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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28
STILL CELEBRATING IT'S BIRTHDAY
Ham Durg-Amerfcan Line Gives AM
other Banquet on n PannsyIvanfa.

1amDurg-American Line Gives AM
oHher Banquet on the Pannsyivania.
The celebrations attending the fiftieth
anniversary of the foundation of the
Hamburg American Steamship Company
were concluded last night with an elabor-
ate dinner on board the steamship Penn
sylvania at Hoboken. There were about
two hundred guests present, including
representatives from numerous steamship
and railroad companies in this country.
Ihe dining tables. which were In the
main saloon, were ta%stefully decorated
with flags and arms of different nations.
Some of those who made speeches at the
dinner were w. c. Roach, General Pas
senger Agent of the New York Central
Railroad, ex-Mayor Edward r. Stanton OF
Hoboken. e. +. insolvency of Quarantine
staff. and Thomas J. Clarke, Superinten-
dent of Mails in New York City.
Among the guests were:-A. S. Ander-
son, Passenger Manager of the Interna-
tional Navigation Company of Philadel-
phia; Captain E. B-adenhausen; Fl. F.
Baldwin, General Passenger Agent of the
Central Railroad of New Jersey; S. w.
Baraseh. New York Agent of the HAM
burg-American line; Thomas H. Barrett,
United States Inspector of Steamships;
Alfred Bernheim. Brooklyn Agent of the
Hamburg-American line; Henry Birdsali,
City Agent of the Hamburg-American
line; Emil Boas, General Agent, and ].
Buckley, General Eastern Agent of the
Erie Railroad; 4. Caldwell, o. r.
C~auchois. Freight Manager of the French
line; Thomas ]. Clark, Superintendent of
Mails; c. Cont. New York Agent of the
neutrality-suspicious. line; S. s. Cortis,
Passenger Agent of the White Star line;
George H. Daniels, General Passenger
Agent of the New York. Chicago and
Hudson River Railroad; George Deffa, D.
y Donovan Of the United States Shipping
Co.; u. e. Bowling, United States Gus
Dwyer General Eastern Agent of the
Grand Trunk Railroad; Adolph Falck and
Gustav F,alek OF the International Navi-
Brooklyn Warehouse Company; Chas. A.
t'oucart, +. A. S. Francklyn. Manager of
me Atlantse Navigation Co.; Emil Frenkel
r. Hauser O,G- Hampstead, agent of
Philadelphfa; Herman Heyle OF Phiiadel-
phta; Pr. Emil w. Hoeber, Coroner OF
Eastern Passenger Agent Of the West
shore RAILROAD; William James, Freight
Agent Of the New York Central Railroad;
Charles 8. Lee, General Passenger Agent
OF the Lehigh Valley. Railroad; A. Mack
lay Pentz of the Wilson line, Captain
feter I. Ietrle, United States Local In
spector; w. ]. Reilly of the Anchor line,
E. J.. Richards, Assistant General Passen-
ger Agent of the New York Central Rail-
road; d j. Roberts, General Passenger
Agent of the Erie Railroad; h Rev. j.
". SchWinn, New York City; o. H. Tay-
lor Of the Fall River line, Myles W. Vos-
burg OF Albany, N. Y; Captain A. Wank
OF Ellis Island, Hans Weniger of Philadel-
phia, j. r. Wierdsma of the Holland-
American line, Herman Winter of North
German Lloyd line, Ed. Workman of the
North German Lloyd line and J. Wylder,
Manager of the Johnston line.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28

and surroundings were such as to inspire
one with a sense of awe and a certain
degree OIL reverence for her occult powers.
What mattered 1t if she did accuse a
married man of becoming engaged to
young fssdies for the mere pleasure OF
breaking their hearts,. Her general adj
vice was certainly good, and she could
not help 1t If the cards would turn up
blondes when they should have been
2brunettea. She was well patronized.
1t was a fashionable gathering that
filed the rooms and crowded the rails
and spent money freely in a worthy
cause. Ministers from nearly all the
churches on the Heights were among
the guests, and there were few
persons prominent in social circles who
were not present. The festival was a
success in every particular, socially n
financially, and the Home will be several
hundreds of dollars richer.
The members of the Board of Domestic
Control who arranged all the details and
welcomed the guests are:-Mrs. Bedle,
Mrs. Garrett v. II. Brinkerhoff, Mrs. Pope
Mrs, George T. Sinyth. Miss Kinds, Mrs.
Hudspeth-Benson, Mrs. George L.. Rec
ord. Mrs Eveleth. Mrs. IllingWorth.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28
ASCENSION DAY CELEBRATED.
Hugh DE Payens Cemmandery aud
Iga ErfgndA Mt tha parn paTn~r,od

