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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-16
TO MEASURE THE WATER.
Water Board Thinks East
Jersey Charges for More
Than Is Used.
TEST TO Be MADE AT BELLEVILEE
Company Charges For as
Much as 81, 900, 900
Gallons a Day.
TEST TO BE MADE AT BELLEVILEE

The Street and Water Commissioners,
at their meeting yesterday afternoon or
dered $4,000 paid to the East Jersey
Water Company The city still owes the
company a considerable sum. Arrange
ments are being made, however, to pay
the company in full The present Board
has paid tor every gallon 81 water de-.
1lvefed since it has been IN existence.
What is due the company is part of the
/ legacy left by the former Republican
Street and Water Board. AS soon as the
East Jersey Company is paid there will
be money with which to pay salaries
promptly and to wipe few of the hung
up claims against the water account.
The claims of the East Jersey Com
pany have accumulated rapidly-too rap
idly, the Street and Water Commission.
ers think. Some weeks ago The News
published the fact that the Commission
ers proposed placing meters on the COM
pany's supply pipe in order to ascertain
if its big meter was registering properly.
The estimated daily consumption of the
city, according to Engineers Vermeule
and Ferris, is between 26 and 27 million
gallons, rarely if ever exceeding the lat
ter.
The bills of the East Jersey Water
Company, however, show that the city's
consumption has run as high as S4 and 81
million gallons a day. The Commission
ers do not think that possible They have
no idea that the company is intention
ally cheating, but they do believe that
there is something radically wrong with
the company's meter. Yesterday after
noon the Board passed resolution re-
questing the Board of Finance to appro-
pirate $4,000 for use at Belleville and
other points.
To test the company's water it is pro-
posed first to draw the water off the
Belleville reservoir. The capacity of the
reservoir is known to gallon. To carry
out the proposed test it viii be necessary
to cut off the supply from the city about
two hours. Due notice will be given
everyone, and then the whole flow of the.
company's pipe will be turned into the
reservoir. The meter will he watched. If
it registers properly on such a small test
city meters will be at once applied. Should
it register improperly meters will lie
brought into use anyway, as the Conmis
sioners believe they will bring about a
great saving to the city.
If the company's S meter is revolving tos,
rapidly and indicating 1o,o00 600 or II .00o. 900
galolns a day too much. a saving will be
made of at least s4O0 day. The sum is
worth working for, the Commissioners
say.
If the Finance Board makes the apprn-
priation for meters the machines will be
attached to the pipes of important plants.
One will be place on the company's main
supply pipe and another on the city pipe
where he supply is received. Meters will
also be placed at points the officials do
not at this time care to reveal
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-16
ANIMALS UNDERGROUND.
The way They Thrivc-Love ol
Their Work.

Ventilation, or, rather. the want of It,
must be a difficulty in the underground
life of almost all mammals The rabbit
and the rat secure a current air by form
ing bolt-hole in connection with their
system Of passage; but the fox, the bad
ger and many of the field voles and
mice seem Indifferent to any such precau-
tion. There is no doubt that whatever
gave the first impulse to burrow. many
animals look upon this, to us, most un-
amusement. It also confers right of
property
Prairie dogs constantly set to work to
dig holes merely for the love of the thing.
1f they cannot have suitable place to
Into boxes or chests of drawers. and
these burroW, to the great detriment of
the clothes therein contained. In an en-
known to mine until the superintendent
earth collapsed and buried the greater
number. A young prairie dog, let loose in
dug hole large enough to sit in, turned
round in it, and bit the first person who
attempted to touch him. Property gave
him courage, for before he had been as.
meek as a mouse.
It is noticeable that the two weakest
and least numerous of our mice, the DOR
mouse and the harvest-mouse. do not
burrow, but make nests; and that these
do not multiply or maintain their NUM-
bers, like the burrowing mice and vo1es.
But the fact that there are members
of very closely allied Species, some of
seems to indicate that the habit is
an acquired one. In this connection
1t is worth noting that many animals
form burrows in which to conceal and
form burrows in which to conceal
and protect their young, or. II they
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-16
FLED FROM HER HUSBAND.
Exciting Scene in the P. r. r. Depot
This Morning.

