davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1898-09-20
SUBSCRIBE FOR The DESERET NEWS

1t is the organ of the Church, the
paper in the Rocky Mountain Region
and can always be relied upon to advo
cate OF defend the right side of every
question.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE
Daily ,.....Sl0,0 90 peryear.
Semi Weekly $50"
Weekly .... 200" 50
Address-The Deseret News Co.
Salt Lake City.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-23
THE JOURNALS" SPITE
Mayor Told Why 1t Attacks
the Board of Education.

Mayor Hoos this morning received an
anonymous letter from a Citizen" in
which the Journal was denounced for
asserting that politics have been dragged
into the conduct of the educational de-
partment by the Board of Education. The
writer states that appointments have been
well made, the Directors in each instance
taking into consideration the standing OF
the girls appointed. The writer critlcizes
the Wanser Board of Education and
charges that fayoritism was rampan un-
der its management. Concluding, the
writer calls attention to the fact that the
city's public schools are in better con-
dition today than they have eve been;
that more school room is available than
ever before. and finally that scholars are
being instructed with more care than
heretofore. The writer intimates thai the
Journals attacks upon the Democratic
Board are due to the fact that one of the
Journals" reporters son is no longer a
member of the Board.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-23
BUSY WITH THE BUDGET
Mayor Hoos Spends the Day
Over the Figures.

Mayor Hoos is busily engaged today 60
ing over the tax budget, for the fiscal
year 1888. In every department appro-
priations have been cut down. Slices have
been cut off certain branches of the city
government which, to get along, will find
it necessary to dispense with some en-
ployes. The maintenance of the public
schools is the hardest problem the FL
nance Commissioners have had to crack
this time. In making liberal allowances
for the schools other departments have
suffered.
The Fire and Police Departments have
been literally dealt with. The Street
and Water Board has met with harsh
treatment. The figures of the budget are
being closely guarded.
From one of the members of the County
Board for the Equalization of Taxes it
was learned today that the county rate
this year will be somewhat lower than
last. Everything also points to the fact
thatsthe State school rate will be lower.
With reductions in these quarters, the
outlook for q lower tax rate is very
bright. Mayor Hoos and the Finance
Commissioners want a lower rate, but
they want to fix 1t on real conditions, and
not create a false rate as has been done
in years past. The budget will probably
be announced next Wednesday.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-23
The Library Building Plans.

The new Library project marches on.
The trustees have got their plans with
c-ommendable speed and precision OF ac-
ton. That they had over forty to choose
from showed that they left no stone UNI
turned to broaden the competition; that
seven were so good that it was hard TO
choose between them shows the vast adj
vantage of the wide open door in enter
prises of this kind.
AS the plans are not yet given out IN
detail, it is impossible to speak inteii-
gently of them; but if they comply with
the conditions outlined by the trustees
they are bound to be commodious. The
fact that they passed the censorship OF
he expert employed by the Board is a
guarantee that they possess as much ar
tistic merit as is purchasable for the
money which the city has to spend.
The trustees have already satisfied
themselves that the building can be erect
ed within their financial limits. We have
no doubt it will be well done, and will
for many years to come be an honor and
a credit to the municipality.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-23
Cuban WorthIessness and American
Intervention.

Perhaps the first effect of the revela-
tions of Cuban worthlessness, as repre-
scented by the insurgent element, which
are now coming to US, is a disgust with
the war and ourselves for being in it.
We ask If such people are worth fighting
for, and whether, after all, it would not
have been better, bad we left them to
their fate.
1t must be remembered that the things
which goaded us to Interference were not
the actions of Spain towards the open
rebels. 1t is inconceivable that we should
have ever gone TO war because Spain en-
deavored to put them down with an iron
hand, as we did the rebellion in our own
country, thirty years ago.
The reason why American sympathies
were excited was that Spain made the
instruction an excuse for savage cruel
ties upon tens Of thousands of peaceful
persons, old men, women and children.
If the Spaniards had chased up Garcia
and his bands and shot them and i'm
prisoned them, our sympathy would never
have gone beyond a mere sentimental dis
play, on the part of a limited number of
persons. But the horrors of the recon-
tracion.'' the shootings. the drivings, the
burning of farms and crops. the starva-
ton, the brutality-these were the acts
which goaded our people to the point
where only the Maine incident was need
ed to cause an explosion of passionate
resentment irresistible in its Influence.
It may be added that impatience at the
slowness of the Spanish authorities in
suppressing conditions of disorder, which
were very Injurious to our interests, had
much to do with our inclination to inter-
fere in the quarrel. Surely, the more
slothful. Incompetent and cowardly the
Cuban Generals are now made to APP
pear by their own acts, the more justin
cation exists for our demand that Spain
should promptly restore peace to the
island or else give up the attempt.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-23
SAILORS HoNoRED IN FIRE.

