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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-09
OLD FOURTH EN- FETB.
Republican Clubs Celebrate mcKfn-
ley's Victory with a Parads.

The election of Mckinley and Hobart
and the partial victory of the Republican
party in this county was celebrated SAT-
urday night by the Republican clubs of
the Old Fourth District in a large parade
which they held through the principal
streets of the Heights. All along the line
of march there was a continual display of
fireworks, and a great number of houses
were prettily decorated.
The parade was participated in by be-
tween 800 and 400 young men. The Free
mont Battalion, composed Of fifty men,
attired in their uniforms of white duck
trimmed with blue ribbons and wearing
white helments. headed the procession.
Each one of the marchers carried a
broom or a torch and wore in their hats
large ROSTERS In front of the Fremont
Club on Central avenue, the starting
point of the parade, a large crowd gath
cred and they cheered for Mckinley and
McEwan. After parading for over two
hours the boys wound up at Kessler's
Hall, where a good time was enjoyed.
Among the clubs which sent delegations
besides the Fremont Club, under which
association the parade was held, were:-
Hudson Republican Club, Five Corners
Republican Club, Iroquois ndian Repub-
lican Club, Thomas McEwan Association,
Sound Money Independent Club, Our
Union and Robert Henry Association. Be
sides these, there were a large number of
citizens who are not identified with any
political association.
AS stated above. nearly all the houses
along the line of march were prettily deco
rated Among those which were deco
rated to such an extent as to deserve
mention were the houses of Joseph Keele,
secretary Hudson County Republican
Club, No. 141h Laidlaw avenue; Charles
A. Bueklin, No. &c Laidlaw avenue; ]. A.
Engel. Laidlaw and Bonner avenues L..
Martin, No. 262 Webster avenue; DIR. Ra-
deau, Bowers street; John Doscher. Bow
ers street; II. Temper. Bowers street; p.
H. Ortleib, No. 400 Central avenue; F.
Scribner. No. 1856 Central avenue, and
Henry Wyatt, No. 32S Central avenue.
From every one of these residences were
set off fireworks.
There were also a large number of
prominent sound money Democrats who
decorated for the occasion, and whenever
the parade passed one of their houses
they acknowledged the decorations by
crying out Whats the matter with So
and So?" whoever the person happened
to be, and the reply came back. "He's all
right"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-09
walked Through a Coach.

Two ladies of distinction once stopped
IN a carriage at a jewelers. neal Charing
Cross, one Of them only got cut, and the
coach stood across the pathway which
some gentlemen wante to cross to the
other side and desired the eoachman 10
move on e little. The fellow was surly
and refused: the gentlemen demonstrated
hut in vain.
During the alteration the lady came to
the shop door and foosishly ordered her
ce achm not to stir from the place. or
this one Of the gentlemen opened The
coach door, and with boots and spurs.
stepped through the carriage. He was
followed by his companion. to the extreme
discomposure Of the lady within, as well
as the lady without.
To complete the Jest, q party of sailors
coming up observed that ii 1t was . pub
he thoroughfare they had as much rieh1
to 1t as the gentlemen, and accordingly
scrambled through the carrfaxe.-NeW6rk
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-09
MAYOR WANsER WILL OPEN IT


Ovu AbCSAh1
Oakland Rink from the outside is the
same old tumble-down looking shanty
that it has been for the past five or six
years, but on the inside one would never
recognize it as the same old skating rink.
It has been converted into a veritable
fair grounds, booths of all kinds having
been erected all over the place, and with
the various decorations of each, a prettier
place of its kind is not to be found in
this part Of the county today.
All this Transformation has been done
for the food show of the Merchants Pro-
tective Association, which opens there
this evening. The exposition will not be
morrow night. as this evenings opening
is merely for the members and friends
Of the association. admission being by in
vitation only.
Mayor Wanser will formally open the
show this evening. He will visit the
merchants in their quarters in the Avenue
will be escorted by them to the Rink.
The meeting of the association this even
ing will be a very short one, no business
meeting to receive his Honor the Mayor.
They will then march to the exposition
in a body.
far superior to the one held by the mer-
chants two years age. That one was a
decided success, over $4,000 having been
made. and from the outlook of this years
at least s., 900 ought to be cleared.
Among the exhibitors are a number of
the largest mercantile houses in New
York. and they have spared no expense
in making their booths attractive. All
the spaces are taken and a number OF
more could nave been rented if they were
only available. The smalness of the place
is the only drawback to the whole affair.
During the first exposition there were q
| number of nights when the people were
turned away for the want Of room to
accommodate them all.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-09
H-awthorre,s Reserve.

