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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26
MENKEN ASSOCIATION PICNIC.
GreenvIlfe,s Popular Clubs second
Annual outing.

The Conrad Menken Association of
G~reenville held its second annual picnic
last evening in the .Greenville Schuetzen
Park. The affair was a large success and
everything went off smoothly. The club,
headed by the Columbia Fife and Drum
Corps, left its headquarters at Old Ber-
gen Road and Linden avenue, and
marched down to the park amid a brill
liant display of fireworks. Over five hun
bred people were present. and it is safe
to say that they enjoyed themselves
hugely.
Prof. Beggs' orchestra furnished the
dance music. The march was led by the
standard bearer and Miss Ami Wilks.
About two hundred couples participated
in it, and were loudly cheered for their
fine marching. 1t was long after mid
night before the merry throng broke up.
Those in charge w~ere:-Floor Manager,
Dudley Uldrich; Assistant Floor Managers
Lawrence Burke and Charles Roth; Floor
Committee, George Letter, Christian
Sherer, William Linder and Frank Low
eEger. Reception Committee, Conrad H.
Menken, Chairman; j. F. Spengeman,
Thomas C.. Mcdonald, John Miltner, Jr.,
jos. A. Donovan, George Smith. Steve
Book and Eugene Simon. Committee of
Arrangements. ohm A. Donovan, Chair
man; Thos. c. Mcdonald, Conrad II. Men
ken, George Letter and Chris. Sherer.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26

The proper way to fumigate a room;
says the Journal of Health, is to close
the doors, windows, fireplace, ETC.. paste
strips of paper over all the cracks. Fumi-
cation by burning sulphur is most easily
accomplished. Two pounds of sulphur
should be allowed for every room from 10
to IL feet square. 1t is better to divide it
up and put. it in several pans, rather than
burn the entire quantity of sulphur used
in one pan To avoid the danger Of fire,
these pans should be set on bricks, or in
other and larger pans filled with water
or with sand. After pouring a little aleo-
hol on the sulphur. and properly placing
the pans about the room, the farthest
from the door of exit should be lighted
first; the others in order. The operator
win need to move quickly, for no one can
breathe sulphurous fumes with safety.
After closing the door the cracks around
it should be pasted up, as was done within
the room. Six hours, at least, are gem
orally necessary to fumigate a room prop.
erly; at the end of that time it may be
entered n the windows opened. and
they should be left open as long as con-
venient, even for a week. if possible.
After ~fumigation a thorough process of
the walls and ceilings should be rubbed
dry. Much the better way is to white
wash and repaper. The floor and the
woodwork and the furniture should be
scrubbed with solution of carbolic acid,
or some ether disinfectallt. +
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26
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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26
PLAGUE OF SWAPPING TURTLES
Branch Mills Invaded by a Horde
of Vicious Crustaceans.
Special q "The Jersey city News.'l

Especial to "The Jersey City News.''1
WESTFIELD, Aug. 2s. 1S97.ASeveral
Westfield fishermen went to Echo Lake
yesterday afternoon to see if there were
any fish left in the pond or. any stranded
on the meadows by the receding waters
after the dam burst. Fish were scarce
but swapping turtles were plenty.
For the past two years there have been
so many swapping turtles in the lake that
they were killing all the fish. Yester-
day some idea of the number that made
their home in the lake could be gained
by the number that had been washed
out and stranded and that were max
ing their way overland looking for new
quarters. They were of all sizes. from
fourteen inches across the shell down to
three inches. Three invaded the door
yard of the Baldwin place and one of
them caught an unwary chicken by the
leg. Tt was necessary to- cut off the
turtles head and pry the jaws apart to
rescue the chicken, and then the fowls
leg was found to have been broken by
the grip of the turtles jaw.
At Weingarten's boarding house several
turtles tumbled into the cellar through
the spen windows, and a German work
man, who was sent to take them out,
and who was not acquainted with the
biting tendencies Of the snappers. had a
big piece bitten out Of his bootleg. AM
other turtle in some way got into the
pig pen, and the hog who started in to
make a meal of the turtle lost a chunk
out Of its jaw and was actually getting
the worst Of the encounter when its
squealing brought help. The nappe
crawled into all sorts of out~-of-the-way
places and seemed peculiarly vicious.
They are found crawling over the fields
and along the road.
1t is probable that In a day or two the
turtles will all disappear. but it makes
the people of Branch Mills feel very I'M
comfortable to have SO many of the bel
ligerent, ugly things crawling about.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26
In A FARO BANK.
One Chicago Mans Experience While
in . Gaming House.