Sailor men are the heroes of every land.
Like a lover, everybody loves them. All the
warm spots in the heart go out to them.
Is it any wonder therefore that the great
est preparations made SO far this season
should be put forward for Saturday night,
at Pain' Manhattan Beach Amphitheatre
when it is known that that Will be Ma
val Night The sinking of Montijo's
fleet and the blowing up of the fort and
arsenal at Cavite. in the "Fall of Manila"
will be followed by fire pictures of many
of the heroes of the war. Night after
night the bon-mots of our men at the
front received rounds of cheers. Satur-
day night there will be a perfect cyclone
of enthusiasm. What with a prominent
actor manager appearing as Montijo and
a new and highly sensational dive added
to the already big bill, it will be a gala
night.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-23
NEW JERSEY DENTAL SOCIETY.
Officers Elected at the Annual Com
veution in Asbury Park.
Especial to THE Jersey City News"

Especial to THE Jersey City News.
ASBURY PARK, July %, 1s9S.-The
New Jersey State Dental Society elected
the following officers at yesterdays ses-
sion:-President, DR.. ]. Allen Osnun,
Of Newark; Vice President, W. z. Truck,
of Freehold; Secretary. Charles A. Meek
err. of Newark; Treasurer, H. A. Hull,
of New Brunswick: Executive Committee,
Oscar Adelburg, of Elizabeth f. r.
Riley and f. G. Gregory, of Newark, and
R. NJ. Sanger, of East Orange
f. L.. Hindle, of New Brunswick, was
named as chairman Of the Membership
Committee. f. c. Barlow, a member OF
the state Dental Board of Examiners,
was recommended to Governor voorhees,
for reappointment-
DR.. H. G. Register, of Philadelphia,
read a special paper on THE Utility OF
~Prophylactic Treatment in the Preserva-
ton of Teeth" and the transaction Of
routine business concluded the annual ses-
sion. The society viii meet here again
next July.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-23
BUILT THE MERRlMAc BOILERS.

Word was received In Jersey City today
of the death in Kingston, N. Y, yesterday.
of James Rode, once connected with
Theodore Smith & Brother, of Hudson
street, this city, and famous as having
built in 1855 four boilers for the Merrimac.
the Confederate ram. Rode is said to
have built more steam boilers han any
other person in the United States. He
was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1882.
and came to this country in 1852 to work
for his uncle. who had charge of the
West Point Foundry for twenty-nine
years. In 1855 he built four boilers for
the Merrimac, afterward famous as the
Confederate ram. In 1888 he went to Jer-
sey City n became connected with the
firm of Theodore Smith & Brother. In
1856 he returned to Rondout and entered
into partnership with Colonel John Nc
Entee.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-23
SOME DISCIPLINE NEEDED HERE

