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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-11
HIGH SCHOOL CLASS or 'ss.

The January class of SO, of the Jersey
City High School,, as has been the GUS
tom OF all senior classes, will give its
entertainment in the Jersey City Club
house, Crescent and Clinton avenues, on
Friday evening next, November IS, at
eight O'Clock. The entertainment will
consist of a three-act farce, and will be
presented by the strongest possible cast
selected from the roll Of those clever
Thespians who ave repeatedly played
before highly appreciative audiences, the
William J. Florence Dramatic Company
Following the entertainment will be a re-
ception. The committee in charge, J..
Merritt Lane, chairman; A. Vincent
Rochester, vice chairman; Ethelyn Hig-
ginbotham, Lucie NJ. Harvey, Bessie R.
Cannon, Maybe Malone, and John F.
Cough. have spared no effort to make
this event more ~pleasurable to patrons
and more successful to the class than
any previously given High School enter
tainment.
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WORK FOR S. r. c. A
Its Officers Might Earn Salaries at
the function,

An officer Of the Society of Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals could do much good
were he stationed these days at the juno
tion. Not a day passes but some nhuman
brute is seen clubbing a defenseless ami
mai because it is beyond its power 10
drag a heavy oad up the Communipaw
avenue hill. This has been going on for
years, though for a short time it was
stopped. The loads packed on some of
the one-horse trucks are as much as two
horses could draw. A driver for a well
known Newark firm has said that horses
never live more than two years at that
work.
Last evening at Arlington and Conn
munipaw avenues a rig, the property of
A. Cohen & Brother, of Newark, was
standing sidewise on Communipaw ave-
nue.. Again and again the horse vas
beaten by its brutal drive with a heavy
whip, but it had evidently done its best
could go no further. A crowd of per
haps a hundred people were standing
around, a dozen cars were blocked, and
traffic was at a standstill. Firally another
driver unhitched his horse and helped
drag the wagon up the hill.
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New Contests Begun.

The next political fight which will agi-
tate the State viii be the contest for
President Of The senate and Speaker OF
the House of Assembly. This struggle
will be one in which the Democrats will
have no interest further than that OF
spectators.
AT this early stage of the game it looks
as though there will be little if any
trouble over the speakership. The only
candidate thus far is David O. Watkins,
Speaker Of the Assembly, Acting Cover
nor. Mr.. Watkins made many friends
while presiding over the Assembly last
winter both in his own and the Demo-
cratic party and the members of the latter
who sat In the last House and who Will
be in the next would like to see him
WELD the gavel again SO long as it is inn
possible to bestow the honor upon one
of their own number.
For a Republican, Mr.. Watkins was
more than ordinarily fair and by his i'm
partial rulings he won not only the re-
spect but the esteem of his fellow mem
bers, irrespective of party.
In the Senate there appears to be more
of a contest. Senator Johnson, of Bergen
county, and Senator Stokes, Of Cumber-
and county and of the Supreme Court
Ct-., h,,o a1raa5v iumned into
the race. The chances favor the Bergen
man. Mr.. Stokes has been the presiding
officer once during his long career. while
Senator johnson has not as yet achieved
that honor. Mr.. Johnson's latest victory
has showed him UP a peg or two in the
estimation of his party and there is an
indication on the part of the South Jersey
Senators to show him all the honor pos
sible. They still consider Bergen a Demo-
cratic county, and every time it is carried
by a Republican they regard the victor as
a sort of political Alexander and consider
nothing too good for him..
Still it is too early to make predictions
There are too many hungry Republicans
in the Senate to let Mr.. Johnson slip into
the Presidents chair without a struggle
In the light of the history Of the past
year, they don't know that they might
not n a place for Mr.. Voorhees, some
where in Washington. and thus the Presi-
-. - ..-1,,lJ hooopna AptipD
Governor with all its trimmings, including
sssa.ss 1s per month, and a einch on the
next mammalian
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An n GRANTING PERMISSION
and authority TO the North Hudson County
er l,sed on its railway and cars operated by
it in Grove street and other streets and ave-
nues in Jersey City, and 70 use electric power
for the propulsion of its cars thereon anu 70
erect poles and string wires Tor such purposes
on the line of its railway on Grove street pc
tween Newark avenue and the HopeSen lily
The Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey City, by
the Board of Street and Water commiissions
ers. for and on behalf of the municipality OF
said city, do ordain as follows
Section 1ZTha the permission and consent
of the municipality of Jersey City is hereby
given to the North Hudson County Railway
Company, and said Railway Company hereby
is permitted and authorized to use electric
power as the propelling power of its ears upon
its street railroad. owned, operated and con
trolled by it in Grove street, from the HOBO
ken city Line to the centre line of Newark
avenue. and also upon the street railroad, OPP
Grated and controlled by II in Grove street
from the centre line of Newark avenue TO
street to Gregory street; in Gregory street
from Wayne street to York street; in YORK
street from Gregory street 70 Hudson s.reess
Exchange place into Montgomery street; IN
Montgomery street from Exchange place 70
Newark avenue, and in Newark avenue from
Montgomery street to Grove street.
Section 2-That the permission and con,
sent of the City is hereby given 20 SAID
North Hudson County Railway Company to
erect and maintain the necessary poles and
string thereon overhead wires on Grove street.
between Inc E1Ob0ke1 <N 1tuF dnA tHc
centre line of Newark avenue. for the pur-
pose Of supplying and conducting electric
power for the operation OF its railroad.
section s-That the location Of and the
place or places at which poles shall be
erected for the support of wires 70 conduct
the electricity for the propulsion Of its cars
on its railway on said Grove street are here
by fixed and determined to be the place or
places designated and described in and upper,
certain map entitled MAP showing proposed
location Of trolley poles on line Of the North
Hudson County Railway Company on Grove
street, Jersey City, from Newark avenue to
the Hoboken City Line. September 1898, s
Is. Brush & Co, G. E., scale 80 feet to the
incl.o which snid map shows the location Of
all poles and the places where the same are
Is be erected. and reference is hereby made
10 said map for a definite description OF the
same, and the said map is hereby made a
part Of this ordinance, and the Clerk Of the
Board Of Street and Water Commissioners IS
hereby ordered and directed 10 cause the said
map 70 be filed ~ q part Of the records Of the
said Cit of Jersey City, and the same shall
hereafter reuain in his office of REGARD.
section 4[That the poles to be ereeted
under the provisions Of this ordinance shall
is IL tubular iron and shall be placed as
shown upon the aforesaid map, inside os ana
xbutting against the curb Of said Grove street.
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GEO. 7. BoUToN. clerk.

