davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-19

Sealed proposals will be received by the
Board of Street and Water Commissioners on
Monday, August 3oth, 1897, at 2 o'clock +: M
in the Assembly Chamber of the City Hall,
for the
IMPROVEMENT OF MERCER STREET.
from the east curb line of Merseles street to
the brick pavement on the viaduct. not as
scssable and not paved to the established
grade to be paved 20 feet in width, in accord
ance with specifications on file in the office of
the Clerk of said Board.
Blank forms of bid and agreement of sure
ties must be obtained at the office OF the
Chief Engineer, City Hall Jersey ssr tsnI IN Nj !
to be made out of license monies hereafter
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES.
About 200 cubic yards of earth excavation.
About a.soe square yards of macadam paw
ing.
About l manhole head to be reset.
Tine allowed for the completion OF the
work. 50 working days.
PROPOSALS must be enclosed in sealed en-
yelopes. endorsed Proposals for the Improve
ment Of Mercer Street" directed to MI.
Ferd. Heintze, Chairman of the Committee
on Streets and Sewers and handed to the
Clerk Of the Board in open meeting when
called for in the order Of business relating to
sealed proposals.
No city official viii be accepted as surety
nor viii a substitution of sureties be allowed.
The Board reserves the right to reject any
or all proposals if 1t is deemed for the best
interests Of the city so to do.
The atteation of bidders is especially called
to section I, Chapter l4 of the Laws Of 1891
Binding upon the city OF become effective or
operative until the bondsmen offered BY the
Cheney BY this Board and as to form BY the
Corporation Counsel the President q this
posed bonds.nen under cath.
By order Of the Board of Street and Water
N'''4'7S''1s'' GEo. +. BouroN.
Dated Jersey city. August Is. 1891.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-19
BREWERY MEN DANCE.
second Annual Picnic of Lembeck
* Eetz,s Employees.

The second annual picnic and games OF
the Lembeck & Betz Employees. L. a. NO.
2155, was held yesterday afternoon n
evening at Armbruster's Greenyille
,Schuetzen Park. The affair was a sue
cess and over a thousand enthusiastic
picnickers were present. The employees,
about five hundred in number, headed by
a brass band, marched to the park from
the brewery, on Ninth street, about three
o'clock. On arriving there games and
shooting were INDUCED in up till six
o'clock. Prize bowling also took place
and some very high scores were rolled
In the evening there was of course
dancing and general fun. but amid all
the smiling faces there was one extremely
sad and that belonged to Philip m
cellar foreman. Philip had been appoint
ed to lead the grand march and that night
was to be the event of his life. Fol- days
he had been studying the most graceIal
and intricate evolutlons Wit wnach s ~
for nights he had lain awake ngurlng oul
new figures. Consequently ne was wei
posted and when the band struck Up Inc
march Philips graceful figure, suggestive
of an animated hogshead OF beer, was
seen at the mead of the couples: He mad
just reached that point where the genIie-
man separates from the lady and walks
in an opposite direction, when a delega-
ton. headed by a lusty brass band from
Bermes' brewery marched onto the plat
form and broke through the line. and in
fact busted up that grand march. The
gentlemen rushed to find their scattered
partners and all this time there We're w
bands al work, playing different tunes and
producing a delightful MUSICAL effect;
Mem Colt, wot it is?' exclaimed
Schmidt with the saddest of sad looks
on his face when he saw all his hopes
alretty? Dose beeples are too fresh, ain'd
it?"
Finance Commissioner Henry Kellers
offered sympathy and consolation, but
the memory of that busted grand march
will ever be a horrid nightmare for Philip
Schmidt.
After that everything passed off very
smoothly. Those in charge of the affair
were Gottfried Slender, Leopold
Kurstler, Phillip Buntle. Emil Dronbaum
and Otto Knechler. Among those pres
ent were Alderman Edward Barr. Jos.
Kaiser. Finance COMMISSIONS Henry
Kellers, Commissioner Anthony Hauck,
Edward Martin and Edward Woeckner.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-19
KLONDIKE INTERPRETATIONS.
Two New Companies I'm Hudson
Poet scout in One.