Night after night certain streets on the
west side of Greenville are IN darkness
and the kicks. protestations and COM
plants of the luckless residents thereon
availeth not. The contract for the street
lighting is given to Henry croiford' or
No. Al ST. Paufs e n who employs a
tall young lad, whom the boys nick
name .Dago.' The young gentleman pc
lieves so much in the free air oil liberty
here that he takes liberties with his du-
ties. Instead of promptly and punctuaiiy
visiting each lamp and lighting it ne
will gossip on the corners until 1t be-
comes too late, according to his views,
to visit all the lamps on his post, and
50 he marches off home leaving some
streets In outer darkness.
Last night he left one street u~ntoucnea
and when spoken to put his short lad-
der on his shoulder and marched on
saying
1.-THE public be - :.
But will complain to the police,
threatened a resident.
..The police be s he exclaimed, dis
appearing around the corner.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-23
FOUGHT MAN-EATER.
Fishing Party's Exciting Strug-
gle in Jersey Waters.
Especial to ..rhe Jersey city News."1

Especial to 1.-THE Jersey City News.'1
CAPE MAY, July %. 1sss.-A party of
fishermen, composed Of Captain Phil
Dickerson, of Cold Spring. N. j.; John A..
Gill, and Howard and Joe Kelly, sons
Of Colonel Thomas F. Kelly. of Phila-
delphia, according to their own story, had
a fierce fight with a man-eating shark
while on a fishing trip in Cape Island
Sounds. h party started out in the
evening on Mr.. Kelly's steam launch, the
Irene, bound for a houseboat anchored
In the sounds. About ten o'clock, while
near Turtle Gut Inlet, the boat was near
" thrown over on its side by some great
force beneath it. Two members of the
party had fallen asleep in the cabin and
two were playing cards. The boat right
ed itself, but shortly another shock came
and six or eight times the mysterious
force almost capsized the Irene.
The first shock awakened the sleepers,
who crawled to the deck in a fright. The
water was low in the sounds and was
running in, but no cause for the shocks
could be seen. A gun was brought out,
and shortly after a long, dark fish was
seen coming to the surface. A load of
shot was emptied into the fish, but this
only caused it to turn, draw itself out
and then dash against the side of the
yacht. At this Joe Kelly jumped ashore
the channel being very narrow-and ran
along TwoaMile Beach to the United
States ~Life-saving station, in quest of
help.
When the shark made a second charge
on the boat, Mr.. Gill, who had armed
himself with an eel spear, made a strike
at the fish, but missed it. The shark had
turned over on his back, but his ugly
mouth was opened. Mr.. Gill watched his
opportunity and made a third charge.
but missed his lunge, and his hand struck
the shark in the mouth and the great
jaws closed on one of his fingers, terribly
decorating it.
Another load of shot was emptied into
the fish, which by this time had worked
Itself away from the boat into deep water
and it escaped. The launch Immediately
proceeded to Anglesea. DR.. A. NJ. Har-
ris dressed Mr.. Gill's torn finger. The
members of the party say that they
have not the slightest doubt but that
the shark was a man-eater, as 1t was
fully Is feet long, and when 1t had ex-
tricated itself from beneath the boat It
promptly turned on its back.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-23

The Spanish sense of honor. like Span
fish common sense, has been best Illus
trated by the formal u%tterances of the
high civil and military officials of the
monarchy. It never stops at a lie, when
one may do any good. and indeed its ten
dency to falsehood seems to extend even
to habitual se1-deception.
Captain General Blanco's proclamation
explaining the surrender of Santiago is
an example of both classes of fiction. To
save the honor of the army the Hida1go
boldly launches into a confederation Of
fiction as impudent as it is ~threadbare.
But the curious part of 1t is hat the
man actually appears to believe in his
own fabrications to a greater or less ex-
tent.
we printed the full text Of the docu-
ment yesterday. It is necessary, here, to
silude to only one Of two Of the absurd
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-23
CORPORAL Ho0S IN TOWN.
He Says His Regiment Wants to Go
to Porto Rico.

