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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-08

of street grades authorizations of streets.
All other expense of the work of track
elevation shouic be borne by the railroad
Counsel would suggest that
tnc present act be amended in accordance
with Ibis view. 50 that the unfair burden
of COST and expense o imposed by it. on
the cities shall be properly modified and
thereby made practicable as well as fair
and acceptable to the cities Of the State
ard She people and taxpayers thereof.
Tn concluding this report ounse
wishes to publicly thank-the Mayor and
the Commissioners of the Board for the
kind absistanceI given him IN his inges3
81 the matters fnyoIyed.a
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-08
QUICKLY EXTIEGuIsHED FIRE.

The hanging of children's clothing in
close proximity to a red-hot stove result
ed in a slight fire on the first floor of he
dwelling house No. Al Thorne street at
3:45 yesterday afternoon. Citizen Louis
Hochl, of No. 1893 Central avenue, was
passing at the time and noticing the
flames rang box As. The quick arrival of
the Fire Department prevented a serious
.cOnfa grafton.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-08
The ssrerrlble snereass oaorIme.,,

vagaries of the reforming spirit seem to
have no end. The bacillus latest victims
are the members of the National Prison
Association, who have been holding their
annual meeting at Austin, Texas. Con-
trary to the generally accepted statistics,
they hold that the progress of crime is
something frightfpl." Perhaps they
would not be so much Mortified if they
reflected that numerous things are now
classed as crimes which were only peeca-
dillos a quarter century ago, one of the
most fertile causes of the alleged increase
of crime being the manufacture of arti-
fetal offences in which our crank reform
ers are industriously engaged.
The programme Of the prison experts.
however, is it's s%trangest feature. 1t en-
braces adjustment of juries, making con-
vlction more summary and trial more
speedy; %depriving defendants Of the right
to appeal to a higher court; offering re-
wards for the discovery and conviction
OF STJllll1dlSt ECt1ONlil6 VI 1NSt1ANeAh5 80
power to pardon; prohibiting the use of
Intoxicating liquors; reconstruction of the
ethical code of lawyers; developing a
scientific motherhood; State regulation of
marriage; restricting immigration; pepu-
lar education and colonization of Grim
inals; the reformation of criminals by the
abolition of the definite sentence.
The first two or three and the last Of
these suggestions simply amount to a pro-
posal to overthrow liberty and substitute
an uncontrolled paternalism. Whether
the march of crime is quite bad enough
to justify this is a question which we
leave to unbiased minds.
The proposals regarding marriage and
parentage are based upon crude and in
SUFFICIENT deductions of an assumed scien-
tifc character, which command no con-
fidenee except among a few extremists.
There Is no law more utterly fallacious
than that of neredity as taken for granted
in propositions such as W. are dealing
with. anyway. the history of the world
affords ample proof that efforts to con-
troll marriage and paternity are the most
fruitful sources of vice and thence of
crime, and, SO far from contributing in
the least to the improvement of society,
no reasonable man can doubt that the
ideas of the Texas conferrees could lead
only to perdition.
The liquor proposal is equally foolish.
Half the deeds which today swell the
statistics of apparent crime are simply
co-ntraventions of the liquor laws.
are crimes of the artificial sort, and their
prosecution, carrying with it no moral re-
proach, helps diffuse in the community a
contempt for all prosecution and COM
domination. besides being an expense to
he community. Such law do no good.
All the liquor legislation that has ever
been put on all the statute books in the
world has not saved one drunkard and it
never will.
What we want, in order to check critne.
IS q reduction Of the number Of crimesa a
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-08
IN CHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY.

TO Pierce Livingstone
BY virtue of an order of the Court of
Chancery of New Jersey, made on the
day Of the date hereof, in a cause where
in Mary Alice Livingstone is petitioner
and YOU are defendant, you are required
to appear and answer to the petitioners
nesition on or before the fifteenth day Of
January next, or in default thereof such
decree will be taken against You as the
Chancellor shall think equitable and Just.
The3 said petition is filed against you
FOR a divorce from the BON of matrimony.
DATED November Is, 1887.
ROBERT CAREY,
Solicitor of Petitioner,
259 Washington Street,
l@H Jersey City.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-08