Articles of Incorporation Of the Joseph
Ladue Gold Mining and Development
Company nave been filed in the County
Clerks office. The company proposes to
get some of the gold out of the Klondike
region. The capital stock on paper Is
IS. 900, 900, but the incorporators have de-
cided that $1,000 cash will be sufficient
to start business with. The incorporation
are Joseph Ladue, Elmer F. Botsford
and Albert w. Emery of Plattsburg, N.
Y; Charles C. Lapham, of Lapham, N.
Y; Edgar B. Brown and William Brown
of New York City.
Another concern. under the title OF
THE Captain Jack Crawford Alaska
Prospecting and Mining Company has
been organized for the same purpose and
has filed it's articles of Incorporation. The
capital stock is $3.50, 600 and is all paid up
The incorporates are John w. CraW-
ford and Dan Marcall OF New Mexico,
Horatio King of Brooklyn, George 3.
Corea of Kansas City and William r.
Fales of New York.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-19
swINDLERs AT WORK in HoB0KEE
Suave Young Men Arc Working Old
Schemes on tbs lnuccent Pubitc.

Sunyes Young Men Arc working Old
Schemes on tbs lnuccent Pubitc.
A gang of Saikers with all sorts of
swindling schemes is at work In Hobo
ken. The police have been looking for
the operators for some time and It Is
likely that arrests will be made in the
near future.
One of the schemes by which a number
of the residents have been victimized, is
the fake entertainment ticket. This is an
old game, but nevertheless it has APP
parently proved quite profitable in
Hoboken.
Last night Solomon Weinthal was sit
ting in his concert hall. at No. lis Wash
ington street, when a man entered and
presented a ticket bearing the words
Entertainment for the benefit of the
Young Mems Catholic Association, to be
held at Imperial Music Hall, No. lis
Washington street. Tickets Soc"
There is no such entertainment going
on here" remarked Weinthal as he read
the ticket. II guess the fellow who sold
you his ticket is a fakir." The man said
that he purchased the ticket from q
young man on the street.
The police were notified and they dis
covered that a number of the tickets had
been sold. Some of them were printed on
white cards and Others were on blue
ones. B. Brownstein, a jeweler, of NO.
LII Washington street, bought one and A.
Podesta. a liquor dealer of Ninth and
Washington streets, bought three. The
victims were chiefly liquor dealers. only
one of the tickets was presented at the
hall. Proprietor Weinthal said he learned
that the swindler had called upon Louis
Budenbender, a collector for Lions
Brewery and attempted to pursuade the
collector into paying for an advertisement
which the man said he would print on
the programme of the alleged entertain
ment for $40. Budenbender was suspicious
of the mans actions and declined to
'soblige him. There has not been n
young Mems Catholic Association in
-Hoboken for several years.
A few weeks ago some of the uptown
residents reported to the police that they
had been swindled in a similar manner.
In this case different names were used
on the tickets and another address was
given. 1t is said that the fakir IS a young
man and does business strictly on a cash
basis.
Another young man about 5 feet s
inches tall with a black mustache has
been going from Gus to house in the
city representing himself as a collector
for an insurance ompan He told those
he called upon that the regular collector
was off on a vacation. A NUMBER OF
families gave him money and received in
return a receipt signed by a ncticlous
name. When the regular collector appear
ed Yesterday, he was apparently surprised
on being Informed that considerable OF
the insurance money had been already
paid to another man. He tailed 70 notify
the police. A woman living in Park ave-
nue.. complained to Sergeant Jaeobus OF
the Second Precinct and detectives We're
sent out on the case at once. NO arrests
have yet been made.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-19
i BLACK DIAMOND ExpRESS,r

strives Buffalo $50 P. N. Pullman yestibul.
Day Coaches and Parlor Cars. Dining Car
Service. Meals a la carte. Connects at
Bufalo with through sleepers to Detroit ana
i2.55 P. M. daily, except Sunday. for MAUcH
CHUNK and intermediate points.
1.29 P. M. Sunday only, for ASTON
MAUcH CHUNK and Coal Branches.
RkkiRsREs. IPeIdTsTsyTroN. scRANTSoN and princ3i-
nj intermediate stations. Connects for an
points in coal regions Chair Car to Wilkes
barre.
RAA AZ PIITTSToN. SCRANTON and princi-
nal intermediate stations. Connects for all
points in coal regions. Pullman Bufes Par
la la = +. N. daily for EAsToN and interme-
Ssss P. NJ. daily, except Sunday, Express for
SLATINGTON and principal intermediate sta
tiors. Connects for Reading and Harrisburg.
Chair Car to Slatingtcn.
ia 2. NJ. daily for BUFFALO, NIAGARA
FALLS and all points West. Pullman Sleeper
vestibuled Train, New York to Chicago. Sleep
ers to BUFFALO and Toronto.
oI SIS a E so,uT SAY P fasfSs aanasy' sssg F
9IES MAucH CHUNK. I. { 3.
TJTNCTION. sAYRE, GENEVA, RoCHES-
TER. BATAVIA and BUFFALO; Pullman
ps s1s :. NJ faf aaiiy for d YYTTfHfAecsA GENEVA.
ROCHESTER, BUFFALO. NIAGARA FALLS
ana all points West. Pullman Sleepers to
Additional local trains daily. except Sunday
for BOUND BROOK and intermediate points,
leave as follows: sis A. NJ. IA. 4ss and
n tickets and Pullman accommodations at
Pennsylvania Railroad Depot.
N Y Transfer Co. will call for and check
baggage from hotel or residence through to
destination.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-19
Life on Another Planet.

