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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-25
ASPHALT BIDS RECEIVED.
Hoboken Councilmen Get Mike,
Up Over the Ouaiftfes.

HobOken Councilmen Get Mixed
Up Over the Qualities.
The Hoboken Common Council met last
night to receive bids for the asphalting
Of a number of the city streets as pro-
vfded for in an ordinance which was
passed by the Council several weeks ago.
h Council Chamber was crowded with
contractors who had come to present
their bid for the work. A large batch of
bids We're received which were referred
to aNcommittee for examination.
n Utica Paving Company and the New
Jersey Asphalt Company bids were the
lowest, but no contract will be awarded
until the different bids have all been
thoroughly investigated. The Utica Paw
ing company bid a uniform price of 81. So
without regard to the condition Of the
different streets to be ~asphalted. It also
agreed to do all repaving for twenty-one
fedls fa q yard and three cents per lineal
When the bid was handed in to the
Iouncli a representative of the Barber
AsphaIl Pav1ng Company entered a pro-
leSI on a ground that the company
had not filed samples of the asphalt with
the City Clerk. The protest was NOT ar.
eepted by the Councllmen and the bid
The other bids varied in price accord
ing to the condition Of the different
a complete set of bids for the paving
Of the various streets was sent in nv fhe
Trinidad Asphalt Paving Company, One
OF bids was specified Gland Asphalt
\ another lake asphalt. ,The Coun-
ence between the kinds of ASPHALT and
the bid was rejected despite the protest
emit.
After the bids were received. Council
man Murray offered a resolution. which
was passed, providing that none but To-
cal help be employed upon the work.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-25
JOHNNY GET Your GUN
Fourth Regiment viii Have a
Sham Fight on Decoration
Day.

At its last meeting the Board Of Off
GERS of h Fourth Regiment decided to
hold q series of field manoeuvres IN Dec
GRAFTON Day. In addition to the regular
regimental and battalion drills and ex-
hibitions the signal and bicycle corps,
there will be a mock battle, in which
each branch Of the service will have
ample opportunity to show its proficiency.
The spo where the battle will be
fought has not yet been selected. but it
will be at some point that can be easily
reached. BY spectators. A majority OF
the officers favor using a tract of land
near Snake Hill. while others would like
to have It in the field adjoining Glendale
Woods.
Decoration Day falls on Monday this
year. When the matter of making it a
field day came up for discussion many
of the officers favored the proposition
that the regiment go into camp on Satur-
day night as if they were on a. forced
march and sleep in the open air on
Saturday and Sunday nights, with only
their blankets for protection. This, they
thought. would show that they are made
of the right sort of stuff, and can endure
hardness as good soldiers should.
This plan was Immediately vetoed by
MAJOR Parker. who is a physician and a
practical man., and who said he would
not listen to the Regiments going into
camp unless provision was made to ake
along heavy water proof double tents.
TO sleep without this protection in the
uncertain weather which is Characters
ne OF May. would probably result fatally
flnally decided that the soldiers shall
gather at the Armory early in the morn
ing and start for the ground before day
break. The Fourth e mas never
before had a field day.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-25
bicycle Hygiene.

The lengthy correspondence which has
recently appeared in the columns of a
contemporary has. as might have been
expected, ELECTED a wonderful diversity
Of opinions. Some nave nothing but good
70 say of the cycle; others record all
SORTS OF aches. pains and nervous a fec
lions coming on after a ride. One rider
attributes these entirely to the use of the
plcycle as apart from the tricycle. owing
TO the unconscious strain in keeping the
former upright. The plain truth seems
70 US to rest upon a very simple basis.
Cycl1ng IS not good for everybody. and if
abused is good for nobody. Within tile
last two years people of all ages have
rusned INTO cycling in the most hap
hazard way. They have regarded neither
age nor previous habits nor their ply
steal condition. Small wonder. Then
that many have found evil rather
than good come from an. exercise
which inevitably demands a heavy ex-
force. Probably just the same cutlery
would have arisen if the same class had
taken to running or rowing or
mountain climbing without any previous
preparation 1t Is easy to preach moder-
alton. but it must be remembered that
individual, and every one finds for him
self how much he can do. With regard
to the strain involved in keeping up a
bicycle and keeping a lookout, lit is prob
ably no more thar that involved in walk
ing down the strand without cannon
ing against others, but many of us have
done the one from childhood, while the
other is but a newly acquired Accomplish
-ment. There is no need to make a bicycle
a very wheel of Ixion, especially with a
safety" for it is easy to get off and
equally easy to remount; therefore the
seems to us to ignore the fact that we
are reasoning animalS.-Londorl Lancet.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-25
Ahead Of rather Time.