Hugh De Payens Cemmandery and
ITS Friends at the Park Reformed.
The Park Reformed Church Church
presented a very pretty appearance last
evening when Hugh De Payens Com
msndery, Knights Templar, attended he
Ascension Day service in a body at the
church. Knights marched all the way
from their headquarters to the church.,
and upon reaching it proceeded to the up
per part of the church, where they were
escorted TO their seats by the ushers. AS
soon as all were seated the Rev. John
Francis Morgan, pastor of the church.
preached an appropriate sermon. A large
number of the Knights were accompanies
by their wives. Professor W.. F.. Will
Jams, organist of the church, with the
assistance of the choir, rendered some ex-
cellent music during the services.
After the service the C~ommandery and
their friends, numbering about 125, par
took OF a repast In the church parlors. 1t
Social Committee of the Endeavor So
ciety, of which Miss Emma Pine is
Chairman. The pretty girls all wore
for a long time serving cream and straw
iperries. The pastor. his wife and the
large choir We're the conpmandery's
COLLATION. was served the pastor intro
duced Eminent Commander Thomas r
watson, who made a few introductory
Sir Knights. all of whom responded
gracefully.
Music was again rendered by Professor
W1lliams and members of the choir. Mr..
Harry M. g. Vedder sang the f'Old Fer
ryman' with much taste and culture and
was heartily applauded, giving a German
n 1pog n res spenins w = d snsar sa4 and very
cnurch people and the visitors.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28
BHDEAvoRERs EAT STRAWBERRIES

The entertainment and fair given under
the auspices Of the Junior Endeavor
Society, for the benefit of the Peoples
Palace free bath fund in the chapel of
the First Congregational Church Boyd
and Bergen avenues, last evening was
q great success. The chapel was crowd
ed and every available bit of space was
utilized. The programme which was an
excellent one was as follows:-Junior
Endeavbr Society, Ensemble; Song and
Chorus, III. Keir, II. Lyons, e. Britton,
L. Keir, Words of Welcome, A Junior;
Recitation, "A Secret" Viola Puster;
.-Ihe May Queen Tennyson. Eta Bar
Version, Miss A. Taylor; song by the
ssChoostnk the May Queen colloquy,
1unlors: HsCrowning the Queen recita-
Mons and songs; valedictory, A Junior,
and Miss Jennie Chamberlain, pianist.
mss kitty Griswold was the Queen of
May. ana Miss Gertie Puster was the
AMonth OF
1.-The society teachers were in charge.
they were Mrs. Chamberlain, Miss Nina
Scribner. Miss Grace Mulcox, Miss Mamie
0rafn 3 Miss Jessie Mulcox and Miss
Craze Hindry. After the entertainment
fhe audience filed down to the gymnasium
room where the fair was in progress. The
large tables were loaded down with toys
and edfbles, the majority of which were
quickly disposed of. making a snug sum
for the bath fund.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Me CIure,s Magazine for JUNG,

D~SdAHhC AOF uMes
McClure's Magazine for June will open
with an article by Prof. s. P. Langley, Sec
rotary OF the Smithsonian Institution, de-
scribing the 'sfying-machine' that he has
lately completed, after ten years Of iaborious
experiment, and which is the first sshying-
machine ever made by man. that has actu-
ally flown. Apropos of the sixtieth anniver
sary of the reign of Queen Victoria, the
June number of McClure's Magazine will
contain a series of life portraits of the
Queen, the earliest showing her, a child on
her mothers lap, at the age of two years:
the next at four, the next at FIVE, and SO on,
almost year after year, down to the present
day. William Allen White, the Young Kan
sas editor, orator, and story-writer, who
makes a distinct .'hit' whenever he speaks
or writes, because there is blood and reality
in whatever he is moved to say, has written
q new short story of Kansas hfe-a Decora-
ton Day story-which will appear with
abundant illustrations. There will also be
an article on the Revue des deux Mondes,n
winch of all the journals in the world has
probably made the deepest impression on
politics, letters and society. The article is
written by eth. Bentzen', MADAME Blanc).
who has long been a member Of the staff Of
the "Revue," and has known intimately
most of the famous contributors and the
several editors, from Buloz, the founder.
down to the present editor, NJ. Brunetiere.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28
DEMOLISHED TIE STATUE.
Som of EIeZekIah Smith Destroys tn,
Image of a Fathers Disgrace.

