Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-01-27
DINNER MEN
Trenton Correspondents Honor
Griggs and Voorhees,.
BOTH TO STEP TO HIGHER PLACES.

Governor Griggs Goes TO Washington and
voorhees, VIII Sit In the Executive
Chair-Home For Old Soldiers and
Their Wives Suggested. In Addition TO
the Regular Soldiers Home at Kearny.
Especial Correspondence
Trenton, Jan. 26.-It may seem a tri-
fle paradoxical, but the most prominent
feature of the present legislative week
has been a dinner. If any excuse is
needed for this state of affairs, it may
be added that it was a very big and
gorgeous dinner and that the guests of
honor gave it a significance which rele-
gated all other events of the week to a
secondary position.
The dinner was given by the working
newspaper men of the capital in honor
of Foster w. Voorhees,, president of the
senate, who is about to occupy the ex-
ecutive chair, and of Governor Griggs,
who is on the eve of attaining national
distinction as attorney general in Pres
ident McKinley's cabinet. The event
took place yesterday evening at the
Trenton House banquet hall, and it
proved in every way delightful sue
cess. The menu was choice, the wines
were superb and the decorations and
the music charmed eye and ear. In adj
dition to Messrs. Griggs and voorhees,,
President of the Senate Pro Tempore
Skirm and Speaker Watkins were pres
ent as guests. Besides the Trenton cor
respondents, a number of other news
paper men attended, but no outsiders
robbed the banquet of it's character as
a journalistic tribute to two popular
public men. There was some speech
making at the close, in which guests
and hosts said lot of pleasant things
about each other in witty way that
made the banquet hall ring with laugh
ter and applause
Following is a full list of the news
paper men who attended the banquet.
Upton S. Jeffreys, Philadelphia Inquir-
err; Charles A. Ransom, Jersey City
News; Charles H. Folwell, Mount Holly
Mirror; Joseph c. Kingdom, Mount Hol-
ly News; Daniel A. Dugan, New York
Journal; Alfred Cooper, Cape May Coun-
ty Gazette; Sinnichson Chew, West Jer-
sey Press; Frank F. Patterson, Jr Cam
den Telegram; F. B. Lee, Trenton Times;
James Kerney, Trenton True American;
Joseph B. Engard, Camden Post; H. N.
Bonsall, Camden Post; Thomas F. Lane.
Summit Record; Edmund c. Hill, Tren-
ton Evening Times; r. M. Floyd, Oma-
ha Bee; J. A. MacLauchlan, Metuchen
Recorder; Robert Gwynne, Salem Sun
beam; J. w Cliff, Summit Herald; S.
H. Wood, Trenton Times; William J..
Pape, Passaic News; Hugh Boyd, New
Brunswick Home News; John P. Dull
lard. Associated Press; William H.
Fischer, Toms River Courier; S. Con-
rad OFT, Camden Courier; Charles r.
Bacon, Philadelphia Record; Thomas
Holmes State Gazette; Clayton ]. Bal
ley, Standard News association; John
J. Cleary, Trenton Sunday Advertiser
and American Press Association; Harry
Wootton, Atlantic City Press; H. w.
Leeds, Atlantic City Press; H. S. Wal
lace, Atlantic City Press; Edgar Will
liams, Orange Journal; Charles H. Levy,
Trenton Sunday Advertiser; Charles H.
Bateman, Somerville Unionist-G Gazette;
Lawrence S. Mott New York Mail and
Express; A. S. Barber, Woodbury. Con-
stitution; John j. Farrell, Newark Even
ing News; William E. Sackett, New
York Herald; William K. Deyereux,
Trenton State Gazette; W. Holt Apgar,
Hoboken News; Joseph D. Byrne, New
York World; Alexander Mclean, Jer-
sey City Journal; Charles ]. Allen, New
ark Daily Advertiser; James Martin,
New York Tribune; William H. Rooms,
Philadelphia Press; Walker H. Fell,
Philadelphia Ledger; Harry B. Rollin-
son, New Jersey Advocate, Railway;
Harry C. Valentine, New York Tribune:
Thomas F. Fitzgerald, Paterson Guard
ian.
There was a change in the expected
programme for Senator Voorhees, ac-
cession to the executive chair, which
had been originally fixed for this week
Governor Griggs decided that he would
not tender his resignation till next
Monday. 1t will go directly to the sec
rotary of state by whom it will be
transmitted to both houses of the legis-
lature. A joint resolution will follow
providing for joint meeting of the two
legislative branches, at which President
of the Senate Voorhees, will take the
oath of his new Office. It is now thought
that the joint meeting will be held next
Tuesday, but to prevent an interreg-
mum President Voorhees, will doubtless
take the oath privately as soon as Gov
ernor Griggs' resignation is placed in
the hands of the secretary of state.
The legislature this week passed two
bills defining the oath for the acting
governor and fixing his title.
For Old Soldiers Wives.
A desire has prevailed for some time
among the veterans of New Jersey to
have provision made for the wives of
the old soldiers as well as for the SOL
diers themselves. The first suggestion
was that the inmates of the Soldiers
home at Kearny should, when they de-
sired, be permitted to take their wives
with them, but this proposition was re-
jected at the last legislative session for
various reasons, one of which was that
there would not be room enough in that
institution for all who would apply. It
is represented that quite few of the
veterans have wives unable to care for
themselves and that it is a hardship to
separate the old couples in their declin-
ing years. This winter a new SUCCESS
ton is afoot, and it has come to the
front in the shape of a bill by Senator
Stokes providing for distinct home for
the veterans who have wives DESTROYS
OF joining them. Under the new bill
the governor is to appoint five persons,
with the consent of the senate, who
shall constitute the board of managers
and serve for five years. They are to
receive no compensation. They are to
proceed to provide home with cloth
ing, subsistence, ETC., the expenses
thereof not to exceed $4,000. They are
to appoint a commandant, adjutant,
chaplain and other officers, subject to
the governors approval Persons shall
be admitted on the certificate of COM
mon pleas judge, who shall hear suit
able testimony, including that of repu-
table physician. The governor is to
name five persons who shall select from
the lands now held by the state a suit
able site for the home and shall have
power to proceed with it's erection. It
is said that an effort will be made to
locate the home in south Jersey, prob
ably in Cumberland county The home
at Kearny will then be maintained SOLE
~ for soldiers without wives.
After the Corporations.
Senator Foster of Hunterdon has
come to Trenton with somewhat of
reputation as an antimonopolist, and
he is already giving indications that he
Is not ashamed of the title One of the
measures that he is championing is in
the interest of the peach and other
fruit growers. who have long com
planned that much of their profit has
been lost in excessive freight rates.
Senator Foster proposes bill fixing