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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-22
Committee on Finance.
Mar. Is. %. 90. Apr, s. 1s.

CORPORATION notice.
Notice is hereby given that on March 9TH.
1888. application was made to the Board OF
Street and Water Commissioners by William
r.. Drayton and George Schuchandt Cor the
VACATION OF A TWENTY-FIVE t2) FOOT
STREET.
known as lot three ti on map Of property be-
longing to Edwin r, ". Wright and Job Smith,
filed january Is. 1852. in city block sS91e. in
Cottage street. between Hudson Boulevard and
Herbert place.
And that the 18th day of April. 1895. at two
O'Clock p. NJ. and the Assembly Chamber OF
the City Hail are hereby fixed as the time and
place when and where the Board OF Street
and Wafer Commissioners will meet to hear
aud consider an objections to said proposed
vacation that may be presented ia writing.
by order OF tie Board OF Street and Water
Commissioners,
WA. A. ToLsoN.
Clerk pro tenn
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-22
The Lates. GledhiIi Lies.

TIE Republican papers in TINS sta'e
and in New York are pretending to be-
iieve the ridiculous lies which were par
AIDED before the Gledhill Committee last
Friday. and are waxing vastly virtuons
over them. The odd thing about 1t is
that they shut their eyes to the manner
in which it reflects upon Republican Off
Gals.
Now, regarding Fridays phantasma-
goria of lies, there is only one thing 10
say. If anyone is such a fool or such a
~prejudiced malignant as to attach ere
dence to such nonsense, it is useless 70
argue with him. He is a hopeless case
The so-called damaging evidence was
given by negroes of the owest type, pro-
fessional criminals and creatures OF SIM
ian intelligence. whose word would be OF
no more weight in a court OF justice
than the barking of a dog or the singing
Of a jackass.
Even then, none of the witnesses tes-
tilted to anything which belongs to the
domain of modern history. Nearly every
occurrence alleged to have taken place
was located five or seven years ago, ana
the actors were made either dead men
or men in the p~enitentiary, like MeNaily,
the green-goods boss, who is in prison IN
Chicago. and who is consequently a safe
element in the construction of fiction. Ii
is only necessary to read the report of
the evidence to see how ridiculous it is
It is fabricated material of the worst
kind. It is o%verdone. In his effort TO
be sensational. the witness, Thomas. so
far ran away from probability that it
might almost be thought he was guying
his employers. The picture of Hamilton
Park, crowded with 'tcome-ons," is like
an episode in one of Rice's comedies, but
like nothing that ever took place in the
world of reality.
Denials are thrown away on ISLANDERS
of this sort. People who are capable OF
believing them will totally disregard the
denials. AS for proving their falsity, it
is no more possible than proving that the
moon is not made of green cheese. There
are some things so absurd that they de-
stroy themselves while they battle any
rational method of attack.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-22

RETURNING to the Journal we find
It patting itself on the back for the en-
ormous good it has done Jersey City. 1t
says
NJ individual nor no newspaper has
ever felt more pride or q more sincere
interest in the welfare of Jersey City, or
been willing to give up more for the well
fare OF Hudson county than the Jersey
City journal" We have always zeal
ously defended this community from adj
verse criticism in any form. but if there
has been any doub of the wisdom of the
journal in exposing the corruption in
this county, it must now be removed by
the revelations made before the Gledhill
Committee. Matters in this city and
county have reached such a state that
no one can longer remain silent and be
a good citizen
we would advise Mr.. Elbert Rappleye
to go among the real estate men and hear
them curse him and Mr.. Sheffield Phelps
OF Hackensack for the ruin they are
bringing on the community.
taken another drop. Agents are making
any concession to tenants who will not
move out of the town, and there are no
Inquiries for houses from
The Journal has set the mark Of
Cain upon Jersey City, and we are be-
ing summed as the home of evil and
vulgarity. There is almost a panic in the
real estate market.
This is what the Journals" pride-at
a cent and a quarter a copy-has done
for Jersey city.
We are talking facts.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-22
ASTABLHSA ED 1875.
STENOGRApHY AND gYPEWRITlhG
n,a Ilc;lar 8 Mack Ea sr
Jersey City. March Is. 1895

Day Tuition only. Some or the best pos
sions In this city and New York are held by
graduates CT this Office. Private individaai M
struction No classes. Expert Assistaris.
Diplomas, Circulars or application. Saccfss
guaranteed. ROBERT LIGHTFooT. Stenrg-
rapher OF the Courts Of chancery.
WELDoS BUILDING.
&C Montgomery Street. Jersey CITY
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-22
BERGEN BAPTIST SONG SERVICE

"A novel entertainment will be given this
evening at the Bergen Baptist Church,
Clinton end Madison avenues when q
Song Service, or Sermon in the Dark
wt1lfbe given. This will be given in the
chapel which will be d~arkened, not letting
d ray of light enter. An elaborate proc
gramme has been prepared for the occa-
sion.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-22
i. j. KELLY CLUB TO MEET.