TO JAMES DUNN. MRS. JAMES DUNN.
his wife; William Creighton Peet, and Ham
ilton Wallis, executors of will of Frederick
+. Harral, deceased
You are hereby notified that at a public
sale made by the City Collector of Jersey
City, on the Goth day of April, 1882, The Mayor
and Aldermen of Jersey City purchased for
the sum of forty-hve dollars and Seventy-SlX
cents ALL the land and real estate situate in
Jersey City, in the County of Hudson and State
of New Jersey, fronting on Wallis avenue,
which is laid down and designated as lots
eighty-seven @D and lightweight &S), in block
number twenty-seven and ffty-three (21 and so,
upon an assessment map annexed to q report
number seventy G0l, made by the Commits
sieners of Adjustment appointed in and for
said City by the Circuit Court of the County
of Hudson, a certified copy of which report
and map was filed in the office of the City
Collector of Jersey City, on the 11th day OF
May, 1891, said report and map and said sale
being made pursuant to the provisions of an
act Of the Legislature of New Jersey, passed
March SOth, 1885, entitled
can Act concerning the settlement and col
lection of arrearages of unpaid taxes, as
sessments and water rates or water rents
in cities of this State, and imposing and
ana instead Of such arresrages. and to en-
force the payment thereof. and to provide
for the sale of lands subjected to future
taxation and assessment"
And the several supplements thereto.
And you are further notified that you APP
naar TO have an estate or interest In said
IRs1d and real estate, and unless the said land
and real estate shall be redeemed, as provided
a. sai5 acts, before the expiration of six
n,onTbs from and after the service hereof. a
,laed for the same will be given conveying to
Tbe Mayor and Aldermen of ~-rsey City, the
fee Simple of said land and real estate ac-
cording to the provisions of the said act.
dated Jersey City, N. J., September 20, 1897.
THE MAYOR N ALDERMEN OF JER-
E. HOGS,
(Seal.) Mayor.
Attest M. J. o~'DoNNELL,
City Clerk.
(Sale No. 1920
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-08
TAX DELINQUBETs' RESPITE.

Personal tax delinquents may break
way for a few days because Collector
Smith being SC busy will the collection Of
the 1867 taxes has been obliged to drop
leyies and seizures. But after December
20 he win renew the war, and no mercy is
to be shown to those in default.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-08

little more certainty OF punishment. which
can easily be secured without creating a
Russian despotism. and far more severity
of punishment.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-08

The first blush of disappointment which
follows a reading of President McKinleys
message, delivered to Congress yesterday.
Evening Journal"
We knew it was a disappointment, but
we did not know it was bad enough to
make a G.. 0. p. organ blush.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-08

THE consumption of beer fell off yester-
day, and the Dingley Deficit began once
more its weary climb to the top of the
recnrd
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-
Notice is hereby given that on the Esd day of
November, 1897, the Commissioners of Assess
ment filed in the office OF the Clerk of the
Board of street, and Water Commissioner
their ANAL assessment map and report. for the
IMPROVEMENT OF DANFORTH AVENUE,
between Ocean avenue and GARFIELD avenue, by
having with asphalt, repaving, laying new 20
inch curb. r~esetting curb, %cribbing, relaying
bridge stone and iiagging.
Pveceedings taken in accordance with Sec
tion 4. CHAPTER 1s4, of the Laws of 1881, and
the same is now open to public inspection in
the office Of the Clerk of said Board.
Ana notice is also given that the following
street or avenue or particular section thereof
e included in said assessment, namely
DANFORTH AVENUE.
from Ocean avenue to Garfield avenue.
And that the 9th day of December. 1897, at
. O'clock p. M, and the Assembly Chamber
Of the City Hall are hereby fixed as the time
end Mace when and where the Board of Street
and Water Commissioners Will meet to hear,
consider and adjudicate upon all objections to
said assessment and report.
All objections thereto must be presented in
BY order of the Board OF Street and water
VIM. A. TOLSON
Clerk pro tenn.
natal Jersey City, November 26, 1897.
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.(Sale No. 1920
The New Jersey Title Guarantee & Trust CO;
NOTICE TO THE CREDITORS OF TIKI
Manhattan Type Foundry.

