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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
the way. in Me a salary account coult
be swelled In the way you say.

the way in which a salary account could
be swelled In the way you say"
If Mr.. McCarter himself were not above
suspicion, it might almost be thought
that this interview, at his Office, to which
he so often refers. was ntended to be
constructive in character.
Mr.. Mccarter made one more bad
stumble. 1t Illustrates the general, ALI
pervading atrocity of these "Lexow' per
formances, where the innuendo of the
lawyer takes the place of the testimony
and goes upon the record and into the
public mind in that way Mr.. Mccarter's
attempt to substitute his own ideas for
the words Of the witness proved a BOOM
erang. But it is not one witness out of
a thousand who has the courage to speak
out as Higbie did. This is the episode
to which we allude:-
NOV do you wish this committee to
believe thai what you said TOOK placs
about paying Hudson County Coun-
sci was purringly saying when the VIII
ness interrupted, SAYING ,
Mr.. McCarter, | said nothing OF the
kind about Hudson county officials.
wish you would not put words IN my
mouth which 1 never said
Your criticism is just observed Mr.
McCarter, who then tried another lacA'
Probably at this state of the game MI
McCarter wished he admit.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
DANCE AT CRESCENT HALL.

The third annual subscription dance
given under the management of Messrs.
wilkins and Ettinger at Crescent Hall,
last night, proved a great success. MISS
B. Nash and B. Ettenger led the grand
march. Among those present were
Misses B. Nash, B. Regninler, G. Wood
ruff. E. Robins, E. Smith, D. Phillips. NJ
Robins, C. Robins, r. Patton, L. Dorning,
Messrs. Bert Allen, Bert Ettenger, Charles
wilkins, d. D. Smith. George Salinger, q.
Wilson, W.. Anderson, A. Tierney and
Harry Ralyea.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
UNTER N 5
Germans of Hoboken Join I'm
charming Social Gathering.

t
The German population of Hoboken
turned out in full last night to attend the
annual mask and civic ball of the Unter
Tins. which is the most popular German
organization of this county. Long before
the doors were thrown open to the guests
the sidewalk was lined with an assem-
blage of pleasure-seelkefs.
The ceiling of the comnodious hall was
tastefully decorated with blue bunting,
and the walls were adorned with Ameri-
can flags sd
Politicians and of1ice-seekers also helped
add to the crowd. Their right hand was
always ready to assist them in forming
new acquaintance, to imprint a good inn
precision and a few votes at the coming
election.
BY ten O'Clock fully one thousand peo-
Pile thronged the hall. Six hundred OF
these participated in the grand march.
Two excellent orchestras furnished the
music
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
Joe Lo0KEs MAN CHASE.
After an Exciting Run He Locks Up
a Wife Heater.

John Brecht. of Ne. IS Laidlaw avenue
was arrested by Constable Locke
yesterday after an exciting chase and
ocked up in the County Jail in default
of bail. Justice Macs issued a warrant
on complaint of Breeht's wife. Lenora.
who accused him OF beating her. Mrs.
Brecht supports herself and children by
aking in washing and doing home work
while her husband is said TO be worth
less and quarrlesome.
Brecllt got wind Of the warrant and
started to go to Hoboken- Locke heard
Of his departure n started after him.
When Brecht saw the Constable he broke
into a run. whereupon Locke jumped into
Justice Macs dog cart which stood IN
front Of the yudse,s Office door and drove
rapidly after the fleeing ma through
several streets. The chase lnaiig took
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
TWELFTH WARD IMPROVEMENT

The meeting of the Twelfth Ward I'm
provement Association was held last
a slim attendance, owing to the meet
ing of the Republican County Committee
at Lincoln Hall, Nothing of Importance
was done outside of the appointment of
a committee for the subscription stag
that will take place in a few weeks. The
members went over the same grounds
again and said a united effort should be
made TO have some speakers present at
the next meeting.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

By osDonnelis admission that he shared
IN the drinking. A man who was mean
enough to go back IN his boon conn
panions in such a way Is assuredly mean
enough to draw on his imagination.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

