fed them exclusively on sterilized or
germ-free milk. So arduous, however. did
the task prove that although the feeding
operations day and night were divided
between them, they could not endure the
strain for more than a few days
The guinea pigs t1roye, certainly, osfy
not so satisfactorily as their more fortu-
nate brothers and sisters; but the profess
Sors consider that they W. lone a good
deal toward upsettfng the Theory held by
some savarNts that without bacteria life
is impossible. The investigations were ex-
tremely carefully and skilsfully planned.
and there is no reason to suppose that the
accuracy of the results vas IN any way
interfered with by flaws in the conduct
of the experiments. The researches are
being continued, and 1T remains to he seen
if the same results are obtained with
vegetable as with animal food Clearly
there are signs of a reaction setting in,
and the so-calIed ban Of bacteria, under
which we are frequently described as
bound to exist, may after all prove to be
q chimera.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-03
Am M
Academy Of Music.

Frank Bush. the eminent comedian.
and a company of clever artists. appeared
last night in the Academy of Music with
the popular farce comedy, Girl Wanted"
1t was one of the most pronounced hits
of last season. It is a very lively story
of the misadventures and shifts in New
York City of a penniless youth who IS
trying to divert to his sweetheart a for
tune that ought to come to her but
threatens to go elsewhere. The means he
employees involves his Disgusting himself
as several different people. OF course,
Frank Bush is the youth, and the ext
geneles of the plot give him an oppor-
tunity TO masquerade in the guises of the
various character creations for which he
is famous. There is no more exuberant,
funmaker on the stage than Frank Bush.
His skill in mimiery and -impersonation is
as great as his II of natural humor.
Thomas H. Davis and William r.. Keogh
have surrounded him this season with a
new and large company of well known
and clever fun-makers and specially per-
formers.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-03
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D AND CANAL FOR THE YEAR 1896.
TOOK THE WHOLE BAKERY.
Old Reuben Sfmpson Gels Ahead of
n Tricky

Oscar. Louis and Max Weber and their
mother opened q bakery on Ocean avenue,
near Linden avenue, about one year ago
After several months a quarrel arose be-
tween the mother and the sons n she
decided to withdraw from the firm, pro-
vided she was paid $3.50 as her share.
Max was the next one to become dis
satisfied He wished to withdraw and
would take no less than $500 for his in
terest, and as Oscar and Louis thought
they could prosper without him it was de-
cided TO pay him the $500. Business being
very dull and ready cash scarce they
found they could not pay him, but af-
ter considerable trouble the necessary
$500 was borrowed from Alderman Reuben
Simpson. AS security Mr.. Simpson re-
ceived a bill of sale upon the store fix
lures. This occurred on March Il. Sep
TENDER IA the T.. F. Randolph Page &
Company, -four merchants in New York,
in a business deal received from the
brothers a chattel mortgage upon the
same store fixtures.
Early last evening Alderman Simpson
received Information that Louis and Os-
car had made preparations 10 move to
New York. He Immediately investigated
and learned enough to cause him to start
legal proceedings against them. While
seeking a constable he anne across Con-
stable Phil Kaiser. After relating his
troubles 1t was discovered that the -four
merchants had received the same infor-
nation as he had, and had sought the aid
of Kaiser in their cause.
The Alderman placed his bill Of sale in
the hands of the constable, who obtained
a warrant for the arrest of the brothers,
charging them with obtaining money un-
der false pretences. 1t was after twelve
o'clock Kaiser reached the bakery,
and there he found Oscar and took him
to the Fifth precinct station, where he
was locked up. Louis. they told him, was
in New York.
Alderman Simpson owns the building in
which the bakery is. and as the rent of
last month. amounting to ISL, has not
been paid, he obtained a writ of attach
ment upon the household goods to secure
himself. The writ he placed in the hands
of Constable Kaiser, who in order to
make sure of no stolen march, stayed
upon the premises all night.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-03
TURKEY SAUCE MAY BE HIGH.
Jerseys CRANBERRY Crops 10 Distress
fngJy short.
SpocidI TO the JcrscuC9 Neus