NOTICE TO Il CREDITORS OF THE
Manhattan Type Foundry.
In Chancery of New Jersey.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue of an
order of the Court of Chancery of New DER
sew. made on the day of the date hereof, in a
catse wherein Anna L. M. Martini and
STEPHEN j. Cox, Jr., are eonlplainants and The
Manhattan Type Foundry is defendant, the
creditors Of the said Manhattan Type Foundry
ara REQUIRED to present to the Receiver APP
pointed in said cause, Robert Carey, at his
Office. No. 25a Washington street, in the City
az Jersey City, New Jersey, and prove be-
fare him. under oath or affirmation, as the
said Receiver shall direct, TO the satisfaction
If said Receiver, their several claims and de-
mands against the said corporation. within
three months from the date OF said order, or
mat they will be excluded from the benefit
Of such dividends IS may hereafter be made
and declared by the said Court upon the pro-
ceeds, Of the effects of said corporation.
Dated Jersey City, n. j., November %, 1897.
ROBERT CAREY,
Receiver.
Solicitor.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-08
DUNCAN SOCIAL CLUBS DANCE.

The members and friends of the Dun
can Social Club spent a very pleasant
time last night at the semi-monthly
dance of that organization at their club
rooms, No. 413 West Side avenue. The
oficers in charge were.-PreSident, Chas.
Forst; yice-President, John Hopkins;
Treasurer, William Melin; Financial Sec
rotary, Charles Dorbath; Corresponding
Secretary. Phil Leath, and S~ergeant-at-
Arms. Charles Speilth. Professor Harvey
rendered several selections on the plano,
and the Mendelssofln Cleo Club sang in
Old Kentucky" and several other pleas
ing selections.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-08
TENOGRAPHY.
N n'EwAs. sR. GEORGE J. NEW
LAW OFFICES
McEWAN q McEWAN.

&c Montgomery Street. Jersey City.
For fine convenience OF our Jersey City clients, we
hyae opened an Office at the above address,
We will continue our old Office at ao Oeneiai
Avenue, as heretofore.
Respectfully.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-08

The New Jersey Title Guarantee & Trust Co.,
Attorney and Agent for Purchaser, Jersey
City, N. j.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-08

TO ELIZA A. BESSON (widow), Emma E.
Besson. John Besson, assignee, for the bene-
fit of creditors OF Samuel A. Besson and Ann
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-08

TO CORNELIUS VAN WORST, WILLIAM B.
Van Worst, Sarah Van Worst. his wife; Will
lam F.. Hart, Bridget Common widow, Mary
z. Pattons Charles G. Patton, her husband;
Nellie NJ. Conner, William f. Connor, Annie
S. Connor QnfanD, Gertrude I. Common Tin
fanD, John J. Common Qnfan). Edward T..
Conner 0nfant). and Joseph Connor GnfantC-
You are hereby notified that at a public sale
made by the City Collector of Jersey City, on
the 14th day of October, 1891, l purchased for
the sum of four hundred and thirty-eight dol
lars and fifty cents ALL the land and real
estate situate in Jersey City, in the County
of Hudson and State of New Jersey, fronting
on Railroad avenue, which is laid down and
designated as lot thirty-eight 1881, in block
number four hundred and twenty-eight 42S),
upon an assessment map annexed to a report
made by commissioner of Adjustment" APP
pointed in and for said City by the Circuit
Court of the County Of Hudson, a certified
copy of which report and map was fled in
the office of the City Collector of Jersey City.
on the 21st day of January, 1891, said report
and map and said sale being made pursuant
to the provisions of an act of the LEGISLATURE
of New Jersey, passed March S0th, 1886. en-
titled
San Act concerning the settlement and coll
lection of arrearages of unpaid taxes, as
sessments and water rates or water rents
in cities of this State, and imposing and
levying a tax. assessment and lien in lieu
and instead of such arrearages, and to
enforce the payment thereof, and to pro-
vide for the sale of lands subjected to
future taxation and assessment"
And the several supplements thereto.
And YOU are further notified that Won appear
to have an estate or interest in said land
and real estate, and unless the said land and
real estate shall be redeemed. as provided in
said acts, before the expiration of six months
from and after the service hereof, a deed
for the same will be given conveying to the
nnrchaser the fee simple of said land and real
estate. according to the provisions of the said
act.
PHILIP TUMULTY,
Jersey City, N. J.,
The New Jersey Title Guarantee & Trust Co.,
Attorney and Agent for Purchaser, Jersey
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-08
CORPORATION NOTICE.

(Sale No. S93o.)
sex Title Guarantee & Trust CO.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-29
LOCAL BUSINESS COMPLICATIONS.

