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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-10
< WARD D MooRATs.
a 1'ammany Speaker to Help Cele.
brafe the Associate mss A-nnivar.arv

A I'ammany Speakef to Help CeIe.
brafe the Associatfenss Anniversary.
IT rs now proposed by the Committee
In charge of the arrangements for the An
nlversary Reception of the Sixth Ward
Democratic Association to have one of
Tammany's leading orators come over and
open up the Reception on the evening of
February "a. 1t has not yet been definite
ly settled who it will he, but a promise
has been secured from those in authority
in the Hall to deputize one. of their num-
Der to come owe and help out.
Sheriff Heller has written q letter Of
congratulation ito the club on the event
of IT'S anniversary, thanking the officials
fer the support which the club gave the
Democratic ticket during the recent cam
paign. 1t was as follows:-
To the Officers of the Sixth Ward Demo
cratic Club
Gentlemen:-I understand that YOU will
shortly celebrate in due form the first an
n1versary of the REORGANIZATION of yeur
association, and I hereby desire to extend
my hearty congratulations to all of your
members upon your successful rounding
up of one year of corporate existence.
The Sixth Ward Democratic Club has
done excellent work for the Democratic
Party since its organization; / hope it
will be found in the future, as in the past.
lighting In the front rank for Democratic
principles and Democratic politics. and in
a spirit of unflinching loyalty to a party,
which, for a lifetime has been to MANY Of
us a guiding faith.
Your association should feel proud of the
record which 1t has thus far made. I wish
it continued prosperity.
Yours very truly,
WILLIAM HELLER, Sheriff.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-10
SWALLOWED HI PILL
Scnate Confirms the Nomination Of
Armstrong for Judge In Camden.

~ y ~set levi 4fO0os
TRENTON, Feb. 10, 1S97.-The Senate
swallowed Mr.. Amber Armstrong yes
terday afternoon as mild and pleasantly
as though he was a sugar-coated bill.
Immediately upon re-assembling after
the noon recess the Senate went into
executive session and confirmed the APP
pointments of Justice Van Syckel to sue
coed himself and Mr.. Armstrong to be
County Judge of Camden In quick order.
The complacency with which he Senate
took his dose of medicine is said to have
encouraged the Governor and the nomi-
nation of George Wurts of Paterson to
be Secretary of State and William BEETLE
of Camden to be Commissioner of Bank
Ing and Insurance may be expected at
any time. Some look for them next
Monday night.
The Governor is beginning to chafe
under the rebuke which the press of the
State, including many ~ewspapers of his
own party, have been administering to
him lately for his manner of selling out
to General Sewell. In speaking to a
friend of his yesterday he called the
newspaper names. When a man begins
to do that, especially a public man, It is
generally a good sign hat something is
wrong with him and he is on the down
ward slope.
Among the visitors to the State House
yesterday afternoon was a brother of
Governor Hastings of Pennsylvania. He
is visiting the various capitols in this
vicinity for the purpose of securing ideas
for the plans of the new State House
which Pennsylvania is preparing to erect.
Mr.. Hastings was presented. to the
prominent men about and made a minute
inspection of New Jerseys capitol. He
was much pleased with the Assembly
chamber and said that 1t was one of the
handsomest he ever saw.
Freebooter Stuhr was a visitor at the
State House. He had a constituent made
a notary public.
Edward w. Woolley also came down.
He spoke in favor Of the bill changing
he time for holding the municipal cleo
tons before the Senate Committee.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-10
EQUAL TAXATION LESSON.
Mr.. w. ID. Edwards Makes an In
terestfDs Talk I'm the whittier House

Mr.. w. ID. Edwards Makes an I'm.
ter~stiDg Talk in the Whittier House
TIL reception room of the Whittier
House last night was filled to the doors
with men. women and young people in
terested in the explanation of the Equal
Taxation question. 1t was Mr.. w. d.
Edwards, special counse to Jersey City
in the matter, and one who has the
subject at his fingers ends. who made the
address, which was listened to from be-
ginning to end with the closest attention.
Mr.. Edwards did not. plunge his hear
ers into statistics or tangle them up in
values and complicated questions of
main stem,'' "second-class property"
or that mythical but very valuable
franchise He in the simplest way
placed the question before them so that
its main principles and feature should
be understood. He pointed out the growth
of railroad property Lii this county and
city and explained what 1t meant to the
city when YEA by year railroad lands
were taken out of the local tax list and
then were taxed by the State. He laid
special stress on this phase of the case
and the audience were quick to observe
the points.
when he had finished Mr.. Edwards
was bombarded with questions OF. quasi
socialistic character. Some wanted to
know low this accumulation Of railroad
and decrease of the taxable
area of the city would affect the labor
ing man, and others propounded a null
titude of hypothetical questions, all of
which Mr.. Edwards answered and with
evident satisfaction to his audience, who
warmly thanked him for a singularly
able presentation of q grave n difficult
subject.
Miss Bradford. president of the House.
presided.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-10

