The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09
Soeietn Topics.


TO be given Monday night in Phillips
Hall: there are euchres to follow immed-
lately, and weddings innumerahle- Blu
what ii war should be declared? Ii the
Reserves were ordered out. for instance,
when the Presidents message has been
read on Monday. Mr.. Edward Bachelor
is one of the committee which is arrang-
ing the dance for Monday night, instead
of having a delightful post-Lenten dance,
win be less Selightfully engaged on board
the MontauE 1t is too hard, the girls de-
clare. when they lave had to be so quiet
all through Lent. to have all their dances,
and good times spoiled by an old war.
So there. For what is the use of getting
up a dance when half the men may be
taken away at a moments notice. War
is all very well. they say, and they have
heard their kind mothers talk about
scraping lint and writing TO the soldiers,
and all that, but when it comes right ar
ter Lent and spoils all the fun
There is a<good foundation for the wall,
for there are a number of society men
who will be missed If the orders come.
Suppose the Naval Reserve should be
ordered on board the Montauk and the
Fourth Regiment TO Sea Grit. Mr.. Fred
Benaitt. who is TO be married Tuesday
night to Miss Jessie Marvin, is a Reserve.
Mr.. Beinltt has been given two weeks
leave of absence. SO the wedding will take
place, peace or war-but at the end of two
weekse The Reserves. though a small
body, number among the men enough to
make their absence felt at social events.
MIR. d. Frank Hart, of Hoboken, is En-
gineer-in-ghief, and win be found. if war
come, in the engine room. Ensign G. Fred
Long will have q minor command on deck,
and so will Lieutenant Charles NJ. Vree-
land. Boatswainss Mate Frank NJ. Bloom
PUSHES about when trouble Is on, blowing
a small whistle called .Bosun's pipe and
repeating the orders of the commanding
oflicers.and Fireman Louis W. Garrick, son
of Judge Garrick. will be in the fire room
passing coal" as Il is called in the navy,
..shovelling coal, as IL is termed on
shore. Poor Mr.. Garrlck!
The number of society men in the
Fourth Regiment is of course, much lar
ger. The state Hospital and Ambulance
Corps, which has reported itself ready for
duty. has thirty-seven Jersey City men.
Captain DR.. Ray Inglis will, of eeurses
have to go with them. The roster of the
Fourth Regiment officers alone shows a
large number of men. and there are a
number of society men among the nom
commissioned staff. Among the men on
the roster who are well known in social
circles, and whose presence is necessary
to social events are Major ]. Howard
Bumstead, Jr., Battalion Adjutant Harry
II. Bowly, Major William j. Parker. Lieu
tenant Joseph NJ. Rector, Chaplain John
L. S~cudder, Captain William Klink. Lieu
tenant John T. Pringle. Captain Henry FL.
Brinkerhoff, Jr., Captain Wallace Vree-
land. Captain Wallace Maxon, Lieuten-
mats John ]. Toffey, Jr, Manuel M. Llera,
William II. Wild. M~armaduke Tilden, Jr,
and William B. Brister. This Isl Of
course, but a partial list. There few of
the society men who are not in the
Fourth Regiment.
Now the question comes, What are the
girls to do? Their mothers consoled
themselves by scraping lint and rolling
bandages-but nowadays they don't want
them. Some of their mothers went as
nurses-but nowadays they won't have
them. The War Department has grown
particular and takes only trained nurses.
Their mothers used to knit stockings and
mittens-but nowadays the men won't
wear them, and il they were willing to do
for the girls they what wouldn't do for
their country the stockings and mittens
n the wal would probably be finished
at the same time. What then can the
girls do? FAN back on charity euchres
and pink teas and raise money for the
country?
The dramatic instinct evidently will not
be downed. The Apollo Club and the
Amateur Opera Company died a natural
death and the Lenox Dramatic Club, after
one short year, sickened and died, lamen-
ted by all. The new club is THE Players
Club"-there is at least variety in the
names used for these amateur attempts.
It is a strange feature of these clubs that
each one is built on the remnants of the
old. Mr.. Wesley Fl. Negus has been a
member of all. Mr.. Eugene Leake strug-
gled for fame in the one play given by the
Lenox Club. and Mr.. Harold Koonz, was
not Mr.. Koonz one of the lesser lights?
However that may. be. the club has de-
cided to give a play, The Guardsman, .
written for Charles Frohman, though
never produced. Some charity will be
benefited. though it is not known which.
The charity Is a secondary consideration
of course The play will be given in May.
The east has not yet been arranged.
The officers of the club are: President,
Mr.. Oscar G~ubleman; viee-pres'aent,
Miss Ada Jarvis; secretary. Nh. Harold
Koonz; chairman of dramatic commit
tee, Mr.. Eugene ". Leake. The dra-
matte committee consist of Messrs.
Eugene w. Leake. Wesley Il. Negus,
Oscar Gubleman, Edward Suter, Miss
Richie Bennett, Miss Gnla jackson and
Mis- Ada Jarvis.
The member are: Miss Elizabeth Dix
on. Miss Laura Dixon, Miss Matilda
Miller, Miss Louise Perry, Miss Jessie
Perry, Miss Ida Jarvis. Miss Richie Ben
nett, Miss Virginia Bennett, Miss Anna
Koonz, Miss Bertha Anness, Miss Gula
Jackson, Miss Ethel Potts. Miss Jane
Scott, Miss Miriam Scott, Miss Blanche
Niorell. Messrs. Harold Koonz, Oscar
Gubleman, Eugene w. Leake, William
Klunpp, Frank Richardson, Samuel
Richardson, Fred. Gubleman, Wallace
Pyle, Robert Jarvis, Henry Brown. Ed.
Suffer, Olney Higgins, Frank Hart, Wesley
II. Negus. Sydney Wallace and M. spaul-
ding.
The Lenten Sewing Circle resents the
imputation cast by uncharitabie people on
its charity, and announces tiat no prizes
viii be begged from outsiders. The mer-
an+ --ip NOT no hafharad and ffa MEM