Arthur Ingraham has been appointed receiver OF
the New-York Piano Case Company, whose factory
is at -and-thirty-f-st-st. and the
Boulevard, by Justice TruaX Of the Supreme Court
on the application of the directors in proceedings
FOR the voluntary dissolution of the corporation.
The company is unable to meet demands on 1t Tor
1900 as all the assets tied UP in the plant. ma
terials and accounts and are not Immediately
available The liabilities sos.s55 and assets
$4,000 The bond OF the receiver was hxed al
$1,000 , .s
against the William F. Wall Rope Company, OF
10 5s couth-st for s2 9l2 IN favor Of John Mueller
on an assigned claim Of the Standard Rope and
Twine Company for balance due for merchandise.
FROM June 1856 10 March q. 1897. the latter COM
M nv sold TO the former company ropes and cordase
10 the amount OF x95. AS. which there has been
maid sl7O5i3 The attachment was obtained by
Efrong e Cadwalader on the ground that II is a
foreipn corpora:ion. The Sheriff placed keeper In
cha rye of The place OF business at No % South-st
THE Company has been virtually under the control
OF the standard Rope and Irvine Company for the
last Sly months The business was established
nany wears ago by William Wall, who was sue
ceeded In 1854 by William Wallis Sons they went
inc The National Cordage Company IN 1873 ana
after the latter concern went into the hands or a
recelver IN 1893 the William f.. wan Rope fom-
pany was incorporated under New-JTrsey AVS VS.
with a capital stock OF 5000. Frank T. wan oe-
coming president and William F. wall treasurer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-29
INDICTMENTS AGAINST CLAPP & co.

The Grand Jury finished It's investigation OF the
alleged fraudulent failure OF the brokerage nrln OF
clam e. Co. formerly OF No 81 Broad-st., yesterday
I,dic,nents were found against Ozrow and Dwight
G Clapp. the principals Of the firm. who are now
under arrest in Chicago. They will be sent 10Y 10
this city 10 plead to the charges
Charles H. Garland. Louis Ludwig. EDWARD D
IJibbard and Wilbur F. Hubbeu. managers OF the
O,o, Road NJ Brokers who were arrested for keep
ing an alleged 'bucket-shop. and were indicted last
Tuesday appeared in the Court OF General Sessions
Yesterday and pleaded not guilty TO the charge OF
isening a gambling house When their names were
called they did not answer and the name OF t {helr
bondsman, Louis Todd proprietor OF the Hotel en-
dome was called for the forfeit OF the bond When
he appeared II was discovered that the men were In
court
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-29
WILL SECURE HER DIVORCE.

Mrs Lillian Reynolds yesterday appeared before
Justice Beach in the Supreme Court and testified
in her suit brought by her for an annument OF her
marriage 10 Guy Reynolds. The defendant did not
aprear. and Justice Beach informed A. II. Hummel,
counsel for Mrs Reynolds that he would grant her
the decree asked for. -
Mrs REYNOLDS is a daughter OF Police Sergeant
Myron Allen, who disappeared mysteriously about
TWENTY-FIVE years ago. Reynolds Is said TO be a
rich man and well connected.
Mrs. Reynolds in her complaint alleged that she
was secretly married to the defendant on May =,
lSSs in Saratoga, by the Rev. Charles Sidney Dud-
lev and that the defendant as she learned after
ward was a married man at that time. his wife
beirg Pauline X. Reynolds. At the time or her
marriage the plaintiff declared she was only seven
teen years old.
Reynolds filed an answer denying that he was
ever married to the plaintiff, and admitting his
marriage TO Pauline X. REYNOLDS before 1883 Mrs
A J. Cornell. of Saratoga Springs, swore that she
present AT the marriage or Guy feynoids ana
the plaintiff.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-29
70 SHORTEN THE CENTRAL SPAN.
Why THE APPLICATION WAS MADE BY THE
NETWORK AND NEw-JERsEY BRIDGE CON-
pANx-uIIENr WORK Mist PEGIN