men, who formerly used q bottom line,
ana tney We're enabled to make better
wages thar when they ished all day and
PROBABLY caught two sea robfns, He de-
MED that the fish pounds caught blue fish
IN large numbers or that they retained
nsn two small to sell ard sold them to
Iertiiizing companies. The latter, he said,
We're always returned to their native ele-
care about destroyin' orIr own dizziness,
Wnicn we would be doin' by sellln, little
fellers wot we can't sell fer food fish,
fish firm in Asbury Park, started in BY
berating the Fish and Came Commission
for urging such a bill, which he claimed
strikes at an industry operated in the
created by the State arid supported by
the taxpayers of the State should have a
right to come and dictate to the Legis-
iature what laws to enact, especially
Wnen the laws recommended strike at
such an important Industry"
Mr.. Scovel was DESTROYS of learning in
what manner the pound fishing was
humane and Mr.. Citizens started in to
show him. He declared that the pounds
operated by his company furnished as
high as thirty thousand pounds of fish
daily to the cities of Newark, Jersey
City. Trenton and Camden, something
which was not done before the establish
ment of the pounds. Before that time
fish was sold at ten, twelve and fifteen
cents per pound, and IT. was a gamble
whether you received good or bad fish,
but since the establishment of the fish
pounds fish was delivered every morning
in the larger cities, that had been caught
the afternoon before, and disposed of at
four cents a pound. This, he said, was
where the humanity of 1t came in. Mr..
Scovel termed it business. He declared
that they caught M blue fish simply be-
cause these butchers of the sea" would
not stay in the nets. After calling down
the wrath of all the fishermen upon the
committee for not allowing them to be
heard before the House as a Committee
of the Whole, Mr.. Citizens sat down.
John Hennessey told the committee the
fisherman's business would be totally de-
stroyed If the bill was passed and he was
upheld in his remarks by George and
William Hennessey, Captain Abe Griggs
and Captain H. Fl. Foster, all of whom
are interested In pounds.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-10

Fashionable Wedding of a Jersey
City Belle Last Night.

A fashionable wedding attended by
many Jersey people took place in the Ho-
tel Savoy, New York City, last night. 1t
was that of Miss Minnie R. Stewart, the
charming daughter of Mr.. Robert Stewart
of Danforth avenue, Greenville, who was
united to Mr.. Alexander Leith of Spring.
field, Mass. Because of the prominence
of Mr.. Stewart, a large number of well
known men connected with the Western
Union Telegraph Company, the New York
and New Jersey Telephone Company n
Central Railroad were present.
The ceremony took place in the gilded
drawing room, which was beautifully
decorated with palms, ferns and Towering
plants. Rev. DR.. R. P. Post of Elizabeth
oficiated.
The bride. who looked extremely lovely
in a white brocaded satin gown trimmed
with duchesse lace and pearls, had as
maid of honor Miss Hull, daughter of
Rev. c. F. Hull of Linden avenue M. E.
Church. With the bridegroom was his
uncle, Mr.. Peter Murray of the firm Of
Smith & Murray of Springfield, Mass.
Miss Stewart entered the room on the
arm of her father. and the simple but
beautiful service was soon concluded.
Immediately it was finished Mr.. and Mrs.
Leith held a reception, after which din
ner was served.
One end of the room was devoted to the
presents and they were of the c~ostliest
description.
The President and officials of the
Western Union Telegraph Company sent
Miss Stewart a magnificent set of solid
silver cutlery and gold and silver SER
wees, rare specimens of the goldsmith's
art. The remainder of the gifts were ex-
ceedingly handsome and comprised every
thing IRON a jewel to a certified check
Late IN the evening the bride and BRIDE
groom left for Bermuda, where they will
spend a few weeks, and then they will
go to Springfield, Mass, where they will
make their home.
Among the guests present were-Mr
and Mrs. j.. NJ. Smith of Springfieid
Mass; Mr.. Clendenny Eckert. Masfer
OF Ceremonies; Messrs. H. j. Bonnet
", George Barton, .. Robertson of Ware
Mass; ]. Porteous of Norwich. Conn. ex.
Senator G. p. Mcclellan of Westcbesfer
county. New York; H. j. McCully of fhe
New York and New Jersey Teiephone
Company, General Superintendent Reilly
OF the N. Y. and N. J. Telephone co
&. w Atkins, w. ]. Holmes. j. s. Van
Horn. ,Yice-President of the Western
Union Telegraph Company: T. II Eckerf
President of the W. u. T. Coz: T. II
Olhausen, General Superintendent If tha
n. J.. Central R. R., j. S. Merrill. Sinner
~lntendent of the Pullman Palace Car "a
and w. II. Peddle of the Central r. r.
and many other prominent people.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-10