Speed was once demonstrated On a West
ern road in a fashion to curl the hair of
ohurchman considered it a phenomenon,
and got off the train as quickly as ne
could. He had ~bullwhacked across the
plains in the early days. and, strange to
until the time when he entered upon his
trip from Green River to San Francisco.
The speed was, therefore, a revelation to
him. He had never before seen anything
twelve msdes before reaching Ogden he
asked the conductor for the time of day,
and was told that it was 7:S5. He i'm
pressed this time forcibly on his mind.
Now. for q wonder. the Western con-
after the lapse of but a few minutes the
San Francisco bound travellers were ON
their way Calforniaward. Ogden had
been left behind only a few mites and the
time rate. of speed, when the BID Bishop,
frightened and trembling. dared To ask
the conductor what was the time OF
day.
know that ait Ogden the time changes,
and San Francisco time. one hour earlier.
IS adopted. The conductor had San
Francisco time. and he said:-
The old Bishop, previously haunted by
a dread of impending destruction because
or the horrible rate of speed at which he
was being whirled through space, rose
Lemme off 7" he cried. EFT was thir,fv-
five minutes after seven an hour ago, an
we're goin's SO fast we're goin' faster than
time can count itself. Lemme orr
Had he really been going as fast as the
old mar believed he would surely have
been beaten to BITS as he jumped from the
train. As it was. he was only rolled some
thing like IA half mile, and was carried
back TOT Ogden on "a Observation-Disclosures
Record.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-25
AROAEUMITEs MAKE MERRY.
Hudso County Council Gives Its
Annual Recepffon.


An entertainment and reception was
given by the members of Hudson countv
Council, No. GA, Royal Arcanum at Odd
Fellows Hail, Hoboken, last night. The
affair was very largely attended and
those present were wen pleased. The
committee in charge of the arrangements
were:-John NJ. Abner. o. L. Halenbeck.
E. J. Benson, Henry Bauer, G.. S. Hirsch
and w. II. Hall.
First on the programme was the entar-
tainment, which was carried out in n
most excellent manner. Many wen known
entertainers appeared, among whom were
Albert DArchamband, Adeline Marden
Grln Williams, Murray and Alden. Mile
re Garmo. Charles Haywood, Nelson and
Mileage, Estella Bonita, Waldo Whipple
and Barry and Bannon. Several h1Ind rod
couple TOOK part In the dancing. which
concluded the evenings enjoyment
Mrs. Q. L. H~alenbeck, Mr.. and Mrs. n +
Benson, ]. M. Ahner, Mr.. and Mrs q mr.
POLLARD, Mr.. and Mrs. w. Al. Kerr q q
Miss Harrovan, ]. ". Clark.
and Mrs. John Loeffler, Mr.. and Mrs -
H. Kelly. Mr.. and Mrs. D. B.. Pilch Ar
and Mrs: William Moffatt, H. u. Schocka
r.. Miller. Mr.. and Mrs. E. futile, Mr..
Bauer. Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Hail Miss q.
Pohr, Miss Roberts, Robert Orator MMiss
Orator: Mt. and Mrs. G. Hirsch, Mr.. and
Mrs: p, Crane. Mr.. and Mrs. w. Benson
H. Hall. Miss Hall, Mr.. and mrs II
Schocke, Mr.. and Mrs. G. Storms. MI.
and Mrs. Isaac Lawrence, Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Mohn, Edward Mays, Miss NAYS
MI. MIS- F. Day, Mr.. and Mrs. oscar
Charles Gaunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Osnsr
S~chlicht1ng, MI. and Mrs. T. j. Mrller
School Commissioner and Mrs. Charlas
hicks. Mrs. Muller. Miss A. Muller. J. r,
Mrs. James Clark. 49,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-25
FERRYBOATS ILLEGALLY TAXED
Hoboken Ferry Company objects TO

