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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-24

includes the Methodist Episcopal organi.
cation only. There are at present ia
churches and missions in Newark, and IN
'67 there were but e~ighty-ive.
No greater progress has ~beenSmade in
this city. in the period selected DR. com
parison, than in the Post Office faculties.
The department got along with four
clerks and twenty-one carriers. Nov, the
department finds lit hard to get along
with some fifteen clerks, counting fore
men and superintendent as such, for
tendent of carriers in 81. Then there are
the five stations, four sub-stations and
t~hirty-fonr stamp stations. Many OF the
regulations which now exist, too, We're
unheard of thirty years ago, for the me-
eessity for them had not arisen, while on
the other hand old rules, no longer needed,
have disappeared from the matter per-
tanning to the Post Office printed in the
directory. For instance, the directory of
81 explained that ARTICLES of clothing
not exceeding two pounds in weight may
be sent prepaid by mail to any non-coIn-
missicned officer, private soldier or sailor
actually in service of the United States at
ounces or fraction thereof" OF course.
it was called for by the Civil. War, and
had not been abandoned, although the
war was TWO years over. There may pc
longer is of interest to more than a very
small part of the public. There were six
free deliveries of mail matter throughout
the city, whereas now there are four in
some sections and three in others. The
carriers had a much smaller territory to
cover then han now, although there are
more of them and they awe the facilities
of trolley cars running in almost every
direction. 1t is plain that the carrier of
81 had no sinecure.
There were five stage lines running from
Newark in 1S67-for Montclair and Bloom
field, leaving $50 Broad street at one PM;
for Paterson, leave S5S Brood street at
three p. NJ; for PoraPtoL FsAlns. Pemp-
ton, Boonton, Pine Creek, 1a4uWell, etc.
leave Market street station, Eighth Ward
Hotel, Union House and S56 Broad street,
on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays;
for Elizabeth, leave 322 Broad street at
ten A. NJ. and four P. NJ; stages for New
York leave from corner of Market and
Beard streets on Sundays. There were
five horse ear lines in operation and three
~.proposeda the last being to lrvingten,
and Bloomfield and to Elizabeth. The
lines running were known as:-Orange
line. Belleville line, Broad street line,
Lttleton avenue, or Market street line;
Irvington line. along Clinton avenue.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-24
SPECIAL MASTERS cHANcERr

Between Philip Dillon ct ux., compliments.
and James Dillon ct al, defendants.
On Bill for Partition and Decree for Sale.
By virtue of a decree of the Court of Chanc-
cry of New Jersey, made in the above cause
and bearing date on the twenty-sixth day of
July, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, di-
recting a sale of all and singular the premises
mentioned and described in said bill of com
See, Special Master in Chancery of New
Jersey, shall sell at public yendue, to
day of September, eighteen hundred and nine
ty-seyen, at two O'clock in the afternoon, at
the Real Estate Salesreoms, No. IS Montgom-
cry street., Jersey City, N. j., all the follow
ing described lands and premises, with the
appurtenances, being the same described in
said bill Of complaint and decree for sale. to
witt
ALL those two certain lots or parcels of
land and premises, situate and lying and be-
of Hudson and State of New Jersey, 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
to Robert J., Thomas F. and Maggie F.. Dill
Ion, respectively, one hundred feet 600 to a
point; thence westerly parallel with Lexington
avenue fifty feet $50 ft.) to a point in the rear
line of lands conveyed by John Dillon to
James Dillon; thence northerly 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 $50 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-
ments and appurtenances to the said premises
belonging or in any wise appertaining.
Dated August 8, 1897.
Special Master in chancery of New Jersey.
SIG. so.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-24
E PUBLICATIONS.
CITING EpIc OF PanI.,,

Professor William C1eaver Wilkinson's
new epic will shortly appear from the
presses of Messrs. Funk & Wagnalls Co.
1t is the sequel to THE Epic of Paul."
which received such high praise from
ever the most critical. The Epic of
Saul7 ended with the wonderful CONVEX
sion of Saul on the road to Damascus.
The voice has spoken to Saul from heaven
and the poet says
'sSaul heard, and in his heart of hearts
obeyed;
And his whole life thenceforth obedience
whereof the greater song remains to
II 50 be God vouchsafe such grace to
me-"
s'rhe Epic of Paul' is that greater
scng' and that God did youchsafe such
grace to the singer no one will doubt who
reads the majestic epic.
The design of the poem as a whole is
to present through conduct on PauIs part
and through speech from him, a living
portrait of the man thai he was, together
with a reflex of his most central and
most characteristic teaching. Its de-
scriptipns are vivid, and it brings the
readers mind into close touch with the
great spirit OF Paul. 1t is a poem in
which dignity, beauty and power are
cCmingled with a rare charm.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-24
SUMMER OUTINGS.