H Atttt~th'' tftS ~ ~ VOWS
CAMDEN, Nov. 3, 1S96.-The cranberry
Dogs of New Jersey are crowded with
pickers who are gathering the succulent
fruit for the coming Thanksgiving turkey.
But the growers are not happy, for their
crop is short. Last year the cranberry
crop of the State reached 210, 600 bushels,
and the year before zoe, 600, hi in 1898
it ran up to the unprecedented record Of
1926, 900 bushels.
The American Cranberry Growers AS
ISOLATION fixes the total yield his year at
514. 900 bushels, and about s 1000 BUSH
els will come from the Dogs Of Wiscon-
sin and Michigan, and over 350,0o0 BUSH
els from New England. This leaves the
New Jersey crop so small. comparatively,
that growers must obtain high prices to
make much profit.
There are nearly 600 acres of cram
berry bog in New Jersey that are care
fully cultivated each year. Salem q
Middlesex counties lead all others in re-
spect to the number Of acres devoted to
cranberry culture, but Burlington, Cam
den and Ocean follow in close succession.
In addition to the damage lone to the
vines last summer by the drought, the
farmers had to fight the and
grasshoppers, which appeared in greater
numbers than usual. Afgreat many farms
were also burnt over by the fires of last
fall. which killed some Of the vines and
checked the growth of others very serf-
ously. With this series of catastrophles
to contend with the cranberry growers
are thankful to harvest successfully even
their present limited crop, especially
when the prospects are so encouraging
for higher prices than usual. 1t ia estf-
mated that cranberries will be a dollar
per barrel higher this Thanksgiving be-
cause OF the low average yield in New
Jersey.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-03
AFTER SUNDAY sT0RBKEEPBRs.
Merchants PrstectIve ASSOCIATION
VIII Look Gnso the Matter.

The regular semi-monthly meeting of
the Hudson County Merchants Protec-
tive Association was held last night in
the Avenue House. The feature of the
meeting was a request of the Executive
Committee of the member to furnish
them with a list of all stores open next
Sunday. Mr.. Robert Anderson, chairman
OF the committee. said that after election
the association was going to go before
the city authorities and get them to en-
force the Sunday closing law. The rest
OF the meeting was taken up in the dis
cussion of the coming food show to be
held in Oakland Rink, this month. The
exposition will be opened on Monday.
November 9, by Mayor Wanser. That
night, however, none but members and
friends of the association will be adj
mitted. The opening night for the public
will be Tuesday.
A special meeting will be held Novem-
Der 8, in the Rink, and the regular meet
ing of November 16 will be postponed.
Invitations to the opening of the expo
sition were given out last week. They
were confined entirely TO members of the
association, where at last years expo
sition the general public were invited.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-03
For Ricxcle Ridars.

There are several well known rules In
bicycling today which have established
themselves by custom. and yet many of
book. They are, none the less. rules to
be followed, because they are founded on
experience. Riding in the city is very
different from riding in the country. and
there are certain differences in riding in
small towns from either the country or
the city. In the ountry there Is no Ca
son why one should not ride on side
paths or sidewalks if the road is better
there. There Is much less traffic, not so
many pedestrians and no one has any
objection to this side path riding there.
1t is very different In towns. however.
There, whether the law forbids sidewalk
the street. In towns and in cites hiey-
cles become in every way subject TO the
laws of carriages, q wheesman should
keep always on the right hand side of
the road on principle. When a horse and
carriage or another wheel is approach
both the driver of the horse and carriage
and the rider of the wheel mus give him
room to pass on the right. In overtak-
ing and passing either carriages or bicy-
Giles, you should pass to the left, turning.
in other words, from the right hand side
turning a corner, there are several rules
to be observed, and in practice they
ought all to be observed invariably. II
you are turning into a street to the left a
wild circle should be made, keeping well
to the right, leaving room always atfEhe
or carriage. to easily pass.-Harper's
Round Table.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-03
NAVAL RESERVE INSPECTED.
Battalion of the Wcsrs Omcers Hav'
n Dinner
Spccial to the Jerscy Citu Netps-