1t has just leaked out that Miss May
Lawson and Harry f. Greer of the
Heights, were married on Wednesday last
by the Rev. Daniel r. Warren of st.
Mary's p. E.. Church of Hoboken avenue.
The young couple were engaged some
time. They are residing on Carlton
avenue.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

THE proof of the existence of pool
upon the Republican than the Demo-
cratic party. Jersey City has an organ
lied police force, and it is altogether a
misdirection of sentiment to hold the
Prosecutor or the Sheriff responsible for
the presence of crime in a community
which has such a police department.
The Prosecutor and the Sheriff are not
directly responsible for the detection or
suppression of crime. Half the yaller
nonsense that is talked and published in
this State is due to an absurd miscon-
ception of the duties of these officers.
The duty of the Prosecutor is to con-
duct thep prosecution of crime before the
courts. The duty of the Sheriff is to
preserve the peace and to execute the
mandates of the courts.
1t is the function of the police-where
there are any-to detect and suppress
crime.
The police of this city have now been
under complete Republican control for
five years.
THE evidence of O'Donnell regarding
the state of the Jail is hardly worth con-
sidering. 1t is outside the realm of the
committees legitimate inquiry. O'Don-
nell was in the jail on a charge of per-
jury. He is now an employe of the Jour
nal" and this is equivalent to saying
that he is paid for his testimony.
The charges which he makes have been
made against the jail management. year
after year, from a time beyond which the
memory of man runneth not. They were
constantly made against Sheriff Toffey.
They always emanate from some ex-
prisoner Who was trying either to crafty
a spite or to make money out of them.
Sometimes both motives were combined.
One branch of the Charges that GER
Communications than others is, of course,
perfectly true. Untried prisoners ger
everything they can afford to pay for
alcoholic liquor excepted-and it is per-
fectly right that they should. Our sys-
tenn of OBTAINING u~nconvicted persons in
jail is a disgrace to civilization.
The further charge hat whiskey was
drunk in the Jail is seriously discounted
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
TO RATTLE A LAMB.

A merry time is expected this evening
when . lamb will be ratified at the home
of Louis Uhl, at Old Bergen Road and
Danforth avenue. The Charles Arm
br,,ster Association recently won the
lamb from the Frankfurter ciuo az a
bowling match. The live lamb was then
presented to Court Greenville Fife and
Drum Corps. 1t is his drum corps VINO
will rattle the lamb. An informaltenter-
tainment will be given. followed by a sup
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
MEETINGS.
Office of The
CONSOLIDATED TRACTION COMPANY,
% Exchange Place.
JERSEY CITY. ". j., March S. 1s

JERSE CITY. N. J., March S. 1898.
Notice is hereby given that the annual
meeting of the stockholders Of The Consolida.-
ed Traction Company Will be held at the Com
pany's office. No. % Exchange Place, Jersey
City, on Monday, March 2Sth, 1898. at u
o'clock, noon, for the election of Directors
and the voting upon a proposition to lease
the property Of this Company. and the trans
action of such business as may come before
said meeting.
The stock transfer books will be closed on
Monday, March 18th, 1898. at 3 O'clock P. NJ,
and reopen on Tuesday, March 29th, 1898. at
10 o'clock A. NJ.
BY order of the Board of Directors.
THOMAS J. GEORGE.
@f Secretary.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
CAUGHT WITH POLICY SLIPS.

Peter Schmidt. janitor of the fiat house
No. 1902 Hudson street, Hoboken. was ar
rested yesterday afternoon by Detective
FaIlon on. a charge of dealing in policy.
when searched at Police H~eadquarters q
large bundle of policy slips was FOUND IN
his possession - ~
Recorder McDonough held him in Sl,0U9
bail to await the action OF the Grand
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
/

Notice is hereby given that on March It'll,
1888, application was made to the Board of
Street and Water Commissioners BY William
r. Drayton and George Schuchaadt for the
VACATION OF A TWENTY-FIVE (25) FOOT
STREET.
known as lot three go on map Of property be-
longing to Edwin r. Y. Wright and Job Smith,
filed january IS. 1852. in city block $751;, 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 Hall are hereby fixed as the time and
place when and where the Board of Street
and Water Commissioners will meet TO hear
and consider all objections to said proposed
vacation that may be presented in writing.
BY order of the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners.
WM- A. TOLSON.
Clerk pro tenn.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
SENATOR SBWELL'S PLAN.
VIII Endeavor, TO Get Appropriations
for New Jersey.