Discussing the long-mooted question as
to the inhabability of the planet Mars,
the London Spectator expresses the opin-
ion tha all hat can be said with GER
tainty | Hsthat if sentient beings with
coporeal frames exist there the relations
of the lungs to the body can not be iden-
tical with their relations in man, which,
as is known in the cases of fishes, is not
an impossible exercise of the Imagination.
The argument is that though the thermal
income of Mars is less than half that of
the earth and its theoretical mean tenn
perature-taking into account it's low re-
Elective power per unit of area-is conse-
ouently thirty degrees centigrade below
freezing, yet the actual climate of Mars
is mild that snow melts rapidly is patent
to the telescope; that vapor rises is clear
from the spectrum analysis; water flows,
ana there are indications, if not proofs,
that a sudden vegetation follows the sud-
den thawing of the snow. What warns
the air is unknown. but that it is warmed
admits Of no doubt; but theories as to the
inevitableness of cold in other worlds
must be pronounced imperfect, as also
those which aver the impossibility of corr
paraa1 life t
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-19
NOTICE.
CORPORATION NOTICE.

-
Notice is hereby given that on the 14th day
of December, 1896, application was made to the
Board of Street and Water Commissioners BY
William 4. Horn and others for the rr
from Central avenue to Hudson Boulevard.
Said Improvement to be made conformahly
of 1895 and in the following manner, including
all Intersections:
graded to the established grade by excavating
or filling the same TO the established grade.
To have new 20-inch curb set on either side
To have the present curb reset and new 20
inch set where necessary.
To have the carriage way paved with Belgian
block pavement.
To have the present bridgestone c-rosswalks
selaid and new bridge stone laid where neces-
sary.
And all other work done that may be neces-
sary to provide for the flow of the surface
water and to complete the Improvement IN q
good ard substantial manner. !.
Notice is also given that on the 18th day OF
August, 1897, the Commissioners of Assessment
filed in the office of the Clerk of the Board of
Street and Water Commissioners their prelni-
nary map for SAID Improvement. showing me
provement and the probable amount to be as
sessed on property specially benefited thereby,
in the office of the Clerk OF said Board.
And notice is also given that the following
streets or avenues or particular sections there
Of are included in said assessment namely
LEONARD STREET.
from Central cs fysrgs s 70 l hvhSq1E Bouieyard.
on the west side. from Leonard street to a
point about Is feet northeast and Is feet south
west.
SUMMIT AVENUE,
from Leonard street to g point about Is feet
northeast and IS feet southwest.
HUDSON BOULEVARD.
on the east side, from Leonard street to a
point about 25 feet southwest.
And that in accordance with the provisions
of the act above cited, the 23d day of August,
1897, at 3 o'clock p. NJ, and the Assembly
Chamber of the City Hall are hereby fixed as
the time and place when and where the Board
of Street at,d Water Commissioners will NEE.
to hear parties interested In said application
and all remonstrances against the said pro-
posed Improvement that may be presented in
writing,
BY order of the Board of Street and Water
GEO. II. BoUToN,
Clerk.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-19
SHOT AT A RIFLE RAEgE.

Jacob Greenwoldt, 40 years old, Of No.
1877 Columbia street. Union Hill, was ac-
cidentally shot in the right arm last even
ing while attending a picnic in Green
vile. Schuetzen Park.
Greenwoldt was sitting on q bench IN
the rear of the rifle range when q bull
let arm through the back of the rife
range hitting him In the shoulder and in
fiicting a slight flesh wound. He was at
tended By DR.. HOLSTER and taken home
by several Of his friends. Harry Oaks.
who has charge Of the rifle ranges, says
he cannot account TO rthe bullet going
through the partition, n he further says
there were several people shooting at the
same time. After the accident occurred
further shooting was stopped fer the
night. Oaks will examine the rear of
the range and fix any of the detective
parts before further shooting is allowed.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-19
HIS UNDERSTANDING GONE.