SON OF EIeZekIah Smith Destroys the
Image of a Fathers Disgrace.
Especial to THE Jersey City News."1
MOUNT HOLLY, May 2S, 1S97.-The or
der recently issued by Elton j. Smith, son of
Hezekiah Smith, the lead millionaire, that
the statue to Agnes Gilkerson should be de-
stroyed has been carried into effect, and the
once beautiful marble figure is now a crumb-
ling mass Of ruins.
Early yesterday morning several stalwart
men from the machine shops were ordered
to proceed to the mansion yard. They took
with them heavy mauls and Instruments.
After the massive iron gates we're opened
the men entered and Immediately proceeded
to the canopy under which this graceful fig
ure has reposed for a number of years. A
small crowd followed the group.
The workmen speedily demolished the
beautiful image amid suppressed applause.
The statue was made. in Italy at a cost of
$4,000.
Hezekia1 B. Smith had a wife and child
rem in Vermont when he met Agnes Gilker-
SON, but from that time he forgot them ut
terly. He moved to what is now called
Smithville, established Agnes as his wife,
started the machine works which brought
him in millions, n introduced Miss Gilker-
son into the best society. Smith attained
political honors and had many friends.
The influence Of beautiful Agnes Gilkerson
absolutely dominated Smiths life. She sue
cessfully plotted his -estrangement from his
family. A cancer cut short her career.
Smith had the statue made, planted beside
1t her favorite rosebush and for hours sat
under a canopy gazing up into the face Of
the stone image. He ordered that after
death the statue should be moved to what
ever spot he might be buried.
When he died the lawful sons and family
of Smith brought suit and were awarded
possession of the Smithville property. The
son at once resolved to remove the standing
monument of his fathers disgrace. The
demolition today was the result, aud the re-
nova of the dead millionaire's body to Yer
mont will mark the last act in a remarkable
career Of duplicity and shame.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28
AN ENJOYABLE EVENING.

"Leigh Doane" or "One Summer a pic
ture play adapted from Zone Summer by
Blanche Willis Howard, was presented in
the lecture room of the Bergen Reformed
Church last night by Miss Melanie Stewart
Miller. The performance, which was given
under the auspices of the Sunday Scnool,
was witnessed by a large audience. Many
Of the scenes were very beautiful and all Of
them were interesting. Miss Miller's rem
dering was all that could be desired. The
cast of characters as they app cared before
the camera was: Leigh Doane, Miss Esteils
Clayton; Philip Ogden, Mr.. E. r. Hart;
Gem, Master Tommy Downs; Tom Otis, Mr..
II. Walker: Bessie Otis, Miss ]. Alderman;
Mrs. Holbrook, Mrs. +. Swords: Miss Phipns
Mrs. G. Rylance; Maria Jane, Miss Florence
Rylance. Also Miss Florence Idell, Jennie
Post, Annie Booth, Mamie Ray, Belle
Pritchard and Others.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28
The ORA matte Crtsfc.

The dramatic critic is little more than
human; and his lot is not so desirable
that l should advise young men to as
pire to his calling, or ather to his par
ticular branch OF a calling which com
tainS no sInecures and offers few prizes.
His hours are long and Irregular; his
work is hard, and he is continually at
war with his WI moods, which must not
be permitted to obscure his Judgment.
Necessarily a man of some strength of
individuality, he must night after night
subject his will to thai of others and
keep his mind in a perfectly plastic con-
dftion; and, If he gains any sort of dis
tinction in his labors, he will find that
the theatre pursues him wherever he
ms go in his rare hours of leisure. He
soon learns the common desire OF his
fellow creatures to talk about actors. to
the exclusion of every other topic. His
authority, of which he makes no boast
at all, is both proclaimed and denied for.
though he Is likely to be transformed
into a sort of minor and inferior Iona
cub peraaps-yet he never by any chance
meets a uma being who does not feel
perfectly competent to speak the last
word of judgment on any play or actor.
Still, if he nave enough philosophy, he
may console himself with the thought
that he laborS in a good cause, and that
even ii, in his efforts to make better un-
derstood a form of art that can never
die. he has somewhat o~verstepped him
self n helped to develop a race Of imi-
tation critics rather han a multitude of
frankly receptive and highly appreciative
spectators, that evil will IN time be RENEE
died.-Forum.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28
FRIDAY. MAY Is. 1887.
ants paper is Democratic in principles
sad is independent in its psesos on ali local
seessions.
TAs Peoples. Palace Tragedy.

