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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
CITY NEWS NOTES.

The inaugural picnic OF the James II:
Langan Association will be held at
Greenvile Schuetzen Park this evening,
August is, 1897. Music by Professor
Beggs. ~
Very early this morning a fire broke
out on the second floor of the three-story
frame building, No. IS and No. n Newark
e and occupied by James solomon
as a photographers gallery. The blaze
was quickly e~xtinguished and the dam
age was slight.
This morning the six weeks old baby
of Mr.. and Mrs. James Flynn. OF NO.
1888 Pavonia avenue, died. as ifs mother
said. from spasms. The police notified
the Coroner, who will make, an examina-
ton.
Michael Tourney. a descendant of Ire
lands Kings, was brought into the First
police station rouse yesterday un-
Conscious. Not suspecting alcoholism as
the cause he was sci to the City Hos
nital. but the officers OF that institution
cllfcIxIy returned him to the police.
Michael was locked up and this merning
was fined S.. Not having the cash he was
sent to jail.
The County board of Hrs tn is sched-
uled for Il meeting Skis aftern Nsn.
Prosecutor. Ninfis.u Detr YES Feeney
and Stack and Clest: of the Grand Jury
M. J. Keiaher arc on duty in the Prose
cutor's office every day and find it the
hardest kind of work killing time.
The Court Hous Us a dreary. dull place
when the courts are not in session.
Justice Lippincott will be in court on
wednesday to attend to any business that
may 2Omc before him.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
AN ATTRACTIVE SERVICE.
AntIphonaI Music AT the Secend
PRESBYTERIAN Church.

The Second Presbyterian Church was
filled last evening by an audience who en-
joyed an ~antiphonal musical service. The
Rev. DIR. James L. Hill, of Salem, Mass,
who is conducting the union services this
summer, has published some pamphlets
with choice selections for such services.
and they were used last evening with
gratifying effect, being rendered by two
choirs. one at each end of the church.
who responded to each other with pleas
ing and impressive effect. THE Sinner
and the Song was rendered as a solo
by Mr.. Fred c.. Clerihew, interspersed by
responses from the opposite choir, who
sang at appropriate periods a sentiment
from the hymn Jesus, Lover of Ny
Soul" Another feature of special interest
was a duet b. Miss Allanette Frost and
Mr.. Edward Blanchard, to which both
choirs and the entire congregation re-
sponded.
The advantages of antiphonal ong were
specially observed when ordinary hymns
were sung by dividing each verse, one
choir responding to the other as in
question and answer. DIR. Hills remarks
on the characteristics of a true hymn
and reference to circumstances and feel
lnSS winch pfOuuceu tIS4u WeiS =
teresting and instructive. His special
topic was THE Song of Moses and the
Lamb" as described in the book of
Revelation, sung only by those redeemed
by Jesus, the Lamb of God.
The entire service was pleasing and i'm
pressive, and as the audience Joined
heartily in the closing hymn, Jesus,
Lover of My Soul" it seemed as sf the
lessons of the evening eliminated in this
hymn as the fitting expression of their
feelings. Toe much cannot be said of DR..
Hills enthusiastic manner and his ability
to impress his hearers with his own
earnest desire for the best things. He
has a wide reputation as an eloquent
speaker and is a special favorite with
young people who know him as one of the
leaders in the Christian Endeavor So
ciety.
Dr.. Hill will spend most of this week
at Gettysburg to gather fresh inspiration
from all that Is to be seen and learned
at this great battlefield, preparatory to
his address next Sunday evening on Les
sons from Gettysburg" An antiphonal
service will also be rendered at that time.
affording a double attraction. which will
doubtless test the capacity of the church
to seat the large audience that will at
tend
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
MORAN A~RRAIGNED.