TO WILLIAM M. CORNELISON, ELLEN A..
Cornelison. his wife; catharine M. Alexan-
der, James A.. Alexander, her husband; Mel
win Stephens. Caroline R. stephens. and
Clarence Stephens, executors of will of
Nathan Stephens, deceased
made by the City Collector Of Jersey city, on
the 18th day of October, 1894. The Mayor and
Aldermen of Jersey City purchased for the
and sixty-one cents ALL the land and real
estate situate in Jersey City. in the County of
Skillman avenue. which is laid down and de-
signated as lots twenty-seven CD, twenty
eight Cs) and twenty-nine go in block
number six hundred and eighteen t61s)
upon an assessment map annexed to a report
number eighty-hve $50, made by the Com
missioners 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
Of August, 1892, said report and map and said
sale being made pursuant to the provisions of
an act Of the Legislature of New Jersey,
passed March Both, 1856, entitled
IAN Act concerning the settlement and coll
lection of arrearages Of unpaid taxes, as
sessments and water rates or water rents
levying a tax, assessment and lien in lieu
and instead OF such arrearages, and to en-
force the payment thereof, and to provide
for the sale of lands subjected to future
taxation and assessment"
And the several supplements thereto.
And you are further notified that YOU an
pear to have an estate or interest in said
land and real estate, and unless the said Land
and real estate shall be redeemed, as provid-
ed in said acts. before the expiration of sir
months from and after the service hereof. 4
deed for the same will be given conveying
the fee simple OF said land and real estats
according to the provisions Of the said act
Dated Jersey City, N. j., January rs. 1897.
THE MAYOR N ALDERMEN OF JER-
SEY CITY.
P. F. wANsER,
{Seal.) Mayor.
Attest: M. J. O~'DONNELL.
City Clerk.
The New Jersey Title Guarantee e. rr,,~4 ~
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-10
lNFAMY In THE SENATE
The Great Municipal Steal
Hustled Over to the
Upper House.
VOORHEES, OPPOSED TO IT
Proposal to Submit It to a Popu-
lar yote-Carl Lemtz's
Peanut Politics.
VOORHEES, OPPOSED TO II
Special to the Jerscu citv wees.