The lamentable accident at the Taber-
hacle. last night, may serve as a lesson
en- a whole lot OF things: the reckless
ness OF people regarding firearms, the evil
VI boys carrying pistols. the atrocity of
dealers who sell firearms to boys, the
~>ssapability of older persons who. seeing
pistols In the hands of boys. fail to have
them taken away. But, the thing of all
others that it illustrates is the need of
teaching every boy the proper way to
n weapons, not in order that he may
kill; but in order that he may not kill.
when he does not mean to do so.
Nine out of ten of the accidental fatali-
ties from firearms come from mere ignor-
ance of how to handle them. The present
Is obviously a ease of the kind. If the
boy Kuntz had known what to do with
the pistol, which he was examining, it
would not have gone off in his hands.
But as it Is the privilege of every Ameri-
can citizen to have arms, and as arms
must De handled more or less, 1T should
be the duty of someone to teach boys
what their dangers are and how such
dangers may be averted by a little care
and skillful management.
This tragedy seems to have in it the
minimum of blameworthyness. The boys
should not have had pistols at all; but it
appears that the pistol which went off
belonged to the boy who was shot and
not to the boy in whose hands it was at
the time. The unloaded pistol of u
Kuntz was in the hands of the boy who
was killed. 1t is hard to see how the
courts can fail to absolve Kuntz of all
blame; but probably the tragedy will cast
a shadow on his life.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28
PORTABLE PALACE.

andrew Foote Chapter, Epworth
League OF the Emory M. e. Church, had
1 literary meeting last evening and lis
tened to an address on 1.-THE Portable
PAlace.,, by Dr. Richard Doherty. Vice
President OF the National Epworth
League. DIR. Doherty Ekened the brain
10 4 palace, n the brain cells to rooms.
He described b library the art gallery
6e drew b word picture Of a large mea-
dow. FIRST he pictured the sheep look
Ing upon the meadow and seeing only the
Treen grass; The farmer contemplates II
ana fir7lres on the amount of pay it will
produce. while the artist comes along,
and with his trained eyes seizes an the
6eaafdfaII colors and reprOdQces them on
canvass to be admired by Al.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28
CATHOLIC CLUBS LAST LECTURE

Mr.. Henry Austin Adams delivered the
last OF his series Of lectures last evening be-
fore a large-sized audience at the Catholic
Club. Nh. Adams chose for his subject last
night Americas Debt, and the audience
deeply appreciated the lecture as was plainly
shown by the applause that at different in
tervals greeted the speaker.
The Library Committee, under whose au-
spices the lectures were given, seem very
much pleased with the success they have
met with.
The committee appointed to look after the
affairs OF the closing entertainment which
takes place on June 10 consists of J.. G. Mini
han, Chairman; w. A. Mccarthy. Score.
tary; Joseph A. Buetter and James j. Far
rell. As all these gentlemen are good bust
lers the entertainment will without doubt be
a success.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28
ROBBED BY HIS GUEST.
A Deerfield Farmer Mulcted by
Supposed Purchaser.

Especial to THE Jersey City News.
BRIDGETON, May 2s, 1s97.-The trick Of
pretending to buy a farm, gaining the good
graces of the family and fleeing with money,
which trick was worked on Henry Hayes, of
Carll's Corlaer, recently, when s35 was taken,
has just been successfully practiced on
Farmer Philip Poth, near Deerfield, who has
been e~ndeavoring for some time to sell his
farm.
A stranger stayed a night and a day,
thoroughly inspected everything and left
after the family had retired. When Mr..
Poth missed him the next morning he also
missed $50 in money and some small articles
of jewelry, which had been in a bureau
drawer.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28