Its not that I've become convinced
of the %sinfulness of games of chance and
reformed said the thoughtfuI-looking
man. Nor is it hat / have lost conf
dence in my luck, or that I'm afraid of
arrest. None of these could have given
my taste for faro the jar that it received
last week.
Il dropped into a Clark street place with
a $50 bill that had been paid me-al that
was due me until the end of the month.
Twenty dollars worth of chips that l
bought to start with were gone before |
fully realized what had happened That
was all l had intended to allow myself to
lose. but after standing around and watch
ing for awhile, | decided to give the game
another un. So I bought $50 worth more.
My luck turned at once. In a short
time my pile had risen above fifty. When
it reaches ninety l thought. I'll quit
Having paid out forty, ninety would leave
me a velvet of an ever fifty. For quite
a while l fiuctuated around s~eventy-five;
finally a couple of good bets brought me
up to my even ninety
And you thought you'd try just one
play more, and ended by losing all you'd
won, I suppose?"
No; different story this time. l tore
myself away from the table and cashed
in. receiving a $50 ~greenback and two
5twenties. / left the place promptly and
went directly home. am not one of those
fellow who blow in what they win; on
the contrary. / went to the bank the next
morning to deposit my fifty.
Hard luck, was the ~teller's remark
as he clicked a little machine and tossed
my bill back with the word counterfeit
stamped ~throughft.
" For heavens sake, I gasped, if that's
counterfeit, maybe these are. tooi' ard be-
fore I thought | pulled out the two twen-
ties. As / showed them under the grating
I came to my senses and started to take
them back. But it was too late. The tel
Ter grabbed them, ran his fingers over
them. and returned them in the same ON
dition as the fifty. I realized that I had
81 to live on during three weeks
Couldn't o get any satisfaction from
the people you won from?"
Il thought of that. The large man who
banks called another large man with big
hands; the least of the forms of dishon-
esty of which he then accused me was
blackmail. | accepted his invitation to
leave before pressure was brought to
bear.'-Chicago Times-Herald.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26
STATE OF NEW JERsEY-DEPARTMENr

49, -
To all to whom these presents may come.
Greeting
whereas, In the Judgment Of the Board Of
Directors of the Whitehall Chemical Company,
a corporation organized under the laws of this
State. it has been deemed advisable and most
for the benefit of such corporation that the
same should be dissolved before the expiration
CT the time limited in it's certificate of or
record of the proceedings of said Board Of
Directors. of such corporation, held in accord
ance with thex provisions of an act entitled
.sAn Act concerning corporations (Revisien OF
1886. p approved April 2lst, 1886, Which said
record. Including the consent in writing of the
stockholders of said corporation that such dis
solution should take place, as by said act re-
CURED having been by said corporation de-
posted in my office;
Now therefore, I, George Wurts, Secretary
of State of the State of New Jersey. being
satisfied by due proof that the requirements
OF al Act concerning corporations (Revision
of 1886" approved April 21st, 1896. relative to
the dissolution of corporations. have been fully
complied with by the said corporation, Do
Hereby Certify that the Whitehall Chemical
company did, on the eleventh day of June, 1897,
file in my office a duly executed and attested
certificate of consent to the dissolution of said
corporation by the stockholders thereof, which
said certificate Of consent aud the record Of
nv said office, as provided by law.
In Testimony Whereof, 1 have hereto set my
hand and affixed my official seal.
TSeal. at Trenton. this eleventh day OF
June, A. D. eighteen hundred and
ninety-seven.
Secretary of State.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26
SMITH N / PIoEI0.
The Trespsssing FakIrs Have
Troubles OF Their own.