All the testimony IN regard to Haw-
thorne, says ssYouth's Companion" is that
he was not only shy. but very reserved.
Frank Preston Stearns says that On the
occasion of Hawthorne's last visit to the
Isles of Shoals. in company WITH his
friend, ex-President Pierce. there was
also a party of New Hampshire business
men. who tried to make his acquaintance.
but without much success. Their after
were very amusing.
"Nathaniel Hawthorne is a very re-
served man." said one. There's Frank
lin Pierce. he's been President of the
United States, yet any n could go up
and speak TO him. We found Hawthorne
very different"
This conversation was repeated to
Hawthorne's acquaintance at the Shoals.
and the poet Whittier was among those
who laughed heartily.
Reserved Is no word for It." said Mrs.
Thaxter. and Whittier added, in words
which not only seemed to describe tho
case. but were in themselves epigram-
matte
Hawthorne was a strange puzzle. I
never felt quite sure whether I knew him
or not. He never seemed to be doing
anything. and yet he never liked to be
disturbed at itp
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proof that the Suffrage should At once
be extended TO them ali over the country.
In Connecticut, Mrs. Diamond john
son took a leading part IN the local cam
paign.
Mrs. Johnson is the daughter Of Turtle
King, of Chicago, who left millions.
Twenty-Five years ago she married Ed
win G. johnson, Of Montville, who had
a third interest in a Mathematician log
wood business. Johnson's father was a
cobbler before he started the logwood
business. He developed into a kind Of
country squire. He had a fine stable of
hunters, and rode to the hounds until
he was 80 years old.
Mrs. Diamond johnson and her hus-
band have lived apart for ten years. Her
eccentricities have given her wide no.
toriety. She gained her sobriquet from
her fondness for Jewels. When she used
to go u in Norwich, where she lived in
great luxury in a magnificent house. she
covered her fingers with rings until she
could not close her hands. Her diamond
carriers furnished lots of gossip for Nor
witch. There is Court evidence to show
that she displayed them in an oyster
shop. She had one diamond worth s1s,-
900.
She had a coachman named Hid, who
came from Cologne, and to whom, it was
said also in Court, she had given $4,000
in bonds. She gave $4,000 IN bonds to her
physician and then wanted them back
again.
These things. together with the fact
that Mrs. Johnson's husband had at
tempted to shoot Hid, were brought
out in the application for the appoint
ment of a conservator to be placed over
Mrs. Johnson. 1t was made by her
eldest son, Andrew T. johnson, to Judge
Charles W. Carter, Probate Judge, who
heard all the testimony and decided to
grant the application.
Inc nlgnt DeIore the decision against
her Mrs. Johnson took all her money and
jewels and went to Chicago, saying she
would get even with Judge Carter.
Soon after the Judges nomination a
young man came to Norwich, registered
at a hotel as E. C. Wilson, and began
one of the most remarkably quiet cam
paigns that Connecticut has ever known.
He spent money freely and created
great distrust against Carter. The Judge
and his followers knew nothing of it until
the last week of the campaign. 1t was
found that a tremendous feeling had set
in against him. 1t was then too late to
do anything.
They did not suspect who it was had
employed Wilson. Now they know that
it was Mrs. Johnson. No one knows how
much money Mrs. Johnson spent. The
friends of Judge Carter say that the
amount was at least s15, 900. and it may
have been twice that.
Mrs. johnson sent this telegram to
Parsons:-"Your victory is my revenge
Women are to elevate and purify poll
tics. you know. when they gain the suf-
frage.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-09
MEALS OF OUR ANCESTORS.
The Various Hours at which Our
Ancestors Ate.