Mr. William S. Perry, Of Hoboken, is
at the Fort Lowry, Bath Beach, l.. l..
Justice and Mrs. Job H. Lippincott and
Mr.. Herbert Lippincott are at the Man
haitian Hotel. Manhattan
Mr. l.. ]. Bovals is at the United
States Hotel, Sheepshead Bay.
Mrs. Teifora. is at the Linwood Bay
Shore. Long Island.
Dr.. j. w. Culver is at the Dominy
House, Bay Shore, Long Island.
F. A. Eenzog is at the Ocean Avenue
Hotel, Patcllogue.
! Messrs. F.. H. Cook and T. H. Clocke
are at The oronoc House, Islip, L. /.
Miss Susie De Mont is the guest of
Mrs. Fl. M. Benedict, Waterhill, Long
Island.
on Gorman's I~sland,~CoW Bay, L. I. The
camp has been named Klondike.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Dennis have been Wis
iting in Flushing during the past week.
Mr.. George C.. Webb is spending his
vacation at Greenport, Long Island.
Miss Cotton, of Bayonne, has been Wis
iting Mrs. M. A. Bennett OF BaldWin's,
Long Island.
Judge j. G.. Lowry is spending some
time at the United States Hotel, Long
Branch.
M E. A. I'm win spend August at
Algonquin, n. X.
Tne Misses Theresa. Anna, Marie and
Cecil Eagan OF Hoboken are at Asbury
Park.
MIR. w. H. Wood is at the Atalanta Ho-
tel, Asbury Park.
Mr.. j.. b. Marine OF Hoboken is at the
Victoria, Asbury Park.
Mrs. c. %. Thurston IS ut the Cole
man. Asbury Park.
Mr.. Marcus Lang and Miss Laura Lang
are at the A<alallta Hotel. Asbury Park.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-24

of income are about as high now as they
can be expected to be. Consequently. no
hope can exist Of further increase OF
revenue from these items.
The net deficit which has accrued this
month so far is about s1s,o oo,o 600. This win
probably be swelled to SIS, 5000 600 by the
fieiency for the fiscal year TO that date
about SIS. 900, 600. The remaining months
of the year are just as likely as not to net
ten millions of deficit a month. At this
rate, Mr.. Dingley is likely to have the
honor of breaking a record. and reducing
the, surplus in the Federal Treasury in a
single year below the level Of the gold re-
serve,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-24

STATE OF NEW Observation-Disclosures
of State.
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
Of The time limited in its certificate of Or
ganization, as appears by a duly authenticated
record of the proceedings of said Board Of
Directors of such corporation, held in accord
ance with the provisions of an act entitled
IAN Act concerning corporations (Revision OF
1867 approved April 21st, 1896, 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-
quired having been by said corporation DE-
posted in my office;
Now therefore, /. George Warts. Secretary
of State of the State of New Jersey, being
satisfied by due proof that the requirements
of IAN Act concerning corporations (ReviSipn
of $780, approved April 2lst, 1896, relativeSt to
the dissolution of corporations, have been fully
with by the said corporation, Do
Hereby Certify that the Whitehall Chemical
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 and the record OF
the proceedings aforesaid are now on file in
my said Office, as provided by law.
In Testimony Whereof, 1 have hereto set my
hand and affixed my official seal,
[SeaL] at Trenton, this eleventh day of
Jpr&s A D.. eighteen hundred and
ninety-seven..
GEORGE wURTS,
Secretary of State.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-24
Mr.. GUlLF0RD BURIED.
Funeral Services Held at His
Late Home Attended by
Prominent Officials
Rev. Mr.. Wright's
Eulogy.