Especial to The Jersey city News.s
soMERyILLE. Aug. 2e, 1Sa7.-Two thou
sand people gathered at the famous Smith
family picnic near Peapack Yesterday,
when the Smith family banned las un-
furled amid a tumult of cheers TINT
echoed for miles throughsthe hills. Presi-
dent Isaiah Smith made an address or
welcome to the numerous Smiths and
their friends.
An army Of fakirs descended on the
picnic grounds at daybrcak. The UNI
written law of the family reunion pro-
hibits the crying of wares on the grounds
and the fakirs were driven back to an
adjoining held. where they pitched their
tents. They were soon driven from this
vantage ground BIZ d farmer Smith. who
charged them with trespassing. They
pulled up stakes and moved a quarter
Of a mile to the north. only to encamp
on the property OF another farmer Smith,
who became 50 enraged at the invasion
that he wrecked q photographers tent
and two peanut stands.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26
THURSDAY, AUGUST %. 1897.
This paper is Democratic in principles
and is Independent in ats saeies on all local
o..acfsons
Tbe EVE water Lawyers.
questions.

Through a lapse of memory Tine
e News spoke yesterday of Mr.. A. Q.
Garretson as having written an opinion
on the water question. 1t was, of course
his partner, Mr.. James B. V~redenourgh'
who wrote the opinion, and whom we
meant.
1t is not undressing to glance at the
records on water of the five gentlemen
who have written these opinions.
John A.. Blair has never. so far as is
known, been retained by a water COM
pany. AS Corporation Counsel, however,
he ~co-operated with the attorneys of the
Jersey City Water Company in defending
the contract between that concern and
the city in the notorious certiorari pro-
ceedings of two years ago.. Mr.. Blairs
present opinion is tha the city lacks the
power to build its own works because it
lacks the power to raise money to pay
for them.
Blair in the eertiorari suit. He was coun-
sci for the Board of Trade and Citizens
Committee. So far as is known he has
never been retained by any water COM
pany. In campaign speeches and other
public utterances he has advocated re-
tanning the Belleville-Passaic supply plus
filtration. Mr.. McDermott's opinion was
in all important respects exactly similar
to that of Mr.. Blair.
James B. ~yredenburgh was one of the
counsel for the Jersey City Water Com
pany in the certiorari suit. His opinion
rendered to Mayor Hoos is that the city
has ample powers to build its works and
raise money to pay for them.
William d. Edwards was the other
lawyer of the Jersey City Water Com
pany. He totally disagrees with his late
~colleaguea Mr. vredenburgh. He holds
that wha@ver other power it may have
theFclty lacks sufficient power to raise
money to pay for waterworks of its own
construction.
Finally. there is Mr.. John P. Stockton.
tSome years ago he was retained as couh-
sci for Moffet, Hodgkins-& Clark. AS
Attorney General. he rendered an opinion
that Lebbeus 3. Wards State Water bill
was unconstitutional. as it pledged the
credit of the State for the benefit of cor
porations. This killed the bill. Mr.. Stock
ton is sure Jersey City has all the power
she can want to build her own water
works
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26
SPECIAL MASTERS SALEM cHANcERY