Some time ago inquiry was made in
Notes and Queries as to the hours at
which our ancestors took their meals.
The following abstract of a lecture de-
livered by Darcy Power at the London
Institution viii give Information on the
subject
"Mr. Powers said the old English had
three meals a day. of which the chief
meal was taken when the work of the
day was finished. The first meal was at
8, dinner was about 8 o'clock and supper
was taken just before bedtime. The Nor
dined at the old English breakfast
time or a little later and supped at 7
p. NJ In Tudor times the higher classes
dined at II and supped at 5 o'clock, but
the merchants seldom took their meals be-
fore u and 6 o'clock. The chief meals,
dinner and supper, were taken in the
hall both by the old English and the
Normans. for the parlor did not come
into use until the reign Of Elizabeth.
Breakfast did not become a regular meal
until quite lately, and DR.. Murray, in
the oxford Dictionary ave 1853 as the
date of the earliest quotation in which
the word occurred The meal did not
become recognized until late in the sew
enteenth century, for Pepys habitually
wine or a dram of strong waters in place
of q morning meal. Dinner was always
the great meal of the day. and from the
accession of Henry ". to the death Of
Queen Elizabeth the dinners were as
sumptuous and e-xtrayagant as any of
those now served. Carving was then a
fine art Each guest brought his own
knife and spoon, for the small fork was
not introduced into England until Thomas
Coryate. of Odcome. published his 'Crudi-
ties in 1911. Pepys took his spoon and
fork with him to the Lord Mayors feast
in 1868. The absence of forks led to much
stress being laid upon the act of wash
ing the hands both before and after
meals. and to the rule that the left hand
alone should be dipped into the common
dish, the right and being occupied with
the knife. The perfect dinner at the
best time of English cookery consisted
of three courses, each complete In itself.
and terminated by a subtlety or device,
the whole being rounded off with Ypo-
cras, after which the guests retired into
another room, where pastry, sweetmeats
and fruit were served with the choicest
wines. The English were essentially
meat eaters, and it was not until the
time of the commonwealth that pudding
attained Its extraordinary popularity; in
deed. the first mention of pudding in
the menus of the 'Buckfeast' at St Bar
tholomew's Hospital did not occur until
| ITO, and in 112 Is an item of five shillings
for ice.7-Notes and Queries
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-09
new BUILDINGS.
The Inspectors Report Shows
Many To Go Up.

Building has been brisk during the last
week, Inspector Kelly having issued the
following PERMITS
Susan M. vreeland, to erect one two
and-a-half-story frame house at No. II
Linden venue to cost ss.625.
Catharine Barmeata, to lower house at
No. 1866 Gator avenue. at an expense Of
$1,000.
John DENIM. to erect one two-and-a-
half-story frame dwelling in Linden ave-
nue., to cost $4,000.
Thomas Mack, to build a two-story
frame, to cos $4,000. at No. 6sl Randolph
avenue.
Ada J. Everett, to erect three two-story
and basement brick houses in Boyd ave-
nue., to cost $500 each.
James Langan, to build a two-story
frame house, to cost 81, 300. in Lexington
avenue, near West Side avenue.
Norma Leard, to build a two-story
frame house, to cost 5000, at No. 81 Ar
lington avenue.
Ella K. cayall, to erect a two-story
house, to cost Sc. 600, in Bentley avenue.
c. G. Rode, to build a two-story frame,
to cost $1,000, In Gator avenue.
MRS Huetta Ward, to build a two-story
frame house. to cost $500. at No. 1874 Ro-
maine avenu
Timothy Conroy, to erect one double
frame fiat in st. Paul's avenue, to cost
4,00o.
Albert L. Lothridge, to erect a two-story
frame house, to cost $500, in Bentley
avenue.
Max .Druart. to invest 1850 in a two
story frame. TO be erected on the Boule-
yard. near Griffith street.
Barlia Regain to erect a two-story
frame, to cost $780,, in Wilson avenue.
Fred Druhme. to erect a three-story
frame. to cost 5000, at jackson and
BramhaH avenues.
A.. R. Laseh, to erect two two-story
frame houses, to cost 81, $50 each. In Fair
mount avenue.
Anna Luding, to erect a two-story frame
to cost S2,900, in Blocker street, near
Pierce avenue.
J. H. Macdonald, to erect a two-story
frame, to cost 5000, at North street and
Sherman avenue.
Walter l.. Edwards, to build a two-story
frame at No. 2 Orient aevnue, to cost
81 900.
H. j.. Darling, to erect one two-story
frame house to cost 81, 200; three two
story frame houses, to cost 81, 500 each,
and four two-story frame houses. to cost
81 500 each, at Floyd street and Boulevard
Ernest L. Prior, to build one two-story
frame at Arlington and Claremont ave
nueE. to cost $4,000.
Henry f. Flaacke, to erect one two
story frame in Harrison avenue, to cost
So, 100.
In addition to the above. the inspector
issued permits for the making of altera-
tons and improvements to the amount OF
$3.50.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-09
4 NEWSPAPER WITHOUT OWNERS

Specfdl to the JerscU Gun Nous.