Funeral services for Principal Arson B.
Guilford, of No. 7 school, who died in
Paris and whose body arrived on the
French Line steamer La G~ascogne, Sun
day morning, were held at his late resi-
dence, No. BAL Webster avenue, last night.
Long before the hour fixed for the ser
vices the small parlors, the hallway and
even the stoop of the house were crowded
with the friends and admirers of the dead
educator. The body was not brought to
the house, but remained in a Hoboken
undertaking establishment to which it had
been removed from the Ship,
< The services were conducted by the Rev.
Charles S. Wright, pastor of the Central
Avenue Reformed Church, and the Rev.
James Cameron, rector of the Church OF
the Ascension. The latter clergyman read
the impressive Episcopal ritual for the
burial of the dead and the former prayed
and delivered a brief address. He said
THE acts of Divine Providence are incom-
prehensible and mysterious, removing
from our midst those who seem useful
here on earth, but Notwithstanding that
we should bear in mind that God reigns
and His judgment is infallible. What WI
do NOT know now we will learn in the
hereafter.
To the question. should it be asked,
might confidence be placed in the word OF
God, I would say: Beauty for ashes; oil
of joy for mourning; garments of praise
for spirits of heavenliness.'
Mr.. Wright closed by ~eulogizing the de-
ceased. He spoke of him as an educator,
of his versatility and talents, of his liter
airy ability and social qualities. He re-
ferred to his hopes-and a-nticipations be
fore all were cut off by the hand of death
and said that that death had shocked and
stunned the whole community.
Among the prominent persons who at
tended the last sad rites were:-Presiden'
of the Board of Education James L. Firm,
Superintendent Henry Snyder and Direc-
tor U. Allen, representing the city's edu-
cational government; Alderman Charles
Bernemann, Police Captain McNulty, ex-
Judge Alfred Dayton, Counsellor Fred
erick Frambach, John S. Edwards, John
schools.
The body will be taken to Munson
Mass, today, for interment in the family
vault. The following pail bearers will
accompany the remains TO their last rest
deceased; Frank Tanning. Mrs. Guilford's
brother; Henry Snyder, Superintendent OF
Schools; DR.. u. Allen, Director of Educa-
ton; j. r. Edwards and Counsellor Fred
erick Frambach. The immediate family
of the deceased will not accompany the
prayers, but nc further religious cere-
monies.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-24
REPUBLICAN CALL TO ARMS.
Comfy Committees Plea fol
the Anti Race Track Amendment.

Especial to saThe Jersey City News."j
ELIZABETH. Aug. "a, 1S97.-The Union
County Republican Committee yesterday
issued the following Circular
To the Republicans and Republican Or
CARNATIONS of Union county.
An election will be held on September
rs to vote on three proposed amendments
to the Constitution
First-A provision to prevent legislation
to legalize gambling on race tracks.
Second.To permit woman suffrage at
school meetings; and
Third-To prevent the appointment to an
of the Legislature, of any person who
may have been nominated to the same
office, and not confirmed by the preceding
Senate.
There is danger that the proposed
amendment first mentioned above, may
fail to be ratified through overeonfidenee
Four years ago the people of this State
I called en- the Republican party to lead a
movement to repeal the infamous race
track laws passed in 1888, and to prohibit
such legislation in future.
The Republican party responded to the
call. and the first bills passed by the
Legislature, after the Republican party
came in power, were repeaiers OF the race
track laws.
The Republican party was then called
upon to conduct proceedings to amend the
Constitution so as to make such leg1Sla-
ton impossible in the future. An appro-
pirate amendment to the Constitution was
accOrdingiy framed. 1t was adOpted by
the Legislature of 1896, and again by the
Legislature of the present year. 1t needs
only to b. ratified at the ballot box on
September rs to become a part of the Con-
stitution forever
Until that is lone the pledge and duty
of the Republican party of this State are
not fulfilled.
The opposition TO the anti-race track
amendments is necessarily silent, but none
the less powerful, and all the more dam
gerous for that reason.
Do not assume that the contest is ended
until the anti-race track amendment is
ratified by the people.
Millions of dollars invested in race
tracks are arrayed against the moral well
ware and good name of our State.
The movement against the race tracks
the largest possible vote should be given
in favor of the anti-race track amend
ment.
The second amendment gives to women
the right to vote in school elections for
trustees, ETC.. and places them in the POI
sition they were supposed to occupy be-
fore the recent judicial decision, which
took away entirely their right to partici-
pate in these meetings.
The third amendment away from
the Governor the power, which has often
been abused in the past, OF appointing to
office. during a recess of the Legislature,
men whose names have heretofore been
rejected by the Senate.
All these. amendments are Republican
measures, and as such the Republican
voters and organizations in this county
are desired to vote and work for their
passage.
BY order of the Union County Republi-
can Committee.
CHARLES N. CoDDING,
Ay.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-24
FIFTH WARD REPUBLICANS.
They Entertain Their Friends a,
win PARK.

