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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-23

NO better notion can be gained Of the
absolute secrecy which p~ervades govern
ment officials at Washington than the
contradictory reports which were in cir
c~ulation yesterday regarding General
Miles.
One paper had it that the head Of the
army was in serious conflict with Secre-
tary Alger over the military course to
be pursued. The General was represent
ed as urging that $4,000 troops be landed
at once on Cuban soil. The Secretary, it
was alleged, was in favor of only Selling
a port and landing 900 men to hold it, for
the present. This story of divided
ellis appeared in nearly all the yellow
papers.
But the Evening POST which, despite
its editorial vagaries, is apt to be ex-
tremely accurate on matters of fact, had
an entirely different version of the case.
1t reported General Miles as urging that
no troops be sent to Cuba for six months.
or until the rainy season is over, and it
backed up this rumored opinion of his
which, by the way, we do not believe is
his opinion at all-with a cordial editorial
in advocacy of delay. Thu Post is, of
course, a peaceful war" paper
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-23

as a spring invigorator and blood purifier
for every member of rhe family, from
the youngest to the oldest. could not be
better illustrated than in the case of the
Prendiville family of Worcester, Mass.
1t is to be remembered that not one
tenth of all the magnificent cures fairly
due to Paine's celery compound ever get
beyond the knowledge of the immediate
family; that. in fact, few people have any
appreciation of the number of families
throughout the United States where
Paine's celery compound is kept constant
ly on hand. and is being taken, or has
been taken, by some of its members.
Paine's celery compound has already
done an enormous work. It has saved
lives. 1t has saved health. 1t has saved
homes.
1t is not beyond the reach of the most
modest household. while a much greater
expenditure will procure nothing else SO
effective.
Paine's celery compound. the remedy
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-23
NOTICE.

Notice il hereby given that on the 18th day
IF Anril. 1898. the Commissioners OF Assess
n1ent fled in the Office OF the Clerk of the
Hoard az Street and Water Commissioners
their final assessment map and report for the
construction of a
from a point about 50 feet west or west Siae
avenue to Mallory avenue, and through Nal
lorv avenue to and connecting with saver IN
Clarke avenue, in accordance with petition pre-
vious;y presented to said Board on the 10TH
day Of April, 1891. and conforinably to the
provisions of Chapter 27 Of the Laws OF 1893.
and the same is now opan TO public inspection
in the ofice of the Clerk of said Board,
And said map also shows the assessment for
a lust portion of the cost and expense Tor
the main sewer IN
WEST SIDE, YALE, AND HATCH
AVENUES
Ana notice is also given that the following
streets or avenues or particular sections there
Of are included in said assessment, namely
EGE AVENUE.
from a point about 1914 feet northwest of
West Side avenue to Mallory avenue.
MALLORY AVENUE,
fron, Eye avenue about g. 70 feet northeast
and about $50 feet southwest thereof.
and that in accordance with the provisions
1875 at 3 o'clock P. NJ, and the Assembly
Chamber Of the City Hall are hereby fixed as
tre time and place when and where the Board
If Street and Water Commissioners will meet
"a hear. consider and adjudicate upon all OBJ
iactions to the confirmation of said final as
sessment map that may be presented in writ
ing. SO -
GEORGE 7. BoUToN..
Dated Jersey City, April %, 1895.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-23
Naval Reserve Troubles.

AS was Inevitable from the day when
the corps was invented. the arrival Of
real need has developed an impossible
condition of affairs in the status of the
naval militia. The difficulty is over the
integrity of the State organizations and
the standing of the officers, commissioned
and non-commissioned.
The former trouble grows out of the
difference between naval and military or
ganization. A regiment is a permanent
entity. In peace and in war. concentrated
or divided, it retains its organization. Its
they are mustered out of the service, and
its officers are fixtures, beginning in it
step without leaving it until they reach
the highest grades of command.
No such perpetuity of relation exists in
the Navy, nor would it be compatible
with the conditions of the seafaring life.
"a 4iStS III tAodSh 6E4Ct dlty iiuS-
tered in for a cruise on 4 certain ship,
are liable to transfer no any vessel where
they are needed. and. at any rate, when
their term of service is up and their ship
goes out of commission, they are dis
charged and on re-enlistment find them
selves on an entirely different ship. The
officers, similarly, are shifted from one
duty to another and from one vessel to
another. Each new cruise brings new
commanders, new messmates, a new crew,
and a new sailing and fighting machine.
Nothing is rarer than for an officer to
serve twice on the same vessel. Thus
there is no such thing as permanent or
ganization in the Navy. The vast differ
ence in he sizes of ships crews, the need
of alternating sea with shore duty and
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-23
ru,bec,ie sort Of warfare.