EDtCIUt 10 Htt JtIStUC lJ IFtUS.
TRENTON, Nov. 3, 1S96.-Adam Exton's
heirs and Constable Alfred w. Pack are
searching for the owners of the old Daily
Emporium newspaper and plant, n if
they are not found by Wednesday next
the type and machinery will be placed
In the street. The paper appears regu-
lariy each week. as it has done for the
past IS years. but no one IS ever seen at
the office, No. % West State street. The
concern owes the Exton estate for one
years rent, and that Is why the Con-
stable is on its trail.
For many years the Emporium was
owned and edited by ex-Mayor Breist.
He sold the paper to st. George Kemp
son, of Perth Amboy. Just who owns it
now cannot be ascertained. The sheet is
sent to subscribers by mail from up Jer-
sey, although 1t is dated Trenton.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-09
AFRICAN ETIQUETTE.
The Wfsest Plan to Follow in Wis.,
ftlng the Big Native Chiefs.

In African travel it Is always wise to
visit the biggest chief in any part of the
One can always learn from other
chiefs at a distance who they are and
something of thteir character. In APP
preaching them, always send word of
your coming, and get, if possible. infor-
nation In advance of the feeling of the
chief towards whites. Upon nearing the
village send on ahead to announce you
arrival, and wait until your messenger re,
turns with some of the villagers to escort
you to their chief. Greet the chief civilly
and ask him to send one Of his people
to show you a good place for your tent,
which l have done invariably in this conn
try, though it is not always advisable
in every part of Central Africa. When
you have rested, the chief will come to
see your. Then state to him your bust
ness, talk frankly to him, end explain
plainly your needs, whether you want
guides or to buy food.
| seldom stayed in a place more than
one day, and generally the first night I
called the chief privately into my tent.
had a long talk with him and gave him a
present, consisting generally of a good
cloth, four yards of Americana, four of
wide blue, four OF narrow calico and about
an egg cup full of beads, and sometimes
an empty bottle or two. Invariably / re-
ceiyed the next day the cooperation of
the chief in every way. and also a big
goat or sheep or bullock and fifty or sixty
pounds of flour. Sometimes l gave a
small additional present before leaving.
If the chief took a fancy to any particu-
lar thing, and 1 could spare it, I did So
Sometimes one wanted a sheath knife
and another a hat. Old Kambusdi was
determined to nave a shirt. He wanted
candles, matches and needles, which 1
gave him, and as | had previously given
him cloth, | suggested as a feeble sort Of
joke, thai as he now had cloth and
sewing materials and light. he might sit
up at night and make a shirt. Immediate
ly the old fellow replied. 1T is the candle
tina is interfering with my success. Here,
take back the candle and give me the
shirt" 1 finally yielded and gave him a
much patched garment, which satisfied
him -Cent1fry
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-09
senator fame. smith Heard From


In an article discussing the silver and
tariff outlook. dated at Washington, the
Philadelphia Press gives what purports
TO be an outline of Senator James Smiths
views" This is what it says about the
great 81 ,oc0 majority leader
Senator Smith, of New Jersey, who
aided Senators German and Brice in Sc
curing certain protective duties in the
Wilson bill, does not believe that any
In his Congress. He has been in Wash
lngton within the last few days. and in
discussing the prospects of the DingIey
bill stated that he anticipated the same
opposition to 1t that there was last win
ter.
He says, however. that some of the
free silver men may be disposed to ac-
rept the measure with the Idea Of pre-
gTess.
Senator Smith displays great anxiety
as to the future of his party, and de-
rlares that he can see nothing but fail
IRE for 1t If it adheres to it's advocacy
Of free silver. He stood with his party
organization this year, but the result OF
the election is what he expected: and now
he with other Democrats. who voted for
Bryan. but do not believe in the Chicago
platform. are discussing the possibility
Of a reorganization of the party on q
Dun money basis.
It is amusing to see Smith inveighine
against silver and telling why his party
failed 1t is comical to hear him talk
pf reorganization.
The very first reorganization we want
Is to organize him out. Since he came
10 the surface in New Jersey politics we
have never won a victory. He and his
kind have made this State more solidly
Republican than Vermont. and we car
Y hope for a change while they are
N the way.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-09
STATE GLEANINGs.