TRENTON, Nov. 8, 1896.-The annual in
spection of the First Division, Battalion
of the West, Naval Reserves of New Jer-
sey. was held at the armory last evening.
Captain Dahlgren and staff conducted the
inspection, in the presence of a large
number of visitors. The armory vas pref
tily decorated in the national colors for
the occasion. The showing of the divi-
sion was remarkably good, and was highly
complimented by the guests.
After the inspection the Naval Reserves
with their guests adjourned to the dining
rooms of The Office, where they partook
of q beunteous repaSt, followed by toasts
from the guests and others. Among those
present were Commander Schetky, of the
United States Navy; Captain Charles b.
Dahlgren, commander of the Battalion of
the West; DIR. Glover, assistant surgeon,
Ca,ta.n Dahlgren's staff; Captain Rich
ard r. Whitehead, Gun Detachment,
Company i; Captain f. +. G.. Woodward,
DR.. N. B. Oliphant, surgeon; Ensign
Matthews. Chief Quartermaster Lawrence,
Ships Apothecary Jones, Chief Boats
ain Mate Hudnet, Payn1aster Fulper
and Leader of the Naval Reserve Band
Zabb.
All of the invited guests and many of
the members were called upon to respond
to toasts. They all paid high compliments
to the First Division, Battalion of the
West, and the excellent showing which
they had made in the inspection.
Captain Dahlgren very feelingly referred
to the late Joshua Johnson, shipkeeper of
the Monitor Ajax, who was buried on
Sunday, and who served under Captain
Dahlgren's father, Admiral Uric Dahl
gren. Many of the others. in their re-
sponses. highly eulogized Joshua johnson.
DIR. Glover moved that a committee be
appointed to receive subscriptions for a
memorial tablet in honor of ~Shipkeeper
johnson, which tablet is to be placed on
the Ajax. Captain Dahlgren, DR.. Glover.
Captain Schetky, Lieutenant Commander
Davis. Ensign Hudnet, Ensign D'Unger
and Captain Woodward were selected as
the committee.
Captain Woodward closed the banquet
in a happy little speech, in which he ex-
pressed the hope that the National Guard
and Naval Reserves might always work
together, and that the best of feeling
might prevail between them.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-03
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Fashions for November.

Yhe November number Of Fashions"
the magazine published by Messrs. Brown
& Van Anglen, is one that win be eagerly
sought for by their customers. Those
who secure the publication each month
will have at the end of the year a
volume of unexampied beauty. Mrs.
Amelia e. Bars exquisite romance Is
continued and another chance afforded
to secure the $50 prize. A new
competition is introduced with valuable
prize offer, and awards made of previous
contests. A charming Thanksgiving story
of an authorized Runaway Match. will
please their readers. A few other ar
ficles can only be mentioned by their
titles:-Winter Sports; Ice Boating, Curl
Ing and Road Skating, nlustrated. Home
made Christmas Gifts, illustrated: New
Dances and New Dancing Shoes. Illus
trated: Home Dressmaking, Illustrated;
P~hysloRnomy, Graphology and Best
Stories: articles upon Winter Cookery:
Absent Minded Stories, etc, etc. Copies
Of the November issue can b obtalned
free Of charge By calling At the of71ce.
KH ~.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-03
TEACHERS And TAUGHT
Sunday School Convention Meets
in the Parmly Memorial
Church.