In some of the dispatches from Wash
fngton, yesterday. we read the
ment that Admiral SIMPSONS orders
were not to attack but merely to block
ade the port of ava He was to make
the blockade a .'peaceable one, so far as
possible and only to fire when attacked"
If any such orders have been given to
Admiral Sampson, there is only one
phrase in the English language to de-
scribe them. They are idiotie drivel. The
notion Of peaceable war is a frantic alb
surdity which one would only expect to
ind exploited in a Gilbert & Sullivan
opera,
If the operations against Spain were to
be conducted upon any such system. there
is no measure to the disasters TO which
our arms would be liable until councils
Of common sense and ordinary manhood
prevailed.
There are two sorts of cowardice. the
fear of injury to ourselves and the fear
OF injurIng Others on proper occasion.
One is physical, the other moral, cow
ardice, and of the two the latter is the
more desoicable-
We are a war with Spain. Then let
us make war with all our might and
main. Let us crush her, and crush her
quickly. Let US do this for her sake as
well as for our own.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-23
sOHUBERTs' THIRD CONCERT.
Miss clarence n. Turner TO Sing
S-fdfss Orchestra 10 Play.

The Schubert Glee Club will give an
other concert, the last of the season, on
Tuesday evening next, and those who at
tend the performance will enjoy the
pleasure of hearing Miss Florence E..
Turner, formerly Of this city. sing. This
win be Miss Turner'S Jersey City
debut. Her selections are from Sou
nod and Chaninade. The work Of
the club will number some interest
ing compositions, and among these
will be Dudley Bucks c-ontrapuntal con
ceit, Vocal Combat" in which the melo-
dies of Then You'll Remember Me-"
from Balfe's Bohemian Girl" and
knights Rocked in the Cradle Of the
Deep," are cleverly 10 give
a patriotic flavor to the concert the club
will sing, Comrades in Arms" by Adams
a new piece. The finale of the first act
from Rienzi, is another feature, and in
this there is a tenor solo to be sung by
Mr.. Sid Jordan. Seidrs orchestra will be
present to accompany the numbers and
will give some selections of their own.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-23

tina makes people well, is within the
reach of all.
AS frequently happens in the spring,
the entire family begins to feel run
down. and to suffer with the hardest dis
ease in the world to d-iagnose-the trouble
they have when they say, Doctor. !
don't feel we'll The advice OF hosts OF
competent physicians is to use Paine's
celery compound, the one known spring
remedy that restores lost ervou energy,
creates an appetite, purifes the blood, and
builds up the strength of the entire sys-
tenn.
Nervousness, headaches, thinness, pale
faces and poor appetites among children
come from the same causes that produce
rheumatism, neuralgia and debility in old
er persons-from poor blood and INSULT
GENTLY nourished nerves. Paine's celery
compound is the first, last n only rem
edy used in intelligent, prudent homes,
where pains is aiken to get only HI best
in so vital q matter.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-23
COLUMBIA DANCING GLASS.
Its First Reception a social