WASHINGTON, March Y, EgS.-Sena-
tor Sewell has introduced amendments to
the Sundry Civ bin. to appropriate $500. :
OGO for continuing the improvement Of
Raritan Bay. $4,000 for continuing inn
provement Of Raritan River. $4,000 for
continuing the improvement of the chan
mel between Staten Island and the New
Jersey shore.
This step is taken because there will
be no Harbor bill this session. and this is
the only possible way of asking for the
appropriations. The objection is likely to
be made that such appropriations have no
business In a Sundry Civil bin. but they
will serve to call attention to the pressing
needs OF the New jersey coast.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
RUNAWAY ON GARFIELD AVENUE

A large white horse attached to a de-
livery wagon ran away yesterday after
noon on Garfield avenu The vehicle be
longed to Herman Schmidt of Bergen
Point. The horse and wagon were stand
ing real the trestle of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad. A passing train frightened the
animal. The horse started on a galiop
for Bayonne, along Garfield avenue. bat
was stopped at Fiftieth street. Bayonne.
onne. No damage was done to the rig.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

LAWYER MecARTER browbeating his
own witness was a pretty example Of con-
s~ervative legal procedure. calculated to
greatly enhance the value of the Gled-
hill Committees inquiry.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
TONIC HTS

Hon. william McAdoo, former assistant
Secretary of the Navy will address the
Cosmos Club this evening in the Hotel
Washington.
A pound party will be held by he Sal
walton Army of Lafayette, for the benefit
of the poor.
Reception ofthe Paramount Pleasure
Club at Bergen Hall.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

THE Evening Journal seems to be
gradually adding all the scaiawags in
town to its staff. II is-a case Of natural
gravitation.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

NOTICE TO cREDIToRs ESTATE OF
Cosse, isabel L. Davis and Esther A. Gran
mer, executors of Charity A. Cosse, deceased.
by order OF the Surrogate OF Hudson County.
dated February 18Th, 1885. hereby give notice
to the creditors OF said decedent to bring
in their debts, demands and claims against
the estate of said deeedent. under oath or
affirmation, within nine months from the date
OF said order. or they wt3zbe forever barred
ST any action therefor against said executors
EDWIN f. COSSE.
ISABEL L. DAVIS,
ESTHER A. CRANMER
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

when Colonel Leslie Murdoch of the
United States Army happened to meet
a little girl named Alice Ainsley, daugh-
ter of a mountaineer. He fell in love
with her over a cup of water, and after
ward persuaded her father to let her go
abroad. and be educated, the Colonel pay
ing the bills, with the understanding that
Alice's hand in marriage should be his
reward. The girl was ip love with Cor
don Grayne, and this was a Montague
and Capulet affair, for the families Were
in deadly fued. Colonel Murdoch had
been married before; his wife was the
aughter of an ndian chief. Dirk Kan
sett was the outcome of this union.
Upon the rise of the curtain Colonel
Murdoch is on duty at West Point, while
Grayne and Kansett were cadets there.
Alice Ainsiey is a member OF Colonei
Murdoch's household. Kansett begs the
Colonel to acknowledge him, in order TO
save him from the taunt that he has
negro blood. The Colonel won't do II, and
announces that it is he himself who has
started the hue and cry against the
young man. Thereupon Kansett throws
down his musket swears hat the
indian half of him shall never cease to
seek revenge. Then Mr.. Ainsley arrives
from the Cumberland Mountains and
meets his daughter. She begs him to save
her from a hated marriage to Colonel
Murdoch. Moved by her entreaties he is
about to consent, when the Colonel, to
strengthen his claim for her hand, brings
out the fact that the daughter loves Cor
don Grayne. The action shifts to the
Cumberland Mountains, and the char
acters so far introduced are all there.
After this the plot is developed to the
natural end, which is a reconciliation and
a happy finale. The original magnificent
scenery n the entire cast will come to
the Academy of Music x week.
Matinees Wednesday and Saturday.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
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the modern securing soap; tack signs, dis
tribute circulars, place samples, orders, etc.
Steady work. Salary, sic weekly and expenses.
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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
STTU4TTON WANTED.