An exciting scene occurred in the Penn
sylvania Railroad depot, just as the
Washington Express was leaving at II
o'clock today. A young woman dressed
in black and wearing light straw hat,
was about to board the train when a
fshily dressed young man seized her.
AS he laid his hand upon her she strug-
gled and screamed for assistance. Pa
trolman William Boyle responded. The
man said the woman was his wife and
that he was trying to prevent her from
running away from him. She admitted
that he was her husband. She declared
that he had Ill treated her until she could
stand it no longer, and she was on her
way to the home Of her parents in Wash
inGton.
Patrolman Boyle advised the man that
he had no right to retain his wife. The
young woman told Boyle that she was
afraid her husband would do her bodily
harm Boyle took the fellow aside and
searched him to see that he had no weap-
on upon him. The man begged for a short
talk with his wife. The trais had gone
while they we're wrangling. She granted
him an interview. They conversed In low
tones in corner OF the waiting room.
He beggxs her to return with him. She
refused, a. when the LIB Washington
Express was made up she boarded it,
leaving her husband behind. The names
Of the parties could not be learned.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-16
DRUNK WHEN MARRIED.
Queer Defense Of a Husband
to a Wife's Suit for
Divorce.


Thomas Moran. young man residing
at Mo. 176 Hopkins avenue, in this city,
has put in novel defence in his wife's
suit to compel him to support her He
says that he hasn't tn remotest recollec-
tion of getting married, and the ceremony,
by Protestant Episcopal clergyman,
took place when he, Moran, was intoxi-
Gated.
The facts in the case are very unusual
and when the cause comes to trial 1t will
be of very sensational character. Mrs.
Moran's story bebgins by saying that her
husband and herself were married by
Rev. Daniel F. Warren, rector of ST.
Marys P. E. Church, Hoboken avenue,
on November IS, 1897. at about nine O'Clock
in the evening. Her husband, she said.
took her to the house of friend, because
his aunt, with whom he had been living
was opposed to the match on religious
grounds. Moran is Roman Catholic
and his wife is a Protestant. They re-
manned at this house for some time, her
husband telling her that he was shortly
to come into possession of property worth
$1,000, and they would buy a house Soon
after that he induced her to seek a po-
sition and they would separate and when
the money came they would live together
again. She did so and her husband visited
her at the house of friend few times
and then dropped his visits altogether
He refused to give her any money and
would not live with her. Hence the suit
begun.
Moran's answer is that he didn't know
what he was doing during the week in
which, as his wife says, they were mar
ried. In describing the marriage. Mrs
Moran says that they first went to he
married by Rev. Father Moran of St.
Joseph's r. c. Church on Paconia avenue
but when the priest discovered the intoxi-
Gated condition of the prospective BRIDE
groom he turned them out Of the rectory.
They then went to Rev. Dr. Warren, who
married them. Moran says that he does
MT remember anything about it, but does
recall that for whole week he slept IN
outhouses, on doorsteps and in wagons
standing in the streets.
Rev. Father Moran was seen about the
statement of the wife and he says that
he remembered the couple coming to be
married and he refused to perform the
ceremony because Moran was drunk.
The reverend father knows Moran, ard
said that he possessed the convenient
faculty of SOLDERING up quickly.
Rev. DR.. Warren, speaking of the mar
riage. said that Moran vas sober when he
requested to be married. The rector
closely questioned the pair, and had there
be any signs of intoxication he wouldn't
have married him. More than hour
elapsed between the time of the visit 20
each minister.
Moran admits that he IS heir to $1,000
worth of property that ne cannot derive
any benefit from it until his sister, who Is
row nine years old, at.ains her majority.
The preliminary motion for alimony and
counsel fees will be made next Monday
before Chancellor McGsll.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-16
FLAG FOR NEW NO. / SCHOOL.
Patriotic Services When It Is Raised
NEXT Week.