opcCtSt ~ nc JeJSCU CLu NebSs
TRENTON, Feb. 10, 1ss7.-The bill chang
ing the tina of holding the municipal ell
ections in Newark and Jersey City reach
ed the Senate yesterday afternoon and
the Committee on Elections.
Mr.. Voorhees,. a member of the commit
tee, thought it was well to divorce the
municipal from state and national cleo
tions.
Mr.. Macarthur the introducer of the bill
said it had economy for it's object. Only a
small percentage Of the voters attended
the spring elections, he said, in Jersey City
and Newark.
Major Carl Lentz made a spread eagle
speech in favor of the Measure Our
county committee are in favor of it he
said. 1t was a Republican measure, and he
was not ashamed to stand up and advo-
cate its passage. 1t would save Essex
County $4,000 a year, which money was
contributed by the people.
Senator Voorhees, asked Mr.. Lentz if it
would not be better to let it go to a vote
of the people, but Lentz seemed extremely
anxious that it should pass at once and
thought he was representative enough of
the people to voice their sentiments. 1t was
in the interest of the Republican party,
and that, he thought, was sufficient to in
sure its passage.
Senator Ketcham thought the measure
having the endorsement of the Essex
County Committee, should be enacted
into law.
Senator Voorhees, jocularly remarked
a deep sea" He does not want to
say anything against Mr.. Lentz's Coun-
ty Committee.
Assemblyman Nelson, of Hudson spoke
IN fayor OF the bill. He said Republicans
mi Democrats alike in Jersey City were
favorable to such a bill because it would
reduce expenses.
Senator Daily of Hudson county spoke
against the bill. He said the gentlemen
who had been speaking for the measure
had not been honest in their representa-
tons. They had presented the case, he
said, as though it was in the interest of
tinued, common sense would tell any one
that the people of Jersey City and Newark
coud easily afford to spend a few thousand
dollars for election purposes.
The proposed legislation, he said. was
following in the footsteps of the Demo-
Gratis, for which they were afterwards re-
pudiated by the people. It was just such
has upon the ground that it was an limo
vation upon self-government. 1t affects
3o,U00 or more voters who have never been
questioned on the subject. The Republic
cans had been using this very argument
against the Democrats, and now they pro-
pose to follow in the footsteps of the
Democrats.
You have run mad" said MT. Daily,
because you are in power. If the admin
istration of Mayor Wanser had been an
honest one, he ought not fear to face the
people next April. Grave public ques-
tions hav been agitated in Jersey City
for the last six or months and these men
are to be called to account. The people
expected to express their feelings in the
matter at the spring election
The committee decided to give a further
hearing on the bill on Monday afternoon.
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AlMEES VALUABLE LOTS.
ATTEMPTS 10 GobbIe tho Dead Singers
Property for the state.

Epecfal t, the Jersey ctp Neaos.
TRENTON, Feb 10, is97.-The New Jer-
sey Legislature has a ghost which haunts
" with a persistency which denotes that
1t Is a sDook Of the gentler sex. 1t is
none other han Aimee, the old-time
opera bouffe singer, whom the older
generation of theatre-goers Of Jersey
City will remember with pleasure. The
ghost FIRST appeared last winter when
Senator Voorhees, secured the passage of
a measure which is best explained in the
preamble to the act
Whereas, Celestine Aimee Tronchon.
also Known as Marie Aimee, a citizen of
the Republic of France, died, seized Of
real estate hereinafter particularly de-
scribed, situate in the Township of Ac-
quackanock, in the County of Passaic,
winch IT is alleged she enormously de-
scribed in her last will and testament as
being an estate possessed by her in New
York, and which she intended to convey
by such; and
Whereas, 1t is represented that the will,
which was duly admitted to probate by
the proper tribunal of France, did not
operate to convey real estate in this State,
that by reason of such descrip-
ton and by reason of the fact that 1T
was not executed by the testatrix in such
manner as to devise real estate in this
State; and
Whereas, It is further represented that
careful inquiry has made it probable that
the said Celestine Aimee Tronchon has
no heirs capable of inheriting said real
estate by the avs of this State; and
Whereas, 1t is claimed that said prop
erty escheated to the State of New Jer-
seys
The act next describes the property in
meets and bounds and confess the title
to the land in a lawyer of New York
named Charles E. O'Connor. Since then
Mr.. O'Connor has transferred to a man
named Kruer all his interest in the prop
erty, which consists of $50 lots just out
side the city of P~assaic, which are said
to be worth 500, 600. Now comes Assem-.
blyman. King with a bill repeating Mr..
Voorhees, act and giving the property
back to the State. Mr.. King declares
that matters were misrepresented to Mr..
voorhees, and that the State has been
persuaded to give VI it's title to this
valuable land by Misrepresentation, and
he proposes If possible to get 1t back.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-10
SCHUBERT CONCERT.
The Glee Club Celebrates the
Anniversary Of the Com
poser's Birth.