william A. Tilton, OF Scobeyville. gath
cred 3G0 bushe of corn from a three
acre field this year.
A Goldfish and a lobster were hauled in
together by a Cape May fisherman on
Tuesday.
Edward Scharrer, Of Oxford, noted for
being the biggest boy In Warren county,
has just passed his sixteenth birthday.
He stands 8 feet ~ INCHES high and his
Ii shoes and IA hat.
Fish Warden George W. Durham has
placed 1000 trout In two Of the trfbu-
taries of the South Branch that empty
In at ,Califon. The fish were brought
from Plymouth. Mr.. Durham says he
expects 100000 wail-eyed pike from Toledo,
Ohio which viii be placed "a ~ Hrnnch.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-09

~
We observe with real regret that the
victorious Republicans are getting around
to their old tricks. They were profuse in
their thanks to Democrats and indepen-
dents the day after the battle, but they
seem to think that words cancel their
obligations to outsiders. and they are
making ready to give all the substantial
rewards to their own old crowd.
or course, the suffering manufacture
must come first. He must have ''protec-
ton" For a brief space, under Demo-
cratic rule, the country has been able to
buy commodities cheap and profits have
been reasonably low. This would never
do under a Republican administration.
The public must be taxed in order that
Messrs Carnegie & Co. may make a few
more millions.
Therefore the Dingley bill is to be
trotted out once more. It is TO be urged
for passage the moment Congress as
sembies. Then, when President Cleveland
vetoes it. President Mckinley is to call an
extraordinary session of Congress i'm
mediately upon his Inauguration. and an
entire new tariff bill on the model of 1889
Is to be put through with a rush.
OF course, the country can stand a Nc
Kinley tariff better than it could free
silver, and yet it is most alarming to find
the threat coming from such men as John
Sherman, who have the opportunity of
making good their words. The fear is
hot on account, of the immediate COM
2nercial injury, though this is serious
enough, but on account of the effect on
4he general tone of public opinion.
Nobody can fail to note in the enormous
vote for Bryan the voice of a dire dis
content. 1t is in the first place sectional,
and secondly an affair of class. The
poorer regions are in a state bordering on
revolt against the richer. The poorer
classes are in a state of revolt against the
richer. This is a product of thirty years
of post bellum Republicanism.
Now. the party which has produced
these conditions comes back into power
and announces its intention-or some of
its leaders do-of resum:ng the old pro-
gramme of legislating always in the in
terest Of the capitalistic classes.
What is to come of it2 Why. we think
Bryan in 1900. The catastrophe was avert
ed this year by not more than ten per
cent. of the votes cast, and the crisis will
be more acute next time unless the Nc
Kinleys and Shermans and Forakers give
up their Bourbonism and cultivate ideas
more in consonance with the spirit of the
present age.
The Democracy Is well disposed to re-
form its ways. If a National convention
were to be chosen next year. free silver
would not have a corporars guard in it,
and the other anarchical declarations
made at Chicago would be hooted down.
But IL the Republican policy of the next
four years drives all the discomfort and
revolt Of the country over to one side,
the party may once again find itself in
e radical attitude when the next Presi-
Dental election occurs, and radicalism may
then be too strong for the conservative
press of the country. weakened by treach-
cry and bad faith on the part of the Re-
publican organization.
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Am
AcademY OF mn.fc.

AT the Academy tonight the famous
play. Shore Acres win be presented
and when it is known that James A.
Herne is to play Nathaniel Berry, the
treat will be complete. Those who nave
seen Shore Acres, agree that it is alb
solutely true to nature. A clergyman,
in speaking of it, says: 'sThe slow NOV
ing measures of this beautiful pastoral
poem are full of the perfume of sunshine
the open air-the ocean breeze. The
theatre patron vino cannot enjoy Shore
Acres is to be pitied. He can have no
appreciation for refined stage art
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-09
DUTY OF oHRIsTIANs.

The Rev. Arney s. Biddle. OF the United
Presbyterian Church, corner Of Summit
avenue and Montgomery street. chose for
his sermon yesterday morning, sAl
Christians Are Temples of God" Mr..
Biddle pointed out how Christians defame
these temples and said that mans natural
state is goodness. II man chooses to re-
main In his natural state he is one of
Gods temples, but If man casts aside
this state of goodness and becomes one
of the wicked, then God casts him for
ever from His sight.