MIDDLETowN. N. Y. Aug. 10. 1897
Solomon Benjamin. of No. 217 Division
street. New York City. started for the
hopfields on an Erie fast freight last
night. He fell under the wheels near
here. both his legs were cut off and every
particle Of clothing torn off. He was
brought to a hospital here where he will
probably die,of shock. Benjamin was
one al a party Of fifty New Workers, one
Of whom says that the train broke in two
parts and the breakman believing one of
Ill Of them from the train. When the
Train was coupled together and started
Benjamin, IN trying to get aboard, fell
under the wheels.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-19
STEAMSHIP THIEF CAUGHT.
He Robbed Two StaterOems on tho
Hamhurg Slaamar Eurat Rlsmark

FAC 6ODUeu "O StdtcTO0 HAAS Ola THO
Hamburg Steamer Furst Bismark.
Police Captain Patrick Hayes and De-
tective Sergeant Nelson, of Hoboken,
made what they believe to be an inn
portant arrest, this morning, or the
Hamburg-American steamship docks. For
some time past clothing and other prop
erty belonging to passengers have been
stolen from the cabins before the steam
ers leave the dock. Detective Nelson
has been at work On the case, but vas
unable to detect the thief.
About ten o'clock this morning, just
before the Fuerst Bismarck sailed, Mel
son saw a well dressed man run up the
gang plank to the first cabin. There
was a large crowd on the dock, and
Captain Hayes concluded that it would
be best to keep watch at the foot of
the gang planks. In a few minutes the
same man, who was seen by Nelson,
came down the plank carrying an ex-
pensive black coat and a cane. These
articles he did not have when he went
on the ship. Nelson placed the man
under arrest and took him to Police
Headquarters. He said he was a French
man and unable to speak English. He
wrote his name as Frasoin Arnaud, 30
years old. but declined to write his adj
dress. He is a fine looking man. about
five feet ten inches in height, and wears
a black mustache. Nelson says he has
seen the man hanging around the docks
for several days. No examination will
be held in the case until the police can
engage an Interpreter. The cane. which
the man carried bore the initials, &c.
II. F."
Later the police learned that the coat
had been stolen from A. Rosenthal. a
passenger occupying room No. 154. The
cane had been taken from room No.
robbery was discovered when the ship
reached Quarantine and a telegraph mes
sage was sent pack to Hoboken. The
stolen property will be taken care of
by. the company until the passengers
return from Europe.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-19
CORPORATION NOTICE
NOTICE.


Notice is hereby given that on the 18th day
Of August, 1897, the Commissioners of Assess
Inent filed in the Office OF the Clerk OF the
Board of Street and Water Commissioners
IMPROVEMENT OF CENTRAL AVENUE,
between Congress street and the Paterson
Plank Road, in accordance with petition pre-
yiously presented to said Board on the 18th
day of June. 1896, and conformably to the
provisions of Chapter 27 of the Laws of 1895.
and the same is now open to public inspee-
ton in the office of the Clerk of said Board.
And notice is also given that the following
streets or avenues or particular sections there
of are included in said assessment, namely
CENTRAL AVENUE
from Congress street to Paterson Plank Road.
GRAHAM STREET =
from Central avenue 10 a point about s7
feet west thereof.
from Central avenue to a point about 3S1 feet
IRVING STREET.
from Central avenue to a point about 331 feet
west thereof.
POPLAR STREET.
from Central avenue to q point about $50 feet
west thereof.
GRACE STREET.
from Central avenue to a point about $50 feet
west thereof.
LEONARD STREET.
from Central avenue to u point about 3s feet
west thereof.
And that in accordance with the provisions
Of the Act above cited the Both day of August.
1897, at two O'Clock p. M, and the Assembly
Chamber of the City Hall, are hereby fixed as
the time and place when and where the Board
Of Street and Water Commissioners will meet
TO hear, consider and adjudicate upon all OBJ
~jections to the confirmation OF said final as
sessment map that may be presented in writ
ing.
Commissioners.
GEO, 7. RoUToN.
Dated Jersey CITY. August Is. 1897.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-19
WOMEN AS WRITING EXPERTS.
In France They Successfully Detecl
E0ru.riRn=HnW ,Ehax IN 1t