JANIToR; SwEDE. EXPERIENCED;
good reference; pump and steam re-
pairer and carpenter Call at No. 25
Monmouth street
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

Brecht past Justice Macs office, When
that official sprang upon the fleeing mar
and held him until the constable came
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
SATURDAY. MARCH Il, 1898.

This paper as Democratic in principles
end Is fndcpeadcaE an as rieics ca AT local
questions
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

BUT Mr.. Mccarter, with a fatal rash
ness, pursued his line of examination
with this result
Didn't you at an interview with that
man at the North End Club of Newark,
and you said that money was paid To
officials in Jersey City, and didn't some-
one say that all the officials of Essex
and Hudson counties were regularly paid
protection; and didn't that some. one say
that Prosecutor Crane was paid. ana
didn't you get mad and deny r. u
then say that you knew that, HUDSON
county officials were paid! asked MI.
McCarter. in one breath.
II don't remember, but 1 do about mr..
Crane
ibid you go South on a hunting trip
afterwards because of what you said
about Mr.. Crane, who needs no yindica-
No, I didn't"
This is an unfortunate admission Of Mr..
McCarter's.
Let us grant that Mr.. Crane needs no
vindication, we are forced to the conclu-
sion tina nobody else needs it any more
thar he. The evidence against all is ex-
actly alike 1t is the wanton gossip OF
a couple of irresponsible liars. That is
all there is Of 1t.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
Ren Ton Theatre.

Rice & Barton's Big Gaiety Spectacular
Extravaganza Company, which is we'll
known to the patrons of the Bon Ton,
will play its annual engagement at this
popular house the coming week, COM
mencing with the matinee performance
Monday. The specialties include Barton
and Eckhoff, Frankie Haines, Swan and
Bambard, Hattie Mills, the Hill Sisters,
Idella Vyner and Miles and Raymond.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
The CIedbill Committee.

1t is constantly necessary. in view of
the diyagations of the yailer element. to
remind the public of what the various
legal proceedings which are instituted
are really about.
1t was necessary to keep the fact before
the public mind by main force. that
Messrs. Noonan and Simpson were not
being tried for a generally bad state of
things in the Sheriff's Office. but for an
alleged specific act of bribery.
1t now seems necessary to revive recog-
milton Of the purpose and scope of the
Gledhiil inquiry. The public may or may
not have forgotten; the committee itself
apparently has, and SO has its lawyer,
Mr.. MeCarter, and so have the yaller
newspapers.
The committee was appointed to inves-
tigate as to whether vice and crime are
or have been protected in Hudson county
through the malfeasant conduct of pub
lie officials, whose duty it was to sup
press them. II WAS IUt dppOlillcu ~ ifho
out whether vice and crime existed in
Hudson. 1t was not appointed to find out
whether they went unpublished. 1t was
appointed to find out whether they went
unpublished owing to corruption or in
capacity of public officers.
Practically no effort to carry out the
purpose Of the committee, as thus de-
fined, was made yesterday. There was q
good deal of evidence put in to show that
pool rooms existed in the county. but not
the least thing to show that they were
protected. 1t is not a point on which a
complex argument car be built. There
is nothing to build on. 1t was shown
that there was a pool room in Caledonia
Park, and that there were two in Har-
rison. But that they were protected or
tolerated. there was not even a pretense
of in%ferential evidence.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

THE WTangIe went OH
.Didn't you say that Collins and Long
cake took money to Hudson county ON
cials2"
Didn't you tell the yesterday morning
ID my office? 2"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

Ebe stamps Conscience.
II rcalixe,,' said the stamp on the love
letter, THAT I'm not sticking exactly to
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
CITY NEWS NOTES.