William Moran. who was arrested in
Hoboken yesterday for attempting
to pass counterfeit silver dollars,
was arraigned before United
States Commissioner Edward Russ. this
morning, and committed TO the County
in default of bail. An examination
in the case will be held by Commissioner
Russ tomorrow. Moran refused to tell
anything about himself. He ever denied
that he was aware of the fact that the
counterfeit money was in his possession.
Secret Service Agent Owen and Deputy
u. S Marshal William J. Burns held an
interview with the prisoner his morning.
They said that a man had been passing
spurious silver dollars in Paterson, but
they had no evidence to prove that Moran
was the same person. It is believed that
the prisoner did not give his correct
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done, he said. In a general way by
himself, and In a specific manner by As
sistant Engineer Ball and Frederick Lee
hauser, the City Gauger. They had been
unable to locate any visible source Of pos
sible pollution, except the cesspools at
cutlery factory in Stockholm.
Whether or not either of those places
was an actual source of pollution, it was
impossible to determine, Mr.. Sherrerd
SAID. without a meteorological test. He
added that he had recognized the neces-
sity of such tests more than a year go,
and recommended the Board to have pro-
vision made for making them. Such
would nave been lone were 1t not for the
fact hat the board was notified that the
Board of Health contemplated taking the
task in hand. At present, he added, ar
engagements are under way by which the
Board of Works will stand the expense,
+ hen agvess sari,es LOT ~ g a rssui ~ h an colnpI hv
the bacterielogist of the Board of Health.
By that method he expects to definitely
locate and have eliminated all possible
sources of pollution.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
RESULTS OF a MIXED ALE BRAwL

A tenement house brawl, with the flavor
of mixed ale about it, was aired in court
this morning. The compliments were Miss
M. Cannon, of No. 179 S'teenth street
and Miss Della Kline, of No. 1853 Tenth
street, and the defendants, Mr.. Joh
Regain of the same address as Miss Gan
non and Mr.. Edward Calvin, of No. $50
Henderson, who just dropped in per
miscuous like" and having nothing better
to do pitched with the rest.
You see Judge" explained the ladies,
both together and at the top of their
voices, I'VE were just enjoying a drap of
beer and talking about the fashions when
the gentlemen there, | name thin black
guards. started to abuse us, and they
struck U.S."
"Begorra your Honor" said Regain,
sure it's just the other way. h
ladies, thin girls l name, tried to comb
our heads wild a three legged stool
-"
''That'l do said the court I will hold
the lot of you for further examination
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
LEHIGH's OUTLOOK.
An Ancient INSTITUTION of Learning
in a Hesithy Financial Condition.

The students, alumni and friends OF
/ .ehigh will be glad to know that the re-
ports which AVE appeared in the daily
press about the university closing its
doors are without foundation. 1t is true
that the partial failure of the ordinary
revenues of the university for the PAST
four years has given the trustees much
anxious thought, but there was no au-
th~orization for the statement that the
college exercises would be suspended I'M
less State aid were granted to the institu-
ton. Fortunately, however, the present
emergency has been provided for by the
liberal grant from the State. The public
announcement thai the Governor had aF-
proved the bill for The relief of the uni
yersity SO far as it related TO "main-
t~enance', and general expenses" was
made on Monday, July 2s, and met with
general approval throughout the State.
The amount appropriated FOR these items
was $3.50, GOO. In vetoing the other pro-
visions Of the bill as passed by the Gen
eral Assembly, namely, $4,000 for gen
eral educational purposes, and $25, COO for
especial maintenance of plant" It was
understood that the Governor was in
fuenced entirely by the general condition
OF the revenues Ol the oldte, WuiSi SdiASo
for exceptional economy in his consid-
Grafton of all appropriation bills.
Before the bill was signed by the Gov
ernor, the matter was extensively dis
cussed by the press, and the leading news
papers of Philadelphia, with hearty and
spontaneous unanimity, urged the needs
Of the university and it's great services
to the ed monwealth, and exhorted the
GovernorUb give his Executive approval
to the whole amount appropriated by the
Legislature.
These spontaneous tributes to the work
of Lehigh University in training young
men for positions of usefulness are very
gratifying and cannot fail to be of great
service to the university in calling the at
tention of the general public to the edu-
c~ational advantages which this institu-
ton offers.
In this connection it may be well to re-
peat the dispatch which was authorized
by the Board of Trustees and sent out by
the Associated Press on July 26:-
1.-The trustees of the Lehigh University
have authorized an emphatic denial of
the report that the university may be
compelled to close it's doors in September.
TENDER with all departments in full eff
cheney. Moreover, the trustees take
pleasure in saying that the recent appro-
priation of $150,o00 by the State of Penn
sylvania has entirely relieved the univer-
sity of any anxiety arising out of the
temporary and partial failure of its in
come, and that the prospects for its con-
tinued usefulness and growth are in
every way satisfactory and encouraging"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
BEAUTEoUs STRANGER VISITS Us

