The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-08
HERO AS WELL AS P0EE
1Ad" Smith Saves a Young
Lady's Life on the
Loths' Excursion.


The second annual excursion Of the Gus
tav A. 10th Association, of which Alder
man 10th is the standard bearer, tool
place yesterday. The popularity of thu
| association and it's standard bearer was
demonstrated by the presence of ovel
Two thousand people. who crowded the bis
barges Currie and Vanderbilt. An effori
was made to secure another barge, bul
there were none available.
1t was shortly after ten o'clock wher
| the barges left the Fourteenth street docl
Hoboken, bound for Forest View, one o.
the most pic~turesquely located groves or
| the Hudson. 1t was a happy crowd thai
| swarlmsd the deck of the barges. The
summer excursion girl was out in force. A
number of aspiring Eleventh and TWELFTH
| ward politicians were aboard, but politics
was tabooed for the day. Ex~-Freeholdel
Smith, who is said to be seeking an As
sembly nomination, received an unex-
| pected boom. and if the women who were
on yesterdays excursion had the right to
vote they'd all vote to make him even
President. The ex-Freeholder and poet
laureate of Hudson county was AWAY
popular with the girls. He was the hero
Of the excursion party yesterday on the
return trip, as he walked about drippinG
like Cervera, after he was picked up from
fear the wreck of his flagship. only "Ad''
was not a prisoner, and he had his trou-
sers and shoes on. He had risked his life
at the grove in a gallant, daring and sue
cessful effort to save the life Of a young
Lady who had fallen out of a roVboat.
Divesting himself of his hat and colt only
he swan from the shore out several hum
bred feet to where the young lady was
struggling in twelve feet of water, and
swan with ner ashore. Her companions
had lost the oars of the boat and were
helpless. The e~x-Freeholder's gallant act
was ehesred by thousands ashore and
along the big wharf The rescued young
lady was Miss Lena Becker of West
New York.
There were one or two minor scraps
aboard to enliven the crowds below deck
a little, but they amounted to nothing,
thanks tb the efficiency of big Policeman
George Eieaty and his energetic colleague,
Patrolman Frank Connors. One Of the
side eversts of the day was the arranging
of a bicycle race between Beatty and Her
man 10th, to take place on the Boulevard
next Friday evening. The contest grew
out of Beaty's ~jocular remark that 10th
couldn't rid d stone-crusher let alone a
bicycle.
All the prominent political and social
organizations of the northern section of
the Heights were represented. The JEFF
ferson Club was strongly represented, and
few aboard appeared to be more popular
than its young President. George r. Nc
Kay. TIL Hillside Singing Society, the
Franklin Social Club. Charles Guthmuller
Association. the Klondyke Social Club,
the James J. Bergen Association, the Jas.
A. Clarke Association, he George J. Mo-
Ian Association, the James j.. Duane AS
ISOLATION and the Twelfth Ward Demo-
cratic Club were all represented.
The popular standard bearer divided his
time W his political friends, the
pretty girls aboard and his family. With
his youngest in his arms last night, he re-
marked: The rising generation needs all
my political attention.
The various committees did their work
in an excellent manner.
They were as follows:-Reception COM
mitteeAWilliam MeLaren, Frederick Pfei-
fer, Julius Reuter-, Anton Larsen, Herman
10th, Louis Geiser and Frank Riley.
Floor Committee-Bernard Duncan Jas.
Tresouthwiek, George Reisch, William
Sheridan, Herman Bergcamp and Rudolph
Sheehan.
Messrs. Fred Kraft and Carl Diller were
Floor Managers. assisted by Charles
Strobei and August Diller.
The officers of the association are
Frederick Bugasch. President; Peter
Ter, Financial Secretary; Fred Gassman,
Recording Secretary; William Mohring,
Treasurer; Fred Diller, Sergeant-at-Arms,
and Louis Mueller, acknowledgement
Arms.
Among those on the excursion were Mr..
and Mrs. John Schaeffer, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Seeger, Emil Hansen. Mr.. and Mrs.
H. Mueller. L. Guaraglia, George Schaef-
er, Albert Diedrichs, Richard Bartels.
J. Grassman. George Stewart, F.. Grass
man, Mr.. and Mrs. E. Barnes, Mr.. and
Mrs. S. Richter, Mr.. and Mrs. F. Kloep-
ping. Mr.. and Mrs. F. Clocks, George
Clocks. Charles Rudolphy, Robert White.
Charles Cordean, Albert Corby, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward .Reute, Mr. and Mrs. J.
and Mrs. William Rhode. Thomas Car
roll. II. Meyer. Edward Ely. George Hols-
chuk, j.. Corrigan, Frank Martin, George
Feibel, Stephen Fallon, Fred Hoppe, j.
Martin, Janaes Corrigan, James Corbley.
Michael Barrett, Ed. Sanders, John See
ger. Joseph Connors, F. Dohrmann, Chas.
Russell, Fdw. White, Frank Drake, Geo.
T. Mckay. John Wisen, c. Redding. Ran
dolph Ward, Thomas Haley, William
Oehlandt. Charles Gartman, Edward
Wiegle, r, Laird, D; Barek. Misses Alice
Kenney. Minnie Ardner, Bertha Bothye,
Lottie vero, Lizzie Stork, Mary Landa,
Mamie Kelly, Nellie Dunn, Lizzie Berg,
Mamie Dooley. Mamie Zahn, Amelia
Bishop, Lena Koob, Mamie Reynolds,
Maggie Ross, Maggie Rose, Florence Con-
nell. Florence Gassmann, Louise Gass-
man, f. Ebbs. Carrie Phillips, M. SAN
ders, J.. Sanders, L. Grossman. D. Brun-
ing. N. Bede,l f. Dorman, Lottie Gilman,
Hattie Price. Kitty Ryan, May Coward,
H. Brown, G. Walz, Mary Stokes, Annie
McCarty. Kate Stephens, Mary Boldt,
Katie Madden, Messrs. Charles Heck,
William Boldt. William Davis and Harry
Wright.
Rumor has it that five men who es-
corted their wives on the Gustav 10th AS
sociation's excursion to Forest View
Grove yesterday. climbed up into the
mountains and failed to return in time ia
catch the barges on the departure of the
excursionists from the grove. The WON
en- refused to leave the grove until their
husbands returned. The names of the
five men could not be a~scertafned. nor
could any additional facts of the story be
learned.