The regular meeting of the Thomas ],
Kelly Association will be held tonight al
eight o'clock. in Its rooms at Newark
avenue and Grove street.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-22
TUESDAY. MARCH %. 1898.

This paper is Democratic an pr1ncipfeS
and is Independent in its ciescs on az tocdt
o,,eeffonc
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-22

THE Evening Journal rather let it.
self out yesterday for the first time since
the Grey reform bill'' was efunded to
County Collector Hugh Dugan. 1t print
ed a number of excerpts from the Gled-
hill actions, and attached to each the
question. what do you think of it?'
The general answer was one of remark
able unanimity. 1t was:-
IT'S an impudent. self-evident lie."
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-22

THE Tribune regards the Friday fc-
tions as proof that pulls dom go 1t
adds that a general stampede is to be
looked for of politicians rushing to Gled-
hill to secure immunity by telling all
they know.
Sam Dickinson and Cap Farrier
trying to get ahead Of each other in a
campaign of revelation would be a real
nice spectacle for honest men. But, the
.sTribune'' should remember that no i'm
munity is needed for alleged o~ffenses
barred by the statute of limitations.
, 1898-11-18

the prologue of a drama which is about
to unfold itself on the great interna-
tienal stage, and In which the United
States will play the principal part.
Spain has been the first obstacle to
their expansion that the United States
has met; they have beaten down Spain
as easily as a cat strikes down a mouse.
with n blow of its paw.
But Spain Is not the only European
power with possessions in America,
and in this Pacific Ocean which the
United States seems to desire to make
an American sea. In the Caribbean
Sea, in the Sandwich Islands, the La
drones and the Philippines the United
States will have European n~eighbors
whose possessions they will perhaps.
coyet. The fire which has been kin
died at Cuba will not die OUT it will
seek new elements In more distant
regions.
, 1898-11-18

From the Eoening Crescent. appleton. Wis.
A remarkable cure from a disease which
has generally wrecked the lives of children,
and left them in a condition to which death
itself would be preferred, has attracted a
great amount of attention among the resi-
dents of the west end of Appleton.
The case is that of little Willard Creech,
son of Richard D.. Creech, a well known
employe of one of the large paper mills in
the Fox River Valley. The lad was attacked
by spinal disease and his parents had given
up all hope of his ever being we'll again
when, as by a miracle, he was healed and is
now In school as happy as any of his mates.
Mr.. Creeeh. the father of the boy, who,
resides at 1862 Second Street, Appleton,
Wisconsin, told the following story:
, 1898-11-18

The shipping of the United States has
a force of Ii, 400, 000-horse power, one.
third of the power of the world.
The mechanical power, by which the
United States dispose and multiply the
efficiency Of human labor, is somewhat
more than ~one-quarter of the mechani,
cal power used by the human race.
The wealth Of the whole world being
estimated at 5000, SOC, 900, 900, the srae
of the United States in this total is $72,.
000,000,000, and since the wealth of the
United States increases much more
rapidly than that Of any other nation,
it is unnecessary to say that the pro-
portion will only be modified to the ad.
vantage of the American people.
The figures that we have just quoted
show that the power of the United
States is colossal. And, behold, the
giant feels himself pinched for room In
his dominion of 1900, 900 square kilom.
eters; he becomes a conqueror and
seems to wish to extend his hands I'VE
the world!
The Spanish-American war is only
, 1898-11-18

about $50 B. G. Pliny describes a small
boat, built by a magician of Rome,
which moves by means of a wheel
driven by a pot of hot water" Watts
invention of q rotary steam engine was
patented in 1859. The first railway To-
connective was built by Trevithiek in
1904. The first practical locomotive
was perfected by Stephenson in 1929.
As elrly as 1907 Derys Papin built a
model of a steamboat. which was de-
stroyed by a mob Of boatmen. The
first practical steamboat was built by
William Symlngton in 1902. In 1903
Robert Fulton, in connection with
Chancellor Livingston. built a steam
boat which was tried on the Seine.
In 1907 the Clermont began trips from
New York t Albany.
, 1898-11-18
Miles in Three Days.