q On Wednesday, June %, at two o'clock,
the Board of Education will formally ac-
cept from Alderman Moran a beautiful
American flag which is to loat over new
No. School. Interesting ceremonies
have been arranged for the occasion.
There will be only one session of school,
and Chief of Police Murphy has arranged
to have all trolley cars run down Newark
avenue until after the exercises are over.
A platform is to be erected. Mayor
Hoos has consented to attend. All the
city officials have been invited to take
seats on the platform. Public spirited
citizens will be welcomed. The flag will
be accepted by Director Nimno, who is
chairman of No. 1 School,
Prof Lirsley will raise il after the don
or has made a brief speech. Mayor Hoos
will speak and SO will Register George ..
Fielder, who is one of the pupils of old
NO J. Many Of the scholars of old No.
will attend Wednesdays services. The
scholars will march in a body from old
City Hall to the new school. each carry
ing small flags. The children will sing
patriotic airs.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-16
PRAISE FOR CUBANS.

WASHINGTON, June 16. 1S9S.-The work
of the Cubans in reinforcing the marines
at Guantanamo, and particularly In oc-
occupying Acerraderos, is receiving un-
stinted praise from officials here. .Secre-
tary Quesada and the Cuban officials also
take much satisfaction in thes respects.
Mr.. Quesada said today that the Gu
bans had not seen fit to reply to criticism
current during the last few weeks as to
the ineffectiveness of the Cuban soldiers,
as they knew the criticisms were due to
an ignorance of the careful plans, large
ly matured at Washington by which the
Cuban forces were to execute their part
of well considered programme.
but now that the Cuban flag is floating
over Acerraderos,' continued Mr.. Que
sada, "all the criticisms are answered.
Acerraderos is about fifteen or twenty
miles west of Santiago, and is the port
for the great iron and copper mines of
that locality.
'.It should not be confounded with
Aquadores. another suburban town to the
southeast of Santiago. But it is even
more important from a strategic stand
point, than Aquadores, as 1t has excep-
tional landing facilities.
I'm occupying Acerraderos, General Ra-
bi had with him about 1000 men, while
Garcia Is coming up with 5000 to 5000
more Cubans. The march of Rabi can
hardly be appreciated by any one not
familiar with the mountains, swamps
and tangled tropical vegetation through
which he pushed his way from Bayamo
to Acerraderos.
'sThe achievement Of General Rahi in
making forced march from Bayamo is
characteristic of the dash and military
genius of that officer He is chief of
staff of Garcia, and has the rank of gem
eral of a division, which is midway be-
tween your brigadier-general and majcr-
general.
1T is extremely gratifying to Cubans
that Admiral Sampson should Immediately
recognize this movement, and should Off
cially report 1t in sucr complimentary
terms to the Navy Department"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-16
CAMP VOORHEES, ORGANIZED.
Recruits to FIJI the Second Quota
Are Arriving.

Especial to ..rhe Jersey City News.']
SEA GTRT, June 16, 1898. Governor
voorhees, yesterday issued an order plac-
ing Adjutant General William s. Stryker,
Of Trenton, In command Of Camp voor-
hees until further notice. and General
Stryker assumed charge of the post yes
terday.
Colonel Alexander c. Oliphant, of Tren-
ton. a member Of Major General Plume's
staff, and at present acting as aide-de-
camp to Governor Voorhees,, will act as
post adjutant.
Yesterday squad of forty-two volun-
teers arrived from Newark In charge OF
First Lieutenant Van Dieman, of Com
pany I, First Regiment, and Privates
Clifford and Carpenter.
The recruits for Companies K. ana
M, formerly attached to the Sixth Regi-
ment, but now part Of the Third Regl-
ment, arrived in special cars. Twenty
two of the recruits came from Burling-
ton and forty-eight from Camden. They
were in charge of Lieutenant Colonel
George S. West and Major John 7. Shinn.
The twenty-eight recruits for the FIRST
Regiment who arrived in camp Monday
were put through the final medical ex-
aminations Every one of them passed.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-16
WANT A NEW STATION.
Police Commissioners Ask
Financiers for $40, 900
to Build One.

