The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-02-04
lines. feared the indiscretion of the rest

| times, feared the indiscretion OF. the rest
of the bar?
1 don't want to be held in contempt
| either by the Judges az the bar, but l
| confess to a feeling of strangeness and
loneliness tonight. Where are the tamil
lar voices that were wont to ring out IN
this room? Where is our energetic BLACK
and our courteous White? Where the
mellifuous Blair, the ~caustic Hoffman?
Where the witty Fuller, the keen and in
cisive Dixon? Where the ~benignan
lily reunion and good old experience meet
ing have followed the trend of the times
and given way to the popular demand for
the vaudeville performance and its ac-
complished artists. daughter
"These dinners will go dow to history.
| have it on high legal authority that
they will go down to history. / met Mr..
| Vredenburgh the day after the dinner a
| couple of years ago. 1t was the same
year that l have spoken of in alluding
to Mr.. Justice Garrison. l met Mr..
after the BALI He said for him the
dinner could go down to history-or n
| other old place. l think he mentioned one
of the two Oldest places spoken of in
| Bible history-and it wasn't Hoboken.
THE style of dinner varies with cir
cumstances. Two years g it was Z a
Thompson delivered a learned discourse
on the topice, The Junction Road, Should
Its Name Be Changed to the Injunction
| IlOdu. MI. SOIpiii ildQC dl Ca
plea, all in vain at that hour of the
| night, for Pequannock water; and
suffering at the time with ner-
represented that friend Of the poor,
| the standard Oil Trust. We marveI1ed
at the CELEBRITY with which oil and water
mixed, but, in the elegant language OF
the toast assigned me-, any old liquid
mixes here" loud laughter.)
Then the next year Vice Chancellor
Pitney gav an extended epitome of the
| liv-ac n r. fha r ord Lian oh O nna11nrSA dwell
ing particularly on the beauties of their
| suavity, their equable temperaments and
judicial reserve. He held the fort for
| three hours, and, as a result, Record was
obliged tolcut his own speech short. That
| blow almost killed father. (Renewed
| merriment.)
IA delegation of the bar waited on the
Governor a couple of weeks ago. in be-
half of a candidate for an office that is
not bewilderingly lucrative. The. delega-
ton was composed of D-emocrats-all
| and Carrick. They were Palmer and
! Buckner men. | don't know what they
are now. Perhaps not much OF anything:
The would-be school teacher was asked
the question:-'What is liquor? He re-
plied:-"Three parts whiskey and one part
| water TIL next question w~as:-'Suppose
lit was three parts water and one part
whiskey, what would it be called?' He
answered:-It wouldn't be much of any
thing them
We'll, the Governor received the delega-
ton ~graciously, with his usual Klondike
chill from Chillcote Pass, and marvelled
at the fact that there swere no Republic
cans among them. He then took out a list
neutrality-suspicious. for the Jersey
| City District Court Ju~dgeship,' and scan
ming it from A to q, said it was explained
that every eligible Republican in the,
| county was a candidate for the judge
ship. So while we are apparently merry
while the wine has given a great major
ity of us the semblance of lig~ht-hearted-
ness and don't caredness, deep down in
the hearts of these jubilant individuals
the flowers of congratulations lie Smoth-
cred beneath the rank weeds of disap-
poinment That is the reason, I say. or
1 sing, that this is almost a dinner of
coincidence.
Let me briefly and with seriousness
touch another old subject We are in a
state of deep-dyed pessimistic gloom in
Hudson county. The almanac should read:
| Total eclipse of the sun 365 dayS-viSible
only in New Jersey along the west bank
| of~the Hudson For years the civilized
world has learned to look upon us as a
happy combination of midnight maraud-
ers and daylight robbers. Our domain is
the favorite resort of the evangelist in
religion and in law. / fancy the mental
picture of this audience conjured up by
Judge Goodrich and Mr.. Clifford, when
they were invited to come over and hold
the mirror up to us, outrivalled the most
striking productions of Hogarth-or the
picture of Dante'S Inferno, or Millions
| Paradise Lost. And even 'amoung our
brethren of the bar. there is a sort of
pity in the hearts of our n~eighbors from
| the chaste precincts of Camden to the
| confines of Little Monte Carlo. 1t is all
| ways amusing to see the look of bewilder-
ment on the faces of strangers when
with some trepidation they enter this
| banquet hall for. the first time and see
| that SO many lawyers of the county have
| their own dress suits or money enough
| to hire some one ~else's.n (Laughter.)
! Mr.. Grouse was warmly congratulated
on his witty speech, which brought a de-
ligltful banquet to an end,