Fora.riss-How phev DO 1t.
The Governor of the Bank of France
has found that his lady clerks are the
best detectives of forged banknotes and
of debentures with altered numbers. He
has now entirely intrusted the work of
detection to feminine corps. He believes
the delicate tact of their fingers helps
them, and he fancies that many of them
really scent a bad note. They feel, in
lingering the forged notes, the difference,
however slight, between them and the
real. He never knew a note that had
been laid aside as doubtful, after being
thus felt, to be anything but a forged one.
The means for bringing to light falsi-
fled numbers on debentures are worth be-
ing brought under the notice OF stock
brokers and bankers. The fair detective
first spreads the suspected debenture on a
well-lighted tabl with a number OF
others, and sets them one by one beside 1t.
The genuine numbers are always written
with clerkly regularity The man or
woman who wrote them did SO mechanic
ally; but a forger's hand is always in
huenced by hope or fear. 1t is not, PROB
ably, his business to do nothing but write
figures and fill up forms. 1t nearly al
ways happens that his state of feeling is
betrayed in the more symmetrical figures
of his forgery. The next thing to notice
is the difference in the color of the ink.
It is never of the same shade as that
in the original. Should it be darker or
lighter, the suspected debenture is taken
to a dark room and placed under a strong
reflector. Differences that did not appear
are now seen. The unaltered figures are
shiny, because the ink is oxydized; the
new ones are of a duller black. In some
angles of the light, one does not see the
original figures at all, but the added ones
plainly. They are then damped with alco-
hol to make the paper transparent. The
first written and what was added is thus
brought out more distinctly.
A magnifying-glass is next used. Ire
mors of the hand, skilful s~cratchings and
alterations of figures are made manifest.
On the wrong side of the numbers being
lightly brushed with plombagine, the new
figures stand out in stronger relief than
the old. The fna operation Is the wash"
of the debenture. 1t is first washed with
a camers-hair brush dipped in a mixture
of part of castor oil to six parts of alco-
hol at a heat of IS degrees. The print
tive figures now appear more distinctly
than the added ones The second wash
is of soda and water in the proportion of
two to 100. The added ink, if at all fresh,
disappears, and the original number
stands out clearly. If notice has been
given of the loss of a bond with the
original number, it will go hard with the
person who has presented the cooked
one, unless he can show that it was thus
when his broker conveyed it to him.
London Truth.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-19
Dated Jersey City, A,
T

-
Notice is hereby given that on the nth day
of August, 1887, the Commissioners of Assess
ment filed in the office of the Clerk of the
Board of Street and Water Commissioners
their final assessment map and report for the
construction of a
SEWER IN WALKER AVENUE.
from Bergen avenue to and connecting with
sewer at the intersection of Woodlawn ave-
nue. and Van Cleefs street, In accordance with
petition previously presented to said Board on
the 22d day of June, 1896, and conformably
to the provisions of Chapter 217 of the Laws
of 1895, and the same is now open to public
Board.
And notice is also given that the following
streets or avenues or particular sections there
of are included in said assessment, namely
WALKER AVENUE,
from Bergen avenue 10 a point about rs feet
southeast of Van Cleef street.
BERGEN AVENUE.
on the south side, from Walker avenue 10 a
point about 5o.16 feet northeast and 25.0s feet
VAN CLEEF STREET.
from Walker avenue to a point about 225 feet
northeast thereof.
And that in accordance with the provisions
Of the Act above cited the Both day of August,
1907 at 2 O'Clock p. NJ, and the Assembly
Chamber of the city Hall are hereby fixed as
the time and place when and where the Board
Of Street and Water Commissioners will meet
n hear. consider and adjudicate upon all OBJ
iections to the confirmation Of said final as
sessment map that may be presented in writ
ing
GEORGE T. BouToN>
Clerk.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-19
ECHO OF DAYS YAWP2

BUFFALO, N. T.. Aug. Is, iSs7.-This
city and its suburbs along the lake and
RIVER for several miles were Jared vio-
lently at an early hour this morning by
a shock which is believed to have been
produced by an earthquake. In a score
of places between Angola, up the lake
shore and Youngstown, near the mouth
Of the Niagara, its rumblings were heard
distinctly. The shock came in the Lead
Of a fierce thunder storm. 1t was notice
able in most places about 5:2o o'clock.
Many people were awakened from their
slumbers by it. Some thought 1t was a
hard clap of thunder, out their houses
shook as If rocked by an earthquake, and
they soon concluded that an earthquake
was the real cause of the disturbance.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-19
HURT AT NIAGARA.

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, Aug. 10. 1897.
collision between a trolley car Of he
local street railway line to Echota and
a freight engine OF the Niagara juno
ton Railway occurred ut the Buffalo
avenue crossing. last evening, resulting
in the injury of three passengers The
Mrs, F. J. Peterson, OF Niagara Falls,
Ontario. head cut. legs cut and badly
bruised and Internal Injuries feared.
mother of Mrs. Peterson, shoulder bone
broken. arms and legs cut and bruised;
condition serious. !.
Anna Peterson, the little. daughter OF
Mrs. Peterson. legs cut and bruised and
badly shocked.