The Finance Commissioners met yes
terday afternoon A communication was
received from the Police Board asking
for an appropriation Of $4,000 with which
to erect furnish and equip new police
station in the Sixth precinct Commits
sioner Walter, when in the Assembly,, m
troduced and succeeded in having passed
an act authorizing the issue of bonds for
the purpose Of building new police sta
tions A new station is required in the
Sixth precinct and it is believed 10000
will build modern one and allow it to
be properly equipped. The communica-
ton was referred to the Finance Commits
tee.
1t is known that the appropriation ask
ed for will not be granted this year. The
Adjustment Commissioners were given
81 900 with which to wind up their work
Henry Lembeck's assessment for bene-
fits from the Woodlawn avenue sewer
were cancelled. Mr.. Lembeck has given
the land on which the assessment was
levied to the city for park purposes The
Board will meet next Wednesday to give
the Fire Board and Board of Education
opportunity to explain their respective es-
Inmates of money required for the fiscal
wear 1SqS-99
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-16
ERIE TRACK ELEVATION.
Company Asks the City to
Vacate Portion of Streets.

The elevation of the tracks of the Erie
railroad is going ahead rapidly. Yesterday
the company made application to the Street
and Water Board for the vacation of GER
tain streets as agreed when the plans for the
abolition of the grade crossings were adj
opted. Next week the company, it is report
ed, will have a force of at least five hundred
men at work
In order that the work may go ahead
without any interruption the company now
asks that Division street, from Tenth to
Twelfth streets. distance of four hundred
and ninety feet be vacated; Brunswick
street, from Tenth to Eleventh streets, two
hundred and sixty feet, and Provost and
Tenth streets, distance Of six hundred feet.
The vacations asked for are in strict ac-
cordance with the terms of the agreement
entered into with the company. Tho request
for the vacation was referred to the street
committee The relief asked for will be
granted by the Board at its next meeting
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-16
FR[EHOLDERS' CASE.
Argument Before Judge
Blair to Quash the
Indictment.

Lawyer Ffavel McGee made an elabor-
ate argument before Judge Blair this
morning on the motion to quash the in-
dictment against the Board of Freehold-
ers, for exceeding their appropriations.
Senator DAILY, Joseph Noonan, former
Judge Hoffman, former Judge Thomas Fl.
Noonan. and other lawyers interested in
the case for the defense were in COURT
but it was arranged that in order to save
time Mr. MCGEE should make the argu-;
ment for his individual clients and for all
the others. The other lawyers, that is.
such of them as desire to do SO will sub-.
NIT briefs. Freeholders Riordan. Clay
ton Eichhorn and Stuhr, were attentive
listeners to the argument.
Mr.. MCGEE challenged the Indictment on.
several grounds 1t was found under Sec
ton 21, of the Crimes Act, which makes
1t a misdeneanor for any board and the:
individual members of and board to vote
for the payment of any claim on the In
curing of any obligation in excess of the
appropriation for the current year. The
indictment contains seventeen counts, all,
referring to claims amounting to $33, ,976 =
so ordered paid by resolution on January
G., 1893, and claims amounting to $27, ,450. 81
ordered paid by resolution on February 81
1898.
Mr.. MCGEE dissected the different counts
of the indictment. The first count sets
forth that the Board and the individual
members voted to pay claims or incur
obligations in excess of the amount fixed
on July s. 1896, as the limit of expenditure
for the fiscal year beginning December 4,
On Nl1fa
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-16
NAVAL RESERVE KICKING
Jerseymen on the Badger Say
Everything IS All Right
Except the Food.

The New JerAey Naval Reserves aboard
the Badger are not having picnic even
If they are far from the scene Of conflict.
The Badger is at present OFF the New
England coast. A warrant officer on the
Badger In letter just received by one
of his friends in this city says We
have been here two days now constantly
hard at work drilling with an occasional
run to sea for target practice. The boys
are making quite record for themselves
and the captain is well pleased with them.
The Badger made q fast trip here, MAX
ing as high as 17is knots. The feed IS
the only thing we can\ kick at, and we
have good reasons for Kicking. | can tell
you, for it isn't fit for hog let alone
giving it to man. They have promised,
however, to change it for The better, ard
we are patiently waiting. We may be
detached from this feet Al any time to
go south.''
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-16
FATHER CARROLL RETURNS.
Rector OF st. Patrick's Church Much
Benefited In Health.