Wonderful Night Blooming Cereus
Flowers in q Hergen Avenue villa.
A beautiful ana mosA interesting sight
was witnessed last night at the residence
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel McBurney, No.
SIS Bergen avenue: their night blooming
cereus opened Its flowers, the most cur
ious of all the fascinating objects in the
floral world. Once in a year does this
king of the cacti bloom, ard then after a
few short hours the glorious blossoms die
leaving behind them a delicate perfume
like the concentrated breath of all the
flowers.
The plant in the collection of Mr.. and
Mrs. McBurney is eight years old, and
regularly sends out buds from its curious
fieshy leaves. Five were ready to burst
on Saturday, but one acting as an avant
courier. appeared on Saturday evening to
the visit of his colleagues the
following evening. Shortly after dusk
the outer pink covering of the flower
known as the calyx began to fold back
towards the curved stem. revealing the
lovely white petals as soft, rs silky as
feathers. These opened gradually, one
could almost see them unfold, until the
flower or corolla in all its glory was in
view. In the heart of the corolla the
stamens, hundreds in number, curl up and
across in a curious manner unknown in
any other plant, and the pistil or centre
shaft, with its starry head, comes out at
least three inches from the head, or
anthers, of the stamens. When the
flower is fully expanded it measures fully
six to eight inches in diameter, and
emits a fragrance which fills the room.
Then as If exhausted with the effort of
blooming. the flower gradually closes up
and dies.
This grand cactus is appropriately
known to Germans as the Konigln der
nacht, to the French iCierge a grandes
fieures and to botanists. cactus grande-
flora. Its home is tropical America. II
this description be not good enough for
every day folk they may recognize the
flower in this description of the botanist
in his learned way:-.tIt has a branching
feshy stem, five or six angles, beset with
clusters with five or six radiating spfnes.
The numerous intoxicated calyx lobeS are
linear, acute and brownish, the inner yell
low. The flower is fragrant and produces
an orange colored wnitsberry the size
of an egg. From this light blooming
cereus a drug has been vktracted which
is known as cactine and is an alkaloid.
The drug is not irritating, but the crude
drug is often used in Southern countries
as a counter irritant and quickly pro-
duces pustulation.
Among the pharamacoepists the drug
is said to be usedeas a cure for dropsy and
a cardiac remedy and in their simple
luminous language they say this of it,
Tt stimulates spinal motor centres, in
creasing general nerve tone. 1t increases
the musculo-moto energy of the heart
probably through its ~infuence upon the
intracordiac motor and accelerate gangila
in consequence of which cordiac impulses
become regular and stronger"
Tharq Won are that explains II, JuSt as
easy as rolling off a LOG.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
Il BLACK DIAMOND EXPRESS

arrives Buffalo s.55 P. N. Pullman yestibuls
Day Coaches and Parlor Cars. Dining Car
Service. Meals a la carte. Connects at
buffalo with through sleepers to Detroit and
I2'Ss P. NJ. daily. except Sunday. for MAUcH
CHUNK and intermediate points.
l.29 p. M, Sunday only. for EASTCN.
MATCH CHUNK and Coal Branches.
paaTRREE. PITTsToN. SCRANTON and princi-
nal intermediate stations. Connects for all
points in coal regions Chair Car to Wilkes.
barre.
R1RRE. PITTsTON. SCRANTON and prlnoi-
al Intermediate stations. Connects for all
noints in coal regions Pullman Buffes Par.
ior car to Wilkesbarre.
:" ga P. M. daily for EASToN and interme-
sSs P. NJ. daily. except Sunday. Express fer
and principal intermediate SITS.
t,ors. Connects for Reading and Harrisburg.
Chair Car to Slatington.
FAILS and all points West. Pullman Sleeper
vestibuled Train, New York to Chicago. Sleep
ers to Bunalo and Toronto.
s.4s P. n daily, eSespS SUNDAY. stopPlns
gpaEEgTHLEHEM. MAUCH .CHUNk. l. s 3.
TTTNf~TION. SAyREs GENEVA, ROCHES-
TER, BATAVIA and BUFFALO. Pullman
sleeper for Buffalo. None but Sleeping Car
pas 1s S Il far aaiiy f S1 P THagA ear dEaEvA.
R0CHESTER. BUFFALO, NIAGARA FALLS
and all points West. Pullman Sleepers to
WIlkesbarre and ithaca.
Addit,enai ls sgdd trains daily II except &c sunday.
leave IS follows: s.is A. NJ. "a. 4ss and
Tickets and Pullman accommodations at
Pennsylvania Railroad Depot,
baggage from hotel or residence through to
Sactfrofions %#
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
SPECIAL MASTERS SALEM cHANcERY