At the meeting of the Hoboken Common
Council last night the Hoboken Ferry
Company presented a typewriter appeal
against the assessment of their property
by the city.
When the tar budget was made up the
local assessors placed a valuation on the
Ecompany's real estate of $685., 500. The ten
f~erryboats on the eompany's lines were
valued at Si,0O0.> The company now
claims that the assessment on both real
estate and chattels is in excess of the
true value and That the assessment was
not made under the same methods by
which other property was assessed. 1t
is claimed that the company's property
was assessed in excess of properties of
Ia character situated in the same
taxing district. The appeal sets forth
that the Constitution of the State pro-
yides that property shall be assessed ac-
cording to its true value and by uniform
rules. The company holds that the as
sessment of the ~ferryboats Is illegal be-
cause they are used exclusively for COM
merce between the States of New York
and New Jersey and are therefore not
taxable by the city of Hoboken that the
said assessment and tax is an interference
with the taxation of between
the States, which is not within the power
of the city. The regulation of such taxa
ton, the company AYERS. is exclusively
vested in Congress by the Constitution
of the United States.
The company claims further that the
assessment includes franchises and rights
which the city has no lawful authority
to assess for the purpose Of taxation.
The city. it is claimed. has no Jurisdiction
in the matter.
The appeal is signed by Roswell Ed
ridge, president of the company. 1t was
referred to a committee who will consult
with Corporation Attorney Minturn and
make q report at the next meeting of the
Council,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-25
MONTICELLO LODGE ENTERTA1Hs

Monticello Lodge, I o. o. F.. gave an
entertainment and reception to it's friends
of the gentler sex last night. The cosy
lodge rooms. at Paramount and Bergen
avenues, was crowded with the wives,
sweethearts and friends of the members.
There were also a number of visitors
from Onward and other lodges.
The feature of the entertainment was
the last number on the programme, a
graphaphone exhibition by Brother v.
v. Mesereau of Monticello Lodge. The
Monticello Quartette. composed Of W. r..
Harrison. D.. A. Toles, J. S. Newkirk and
f. p. Newkirk, gave selections. There
We're recitations by Miss Kane and Mr..
lockwood and songs by w. c. johnson
Of Jersey City Lodge. Refreshments
We're served while the g-raphaphone was
contributing Its quota of songs and reef
tations for the amusement Of the visitors.
Among those present were:-W. F..
Odds, H. F. Hansen, w, H. Pert, T..
Ferrnier, w Q. Earle, W. II. Mathers, e.
Kaufman, p. Van Tassel, H. Tomly,
Robert Stratford, =. ". w. Perrine. Nv.
y. Vincent, w. H. Fogg, w. Goula. Jr..
and e. ". BANDA
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-25
RECEIPTS INCREASED,
Consolidated Traction Com
pany's Annual Report
Officers Elected.

This morning the directors Of the Con-
~solidated Traction Company elected at
the meeting IN March q, met in the
offices in Exchange place to elect Off
GERS. The directors elected WERE
Messrs. Edward F. c. Young, Peter A.
sBs Widener, Clement A. Griscom. Thos.
u. Ryan, Ahram @. Garratson, Elisha B.
Gadis, Almeric III. Paget, John D. Grim
minis. Alexander J.. Cassatt, Jeremiah
sO'Rourke, George r. Perkins. William L..
Elkins. Thomas Dolan. David Young, y.
Roosevelt Stanley. Number of shares
voted. 1885,
The President, Mr.. Edward F. G..
Young, reported as folows:-The officers
gof the company nave to report that for
the year 1896 the business of the com
pany shows a gratifying Improvement
over that of other years. While the gen
eral business conditions of the country
are only slightly, if at all, improved,
consolidated lines show a steady in
crease at the rate Of nearly ten per cent,
while the percentage of operating ex-
penses to receipts has been decreased by
careful management about six per cent.
Number of cars in operation 1896. 407.
Number of miles run 1896, Il, 375, Cos.
The increase in the number of passen-
gers carried at Pennsylvania Ferry in
1896 over 1892 was Is, 466, ASS.
During the year about seven miles of
track have beer added to the system, in
Guiding completion of the line connect
ing Newark with Jersey City over the
Turnpike Road. This line was complet-
ed for operation July Il 1896.
Rs Receipts for two months in 1897 have
increased in corresponding ratio with
1896, and the Indications are that with
general business condition improved the
receipts for 1897 will be considerably over
1886 with a lower per cent. of operating
expense.
These officers were then elected for the
following branch companies
Consolidated Traction Company-Presi-
dent, II. r. G.. Young; First Vice-Presi-
dent, E. Gaddis; Second Vice-President
David Young Treasurer, r. F. Bower;
Assistant Treasurer, E.. N. Hill; Secre-
tary, T. J. George; Auditor, E. B. Hibbs;
General Counsel, Spencer Weart; Pur-
chasing Agent, Gordon Campbell; Gem
eral Superintendent, Frank Ellmaker.
New Jersey Fraction Company-E. F.
G.. Young; Vice-President, David Young;
Treasurer. E.. N. Hill; Secretary, T. J.
George.
Newark Plank Road Company-E. F. C.
Young. Vice-President, e. B. Gaddis;
General Manager. David Young; Treas
urer, E. N. Hill; Secretary, T.. j. George.
A larger number of stockholders were
present in person this year than usual,
and all seemed to be fully satisfied with
the condition of the ompany.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-25
THIS BOY is A TERROR.
Another of Hobokenss Juvenile
Burglars Arrested,