Robert Hoos, the Mayors son. who has
gone to the front with the Fourth New
Jersey volunteers, was in the city yes
terdav afternoon. He called on his
father. ana was given a bundle of good
things to take to the camp at Sea Girt.
He was royalty treated by his friends.
Young Hoos Is proud of the government
uniform he is wearing. He said yesterday
there was some Likelihood Of the regiment
Of thesregiment are making a2hasd fight
10 Be designated as a part OF the Porto
Rican expedition. All the men are anx-
ious 10 "a where they will s~ee{active SER
Vice, Hoos says. He returned to camp
this morning.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-23

| est statements. For instance, he wishes
| - give the impression that the surrender
was due to lack OF supplies, produced by
| the blockade, n yet in the next breath
| he tells us it viii rave no effect on the
| future development OF the Spanish cam
| paign. as if all the world did not know
| that other parts of Cuba had been block
| AIDED much longer than Santiago
He says:-tThe Spanish army IS intact
and eager for glory What sort Of mind
| is it which calls an army of 100000 men
intact after $4,000 Of them nave surren-
| dered with all their arms, ammunition
and supplies?
The fact is the surrender of Santiago
was one Of the most cowardly and push
luminous military acts on record The
surrender of Marshal Bazaine, at Metz.
was not a circumstance to it, for Bazaine
had a political and not a military object
in view. That the Spaniards were short
of supplies may be true; but when we
look Jack through history at what be-
leaguered cities have endured, we see
plainly that General Toral and his troops
were very far from the last extremity.
General Shafter himself has borne wit
ness to the fact that their defences were
most formidable. The soldiers We're well
armed ard fought desperately. We had
sickness in one camp. Our lines were
threatened by a large Spanish force at
Holguin. 1t is a grave question whether,
if the Spaniards had shown generalshlp
and energy, they could not have raised
the siege and driven us back to our trans
ports. 1t is an undoubted fact that just
before the armistice there was general
d~espondency in our lines, and none were
more surprised at their ltimat blood
less victory thar our W soldiers.
1t is this strange habit of shutting their
ewes to the truth of things that is the
curse of the Spanish people, and they
have not changed in centuries. The
civilization of the Fifteenth and Six
tenth Century was based on a mass of
gratuitous assumptions, moral, philosoph-
zeal. material, which were nearly all err
roneous. The rest of the world has been
gradually discovering the errors and cor
recting its life TO accord with the ruth.
Spain, instead. has been piling up one
false conception on top of another and
carrying the process into details
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-23
COYNE WANTS BENEFITS
He Mandamuses the Patrol
mems Benevolent As
ISOLATION.
Especial to s'The Jersey city News."l

Especial to 1.-THE Jersey City News."1
TRENTON, July %, 1s9S.-Messrs. Nc
Gee. Bedle & Bedle, as counsel for ex-Pa-
trolman James A. Coyne. Tvs secured
from the Supreme Court a rule command
ing the Patrolmen's Benevolent Associa-
ton of Jersey City to show cause why a
mandamus shall not issue compelling the
association to pass a resolution recon-
mending to the PatroImen's Benevolent
Association of New Jersey, that every
member of that association be assessed
the sum of fifty cents. the same to be
paid to Coyne or his family. Coyne was
dismissed from the Jersey city police
force on January II, 1897, and since that
time he has been trying to a this as
sessment levied against the members of
the State Association. The rule to show
cause is made returnable at Trenton On
November 1.
In his petition Coyne recites that he was
one Of the charter members of the Patrol
mems Benevolent Association of Jersey
City, and that he is also a member of the
Patroiman's Benevolent Association Of
New Jersey. The constitution of the lat
ter order, he AYERS. provides that in case
of the dismissal of any member of any
local association from the police depart
ment In the city where he is a member,
every member in the State shall be as
sessed fifty cents. the same to be paid
such member or his family, upon the rec
o-mmendation of the local association Of
which he is a member.
On the day after his dismissal from the
force, being in good standing in both as
sociations, Coyne alleges, he requested
the local association, through its presi-
dent, William Keefe. for a recommended
ton that the assessment of fifty cents
per capita be ordered, and although he
has frequently and in a friendly manner
since applied to said local association
and its executive committee for said
recommendation, the same has been re-
fused
He also attempted to get the matter
before the State association, as the con-
sitution of that organization requires that
all grievances in local associations must
be submitted to the State association. at
its convention. Coyne alleges that he went
in person on different occasions to see
William Keefe. who was at the time presi-
dent Of both the State and local a%ssoeia-
lions. but Mr.. Keefe informed him h a
the State association would not act in
the matter until the local association had
taken action.
Coyne says he was a member Of the Jer-
city City police force from March 1, 1887,
until January IA, 1897. At the time Of his
dismissal from the force, there were, as
near as he can ascertain. S2 members OF
the State association liable to fifty cents
assessment. and at the present time. there
are, as near as can be aseertained, up
wards of 900 members who are liable.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-23
UTILIZING THE CADDIES.
How They Spend Dull Hours
at the Golf Club House,
Tournament News.