Foye Hall was crowded Thursday night
with the members of the Columbia
Dancing Glass and their friends. The oc-
CASTOR being the first reception of the
class, which is under the management of
Miss Josephine c. Weis, with Albert
Ketcham as instructor.
Among those present were:lMiss
Richards, Miss B. Freund, Miss Florence
Hocken, Miss Strickland. Miss Gates, Miss
Gleason, Miss Taylor. Miss Carrie Mas
tiers, Miss Maggie Thomas, Miss Ethel
Scobie, Miss May Ten Brock, Miss Jennie
Cornish. Miss M. Stevens, Miss Ida Laws,
Miss Jessie Langdon, Miss Bessie Acker-
man, Miss G. Weise, Miss Lille Towns
end, Miss Sarah Cole, Miss Rachel Cole.
Miss Lillian Van Ge1der. Mss B. Nash,
Miss G.. Taft, Miss Maud Brown, Miss
Lottie Eabry, Miss Lille Brown, Miss
Potter, Miss G.. Atkinson, Miss Rankin,
Miss Maggie Quinn. Miss Costello, Mrs
f. Cine, Mrs. W. F. Thomas, Mrs. C.
W. Laws, Miss Jessie and Edna Berger,
Miss Maud Potterton. Miss May Potter
ton, Miss Wright, Miss Leona Smith,
Mrs. Hartpenee. Mr.. n Mrs. Mills. Mss
d. Mills, Misses Hattie and Bella Harden,
Miss e. Cuniiffe, Miss Flora Clark, Miss
NJ. Shea. Miss May Coward, Miss Eve
Brown, Mrs. Townsend, Mr.. and Mrs. d.
Sofeld, Mr.. and Mrs. F. ]. Weis, John
Wooster, Jr.. H. J. Hockin, B. Hockin,
Mr.. Blakelowb and lady, Mr.. Bouton,
George Perkins, George Taylor. J. f.
Enrich. Henry E. Pierson, Edward Wolf
keil, Eugene Scobie, H.. S. Stevens. Henry
Cornish. E.. e. Schmidt, William Post,
F. Brand, Mr.. ~Sonaneryille. Mr.. Perkins,
Charles Haywood, A. Keison, Frank
vreeland. Joseph Harmon, e. Street, Mr..
Van Doran, ], McEntee. A. Trenery, L..
Marquart, III. Eabry, w. ConklIn, G.. Dur
kee, M. Wyatt. Mr.. Keusler, e Wohlle-
bew, G. E. Laws, g. Rankin, G.. Coward,
o. Cobanks, F. E. Fry, Nelson Smith.
F.. Matthews. r. b. Potterton, Ebert
Clark, E. Smith, William Dey and George
Wagner.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-23
We Are All la the Dark.

1t Is more than likely that the things
published in the newspapers about the
military and naval plans Of the war are
all untrue. Reliance may be placed upon
statements of actua occurrences such as
the sailing Of the fleet. the capture of the
Buena Ventura and the like, when found
in reputable newspapers. But the long
dlsquisitfons upon the campaign mapped
OUT by this or that Board or Department,
ana the accurate s-ummaries-on high au-
thorIty-of the orders given this or that
commander may be taken as guesswork
Of the most hair-brained kind.
The correspondents will, no doubt, con-
tinue to send them. The press associa-
tions will be full of them, and papers,
even 'sThe News will keep On printing
them as interesting gossip, calculated to
crafty the public appetite for Informal
ton as to the progress OF the struggle.
But IT Is obvious that no government
managed BY sane men, no officers conn
mandinE belligerent forces, laval Or mill
tary. VINO knew the a. 3. g Of their pro-
feasion woufd make publIc even the most
stial1r detAEl n kksIf plans q paspeses
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-23

Thu notion that the war and the loss OF
Cuba mean ruin to Spain seems to be no
better founded than the idea that we are
ourselves destined to commercial disas-
ter in the near future. The Evening
POST industriously ~prcpagates both i'm
pressions. but its arguments neither his
torical nor economic are very convincing.
IT cites the Civil War in proof Of the
proposition that we are destined to a sea-
son of stagnation and poverty. But we
can think Of nothing in the history of hat
struggle to support the theory. On the
contrary, the war was the true beginning
OF this country as a irst-rate product of
civilization. It is only necessary to recall
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-23

Not;ee il hereby given that on the 18th day
If FSehroarv. 1898, application was made TO
the Board Of Street and Water Commissioners
nv John NJ. Hackef and others for the cons
sfr,iction of a vitrifed pipe and brick
SEWER IN NOBLE STREET,
f-on, "a feet west of Hudson Boulevard, to
connect with sewer known as the Girard ave-
said sewer to be built confernably to the
nrnvisions OF Chapter III of the. Laws of 1895,
ana IN accordance with the established plan
II the sewerage, together with all the necessary
manholes, receiving basins and appurtenances.
Notice is also given that on the 18th day
~ April, 1928, the Commissioners of Assess
menf filed in the office of the Clerk of the
Roard Of Street and Water Commissioners
their preliminary map for said Improvement,
showing the probable total cost of the con-
tenplated improvement and the probable
amount to be assessed on property specially
Is public Inspection in the Office OF the Clerk
of said Board.
And notice is also given that the following
street or avenue or particular section thereof
Is included in said assessment. namely:
NOBLE STREET
from Hudson Boulevard to Morris Canal.
And that In accordance with the provisions
Of the Act above cited the Ind day OF May,
1895. at two O'Clock r. NJ. and the Assembly
Chamber OF the City Han are hereby fixed as
fhe time and place when and where the Board
81 Street and Water Commissioners VIII meet
to hear all parties Interested in said application
and an remoastrances against the said pre-
Sy Order q re Board q street and waser'
s''s aEo BouroN,
pstsa Jersey csy. Apfil y zssss
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-23