The Shubert Glee Club concert at the
Tabernacle last night was a disappoint-
ment. The excellence of the first concert
held led the subscribers to expect a very
different second one. A note on the
first page of the programme informed
the audience that Shubert was born in
1871, and tina consequently this Is the
centennial anniversary of his birth. Were
it not for this note the audience would
nave been led to believe that it was the
anniversary of his death, so dirge-like
were the songs. There wa a wearisome
monotony about them, a sameness in the
n of rendering. Even Yarwood's
Merry Boys at Sea" was sung dolefully.
Perhaps with a view to disarming criti-
c.sm the club has placed at the end of
part first the quotation
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er
shall be-"
The club singing was good. The tenors
are weak and at times are harsh, but the
basses are strong and sweet. The attacks
were made well and the dimenuendos and
pianissimos were good. The accompani-
ments of the four French horns were not
all that might be desired. A determine
ton to keep half a tone away from the
correct note in the accompaniment of
Might in the Forest" made the song
slightly unpleasant. In Springs Net"
the horns were with the club and made
the o effective. 1t is a pity there
were so many dirges. One might be
liked, if sung well, but when the club
sings four in a programme of five songs
and the quartette, Messrs. Alfred E..
Thompson, julius w. Baier. George A.
Decker and Frank Youmans, sing two
songs, The Night" and Far Down the
Green Valley" in exactly the same mourn
full way, it is a little too much to ask an
audience to be pleased. The quartette
sang well though the voices do not blend
tremendously. The BASES are far SUI
Ship" the one bright song the club
sang, was excellent.
To Miss Olive Mead, vioiinist, belong
the honors of the evening. Miss Mead
bow admirably. Her selections were
good, Faust-Fantasie by Sarcastic, Raff's
Cayatina and Hungarian Dance by
Joachim-Brahms. So surely did Miss
Mead captivate the audience that she was
applauded at three places in her first
selection. Her execution is good and
she shows sympathy of expression.
Miss Lizbeth Robinson sans Gounod's
sally in Our Alley" Her Singing is
not finished. Her voice is sweet and il
has possibilities but it is as yet I'm
The French Horn Quartette, Messrs.
Hermann Dutschke. Wenzel Ringer, Will
helm Schulze and Michael Niebling,
played two numbers. Andante Maestoso,
by H.. Dutschke, and J~ago-Stuch, by A.
Hansel, creditably.
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LUST OF OFFICE
Building Inspectors Office in
This City Wanted for a
Republican.
Snecddz to the Jerscu CITY Ncaos.

TRENTON, Feb. 10. 1S97-The greed of
the Republicans for office is almost be-
yond comprehension. The more is this SC
when it is remembered hat when the
Democrats were in power one of the
severest charges which the Republicans
brought against them was that they
turned Republicans out to put Democrats
in. That is exactly what the Republicans
are doing now. The last example OF
this was exhibited in the Assembly, yes
terday, when Mr.. .Urquhart introduced
a bill which proposes to GUST the Demo
cratic Building Inspector of Jersey City
and place a Republican in his place. Mr..
Urquhart's bill provides that the Police
Commissioners of first-class cities shall
appoint the Inspector of Buildings, and
who shall be either an architect, a car
penter or a mason. The compensation
shall be by salary or fees, as is now the
method of payment. Such inspector is
removable only upon charges. sustained
by a two-thirds vote Of all the member
of the Commission.
Compared with other lays Of the SEES
sion the number of bills introduced yes
terday was rather small. Mr.. Leonard
put in one to keep Mr.. Volk's new Hobo
ken weekly alive. It makes it unneces-
sary in second class cities to print and
publish the specifications for any street
or sewer Improvement but filing such
specifications with the City Clerk and ad-
vertising that they are so filed shall be
sufficient.
Mr.. Gledhill seeks to wipe out a gross
injustice in the matter of foreclosing
chattel mortgages. 1t provides that five
days notice Of the sale of household
goods covered by chattel mortgage shall
be given to the mortgagor.
II it should become a law it will stop
the outrageous way in which money
sharks swoop down u-nannounced upon
the c~llattels of poor people upon which
they have made a LOAF Another bill by
Mr. Gledhil seeking the same object pro-
vides that IL the m~ortgagor be a ON
resident or absent from the State, then
two weeks, publication in q newspaper
In the county where the goods are shall
be made instead Of service Of the notice.
Mr.. Macarthur has a friend who would
out submitting himself to the incon-
venience of an examination. So yesterday
Mr.. Macarthur introduced a bill providing
that attorneys of fifteen years continuous
practice in this State may be admitted
as counsellors upon motion.
Mr.. Hogan Introduced a measure pro-
viding for the appropriation Of $270, 600 for
an Armory In Newark. Mr.. Arm
bruster wants cases furnished for the
IL the Senate Mr. Ross Introduced !
measure providing for the Incorporation