A drug firm of Bazhon Kan, a STA
ton ON the Kansas City & Northwest
ern railroad, demands of the Kansas
State Board Of Railroad Commits
sioners that an order be made requir-
ing that railroads give its customers
better train facilities. The station is
IS miles from Leayenworth, but it
takes three days for freight to be de-
lIyered at Bazhon and two days are
consumed by passengers in making the
round trip. The same slow time is
made to and from Kansas City. 1t is
ayerred that the road is to run to
freeze out the merchants and to favor
the Missouri Pacific. The complaint
closes with the declaration that the
superintendent of the road 'lacks the
mental ability to make a section
hand.'-Kansas City Star.
, 1898-11-18
THE ILLS OF WOMEN
And How Mrs. Pinkham Helps
Overcome Them.

Mrs. MARY BoLLINeER, 1101 Marianne
ST., Chicago, ILL.,, to Mrs. Pinkham:
81 have been troubled for the past
two years with falling of the womb,
1eucorrhna, pains W. my body, sick
headaches, backache, and
weakness. I tried doctors and various
remedies without relief. After taking
two bottles of your Vegetable Com
pound, the relief l obtained was truly
more bottles of your famous medicine,
and can say that I am entirely cured"
Mrs. HENRY DoRR, No. SOC FindleyS St.,
Cincinnati, Ohio, to Mrs. Pinkham:
"For a long time 1 suffered with
chronic Inflammation of the womb,
pain in abdomen and bearing-down
feeling. Was very nervous at times, and
SO weak I was hardly able to do any,
thing. Was subject to headaches, also
troubled with leucorrhoea. After doc
toring for many months with different
physicians, and getting nc relief, l had
given up all hope of being well
again when [ read of the great good
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound was doing. decided immedi-
ately to give it a trial. The result was
simply past belief. After taking four
bottles of Vegetable Compound and
using three packages of Sanative Wash
[ can say I feel like a new woman [
deem it my duty to announce the fact
to my fellow sufferers that Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable remedies have
entirely cured me of all my pains and
suffering. l have her alone to thank
for my recovery, for which I am CRATE.
full. May heaven bless her for the
good work she is doing for our SEX"
, 1898-11-18
TIE euReLAR.s BEST JOE.
Taken as Dead by a Doctor to pissect
He Recovered and Robbed Hin.

~ INV ~ u = ~ SIX
He Recovered and Robbed Him.
All great men get their start in life
some way or another, said the burglar,
and I'm no exception. When 1 was II
years old l ran asay from home in the
country, where l lived with my uncle,
a school teacher, and If 1 do say it my
self, l was one Of his brightest and
.sharpest scholars. I got to New York
as the usual runaway boy does, and
unlike most Of them, l succeeded i'll
eluding pursuit, and settled down to
business as a newSboy. 1t was con-
genial work, and | used to go to night
school, and soon was a leader among
the boys. By the time 1 was II I had
a position in q restaurant as a cashier,
but the handling of the money was too
much for me, and n day I skipped out
with 500 and ven to San Francisco.
For the next four years I kept getting
a little worse, but | never fell into the
hands Of the police.
Then l got sick, and they put me in q
city hospital, and one night | died-I
mean that as far as they knew l was
dead. didn't have any friends, and as
the young doctor who attended especi-
ally to me didn't get any pay for his
trouble, the authorities, to recompense
him somewhat, and to save funeral ex-
penses, turned my body over to him,
and SIC took 1t to his office for the usual
purpose. He laid me out ON a table in
a back room about l o'clock one MORN
Ing, and left me there in the cold, while
he adjourned to some other part of his
house and went to bed, 1 suppose. IN
fact, l know, as you will see presently.
I don't know what time in the night
it was or what was going ON around
me, but after a while l began to come
to, and In a few minutes l knew that I
was not in, The. narrow little bed In the
hospital, apd in. a few. more minutes /
began to. be. scared nearly to death for
1 knew right away that. 1 wa in the
hands Of the doctors and In a fair. way
to be chopped up. The fright gave me
strength, and l got up from the table
and was about to break away any
where, so long as l got away, when the
absence of clothes suggested that l
get some, and 1 began to look around a
bit. / soon got into the doctors ward
robe, and it wasn't long until l had
dressed myself very we'll for ready
made things, and wasn't half as bad
scared as l had been, owing to a good
drink of brandy 1 got out of a bottle l
came across.
don't know why the burglar instinct
should have showed up at such a time,
but the sense of safety that l felt in
unnGnQg now easily l could accoun%sor
, 1898-11-18