OF all the atrocious outrages we ever
heard OF, there is none worse than the
locking up of young Ernest Beutell by the
police, last night. This young man had
the misfortune to be a witness to the
Peoples Palace tragedy. He was no more
concerned In 1t than Mayor Hoos or Chief
Murphy himself. He is a respectable
young man with a residence in the city.
He had no idea of ~absconding. He could
not do so ever If he so desired. There
was not the slightest reason or color of
reason for OBTAINING him.
Yet the police not only held him for the
night but actually locked him in a cell,
like a criminal.
This was simply a brutal outrage. It
was unjustdfied by law, public necessity
or common sense. 1t was unnecessary to
hold the young man at all; but even If the
police thought it a wise precaution to
keep him, why should he not nave been
aet sit in the officers room or some other
place where his convenience would not
have been unnecessarily infringed and his
self-respect not assailed by the outrage
of treatment as a prisoner.
The Police Commissioners should at
once take up this case. The officer who
was guilty OF the outrage should be dis
missed from the force. no matter who he
is. Beutell should also bring suit for false
imprisonment at once. He has an un-
questionable case, and he should make
the rufnan who locke him up sweat for
It.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28
TO MEET MR.. CLEVELAND.
College Boys Will be Ter
dered a Reception.

PRINCETON, May %, 1897, special.)r
The FIRST opportunity for Princeton under
graduates 10 meet ex-Presldent n Mrs.
Cleveland will occur this afternoon, when
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland will give them an
informal reception at Prospect .. the home
of the ex-President.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28
S URROGATE'S NOTICES
|, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

NOTICE TO OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF
RICHARD. deceased, Mary Rick
ard, Administrative with will annexed of
William Richard, deceased, by order of the
Surrogate of Hudson County, dated May q,
1897, hereby gives notice to the creditors CT
said decedent to bring in their debts. demands
and claims against the estate of said decedent,
under oath or affirmation, within nine months
from the date of said order, or they will be
forever barred of any action therefor against
said Administrative. MARY RICHARD.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS ESTATE OF
SOPHIA E. BROADBENT, deceased; Louisa
R. Darling and Samuel E. Darling, two of
the executors of Sophia E. Broadbent, deceased,
by order of the Surrogate of Hudson County,
dated May 18th, 1897, hereby give notice to the
creditors of said decedent to bring in their
debts, demands and claims against the estate
of said decedent, under oath or affirmation,
within nine months from the date of said order,
or they will be forever barred of any action
therefor against said executors.
LOUISA r. DARLING,
SAMUEL E.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28

NOTICE TO CREDITORS ESTATE OF
DIEDERICH STEGMAN, also known as
Diedrich or Diedrick Stegman, deceased; Olivia
C. Stegrnan and Edward s. Pigott. administra-
tors of Diederich Stegman, also known as
Diedrich or Diedrick Stegman, deceased. by
order of the Surrogate of Hudson County.
dated March II, 1897, hereby give notice to
the creditors of said decedent to bring in their
debts, demands ard claims against the es-
tate of said decedent. under cath or affirma-
tion within nine months from the date of
said order. or they will be forever barred of
any action therefor against said administrators.
OLIVIA c..
S. PIGOTT
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28

IN order hat Its people may be able
10 enjoy the general holiday IN Monday,
ssrhe Jersey City News will not be pub
,ished on that day.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT NOTICE IS
hereby given that che account of the sub
scriber, guardian of Walter r. Wnitmore, Ar
thur t. Whitmore. William C. whitmore. John
H. Whitmore. Emily A. Whitmore and James
R. Whitmore. will be audited and stated by
the Surrogate Of tie County of Hudson and
reported for settleusanttch Friday. the I'd day
of July next.
Dated April 20. al D. 1897.
ANNA H. WHITRfORE-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28

NOTICE TO CREDITORS ESTATE OF
JOHANNA LAUTERBORN, deceased; Cath
arine Holzberger, administrators OF Johanna
Iauterborn, deceased, by order of the Surro-
gate of Hudson County, dated May 4th, 1897,
hereby gives notice to the creditors of said
decedent to bring in their debts, demands ana
claims against the estate of said decedent, un-
der oath or affirmation. within nine months
from the date Of Said order, or they will be
forever barred of any action therefor against
said administrator.
CATEARINE HOLzBERGER.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28

NOTICE TO CREDITORS ESTATE OF
F. GILCHRIST, deceased; John
v. Bacot, administrators of Theodore 2. Gil
christ, deceased, by order Of the Surrogate Of
Hudson County, dated March 2T, 1897. hereby
gives notice to the creditors Of said decedent
to bring in their debts. demands and claims
against the estate OF said decedent, under cath
or affirmation. within nine months from the
date of said order. or they will be forever
barred of any action therefor against said
administrator. JOHN V. BACOT.