TO JOHN E. NEwKIRK. FRANK NJ An
drus. Nellie e. Andrus, his wife; Henry c.
Scoop. and Helen n. soop his wife, sa,s
made by the City Collector Of Jersey City. on
the 6th day of October, 1895, The Mayor
the sum Of thirty-hve dollars and forty-nine
cents ALL the land and real estate situate
& ssa Jersey s. S Nsw = Jersey sas eg fronsin g o on Tonn ssis
avenue, which is laid down and designated
as lots three g, four @ and aye q;
eighty-four lssil, upon an assessment
map annexed to q report number enc
missioners Of ADJUSTMENT appointed in and
for said City by the Circuit Court OF ING
County Of Hudson. a eeFsinea copy : ~ y he
city Collector OF Jersey City. on the 2otn day
If November. 1885, said report and map ana
ions OF an act OF the Legislature Of New Her
sey, passed March 2eth, 1896. entitled
"An Act concernlng the settlement and collec-
ton of arrearages of unpaid taxes. assess
nents and water rates or water rents in
cities of this State, and imposing ana leVy-
ing a tax, assessment ana lien m iieo anu
instead Of such aiTearaEes, and g enforce
the paynaesft thereof, and to provide for the
sale Of lands subjected to future taxation
and assessment.
And the several supplements thereto
And You are further notified that You appear
70 have an estate state. q ana lh Unless t 1a s sala
land and real estate shall be redeemed.
AZ provided IN said acts, before the ex-
nirafjop Of SIX myltHs 4EvHt AN4 amer
the service hereof, a deed for the same VIVA be
given conveying to The Mayor and Aldermen
~ Jersey city, the fee simple Of said land and
rsai estate according TO the provisions OF the
said act
TINS MAYOR AND ALDERMEN or JHR-
9. O
fSeala Mayor.
Attest III. ]. ospoNSELLs
City Clerk
6 ossIs NJ 5lsel -.
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eleven thousand Democratic majority in
Hudson county, he said, was ridiculous
and was only made to fool Mckinley
Hobart and other leaders at Washington
They had promised that If allowed te
name the postmasters of Jersey City. Ho-
boken, West Hoboken, and other officials
they would carry the county for the Re
publican party. They did, said the
speaker, and the audience laughed out.
right.
Mr.. McEwan said that he would try te
avoid personalities as much as possible
but it was necessary to recall some facts
AT the time Wanser was nominated foi
Mayor any Republican could have beer
elected. The people wanted a change O
party. The men elected to power refused
to endorse my patronage recommended
by the Patronage Committee of the Couni
ty Committee. Mr.. McEwan said that
Wanser. Dickinson and Woolley tried te
set up a Dick Croker machine, and
that since 1893 not a single Repub-
lean victory had been won by the
Republican County Committee. 1t was
a crying shame, he said, that such men
should ever stand before a Republican
audience. They had every chance to car
ry this county 1t was high time that
the bosses responsible for the misman-
agement Of the party should be over
thrown. If they were overthrow, every
city and township could be made Repuh-
lican. Last spring the only victory
throughout the county achieved by them
was The election of three school trustees,
and one had no opposition. When the
W 49, -
Republican voters had found that the ef-
forts of the bosses were simply direct
ed to perpetuate themselves in power
| many of them refrained from voting
! Higher than even sound money, he said,
ia our manhood and the perpetuation OF
our institutions. The only hope Repub-
| licans had was to get out and wallof
the bosses.
He spoke of the weakness of the meE
who had been appointed to Federal posi-
tons through the influence OF the Re
publican bosses, and asked where were
! the friends of Wanser, Eichhorn and Arm
bruster. He alluded to the fact that the
first three signatures to Wanser's peti-
ton were the Standard Oil Company, the
| American Sugar Refining Company and
| the Consolidated Traction Company, as
Indicative Of the obligations that Wan
! ser and his friends. owe to the
trusts and corporations, He .de-
nolnced the turning down OF fhe
| old veteran. Major Hart, for Leonarf
Schroeder as postmaster. He believed
| thar all such trust bosses as Piatt, Quay
Hanna and others Of that TX Should ?,
| overthrow in the interest or the lapoflns
ma and his family. He said he hated NJ
man. but despised the principles of sons
who were getting richer and richer by III
/ gotten gains, while the poor were gettlns
| prorer. That system should be over
/ thrown. The speaker showed how In'
primaries were manipulated IN the IN
| terests of such bosses and hundreds snu
out from voting so that conventions couit
| DO controlled by them. The work of tnt
association was no holiday work. but !
Should so on with it: He advised ina
! second. Third. Fourth and Fifth wards
| Thu platform of the Republican party o.
! 1856, he declared, was his platform. ina
platform was for the lettering of human
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-11
p.n.,,o canal pro.peeta.