"Our boy was absolutely helpless. His
lower limbs were paralyzed, and when we
used electricity he could not feel 1t below
his hips. Finally we let the doctor go. as
he did not seem to help our son n we
nearly gave up hope. Finally my mother
who lives in Canada wrote advising the use
of DIR. Williams Pin Pills for Pale Peo-
pie and l bought some.
''This was hen our boy had been on the
stretcher for an entire year and helpless for
nine months. In six weeks after taking
the pills we noted signs of vitality In
his legs, and in four months be was able to
go to school.
at is two years since he took the first of
the pills and he is at school now just as
happy and well as any of the other chill
dren. 1t was nothing else in the world
that saved the boy than DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People,"
, 1898-11-18

my presence In the GUS Seemed to
urge me IN to getting as much value
as 1 could out of the DOCTORS house be-
fore my departure, and thanks to bis
c-arelessness and wealth. wheSY1 finally
made my exit I had a thousand or more
dollars worth of jewelry, watches and
that sort, to say nothing about a hun
dred dollars OF so 1 got in cash. In
fact, concluded the burglar, with a
heartfelt sigh, 1 don't think that in all
the after years of my work. improved
as it should have been by experience,
study and practice, l yer did a more
pleasant and profitable job than my
first one, to which, of course, was added
the keen pleasure of the joke I had
played on the doctor.
, 1898-11-18
OUR RESOURCES.
Paris Paper Details Some of the Facts
REGARDING Our Wealth.

Paris Paper Details Some of the Facts
Regarding Our Wealth.
A Paris paper, lie Soleil, which op-
posed the United States in its war with
Spain, admits that we are a mighty ma
zion with vast possibilities ahead of US.
In a recent issue is says:
The Spanish-American war has not
IN the least hindered the development
Of business in the United States; II
might even be thought the war has
given 1T a new impulsion.
Official statistics have just given the
6gures of the foreign commerce during
the fiscal year 1s97-1s98, extending
from July 1 to June 80, and here are
the indications that these figures fur.
nish us:
The total expectation of the United
States during this year amounted to
81 ,275, 200, 600, whereas those of the
preceding year had hardly exceeded
81, 0S0, 100000. Here is an increase of
nearly 5000, 900.
In ten years the American exports
have almost doubled, passing from
$742, 600, 900 in 1SSS-S9 to 81, 200.
900 in 1S97-98-a prodigious increase.
In the growth of its commerce and of
its wealth the American people
marches with the steps of a giant. This
development is both agricultural and
industrial.
The formidable increase in American
expectations during 1S97-9S is due prin-
cipally to the purchases of cereals
made by European countries which
had had bad crops of wheat; neyerthe-
less manufactured products begin to
take am important place in the total
North American expectations, which
are no longer limited as formerly to
the raw material necessary for the in
dustry or amelioration of Europe. Thus
we see figuring among these exporta-
lions for large sums and for sums In.
creasing from year to year agricultural
implements, carriages, wagons, paper
and its products, wooden goods, differ
ent articles of iron and steel, etc. The
latter articles in particular represent
more than $40, 100000 over the preced.
ing year.
To appreciate the production of the
United States we must compare it with
that Of the rest of the world. By this
comparison the fact is brought out that
of the entire production of the earth
the United States furnish three-fourths
of the cotton and one-fourth of the
wheat. OF the 600,0 100000 tons of coal
extracted from the earth by human in
dustry the United States claim nearly
200, 100000 tons, or approximately one
third.
Of the 435. 900 miles of railway which
unfold on the surface of the earth their
ribbon of steel, the United States pos.
sesses 1S2, 900 miles. The railway earn
ings In the United States amount to a
billion of dollars, representing two
fifths of the railway earnings of the
entire terrestrial system, estimated at
$780, 600, 000.
For the production of iron, copper,
petroleum, the United States defy all
cOmD3riSon.
, 1898-11-18
Charitable Theory.

"I'd like to know who is sending me
these anonymous letters" said the head
of the firm.
"And fwat's that?" asked the porter.
"a letter without any signature, of
course. This makes the third one L
have received in two weeks"
Perhaps" said Mike-"perhaps the
poor man cannot write his name at
all."-Minneapolis Journal,
, 1898-11-18
800 Reward. @Ioo.

The readers of this paper will be pleased In
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis.
ease that science has been able to cure in all
its stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
cure is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con-
statqtional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter.
cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy.
ing the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the con-
st1tut1on and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much faith in
its curative powers that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials. Address
f. J. CHENEY q Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best,
, 1898-11-18
Only Reading.