The thirty-fourth annual convention of
the Hudson County Sunday School Asso-
citation Is now being held in the Parmly
Memorial Church on Grove street. The
afternoon session began with at two
O'Clock with responsive reading. The
Rev. George G.. Wilding, pastor Of He'd
ding Methodist Church. led the prayer
service. Mr.. w M. Laws, superintendent
OF the Parmly Memorial Sunday School.
welcomed the convention. He said he took
great pleasure in welcoming the conven-
ton to the Parmly Memorial Church. He
hoped everyone would feel at home. ana
that the convention would prove helpful
to all. Mr.. ]. v, Forster, president of the
association. thanked Mr.. Laws for his
cordial welcome. He said the convention
always had proved helpful to all in at
tendance, and he knew this meeting would
be no exception The boy choir of the
Park Reformed Church sang an anthem,
Thou That sTeliest."
The address of this afternoon is 1.-THE
teachers perspective glass, and how to
D. D., Of Newark. Following DIR. Mac
kay's address will be a question box con-
Quoted by DR.. r. r, Deherty, and several
snort talks on Sunday school work by the
- eWSst1Stus pastor Ol t0e summit
Avenue Baptist Church.; the Rev. H. q.
Cronin, pastor Of the Second Presbyterian
Church, and Mr. w. E. Drake, superin-
tendent Of the Centenary Methodist
Church. Mrs. ]. S. Ostrander of Brooklyn
will teach the primary lesson for next
Sunday. Late in the afternoon reports
viii be given of the department of Sum
day schoo work. A collation. will be
served to those coming from a distance
by committees from the following Sun
day schGolS:-Parmly Memorial BAPTIST.
Trinity N. E., Tabernacle Congregational.
Wayne Street Reformed, Hedding M. E.,
and Scotch Presbyterian.
The address of the evening will be de-
livered at $40 by the Rev. WayIand
Hoyt, D. D., of Philadelphia. Reports
OF committees will be heard and the cleo
ton of officers will be held in the even
ing.
The Polls remain open until z O'Clock
this evening.
If you AVE not yet voted, go and do so.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-03
Bon Tor

The bill at the Bon Ton this week is a
good holiday bill, and Is really worth
seeing. Oddetta, a champion buck dancer
heads the list. Introducing a plantation
scene. Sheridan and Forrest do a song
and dance act; the La Veiles. aerial ar
lists are the best that have been at the
Bon Ton this season. and their feats of
daring performed in the air are mar
v~ellous; Bryant and Clever do a sketch,
entitled "McKinley's VISIT which
brought forth great applause for the can
didate; Lowell and Lowell are contor-
tionists, and as such head the list; their
~evolutions are very intrinsic; Professor
Lorgs exhibited his troupe of trained
oogs; Ince and Brennan. in a sketch. en-
titled The Modern School of Acting q
did well; Frank G. Mack. a singer and
dancer of rare ability. nex appeared and
was heartily applauded; Deets n Don
sang character ong and danced; Pat
and Matte Rooney danced and sang well.
and Kennedy and Stewart. German and
IRISH comedians, appeared in a laughable
skit.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-03

NEWARK, Nov. 8, 1Ss6.-The Black
Horse Tavern, which a stood for over
a hundred years at the corner of Broad
n Clay streets. will be torn down in a
short time, and thus one more of New
ark's old landmarks will be obliterated.
Although a tablet In the fireplace of the
old building gives 1871 as the date of eree-
ton, papers show that in 1851 the building
was put up.
1t was then the halfway house between
Newark and Belleville, for Newark then
lay for the most part south of Market
street. The old tavern was much smaller
than the present building and had a
style.
For many vars Jerry Doyle held sway
at the Black Horse, and It has been in his
the property and intends to build on the
old site an addition to the building now
going up just north of the tavern
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-03
NEW JERSEY SUPREME COURT.
Wilkinson. eaadis { Co. vs.. James NJ. En-

Wilkinson, Gaduts & Co. VI. James NJ Eli
lery.
In a~ttachment-On contract.
By virtue Of an order made in the above
stated cause by the said Court on the tenth
day of October. eighteen hundred and ninety
six. the subscriber, auditor appointed by the
said Court in the said cause. viii sell at pub
of Jersey City, on Friday. the twentieth day
of November, eighteen hundred and ninety
six. at two O'Clock IN the aftsrnaons-
In the tract or parcel Of land and premls
hereinafter particularly described. situate. -
ing and being in the Town Of West Hoboken,
in the County of Hudson and state ar New
Jersey. and situated and described as follows,
10 wit:-Southwest corner Of Spring and Lake
conveyed BY Mary L. Gurnee to James "a.
Hillery and Benjamin F.. Hnlerys on the -
day Of February, eighteen hundred and
ninety, by will OF said Mary L. Gurnee.
Second-Al that undivided one-half interest
belonging to the said James II. Hflery TO
the tract or parcel of land and premises here
and being in the City of Jersey City, in the
County Of Hudson and State of New Jersey,
Lot number twenty-six (26). Court street.
sometimes known as and called Railroad ave
nue.. being the same premises conveyed by
will of Mary L. Gurnee to James NJ. Hillery
and Benjamin F. Hiliery-
Third-A1so all that undivided one-half inter-
est belonging to the said James NJ. Hillery
hereinafter particularly described. sifuats. "
ing and being In the City of Jersey City. in
the county OF AuuSCn ana state Of New
Jersey, described as follows, to wit:-Lot known
as number two hundred and forty-fve (245).
Thirteenth street, and being the same prem
Uses conveyed by will of Mary L Gurnes 10
James NJ. Hillery and Benjamin F. HIliery.
Which said lands were seized and attached by
John ]. Toffey, Sherin of the County OF Hud-
son. by virtue Of the writ OF attachment issued
in the above stated cause, and will be sold
for cash.
r. ARTHUR HELLER.
Auditor.
sf7.1o.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-03
A BOSTON FISH STORY.
even the Ffnny Tribe Sometimes Get
Attached to a Bicycle.