sAlthough there is not much talk ABOUT
it in the newspapers, the construction
work now in progress on the Panama
Canal is on a scale of magnitude which
will bring the enterprise TO a successful
issue" said B. l.. Hewson, of the Istllmus
of Panama. to a Post" reporter at the
Ebbitt. There are now over 4,C00 men
employed or. the canal, and the work IS
being done in a thorough and scientific
fashion. Had the first company proceed
ed as carefully as the present one IS, the
canal would have been in operation ere
thjs.S but the first company squaEdered
millions of dollars, hardly leaving
a thing to show for the money h q
was spent k water. The Canal COM
pany owns the Panama Railroad THAT
runs across the isthmus. but the active
management is in other hands All the
officers of the road and higher employees
are Americans. It is a b~road-gauged
road. forty-seven miles in length, and
ness ln sseI It's passenger kr:ff IS the highest
in the world, as the charge for taking
one over the route is $50 in gold. or al
most fifty cents per NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Post
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Tdiotic :'Pxess'' Canard.

It has been al open question whether
the Republican o~ficeholder. who writes
New Jersey politics for the New York
Press. under the name of .sFreefiolder. =
Is clothed in his right mind. No one would
believe he was, after reading this from
this mornings "Press'
The old gang was prepared to restore
race track gambling.
Now, every man Of ordinary intelli-
gence in this State knows that race
track gambling" Is prohibited IN this
state " the Constitution and hat this
prohibition cannot in any way be dis
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turbed within the next three years. Then
any attempt to set it aside must De
sanctioned by two Legislatures and a ma
jority Of the voters Of the State There
fore, it is. as plain as day to everyone,
except a self-infatuated nineompoop like
..Freeholder.n HI no gang, same old
or otherwise, can restore race track
gambling" however eager 1t might De-
without the consent of the people OF the
state, expressed at the polls.
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CHRISTIAN EADEAVoRERS.