Wife-John Meekwon Spillkins, what
are you up to now? Reading? Humph!
The idea of a man sitting down and
reading a book when there are things
to do about the house, furnaces to fix,
trunks to be carried upstairs and a
piano to be moved. It's a pity. l
wasn't your mother and had charge of
your bringing up. A nice specimen of
a man you are! The father of a family
and the head of a household. Tell me,
this instant, what you are reading!
Hubbie-My dear, / am reading 1.-The
Tanning Of the Shrew."-Harper's
= Weekly.
, 1898-11-18
Duration of Doctors, Lives

A French statistician has discovered
that in the sixteenth century the aver.
age duration of a doctors life was only
361a years. In the seventeenth century
itreaehed 40 % years, in the eighteenth
century 40 % years, and at the present
time he finds it is SO years. The same
inquirer purposes to ascertain whether
the average longevity of patients has
Increased in the same proportion.
, 1898-11-18
Oueer.

Managing editor-That fellow who
went out is an enigma to me.
City editor-Why?
Managing editor-He had an article
which he wanted us to publish and
didn't say that he had been taking our
journal VA since the first number was
Issued, or that he would order fifty
copies of the paper containing his
piece.
, 1898-11-18
No Occasion to Take a Ra,b

A foreigner who was brought before
a San Francisco magistrate the other
day was found to be so uncleanly that
the police were ordered to give. him a
bath. "Vat! Go in de vater?' he asked.
Yes. you must take a bath; you need
1t. How long is it since you had a %
The foreigner shrugged his shoulders,
and repfed;' Il never was arrested be
, 1898-11-18

"What excellent taste the Hambys
have exhibited in decorating and fur.
nishing their house."
well, that ought not to be surpris-
ing. Mr.. Handy has been chief sam
pier in a wholesale tea house for the
past ten years."
, 1898-11-18
A Thorough sncceaa.

"How about that Klondike mining
company you were interested In about
a year ago? I thought 1t was going to
be such a big thing?n
1T was a big thing. We disposed Of
nearly 100000 worth of stock"
, 1898-11-18
His Happy Thought.

Blinks-Beg pardon, sir, but I think
you have my umbrella there.
Stranger-Your umbrella, sir? OF
course, it may be-. You know how um-
brellas change hands. Ha! ha! Per-
init me to restore it.
Blinks Ito himself, walking away
Those happy thoughts of mine are SIM
ply Inspirations. My umbrella! hal
ha! ha!-Cleveland Plaindealer.
, 1898-11-18

Wife-I'm writing to ask the Browns
to meet the Joneses here at dinner; and
to the Joneses to meet the Browns.
We owe them both, you know.
Husband-But I've heard they've just
~quarreled, and don't speak.
Wife, know. They'll refuse and
we needn't give a dinner party at ALL
Tun-
, 1898-11-18
No Fears for His safetr.

Mrs. Quiddle-I wonder what has be-
come of joint He went out early this
morning and here it is most dark and
I haven't heard a word from him.
Mrs. Raddle-Do you really have
fears of his safety?
Mrs. Quiddle-Oh, 1 guess his safety's
all right; but I'm afraid he's fallen off
the COMPOUNDED thing and broken his
leg.-Boston Transcript.
, 1898-11-18
the drop on him.-Truth.
"A ucceas

Theatrical Manager (affably)-I con-
graduate you, old man
Veteran Actor (gloomily)-On what?
Theatrical Manager-On the success
of your benefit, Of course.
Veteran Actor (doubtedlly)-Was it a
success?
Theatrical Manager-Certainly. 1t
paid expenses, didn't it? And it didn't
cost you a red cent!-New York Trib-
une.
, 1898-11-18
The Blind in Europe.

Naltkenhoff of Geneva says there are
81, 900 blind persons in Europe, most
ly from fevers. and that 10 per cent
would nave kept their sight had they
been properly treated.
, 1898-11-18
She Remembered.

Mrs. Waring-Why is 1t that you will
not allow your husband to have a lady
typewriter? Men are so much more ex-
pensive, you know.
Mrs. Ashcroft recognize that fact,
but I was his typewriter once myself.
, 1898-11-18
He Relieved TT.

DO you believe that there is any re.
lation between weather and crime?'
asked Mr.. Snaggs of the observant ed
itor.
"Of course 1 do" replied the wise
man. CAS- o as a balmy day comes
the spring poets resume activity
Pittsburg Chronicle.