Another member of the gang of boy
thieves whose -depredations AVE greatly
annoyed the Hoboken police was taken
into custody by Detective Nelson last
night. The boy is Albert Fuchs, Is years
old, of No. 1t6 Madison street. Young
Fuchs is an incorrigihle youth and his
parents are unable to control him. He
kept company with young Jimmy Ker-
rigan, who was sent to the Reform
School a week ago by Judge Hudspeth.
Yesterday morning he attempted to
steal a. poeketbook from a lady on Wash
iington street. A policeman saw him but
he managed to make his escape. Mrs.
Fuchs, h boys mother, called upon Re-
corder McDonough last night and asked
to have a warrant issued for her sons
arrest. She said that she was unable to
do. anything with him and wished to
have him locked up.
Several days G young Fuchs at
tempted to set fire to his ten year old
sister Katie'S hair. He also beat his
sister Lizzie, three years old, with a
stick, and threatened to stab his brother
Lewis with a carving knife.
He was committed to the County Jail
to await examination.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-25
Herbert potts in the DueIlo.

Police Justice Herbert Potts has a duel
on his hands with a big man. That does
not trouble him. Herbert is afraid of
nothing this side Of the Camden county
line. But he is worried over the unfair
conditions of the approaching combat.
AS he is to a a bigger mark to ain
at than hts adversary, his chivalrous soul
is in revolt. The Little Judge is Moth
ing if not fair and square.
There is IN easy way out of the diff
Guilty. He should have his own exact
size chalked of on the body OF his nam
moth adversary, and then agree that bull
lets hitting him outside the line shall
not count.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-25
The Naval Reserve attack.

New nastiness develops as the Naval
Reserve bill progresses 1t appears that
there has been an element in the corps,
in Camden. which thought the States
money could be m~iscredited to personal
and political uses. Commander Jacques
prevented this. and, out of revenge, the
gang decided to have the entire force
abolished. The scheme fell in with the
economical ideas of the State House
ring. and SO the effort was made to starve
the Reserve out of existence by making
an appropriation which would not enable
It to exist. This paved the way for the
open attack embodied in the DISARMAMENT
measure.
The proposal is most ubiquitous. The
Reserve is one of the best institutions in
the State It is composed of a very fine
class of young men, in whom it is de-
sirable the martial spirit should be kept
alive. It is competently differed, thor
oughly disciplined and efficiently drilled.
All h expense of equipment has been
betrayed. in part bA the State and in
part by the member themselves. The
general Government, too. has contributed
Its share in handsome fashion, allotting
two ships for the use of the Battalions.
The people ave had reason to feel pride
in the corps on account of the showing
1t has made IN several occasions, They
are warmly interested in it and they de-
sire its permanency.
The expense of the Reserve is very low.
Last year it was less than $780, 600. which
Included the maintenance of the valuable
property assigned to US by the Navy De-
partment. In the same year we spent
$4,000 on the State account for the Ma
tional Guard. and $4,000 for the erection
Of an armory in Camden The various
municipalities, besides, contribute consid-
cradle sums to the maintenance of the
armories in various parts of the State.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-25