The Rev. Father L. NJ. c. Carroll, the
rector of ST. Patrick's Catholic Church
on the Heights, returned home this morn
ing from Germany, where he has been for
two months for his health. He came on
the Kaiser Frederick, of the North Ger
man Lloyd Steamship Company's line,
which reached her dock in Hoboken at
seven o'clock.
Father Carroll went to the baths near
Carlsbad Germany, where ne received
treatment for rheumatism, from which
he has for some time been suffering
Those who have seen the worthy rector
say that he has greatly improved since
he went away and that his weight has
been reduced. Father Carroll was not at
home this afternoon when News re-
porter called at the rectory on Bramhall
avenue. He had gone to New York on a
visit
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-16
AFTER THE GARBAGE MAN.
Mayor Hoos Doesn't Like the Way
the Works Done.

Mayor Hoos is not satisfied with the
way ashes and garbage are being re-
moved. In certain thiekly populated sec
tions the garbage Is removed only once
week Property owners have protested
and charged that the retention of garbage
in houses and yards for so long time in
hot weather is responsible for consider
able sickness
The Mayor suggests that as many of
the sections of the city as possible where
garbage is removed only once week, be
visited three times at least. The greatest
complaint comes from the Hudson City
section.
So ofar as it is possible the Mayors sug-
gestion will be carried out by the Street
and Water Commissioners. The only diff
Guilty in the way of the more frequent
removal of garbage is the limited appro-
priation that is made for that purpose
The appropriation for sweeping and clean
ing the streets and removing ashes and
garbage will. doubtless be increased sew
eral thousand of dollars this year.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-16
S|LVER|T[S PLOTTING.
Only Men Who Were for the
Chicago Platform Of 1896
for Boards Of Election.

Especial to 1.-THE Jersey City News."1
TRENTON, June 16, 189S.-Preliminary
arrangements for the formal opening of
the Democratic end of the State Cam
paign will be made by the State Demo-
cratic Committee in this city next We'd
nesday. A call for meeting of the State
Committee on that day has been issued
by Secretary William K. Devereaux, act
ing under the Instructions from Chairman
E. L. Price. The committeeman will as
semble in the Trenton House at noon. and
as the call is for general business" a
considerable amount of work may be
transacted.
One of the principal objects of the meet
ing is to settle disputes that have arisen
in Camden and Mercer counties concern
ing the selection of members of the coun-
ty boards of elections. Under the new
Election law, as well as the old one, these
officials are nominated to the Governor
by the chairman of the State Committee.
The latter official generally accepts the
recommendation of the chairman of the
several county committees. and he would
do SO in the present instance only dis
putes have arisen concerning the Democ-
racy of some of the candidates named.
The opposition claims that the candi-
dates opposed were not in sympathy with
the National Democratic platform in 1896,
and therefore, are not what might be
termed regular organization Democrats
and should not be appointed as such.
Chairman Price agrees with the latter
view, and holds that he cannot under the
law nominate for appointment as mem-
bers of the County Boards of Election
other than known Democrats
He believed, however, such candidates
as are opposed should be accorded fair
hearing. and they have been notified to
appear at the meeting in Trenton next
Wednesday, 1t is not expected that the
official call for the State convention Will
be issued until subsequent meeting, but
it is intimated that when the call is is
sued it will stipulate that none but known
supporters of the Chicago platform shall
be eligible as delegates
The reason assigned for such q course IS
that the State convention will have the
power to elect a new State Committee II
other than supporters of the Chicago plat
form were admitted as delegates, It -
maintained that that platforms issues
might be ignored in the State platform
and a new State Committee not in SYM
pathy with it might be elected major
itv of the members of the State Commit
tee. as at present constituted, will insist
unon the Endorsement of the Chicago plat
form. and oppose all attempts to conduct
the campaign on State issues only.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-16
GERMANY IS NEUTRAL.

[By Gable to The Associated Press.l
BERLIN, June is, 1s9s.-The Cologne
Gazette" today, publishes a note. under
stood to be semi-official. which reads as
follows s:-..According to trustworthy in
formation, all conjectures in the press and
in political circles in Spain. which are be-
ing built on the supposed intention CT
Germany to abandon her neutrality in the
Philippines question are entirely baseless.
In Spanish official quarters the arrival Of
German men-of-war at Manila is regarded
as perfectly natural. for the great Ger
man interests there demand protection !"