Why THE APPLICATION WAS MADE BY THE
NETWORK AND NEw-JERsEY BRIDGE CON-
PANY-wHEN WORK MUST BEGIN.
Charles H. Swan. the secretary OF the New-York
and New-Jersey Bridge Company. said yesterday
that the application to the Secretary Of War for
permission the bridge piers two hundred
feet further out from each shore. and thus make
the central span OF the bridge four hundred feet
shorter was due TO the recent action Of the War
Department in extending the perhead lines on the
river. II the application Is granted Mr. swan
says the company will have to amend the detailed
plans which sent TO the Secretary of war
early In March. The shortening OF the central span
Of the bridge, Mr.. Swan thinks. would reduce the
cost of the bridge below sO0oDo0o As 10 the report
that the right of the company to build bridge
might have been lost by failure 10 begin work
earlier. Mr.. Swan said yesterday:
THE act OF Congress. Section 3. says; And all
the plans and specifications, with the necessary
drawings OF said bridge. shall be submitted to the
approval the construction shall not be begun, we
fled the general plans with the secretary ,t oi
War. as provided by law, and he approved the
same March 49, 1851. Ex-Secretary of war La
mont. in o communication, said: Under the opln-
ion OF the Northumberland 10 which REFER
ence has been made. the company Will nave one
year from the date of approval Dy the secretary
of War OF the general plan and location Oh the
bridge in which file the detailed plans ana specl-
fcations OF the bridge and approaches, winch the
act OF june I, 1891 requires TO be SUBMITTED oeiore
construction is begun. - ,., 49,,
Secretary OF War on March 10, 1897, and we nave
one year in which to commence work after the Sec
rotary OF War has approved the detail plans
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-29
THE COURTS.
Observation-Disclosures LIABLE.

The Appellate Term of the Supreme Court yester-
day handed down decision dealing with the llaoi-
ity of observation-disclosures for overcoats stolen from
guests The appeal was made from Judgment OF
a District Court awarding Harry Appleton go the
value of an overcoat which he intrusted TO walter
in tho Harlem Casino when David WEIGH the
temporary receiver Of the Harlem Casino Company
was carrying on the business there. The CHIEF
question argued on the appeal was whether or not
the action could be maintained against the de-
PENDANT as temporary receive, on the ground that
no proof had been given that the Court mad author
lied him TO manage the companys business or
carry on the restaurant where the oVercoat was
lost ,.,
The decision of the District Court in Appleton's
favor was affirmed, and Presiding Justice DAILY
who gives the opinion of the Court, says this cues
ton was not raised in the lower court, and that
had ii been the objection might have been met by
proof that the receiver had authority 10 conduct
business
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-29
THE ISAAC PITU4N MEMORIAL FUND

To commemorate the life and work OF the late
Sir Isaac Pitman. special American ooi',,i III.
has hoen annoi,ted 70 work In conjunction with the
London committee 1t consists OF the following
members: The Rev E Barker No. Simpson-aVe'
Toronto: David Wolfe Brown. official reporter
United States House OF Representatives. Washing
Ton; e y Miner. Editor OF Illustrated Pnoho-
craphic World" No. 100 Ful;on-st.. New-York. and
clorarca pitman NJ Isaac PItmsn & Sons No. SO
1-nion SQUARE New-YorK. The form which the
memorial will take has not yet been decided upon
&c lie character must OF course. largely depend on
the amount OF support the project receives, SUD
scriptions may be sent to the treasurer. Mr. Miner
No 1O2 Fu;ton-st I'm whose periodical all contribu-
lions will be duly acknowledged. Collecting cards
NAV be obtained from the secretary, clarence A
Pifman No. 80 Union Square.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-29
GUM-CHEWING POLICEMEN LECTCRED.

Maglstraie wentworth. In the Essex Market Police
Court yesterday. annoyed 10y several ho;!sh-
looking policemen. who. while standing In Inc wl!;'
ing 10 srraign their prisoners were busiiy ana nols
ily engaged IA chewing gum. The Magistrate s'oo-
tho clicking OF the Jaws until patience ceased a. be-
q virtue Then he oxoa med MON. wan; thi'
nonserse stopped. II you policemen cannot ex!"'
.ithou, chewing gum. hand I'm your Shields sra re-
ssgn :, is u Shameful thing 10 ere such men ~
Vol in line opening and shutting your mouths Ike
a bellows f. a blacksmith shop want tas gum
Shecing sfopped and unless Il r. I Will make some
one sorry for his continual chewing In court sew
eral hunks Of gum we're hastily removed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-29
THO RESULTS OF THE FIREMENS DRILL.

Al the meeting Of the Fire Board yesterday let
yer was read from Senior Baldasano. the Spanish
Consul in which he expressed himself as greatly In
terested by the fine exhibition drill Of the Fire De-
partment in Union Square, and intimaed that Spain
was extremely DESTROYS Of procuring American hre
apparatus of various kinds. Dr. C. II. Caiman' OF
No lis East EGhy-sixth-st., wrote to say that MS
cIo-birg was damaged to the amount OF go by
sparks from a fre-engine and water from the water
tauer et the exhibition and 10 ask for that amount
"a he Maid 10 him President Sheffield said that ne
rad suffered himself in the same way The claim
was referred TO the Controller.