The s~emi-annua1 rally Of the Hudson
County Christian Endeavors Societies
was held last evening at the Wayne
Street Reformed Church., and although
the weather was very unpleasant, there
was a good attendance of delegates. The
Rev. Robert K. Wick, pastor of the
Wayne Street Church, made the address
of welcome, and, after he finished, the
programme was opened by a song SER
vice, which was followed by an address
by the Rev. A. e. Keigwin of Millville.
N. ]. The Rev. Charles Harris Jones. Of
Bayonne, chaplain OF the Second United
States Volunteers, related his experience
among the soldier boys The consecra-
ton service was conducted by the Rev.
T.. w. Gowen, and the visitors We're en-
tertained by fhe local society.
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Frorn niaaient point. Of view.

A lady who has lately been making a
visit in the West was telling the other
day about the forlorn aspect of the coun-
try out that way to her. "Even the golden
rod she said. you can't imagine how
seraggly and poor it looks, compared with
our magnificent flowers along the road
here. / wonder what makes the Western
golden rod SO Inferior" The very next
day there arrived to her house a relative
whom she had been visiting when she was
in the West. He sat on the eranda, and
ooked indulgentiy-even admiringly-at
the landscape. and praised its elements of
beauty. But as his eye ran along the road
SIDE near by, he said: But there is one
thing that we are ahead of you n-yeu
have no such splendid golden rod here as
we have out West, The golden rod grow
ing along that road, now, IS tame and
poor mpa with ours, h a
blessed thing 1T is that the gold of our
own waysides is richer than the gold of
all other wayssdest-Boston Transcript.
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noUR BOYS
Dramatic Union Of the Catholic Club
Gives a Play.

Gives a Play.
The member Of the Democratic Union
| Of the Catholic Club presented. under the
able management of Mr.. n. Louis Pal
adeau, chairman of the Union, our
Boys their first play this season, last
| evening, before. a fair sized audience,
considering the inclement weather. 1t is
in three acts and is very amusing from
the beginning until the curtain falls in
the last act. The amateurs were not a
bit slow and all performed their parts
to perfection. The play deals with two
young men whose fathers are very rich
and intend to bring them up to do just
as they and marry according
to their dictation. But the young men
refuse to marry the girls they select,
and are turned away from home. Seven
months later they are seen in q cheap
boarding house, where their fathers To-.
cate them, and the fun in this act is
immense. The parts of "Our Boys are
taken by j. J. Sweeney as Talbot Champ
news. and William Prahl as Charles Mid
dlewick. Timothy Healy, as Sir Geoffry
Champneys, performed exceedingly wen
and received a fair share Of the ap-
plause. Joseph Buettner, as Perkyn Mid
dlewick, a retired butterman, created a
great deal of fun and was very clever
James Farrell, as Kempster, a servant,
was good. Miss Harriet McCartie, as
Violet Melrose. performed her part adj
mirably. Miss May Doherty, as Mary
Melrose, her poor cousin, was also clever,
and Miss McCartie, as Clarissa
Champneys, a sister to Geoffry. caused
no end of amusement with her old fash
toned makeup and flower garden hat:
Miss Adele Bulger took the part of
Belinda, a servant in the cheap board
ing house. The stageing of the play was
under the direction of Thomas OBrien
and Augustus Brown. After the play
dancing was enjoyed until midnight. The
Games and Entertainment Committee
were in charge, with Hugh ]. Burns as
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o'KEEFE-DEvANE.

Miss Della Devane, of No. 500 Newark
avenue. was married Wednesday after
noon to William O'Keefe, of No. 300 Sip
avenue. The ceremony too place at St.
Johns r.. G. Church, and was performed
by the Rev. Father Donnelly. Mr.. Wiilam
kffov was best man and Miss Mary De
vane was the bridesmaid. A reception fol-
lowed the ceremony at the residence OF
Mrs. ]. Coyne. an aunt of the bride.
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NEW PUBLICATIONS
Home TALK for November.