home with foreign stations makes such
d thing impossible. 1t will be obvious to
anyone that the moment the Reserves go
into active service. the impossibility ex-
tends to them. One Of their battaiions
may be too large or too small to man the
vessel 10 which they are assigned, and in
the Kaleidoscope changes Of warfare the
men who are today needed on a monitor
may have. tomorrow, to be drafted to
half a dozen boats of the MOSQUITO
Fleet
The difficulty about the officers is Of
another kind. The average amateur may
very easily become a fair soldier. The
regifnental tactics are within the mas
terry of any ma of quick intelligence, and
the possession of these sufIices TO make
a man a satisfactory regimental officer
in the field. But seamanship is a science
an amateur is no more fit to be trusted
with the responsibilities which it involves
than he would be to ~anrputate a limb or
probe for a bullet. The modern man-of-
war is a mechanism of such completely
that only the extreme Of expert skill can
make operate without more danger to its
own crew than to the foe. The engineer
is powerless to navigate the craft. The
electrician is powerless to manage its
y NHEEt
mighty ordnance. Even the man who is
only a seaman is powerless to direct its
movements and bring forth its terrible
energies of destruction.
Some of the officers of the Naval Re-
serve are, 1t is true. ex-officers Of the
regular navy and as such are fairly com
petent to take their places on the bridge
or at general quarters on a war ship.
But even these. where they have been for
years out of active service, would find
that months of study and practice were
necessary to restore them to efficiency,
and render them competent to sail the
seas. command their men and fight their
guns. AS for the strictly amateur officers
Of the Reserve, it is doubtful if they
would be useful even in the positions of
petty officers. The lifelong man-o'-war's-
man. holding a warrant as boatswadn or
merely an appointment as quartermaster
or captain of a guns crew is an indis-
pensable aid to the higher ofieers-indeed
he is as indispensable as the officers them
selves. Tha the theoretical young en-
thusiast who has done harbor drills and
a two weeks summer cruise is capable
OF taking his place is a proposition too
absurd to entertain for a moment
AS we said, the difficulty is unfortunate
but inevitable. Perhaps it may be averted
by the assignment of the various organi-
cations to large harbor defence ships with
plenty of competent officers and seamen
to outrank and control the amateur ele-
ment. If this cannot be managed, the
next best thing is to send them bodily to
the forts to drill as artillerists in case OF
attack by hostile fleets. For this, as q
class, the men would be well fitted by
intelligence and general character.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-23
SATURDAY. APRIL %. 1888.
Thfs paper is Democratic m principles
and is Independent IN its riers on all ioca
questions.
II. oa.rage on General wooafors


The Outrage ON General
AM lingering sympathy that anyone
might nave felt for Spain must have been
entirely obliterated yesterday by the
dual outrage perpetrated upon the Amer
lean Minister. General Woodford, as he
retreated from the country. ].
The scandalous outbreak of the mob in
Valiadolid shows that the temper of the
people is violent and brutal and that the
amenities Of civilization have no influence
upon them.
The attempt of the police officials to vi
olate the sacredness of the Enjoys per-
son and retinue was a fit sequel to that
other abominable violation of interna-
tional law, the blowing up of the Maine.
For as far back as any development of
civilization can be traced. the consent of
nations has thrown about the character
of an Ambassador a mantl of inviolable
safety, No matter what the character of
mis- mission, whether of peace or provo
cation. so long as he remains the ac-
credited emissary of one government to
another, not only himself. but his shelter
and all over whom he may extend the
aegis Of his protection are guaranteed, by
the lode of nations, safe conduct abso-
lutte and complete and animpairable even
by his own act-The Ambassador may
vts<fss the laws of the land to which
he is commissioned. He may do murder.
And yet he may not be molested, save
to despatch him from the country.
The protection afforded him extends not
only to government officials but to pri-
vate persons. He may not be challenged
to fight a duel, and to strike him, injure
him or even assail him with evil language
is 4 crime sufficient to kindle war not
only with his own government but with
all the powers of the civilized world.
The assaults upon General Woedford
were ofenses of the sort that bring their
own punishment with them. Beyond all
doubt, the entire diplomatic corps at
Madrid will make immediate remon-
STRANGE in regard to the outrage and in
sist upon the fullest disavowals by the
government and the promptest and Sc
verest punishment Of all concerned in the
acts.
OF course, 1t does not matter in the
least whether Mr.. Moreno is a Spanish
subject or not. So long as he belonged to
the Minister'S suite he was as inviolable
as the Minister himself. The diplomatic
privilege would extend not only to a
spaniard but even to a dog whom the
Minister might declare attached to him.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-23
HARRY PRENDIVILLE,