The tangle of New York journalistic
morality is enough to make a mans head
win. h sun prints fierce attacks on
the world, as the inventor of the new
Journalism which leaves the word "de-
eency'' out of its vocabulary. Then the
Rev" DR.. Parkhurst. who surely is
nothing if not moral, even at the circus.
stands up and on the ethics of
the Sun" This is what he says
Dana and the sun were almost the
hardest foes we had to contend with. In
all those conflicts its efforts were steadily
sympathy with crime perfectly trans
parent from day to day. The Sun may
have had a more elegant way of showing
its interest est , in crime &c .i than some aga q mosf
of the other papers were sustaining us in
our e~ndeavors. the Sun uniformly an
tagonfzed US bitterly. remorselessly and
sdamnabfy.
The World used to support Parkhurst
when he was al the worst stage of his
sensational career. For the last year or
two. however, it has gone back on him."
and lavished abuse and ridicule upon his
personality and his crusade with a lavish
ness that even the Sun could not ex-
coed.
The fact is. there are only two papers
In New York which are really decent. the
Tribune" and the Times and they
have h lowest circulation by far of any
ranars n,blisbad tbara
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-25


Academy. We are familiar with the
furore caused by his play in Boston and
New York during its run at both Cities
when the cream of the literary. artistic
goers generally, turned out, or rather
in, to see it and gladly crown 1t with the
tribute q thelr praise, Few plays known
| years met with such uniform praise or
such learned analysis as this one Of
Grundy.s, and the conservative old
.'he who fails to see it does himself an
unpardonable injury" It great run of
York, is also still fresh in our memories,
for the discussion the play provoked in
Gotham echoed and re-echoed through
out the country. The success of Sow
ing the Wind" has been so marked that
1t is receiving not merely the local but
the general attention of the American
The play deals with a phase Of social
life that is continually pressing itself
upon thoughtful minds. and yet which
dramatic authors are able to handle It
in a suitable way for stage purposes.
h relations OF the sexes and their re-
tanance of domestic purity is Mr..
Grundy's theme and he treats 1t with the
earnestness OF a philosopher and the
2 principal n opposing characters in
the play a young woman and her father,
neither being aware of their relationship
NO,H oShSts IAS Sill motlef .ndNlIS
been betrayed and cast aside by the
father. This man is now the adopted
father Of his daughters lover and is re-
fusing to permit the marriage until the
girls mysterious parentage is cleared up!
n contrast between these two so
strangely brought together is the basis
them are as thrilling and pathetic as
anything that can be imagined. 1t is a
warfare Of sex against sex" and is
conducted with passionate splendor on
both sides. The costumes are triumphs
in that line, being splendid reproductions
or the style in vogue in England in
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-25

TO SOPHIE MAECH. MR.. MAECH, HER
husband; Robert Lundy, and Julia 3. Sey-
You are hereby notified that at a public
sale made by the City Collector of Jersey
City, on the 18th day of October, 1892, The
Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey City purchased
for the sum of eleven dollars and ninety cents
ALL the land and real estate situate in Jersey
CITY. in the County of Hudson and State of
New Jersey, fronting on Lundy's Lane, which
is laid down and designated as lot three go,
in block number ten hundred and seventy e
(1O70E), upon an assessment map annexed to
a report number seventy-two CD, made by the
commissioners 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 18th day
Of July, 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 Goth. 1886. entitled
IAN Act concerning the settlement and coli
lection of arrearages of unpaid taxes, as
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 en-
force the payment thereof, and to provide
taxation and assessment.
And the several supplements thereto.
And you are further notified that you APP
pear to have an estate or interest in said
land andsreal estate and unless the said land
and real estate shall be redeemed, as spro-
videa in ts said s act ssfsre- q, the s sxpiirstiSSn ars Of SIX !
deed for the same will be given conveying
to The Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey City.
the fee s N PIE o. ara SAG iand ia ana a. real a,S estate ae-
Il MAYOR AND GLDERMEN OF JER-
+. wANsEB
esai' Attest: NJ. j. osDoNNELI.
(sale No. s2oS.)
The New Jersey Title Guarantee Sc Trust Co.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-25
COME LADIES PAY UP.
Foreign missionary Society in Arrears
Saws the Presfdeuts

h Ladies' Home n Foreign Mission
airy Society of the West Side Avenue NJ.
e, Church held its quarterly meeting in
the lecture room of the church yesterday
afternoon. Mrs. w. Selven Taylor. presi-
dent of the society, presided. There were
about thirty-fve ladies present. Mrs.
Taylor and Mrs. Weeks, the foreign sec
rotary, spoke at length on the lack of in
terest the members exhibit in the work
of the society and urged them to be more
prompt in settling their financial obliga-
tons, as the society is behind with its
returns to the Conference secretaries.
Before the meeting closed Mrs. Dean,
the treasurer, reported $50 collected for
home and $40 for foreign missionary
work On Monday afternoon the children
of the Sunday School, who were given
to save money for missionary work, will
make their returns.