The Golf Clubhouse and grounds are
well patronized even on the hottest sum
mer days. Mrs. Lorette, the stewardess,
has every facility for providing an ex-
cellent luncheon or other refreshments
at short notice. Many of the members
spend the entire day about the club
house and grounds, arriving early IN the
morning and remaining until it is too
dark to play. Between games their time
is spent on the piazza of the clubhouse,
which is shaded from the sun and where
there is generally a cooling breeze. A
jolly party was at the clubhouse yester-
day. 1t consisted Of two well known
young women and their escorts. The
morning was spent in playing golf. At
ter luncheon it was too hot to play. Time
hung heavily on the hands of the quar-
tette, so one Of the gentlemen conceived
the idea Of making the caddies, some of
whom are always waiting about the
clubhouse for jobs, amuse the young
ladies.
By offering them prizes of money he
got them to enter into competitions at
running, jumping. hurdle jumping and
doing stunts. The boys range in age
from 8 to is years. They entered into
the spirit of the thing with a will and
for nearly two hours afforded amuse-
ment not only for the golfers but for the
neighbors as well. The tournament end
ed with a handicap race, the course be-
ing from the end of the macadam
ment on Gautier avenue, a block from
Delaware avenue. to West Side avenue,
back TO the starting point and then to
the clubhouse, which is at Delaware n
Gautier avenue.
The race was won by the largest boy,
who won from scratch. He was awarded
the first prize. twenty-five cents. The
second prize was ten cents, and the third
prize five cents. BY the time the race was
over the golfers were ready to return to
their links and resume their play.
The tournament recently held by the
club. was a decided success, and good
scores were made. Since the warm
weather has been with us, the Green
Committee decided that 1t was too warm
to play, and October was the month de-
cided upon as the month to resume the
games. The majority of the members of
the club are now away at various sum
mer resorts, but a meeting will be held
in the early fall for the purpose of setting
a date for the next tournament. Various
match games will be played, also %tourna-
ments open to all of the members. Hand
some prizes will be awarded.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-23
JOHN cARR's LIFE INSURANCE.

A suit of Nora Hefferan to recover $40
from the Citizens Mutual Life Insurance
Company Of Camden, was tried before
Justice Lippincott this morning The
n,aintifr was the beneficiary of her uncle,
.John Carr, who died in Union Hill in
Julv. 1897. The company refused to pay
the insurance on the ground that Carr
died Of pulmonary disease and that ne
misrepresented his age. When he took
the policy he said he was A years Old, al
though he was AZ. The cause Of death
was not brought INTO the case this morn
ing. Justice Lippincott gave a verdict
for the plaintiff for 1926 with interest
from the date Of Cars death. This
mount was fixed because Carr died With
{, ! vear after he was insured, AID was
therefore entitled to only one-nalf Of the
.~r,,-arra
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-23
DANGEROUS HOLE ON BOULEVARD

A dangerous hole caused by the sinking
of a manhole head, at Pearsall avenue and
the Boulevard, Greenville. should be look
ed after and repaired as some cyclists are
liable to receive serious injury at that
point. The spot has been in a wretched
condition for a month past. but no at
tempt has been made to repair the hole.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-23

MRS. WINFIELD may not IVA the
law on her side in her fight to preserve
the beautiful trees on Garfield ave-
nue. which skirt her property. But she
has good sense and good taste with her.
There is no conceivable need for a
wider sidewalk on hat little frequented
street, and the proposed destruction Of
the trees is a gross and wanton effort of
vandalism.