OF New Jersey.
Between Philip Dillon ct ux., compliments.
and James Dillon ct al, defendants.
on Bill for Partition and Decree for Sale
Wallis, Edwards & Bumsted, Solicitors.
By virtue of a decree of the Court of Chanc-
cry OF New Jersey, made in the above cause
ana bearing date on the twenty-Sixth day OF
recting a sale of all and singular the premises
mentioned and described in said bill of COM
paint and decree for sale. l, William G.. E.
See, Special Master in Chaneery of New
Jersey, shall sell at public vendue. to
the highest bidders. on Wednesday, the eighth
day of September, eighteen hundred and nine
ty-seven, at two O'Clock in the afternoon, at
the Real Estate Salesrooms. No. 55 Moatgom-
cry street. jersey City, N. J., all the follow
appurtenances, being the same described in
said bill OF complaint and decree for sale. to
witt
ALL these two certain lots or parcels of
land and premises, situate and lying and be-
ing in The City of Jersey City, in the County
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 G4S westerly from the corner
of Bergen avenue with the southerly line of
Lexington avenue; thence southerly at right
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
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 QO0) to
the southerly side CT Lexington avenue; thence
avenue fifty feet 600 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
WILLIAM G.. e. SEE,
Special Master in Chancery Of New Jersey.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
BICYCLE THIEF IN DEEP WATER

Henry Hubert, of Garden street, Hobo
ken, who was a few days ago turned
over to the Jersey City authorities as an
alleged bicycle thief, is in deep water.
Two other compliments appeared this
morning accused him of stealing their
wheels. They were Charles Henderson,
Boulevard and Jewett venue and George
Ruggles, Pavonia avenue and Boulevard
Hubert maintains that some other fellow
is to blame, and denies all knowledge of
the compliments or their wheels. When
Jersey City gets through with him, the
Washington, D. c., police are DESTROYS of
showing him some attention. for Hubert
stole a wheel from the National Capitol
and sold it to a man living near Alexan-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
LOST HIS REPUTATION.
Posing q. an Art eriitc-The Un-
fortunate Answer.

fortunate Answer.
When a tall girl with a willowy, queen
" form gets an art education, she should
never keep ompan with a rather under
sized young man, whose whole energy
has. during the best years of his minority,
been devoted to improving his penman-
ship and learning bookkeeping. They are
both bound to be uncomfortable. especially
the latter.
There is a North Side young lady of this
description who has had a term and a
half at the Art Institute. 1t is needless
to say that she is now, past retrieval, a
devotee at the shrine of Phoebus Apollo.
She has read Philip Gilbert Hamerton's
Thoughts About Art, Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds' lectures, Ruskin's Modern Paint
ers," n numerous other volumes more
technical in their nature. AS a conse-
quence of this. she has mastered an
amount of information relative to the
graphic arts which is absolutely astonish-
ing. AS a result of her extensive reading
she is able to c~riticise art work very sue
cessfully. Her grasp of technical terms
such as "chiarooscuro,s' the .sangle of III
cidence" sand ..isometrical perspective
indicates great progress in her studies.
Moreover, their possession enables her to
shine as a professed connoisseGr.
All would have undoubtedly gone very
we'll if she had not persisted in having art
talks with the young man in question. He
felt that he must not admit ignorance on
any of these points, and consequently has
often had very close scrapes in extricat-
ing himself. However, as she gained
further information, she persisted in these
discussions, and even in making them
more elaborate than ever. She main
tanned hat he was the only one she ever
came in contact with who had a true app
probation for the beautiful and sublime
in art. This helped him TO bear il for a
while longer, but finally she got to where
it taxed his resources SO much that a
quarter of an hours conversation became
very fatiguing.
However, it was not until one day that
they visited the Art Gallery together that
he completely lost credit in her eyes.
They were standing before d landscape.
.tOne can easily see," she said to him,
that the distribution of opposing masses
in that picture is faulty"
".Quite easily" he replied, in rather sub
dued tones.
And that the drawing of that sheep dis
plays all that is incorrect in animal paint
ing. And that the cloud values are out
rageously inadequate, and as for light and
shade, why, it's ridiculous"
THAT can be plainly seen" he assented.
Now. where she went on, turning
rather shortly upon him, do you think
the rnost shade ought to be in that pic
ture?"
He hesitated for some time. He was
probably a little fatigued with the thing,
and consequently yielded to the tempta-
ton to say something he thought smart.
q suppose" he went on, with a mock
critical air, as he threw his head to one
side. Il suppose the most shade ought 10
be under the trees"
1t may nave been revenge but she has
now given her heart to another.-Chicago
TimeS-HeraId.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16