Despite the unfavorable weather, a fair
sized party ATTENDED the picnic of the
Orion Fifth Ward Republican Club, at
Baldwin Park, last night. The floor was
managed by Charles A.. Williamson, as
sisted by William II. Barlow and the
following committee:-A. ]. Harms, G.
C. H. Knoop, 7. Meyer, O.. H. Harms,
Jr., C. Miller, Ed. Fitzgerald, ]. C.
Knoop.
The other committees and the officers
were as follows
Reception Committee M. Startup,
chairman; j. Harms, ST.; J. Knoop, Jas.
McGregor, A. B. Durham, A. Meyer. Ar
rangement COMMITTEE. NJ. Startup, j.
Harms, ST., A. B. Durham, c. William
SON, E Fitzgerald, j. w. Plate, c. Mil
Ter, C.. II. Knoop, j. McGregor, G. Smith.
oaieers;-Judsen M. startup, president;
A. b. Durham. financial secretary; Vim.
H. Barlow, vice president; j. w. Plate,
recording. secretary; Vic. Hensel, treas
urer; John Knoop, sergeant-at-arms.
Among those present were Mr. and Mrs.
Frank -Steinhauser, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur. Durham. Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Williams OF New York,
M. and Mrs. = Brennan Of New York,
and Mrs. William Fogerty, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Fitzgerald, Mr.. and Mrs. William
II. Barlow, Mr.. and Mrs. John Callahan,
Mr.. and Mrs. P. Gray, Mr.. and Mrs. L.
Ralph, Mr.. and Mrs. Christopher Hogan,
John Smith, Miss McAnerney, Ed. 7.
Johnson, Miss L.. Smith, James Murphy,
Miss Crimmins, James F. Walsh, Miss
Shaughnessy, e. Johnston, Miss McGreg-
or, William Singler. Miss G.. Singler. Jas.
McGregor, Miss McGregor, Mr.. Cooper,
Miss Murray, Charles H. Knoop. Miss L.
Knoop, John C. Knoop, Miss d. Knoop,
Armend j. Harms, Miss Gertrude Dough
erty, William Meyer, Miss Raymond, JAS.
Flynn. Miss Mamie Barry, Messrs. Geo.
Smith, Charles Miller, Frank Gflse, Jas.
Smith, John p. Landrine, John Callahan,
John Hanna, Sr.. Judson Startup, Tinl
Brennan, William Prove, John w. Plate,
anagh, William Mccormick, Nicholas
Hansel. John Knoop, Alderman Vermilye
and Jphp Dammef.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-24
HEARINGS ON IMPROVEMENTS.
Commissioners of Assessment Hear
the Obi ecfiess of Ci1izens.

Commissioners of Assessment Hear
the obj ecfiens Of Ciaizens.
The Commissioners of Assessments met
this morning and gave public hearings on
eleven. improvements, for which final
maps and reports We're ordered completed
and filed. They were as follews:--
improvement of Glenwood avenue, from
Bergen to West Side avenue; asphalt.
Total cost, $17,6l5.51.
Sewer in Rose avenue, from Orient ave-
nue. TO Claremont ard jackson venue
Total cost, s1,94e>9s.
Improvement of Reservoir avenue, be-
tween Webster and Central avenues; Bel
gian pavement. Total cost, SAT 1906.
Sewer in Hoadley avenue, from lis feet
west of West Side avenue to Mallory and
Clendenny avenues. Total cost, SS,67s.44.
Sewer in Tonnele avenue. from 100 feet
north of Newark avenue to st. Paul's
avenue. Total cost, s.. 9g3. 10.
Improvement Of Tuers avenue, between
Newkirk and Nroom streets; maeadam
pavement. Total cost, s3,444.42.
Improvement of Manning avenue, be-
tween Grand street and Johnston avenue;
Belgian pavement. Total cost, So, G59.15.
Improvement of Clinton avenue, be-
tween ackso and Bergen avenues; Bel
gian pavement. Total cost, s4423.21.
Improvement of Stuyvesant avenue, be-
tween Van Reypen place and West Sid
avenue; Belgian pavement Total cost,
$S,T74.S1.
Sewer in James avenue. from Howell
street to Newark avenue. Total cost,
S7S9.50.
Improvement Of Thirteenth street, be-
tween Jersey avenue and Coles street,
new stone paving. Total cost. s., sS52 81.
Awards made for proposed opening of
Baldwin avenue will amount to about
Slu0.0G0.
To the Thirteenth street assessment a
vigorous protest was made by Mr.. A..
that street, and for which he was taxed
$500 for paving This srna, Mr.. Cercoran
said, was. decidedly too high. The Com
Street and Mater Board John Casey and
other property owners also protested.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-24
rhs csn.a,auuon.l amendments.