Among the residents of Bermuda are
two brothers, one Of whom, beside being
an enthusiastic yachtsman, IS also a
swift and skillful rider of the bicycle.
Some. time ago. shortly before the date
set for a bicycle race. IN which he was
to be one of the contestants. his wheel
mysteriously disappeared, and all efforts
to find a trace of it proved fruitless. says
a Boston exchange.
One dan about fourteen months after
the bicycle had been presumably stolen,
a fisherman, who had been angling out in
the middle of ST. Georges Harbor for
floating fish, hooked a large one, which
instantly plunged iRto the depths of the
harbor in a vain endeavor to- escape. The
angler played with him for awhile. and
then, feeling the line tightening in his
hand and the strain become steady, be-
gan to haul up. He soon realized that he
had at the end of his line one of the
heaviest catches which he had ever made.
and what he could not understand about
III that 1t was apparently almost a dead
eig He hauled away, however, until
there appeared above the water not only
the fish that he had hooked, but a bicycle,
around the handle of which the fish. in
its efforts to escape, had wound the line
a number of times.
WAGI the dSIOElS1eQ lSAeIm1Q ndQ
sufficiently recovered from his amaze
ment at his curious catch, he took the
bicycle ashore. There it was soon iden-
titled as the one which had so inexpli-
cably disappeared. Strange to say, the
machine, in spite of the fact that 1t had
been at the bottom of the harbor for
fourteen months, was but little damaged,
and was easily put in running order
again.
For some time no clue as to how 1t
found its way to its water hiding place
could be discovered. Eventually, how
ever. several circumstances came to
light that pointed to a man with whom
the bicycle rider had once had trouble. AT
one time whenever he rode past this
mans place the dogs which were kept
there would run out and bark and snap
at the rider. causing him considerable an
noyance and trouble. At first he con-
tented himself with simply driving off
the brutes as best he could, but when
he found that they were set upon him
by their master he took prompt measures
to have the man arrested, brought into
court and fined. From various circum-
stances that were found out regarding
the disappearance of the bicycle, there
seemed to be no doubt that the owner of
the ugly dogs was responsible for it. and
that he stole the machine and SUM it
in the harbor in order to be revenged on
its owner.-Philadelphia Press.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-03
DAUGHTER AGAINST MOTHER.
No Alimony for Mrs.. Foelker whs
Rides q bike.
Spccfn7fo Tia Jcrscv Cftu Nctrs

CAMDEN. Nov. 8. 1ssS.-Before Vice
Chancellor Reed here yesterday, ounsel
for Mrs. George A. Foelker made an APP
plication for alirnony and counsel fees
pending a decision in the application for
divorce made by her husband. The par
ties in the suit are well known In Had
donfield and have been separated for over
nsss Mrs FoeiRer's stadement tbat she e
dependent on the charlly of the world
and says that she has purchased a new
bicycle and is daily eayorting ms Far
mount Park and on Broad and Diamond
streets, Philadelphia.
An affidavit made by a 15-year old
daughter was also presented to the Court,
in which the child swore that he mother
had ~endeavored to induce her to make a
terrible charge against her father. The
Vice Chancellor refused to grant ali
mony, but allowed S25 counsel fees.