Daniel O'Connell, a well known member
Of the North end improvement Ass0cla-
,tion. is prominently spoken OF in connec-
lion with the next Democratic nomination
for Freebooter.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

One most amazing feature of the days
performance was the degree and kind Of
respect shown to the dead Charles IL.
Winfield. AT the opening Of the session,
Mr.. MeCarter said
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

THE one single allegation regarding a
money payment, which was made, was
made by Higbie.x Mr.. McCarter's unwill-
ing witness. 1t was brought out with
dental forceps, so to speak, by Mr.. Nc
Carter. 1t began thus
ibid you remember a little short, red
haired man, a constable, who came there
for pay; he got s. a day and didn't do
anything
He was short, with red hair, mustache
DO you know his nameg'
would you recognize the name if I
No, sir, I wouldn't"
He used to get 50 a day?'
isn't 1t true. Mr.. Higbie. remembering
your oath and for every word you utter
here YOU are protected by the State of
New Jersey, that you thought that man
was there for protection"
II cannot tell you what / thought"
Now, you weren't in the philanthropic
business and giving s. a day for moth
inggr asked Mr.. McCarter sarcastically.
No; he was a foreman
Foreman. Good g~raciousi what did
that red-haired man do? Didn't you tell
llC nat LID III y ~ NFN
or elosed?'
NO."
That mar came from Jersey city?'
pursued counsel.
II believe he did"
We'll, isn't your belief and idea that
he came from the Court House, and
was there to get 50 a day for protection
money!
Me-
..Sir?',
NO" emphatically
Now the utter absurdity of this must
be plain to a ten-year-old boy.
OF course, the witness denial, under
oath, Of the loose gossip in which he in
dulged in ordinary conversation, is sufi-
Client to rob the incident of all conse-
qnence. But even If he allowed his in
furious Interpretation of the fact to
stand. the notion that protection was
being secured for a pool room at the
rate of g a day, paid to a red-headed
man, is too farcical ever for yaller jour-
nalism.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-11-15
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Halls Great Discovery.

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diabetes, seminal emissions, weak
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Regulates bladder troubles in chill
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The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-11-15

A destitute family IS now hold
ing the fort on Elm street in the
rear of the alley just back of the
wooden building. in which there is a
second hand store, We learn that
the man Is down in the last stages
of consumption and that the wo-
man is taking in washing or auy
other kind Of work to keep the
wolf from the door, A helping
hand is badly needed Will some
OF oar charitable inclined ladies see
if they can relieve this family in
any way
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-11-15

Advance agent Smith, who has
been billing the city for the
coming of the Scammon troupe,
speaks of returning here in the
summer time, bringing with him
a clever troupe of Vaudeville peo-
Pile and opening up the Park the
atre for the summer. We hope he
may make the deal with Manager
Whitley to get control of the Park
theatre, as he is a clever gentle
man.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-11-15

Mr.. Pete D'Arrigo, who has been
doing a grocery business on the
corner of Twelfth and Maple
streets, has added a stock of dry
goods, and a butcher shop to his
store and employed Mr.. John
Buchanan as a clerk. He has also
put in a telephone and we expect
next to record that he has his
house lighted with electricity,
Pete is all right.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-11-15

A little siX-year-old girl in Sun
day school was asked what she re-
membered Of the history of Samp-
son and the Phillistines and she
promptly replied; ''He sailed into
the bay at night and at daylight
opened fire on them and sunk eleven
of their warships with the jawbone
Of an ass, then took some prisoners
who had neyes seen a razor, bonn
barded the town and took up five
baskets of fragments, He then
told them that he would set his bow
on the bay, so that whenever they
saw it they could remember the
Maine.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-11-15

Justice L. Winhdm had two ne
groes Henry Johnson and Will
Childs, and white man, George
HerYy up before him this morning.
These are the men who charged the
white man with robbing them near
Maudville and the white man filed a
similar complaint against the ne
groes, The justice could not make
anything out Of the case as the
three men swore opposite each
other and there being no corrobor-
ating testimony he thought best to
turn them loose which he did.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-11-15

Mr. w. b. Cannon who lives at
Motz, came in today and paid us an
appreciated visit. He said he had
been getting the Texarkanian for
six years and if he ever paid a cent
for it he did not know it aud called
to liqlidate. He left six bright
silver dollars with us to remember
him by.