SPECIAL MASTERS salem cHANcERY
of New Jersey.
Between Philip Dillon ct ux., compliments.
and James Dillon ct al, defendants.
On Bill for Partition and Decree for Sale.
Wallis, Edwards & Bumsted Solicitors.
By virtue of a decree Of the Court of Chanc-
and bearing date on the twenty-sixth day of
July, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. dt-
mentioned and described in said bill of COM
plant and decree for sale, 1. William G. E.
Jersey. shall sell at public yendue. to
the highest bidders, on Wednesday,, the eighth
cay OF september, eighteen hundred and nine
the Real Estate Salesrooms, No. So Montgom-
cry street Jersey City, NJ all the follow
appurtenances, being the same described in
said bill of complaint and decree for sale. to
Nit
ALL these two certain lots or parcels Of
land and premises, situate and lying and be-
Of Hudson II sHG ana and State 81 New jersey sas l Begin.
ming at a point on the southerly line of Lex
ington avenue. distant ninety-four and eight
tenths feet {94.S) westerly from the corner
formed by the intersection of the westerly line
of Bergen avenue with the southerly line OF
Lexington avenue; thence southerly at right
angles to Lexington avenue and along the rear
line of lots conveyed by the said John Dillon
lon, respectively, one hundred feet QeW to a
point; thence westerly parallel with Lexington
line. of lands conveyed by John Dillon TO
James Dillon; thence northeriy parallel with
the line first run and along the line of lands
of said James Dillon one hundred feet 600 to
the southerly side of Lexington avenue; thence
easterly along the southerly side of Lexington
avenue fifty feet go ft.) to the point or place
of beginning. Including also the inchoate right
dover of the complainant, Annie E.
Dillon, wife of complainant, Philip Dillon, to-
gether with all and singular the heredita-
merts and appurtenances to the said premises
belonging or in any wise appertaining.
Dated August g. 1887.
WILLIAM G.. e. SEE,
Special Master in chancery of New Jersey.
&1k R4 N
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26
.oifIiy silence of the organs.

Why cannot the state Gazette be in
dueed to crow over Dingley's triumphant
settlement of the revenue question. When
we consider the great urgency which the
Republican papers discovered as soon as
ever President Mckinley was elected, the
great urgency which the President per
ceived when he called the Extraordinary
Session of Congress. the great urgency
which Congress itself perceived when it
set all other matters aside and rushed the
bill through under an unprecedented APP
plication of gag law, when we consider
all this urgency, we say, for a revision
of the tariff which would at once stop the
are more than surprised at the failure of
the party organs to express their joy and
triumph over the result of the urgent
measures taken.
We observe with pain that you cannot
get a Republican paper to mention the
word tariff, and as for revenue, or surplus.
or deficit, such terms are no longer in
their vocabulary.
Has the eloquence of Red Oak, Iowa,
run dry? Is the logic of Fargo. Y. D.,
for once, at fault? Is the Dingley tariff
a boomerang, and has it knocked the
wind out of the organs?
We crave for a reply.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26

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crowd that poured out of the gallery door.
Say, Jimmy said one to the other,
wasn't it a great play, hey?"
..Gee,, replied Jimmy, lit was the most
rattlingest play ! ever seen.
Jimmy's grammar was not or the pest,
but it was Indicative of the intense re-
gard which is felt for the N oyer sbs
country. And Judging by the favorable
criticisms which the play has received the
same warm feeling Is shared by grown up
folks THE Man-o'-Wars Man will be
seen at the Academy of Music, this city,
on the evening of September 4, to stay a
week with the usual matinee perform
ances. !.
Hon.A John D. Long. the Secretary of
the Navy. showed his interest in Thomas
e. Shea's performance of The Man-o'-
Wars Man. in Washington last season by
occupying a box at the Grand Opera
House during the successful run of the
piece there. The Washington Post,
one of the most conservative papers in
the country. declared that the play was
the best melodrama produced in Wash
ington last season. Mr.. Shea will appear
IN fhfS rffv 5+let
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26
SUMMER OUTINGS.

The Misses Syrena n Myra Furman
are at the Brunswick, Asbury Park.
Mr.. NJ. Jones is at the West End Hotel,
Asbufy Park.
Miss D. Sloane is at the Brunswick, AS
bury Park.
Mr.. Thomas A. Collins is at the Cram
Grey, Asbury Park.
Miss c. Connolly is at the Gramercy,
Asbury Park.
Asbury Park.
Mr.. b. w. Rowe of West Hoboken is
staying with his friends at the Fairfield,
Ashury Park.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26
~Thsosophy,, for septcmbs.