TO ELIZABETH FARLEY. JAMES FAR
ley, her husband; Mary Hogan widow; Min
ME Hogan. Anna Kirwen ~twidew), John j.
Hogan, James Hogan, Elizabeth Harrisan,
William Harrigan. her husbands; John Hogan,
Mary Matilda Hogan. his wife; Lawrence
Mccormick and John Nelson.
You are hereby notified that at a public sale
made By the City Collector of Jersey City, on
aldermen q Jersey City purchased for the
sum Of three hundred and thirty-five dollars
and seventeen cents III he land and real
Hudson and State Of New Jersey, fronting on
St. Paurs avenue, which is LAID down and
number five hundred and sixty-seyen G6D, up
on an assessment map ARg annexed to a report
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
City Collector of Jersey City, en- the 18th day
sale being made pursuant to the provisions
of an act of the Legislature of New Jersey.
passed March Both. 1886. entitled
Ear. Act concerning the settlement and coll
lection of arrearages of unpaid taxes, as
in cities of this State, and Imposing and
ievying a tax. assessment and lien in lieu
and instead o. gsef a tbssenf = ana 70 en-
vide for the sale of lands subjected to
future taxation and assessment"
And the several supplements thereto.
And you are further notified thar you appear
TO have an estate or interest in said land and
real estate, and unless the said land and real
estate shat, be redeemed, as provided in said
acts, before the expiration Of six months from
same will be given conveying to The Mayor
and Aldermen of Jersey City. the fee simple
If said land and real estate according to the
provisions of the said act.
Dated Jersey City, N. u, July 6. 1857.
THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN or JER-
e. Hoos,
sSea' Attest: NJ. ]. o,DoNNEIL.
City Clerk.
The New Jersey Title Guarantee & Trust Co.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
JEFFERSON CLUBS STAG.

The Jefferson Club had a very sue
cessful stag in it's clubrooms, No. 351
Palisade avenue, on Saturday night. The
programme was as follows:-Overture,
Professor Fischer; song, ]. Beirnett; piano
solo, Louis Cast; song, ]. Moran; har-
monica solo, Harry Scheid; address,
George T. McKaig; comic song, J. Stetel;
baritone. solo, H. ~Vogelsang; banjo solo,
J.. Barnes; song, J. Strict; humorisms,
George Grant. The committee in charge
of the affair consisted of Robert Usher,
w Lee and A. Seeger.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
oUARRELED OVER THE KLoNDIKE

j. O,Brisn, No. III Brunswick street,
was a prisoner before Justice Potts this
morning and charged with asaulting W.
J. Cumming, of No. $50 Newar avenue.
The men got into a Klondike dispute and
O'Brien, it is charged, enforced his views
with his fist on the other eiloW, race
district itself.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
MARY HURLEY's A

Mary Hurley, who lives at Johnston
avenue and Woodward street, while in
tox9tated yesterday morning smashed
about ten panes of glass in the liquor
store of Frederick Grant, which is stu
ated at Johnston and Pacific
The reason she did so was that Grant re-
fused to sell her any beer, n in her
wrath she proceeded to wreck his place
by breaking the glass with a tin can
get beer. After breaking the glass she
disappeared up Johnston avenue.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
NO SUCCESSOR APPOINTED.
Father Tigile,s Church still Remain
without a Permaaent Paster.

Rev. Father Mcdowell, to whom the va
cant restorship of st. Patl's r. c. Church
Greenville, was offered by Bishop Wigger,
has declined the offer, and the vacancy
of course, still exists. When the APP
pointments is made 1t will apear in THE
Jersey City News" and be announced
from the pulpit.
will be acting rector. : He has been more
than a year with the parish and is thor
oughly in touch with its needs, and has
demonstrated his capability to admins
ter its affairs.