"Home Talk" published by Messrs.
Furst Brothers. eantains this month
many articles of interest to ladies.
Amongst them are MY Friend Knowles"
by Gilbert Frederick: "Hon1e Deeora-
TONS "Fashions for& Men and Boys
Thanksgiving Hints" Hints to the
Home Dressmakerr' by Mr.. TG. w. Pal
mer. and "Fo the Busy Woman" by
Margaret Ross. The magazine is illus
trated. The music this month is a polka.
entitled, s.Cunning Franks by Henry
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-11
SWEDISH E. |. FAIR.

A bazaar was opened last night in the
parIors of the Swedish Ebenezer Luther
an Church. on Palisade avenue. near Ho-
boken avenue. IT is being held under the
auspices of the Ladies' Sewing Circle. Al
sorts of fancy goods are on exhibition
and the decorations of the parlors and
booths American. Cuban and Swedish.
Rev. Julius Oleson, pastor of the church,
formally opened the Pazar and made a
brief address, thanking and encouraging
the members of the Circle for their good
work.
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The Count in Hudson County.

The Count in Hudson Comfy.
w believe the extra edition published
by The News on Wednesday morning
both earned and deserved the approval
OF the public, who were naturally eager
to learn The exact results of the election.
With the single exception of the Con-
gressional seat for the Third District, the
list Of the candidates elected was abso-
lutely accurate, as well as absolutely
complete. The exact complexion of both
Houses of the Legislature. separately and
In Joint convention, was shown and the
Hudson Board of Freeholders was given
specifically as to membership and political
control.
The figures printed included all of Jersey
city, all of Bayonne and the three town
ships in the western part of the county.
These figures were so accurately given
that we believe the official count will not
disturb them twenty-five votes in the
aggregate. 1.-THE News does not claim all
EH9 glory Oh pIfiilliS lHio itiC 4 vi
complete figures for itself. It comedies
high praise to the election officers. These
men did their work with remarkable
promptitude and intelligence. We under
stand that the count was complete in
every precinct in this city at midnight,
and, when the length of the ticket and
the very heavy vote are considered, this
is a most honorable record. There are
ninety-four precincts in this city, thirteen
in Bayonne and eleven in Harrison,
Kearny and East Newark. This is 1S
altogether, and the result indicates that
the right men must have been selected to
man the polls in all these places. In this
city, a word Of praise is also due to City
Clerk Michael J. O'Donnell, whose ar
rangements were most admirable. His
circulars of instruction were lucid and
impressive; his blanks and forms were the
most convenient and complete that have
ever been used here, and no doubt the
ease with which the election officers did
their work was in a large degree due to
his labors in making the conditions easy
for them. Altogether the performance
was one of the most creditable we have
had to note in ten years experience of
Jersey City municipal methods, and we
believe the Journal even, will coincide
in these words of endorsement and APP
prevail.
We wish We could say the same thing
of Hoboken and the northern towns. Blu
we cannot The count there was dis
gracefully slow. A few precincts did well;
but they were so few as hardly to dis
count the general criticism that incom-
petenee and stupidity must have prevail
ed among the election officers. IN one
Hoboken precinct and three North Hud-
son ones. the proceedings We're specially
outrageous. In the Fourth District of
the Third Ward of Hoboken. the figures
were not turned in to the police until
ten O'Clock on Wednesday morning. There
was no reason for this. There were only
about 500 votes to count. and numerous
other precincts counted an equally large
number by midnight or one A. M. at the
latest.
The very bad North Hudson precincts
were the First of the First Ward. and the
Second of the Third Ward, of West Ho-
1fx1~ D14l &c., ia -.
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pleTuRIae CUBAN WAR.

The Sunday school of the Simpson
Methodist Church, last night, enjoyed a
s~tereopticon lecture by Prof. n Theodor
Chamberlain, on the recent war-in CUBA.
The lectures were Illustrated by kineso-
marry Of the most stirring incidents of the
nrar with Snain
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POLICE AID ASSOCIATIONS.

At a meeting of the Police Mutual Aid
Association of Hoboken yesterday, these
officers were appointed TO serve as a
sick committee:-John Hughes. John Ken
ny and j.. KieIy. The Patrolmen's Benev-
olent Association of Hoboken. which also
met yesterday. appointed the following
sick committee:-J. Donoghne, d. Kelley
nnd L L ENll- 49,
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NIGHT SCHOOL OPENED.

The opening session of the night school
at No. IA. on Union street, was well at
tended last evening in spite of the
weather. Principal Sweeney and his
corps of eachers were on hand, but the
most of the evening was spent in select
ing pupils for the various grades. The
real work win hardly begin before Mon
daY night.