Philosophy published by the Theo-
sophfeal Publishing Co., at No. 14 Madi-
New York, price 20 cents
offers unusually varied reading in its Sep
agination,'' by DIR. Archibald Keightley,
the well known scientist of Cambridge
University, England, is a profound and
faculty, and should prove particularly
valuable to the Mental Scientist as well as
to the practising physician. The learned
author treats the subject from the stand
duces some novel considerations based
upon his Investigations of Theosophy and
OcclIItiSm.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26
VETERAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION

The Veteran Rights Association of
Hudson County will hold a public mass
meeting Saturday evening, August %, at
the Avenue House, Five Corners. Col.
r. c. Wildman, q. F.. Sutherland, Frank
o. Cole, j.. G. Fisher, C. r. Wall and
other prominent veteran orators will
speak. Invitations have been extended
to prominent citizens, irrespective of
party politics, to be present. Zabriskie
Post Band will render a musical pro-
gramnne. Major w. B.. Simmons, presi-
dent, of the association, will preside.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26
cHANcERY or NEW JERSEY.

To Alfred E.. Van Doren;-
BY virtue of an order of the Court of Chanc-
ers OF New Jersey, made on the day of the
date hereof, III a cause wherein Susan j.
Wortendyke is complainant and you are de-
fsadaat, you are required to appear and plead.
Gcmur or answer to the complainant's bill, en-
or before the eleventh day of October next,
or the said bill viii be taken as confessed
against YOU.
Tie said bill IS fled TO foreclose a certain
mortgage, dated December II, 1895, made and
executed by George w. Waslee and Hattie
N. Waslee, his wife. to Susan j. Wortend- Ike,
to secure the payment of the sum of tree
hundred dollars and interest. and covering
lands located en- the northeasterly side OF
Magnolia avenue. Jersey City, N. j.; and you
are made a party defendafs, because you are
the owner of record of said premises.
CARRICK & WORTENDYKE.
Solicitors of Complainant,
p. O. Address:
No. IS Montgomery Street,
Jersey City. N. ].
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26
HELP Nl,ED.

WANTED-A SOBER, STEADY MAN
to care for a team of carriage horses,
a COW and garden. Apply at No. 1853
Avenue c., cor. of Forty-ifth street,
Bayonne.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26
AM EASEMENTS
Academy Of Music.

After a performance of THE Man-o'-
Wars Man given BY Thomas e. Shea,
n Newbnryport, Mass. last season. two
little enthusiastic prchias were In the
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26
WORK WANTED.


HAVE YOUR FIREPLACE HEATERS AND
Furnaces repaired and fixed and put in order
now, before the winter rush sets in. .
We have good facilities for doing this work,
cheap and quick: we also have all kinds OF
repairs and fixtures for all classes of heaters.
ranges and furnaces.
Drop US a postal and we will call on you.
JACOB RINGLE & son
Nos. 1885 Newark Avenue.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26


NOTICE OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IS
hereby given that the account of the sub
scribe ADMINISTRATOR of John Sheehan, de-
ceased. will be audited and stated BY the Sur
rogate Of the County or Hudson, and reported
fr settlement on Friday. the nth day of Sep
sember next.
Dated July s. A. d, 1897.
JAMES D. MANNING !.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26


THE Estate Gazette has an editorial,
mis- morning, however, combating bit
terly the proposition thu the Republican
candidate for United States Senator be
named by the State Convention next
year. This leaves the door open for some
strange surmises. Can it be that the
Bosses candidate would be too heavy a
load to carry in a popular election? Or
does the "Gazette's' objection rest on
the idea that it is cheaper and easier to
buy and bulldoze a Legislative caucus
than a State Convention.
THE workingmen of South Jersey are
s~hockingly ungrateful. Not content with
q protective tariff. which does not raise
their age they are going to insist on
the abolition of store orders by Legis-
lative enactment. There is no encourage
ment forathe poor capitalist these days.
No sooner does he add forty or fifty per
e to his profits in one direction, when
the men on whose labor he lives assail
him on another side and try to take a
lucrative business away from him. 1t is
too had
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26
LAST OPEN AIR CONCERT.

Holdenis Band will perform the follow
ing programme in Hamilton Park on Fri
day evening"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26

No. IS Montgomery Street,
Jersey City. N. ].
Dated August 10. 1897. 500