49,
what the conditions were in 1861, and to
glance at the America of today to realize
the truth of this, for, a~ssuredly, IT Amer
lean evolution had been in an arithmeti-
cal ratio from 1850 to 1860. it has been a
geometrical progression from 1865 to 1898.
tn this subject we hope to give more at
tention at an early date. Our present
purpose is merely to point out that the
defeat which she is now about to encoun-
ter may really prove the salvation Of
Spain.
The curse of the Spanish people as a ma
ton and as individuals is indolent pride.
For centuries they lived upon the tide Of
wealth which flowed to them from their
foreign possessions, just as the Southern
whites lived upon the labor Of their
slaves. AS the possessions were lost, they
fatuously preferred to grow proudly poor
rather thar wake up to the new life OF
the new centuries. Thu they fell behind
in the confraternity of nations. Thus we
find them today, impoverished, blind, ig-
norant, ~benighted, besotted, in a sort Of
National second childhood.
1t is certain that there is no hope TOT
them in a continuance Of the present
state of things. They are sure to sink
lower and lower in the scale of civiliza-
ton like the Turks or Persians or other
semi barbarous races. The only hope for
them is in an awakening to the spirit of
the age. In being thrown upon their own
resources, in being fully aroused to the
condition OF moral and material degra-
dation into which they have fallen. they
may be stimulated to throw off the old
and worn out traditions which are their
curse. They may throw away pride
privilege, they may free themselves from
superstition. They may cultivate iber-
ality and home enterprise, and in a quar-
ter Of a century like pur " South, they
may be in a fair way to restore them
selves by their own effort to the great
position which they once filled in the
uror1d
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-23

when the cable would be sure to carry
it in a few hours TO the enemy's head
quarters.
Thus. when the feet sailed, Yesterday,
it WAS a mere conjecture which assigned
Havana as It's destination. It may
really have been on the way TO Porto
Rico. or eyer Cape ST. Vincent. Thus.
it is highly probable that the orders al
luded 10 above, as given to Admiral
Sampson, to conduct a peaceful SOFT Of
war, may have existed only in the inn
agination of a newspaper fakir, or in
the wanton spirit of mischief of some UNI
derstrapper of the government who gave
false Information by way of exaggerating
his own Importance.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-23
WARRINGTON.
Last Tour Of the Season via ths
P4nnsyivanja Railroad.

Last Tour Of ihe Season via the
Transatlantic ssaiiroad.
The last three-day personally-con6ucted
tour Of the season to Washington via
Pennsylvania Railroad will leave New
York ard Philadelphia. May u. Tickets,
including transportation. hotel accommo-
dations, and every necessary expense for
the entire trip, will be sold at the follow
ing rates: From New York, Brooklyn and
Newark, s14.50; Phillipsburg. N. j.. s1l.5e,
Pottville, s1<.3o; Cape May. s13.25; Phila-
delphia, s1l.5o, and at proportionate rates
from other points,
Persons desiring to return via Gettys-
burg may do 50 by purchasing tickets at
SEQ extra, which include this privilege.
An opportunity will also be afforded to
visit Mt. Vernon and Arlington at a slight
additional expense.
For tickets, itineraries, and full infor-
nation apply to ticket agents; Tourist
Agents, 1896 Broadway New York; or Geo.
w. Boyd. Assistant General Passenger
Agent, Broad Street Station. Philadel-
Mr. IA N$& tSl 44NNHw1
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-23
LEAKING GAS MAINS.

A gas main located at Arlington n
Claremont avenues was reported as leak
ing yesterday afternoon. The police in
turn notified the gas company. For a
time the atmosphere in that vicinity was
horribly contaminated and The residents
were forced to close their windows to es-
the odoTs.