tn Republican machine is making an
effort to appear interested in the adop-
ton of the three proposed Constitutional
amendments which are to be voted on,
Oh September q. The effort is insincere.
The party has M desire to see them
adopted. The party leaders, General Sew
ell aud Vice President Hobart, indeed.
desire the defeat of the anti-racetrack
amendment, which is very injurious to
railroad Interests.
OF all three amendments il may be said
that they had better not be passed. They
are all three rather vicious in their ten
dency than useful. They can do the
State no conceivable good. The abolition
Of the raeetracks is an act Of capricious
aespot5stn. which is wholly unredeemed
by the good which its advocates claim
for It. The suppression of the tracks has
impoverished one county. has cut down
the earnings of the railroads, has driven
:. several millions of capital out of the
State and stopped the expenditure of
vast sums annually which helped enrich
our people. That it has afforded a few
weak and vicious natures any safety
from themselves is ridiculous. because
other forms OF gambling are rife, and the
gambling Instinct can be and is gratihed
In other States.
Tho caaond a "a on Al ont fo a no1ftiao1 no.
gression upon the independence of action
OF the Governor, which is contrary to all
public policy. 1t tends TO subordinate his
Judgment and will to the whirns of SEN
afors, and it IS likely to convert the max
ing of appointments, not to speak of
other functions OF the Governership, such
as the veto power. into mere log-rolling
operations, in which The Governor would
barter his desires in one matter for the
sake of winning the compiacency of the
Senate In another.
This third proposed amendment is the
wofnan's suffrage one. 1t is almost too
trivial TO cali for any discussion. 1t need
only be remembered, in passing, that
whereser women have been accorded any
influence in school matters, strife. in
justice and ineficieney have invariably
resulted
There WAS before the Legislature, last
session, one really important and useful
amendment that which remodelled the
Judiciary systeu-of the State. The Re-
publican party killed that one to crafty
the spite of q couple OF leaders against
Foster II. Voorhees,.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-24
TUESDAY. AUGUST "a. 1887.
This paper is Democratic m principles
and is Independent an ats saeaOs on all local
questions.
The Water Expertsan Harne~s.

If 1t were not for past disappointmenis'
the letter. in which Messrs. G. {. YER
zneule and Garwood Ferris have accepted
h responsibility of preparing water
plans and specifications for the city,
would be hailed by the public with JOY
Unfortunately, the people have learned
that not the experts, not the city -ofn-
Gals, not public opinion itself controls
matters of this sort in Jersey City, but
the will of a contemplate handful OF
aggressive cranks.
No doubt the two gentlemen placed in
charge of the work will do their duty
we'll, and as rapidly as possible No
doubt the Street and Water Board and
the Board of Finance will promptly call
for bids. Then the doubt comes. VIII
responsible bidders risk an encounter in
the courts with the litigious cranks? VIII
they take the chances of prolonged and
expensive litigation? The last time the
city called for water bids, there was only
one response, that OF the East Jefsey-
Will there be any greater number now?
1t is to be feared there will not be. The
eranks have delivered us over helpless to
that company
The revelations regarding the present
condition of the P~equannoek, by the way,
afford startling proof of the necessity for
going to the very headwaters of streams
for purify. and ~impounding the water in
the widest possible mountain and forest
region. In the light of the Pequannoek
pollution. the proposition to collect water
for Jersey City's use at Boonton or Lit
tie Fails appears nothing short of Grim
fnal. 1t was recently rumored that, with
slight amendment, the last series of
specifications drafted by Mr.. yermeule
would be recommended by the new ex-
perts. Probably the city can do no bet
ter. $500