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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-15
GEN. BOOTH ARRIVES

NEW YORK, Jan. 15 1S9S-General
William Booth, Chief of the Salvation
Army, arrived here today on the Amer
lean Line steamship st. Paul. General
Booth went to the Cosmopolitan Hotel.
He excused himself from saying any
thing either on the ship or the dock.
: The General wassInet down the Bay by
Commander Booth-Tucker, who had left
early in the morning on the revenue cut
ter Chandler. On the pier a, large dele
cation of Headquarters Salvationists was
awaiting their Chief. General Booth was
given warm reception. The General
then went to. the Cosmopolitan Hotel.
0p the way over General Booth was ac-
companied by Commissioner A. M. Nicol,
Colonel John Lawley, and Adjutaht Dew
erall. During the voyage he was almost
constantly debating to his secretary.
At II A. M. General Booth met the
reporters by appointment in the Cosmo-
politan Hotel, where, surrounded by his
daughter and a number Of officers of the
Army, he read long detailed statement
embracing all the information he desired
to make public at present. He said his
tour would be made first to the eastern
part of Canada. He preferred, he said,
for many reasons, to have commenced
here Immediately and would have done
SO but that the Army's great Self Denial
third week of January. He said he would
return in a months time and that 1t had
been arranged and announced for him to
hold eighty Salvation meetings, which he
says he hopes and believes will result
in the saving of thousands of souls of
all classes.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-15
MR.. PETTY AND THE MINKS.
some People Say He Has Not she
Ghost of a Chance for Aid derman.

.sPetty is a fake and could never be
elected in. this ward" said a prominent
Greenville Republican of the Minkakwa
stripe, last evening, when his attention
was called to a paragraph in last even
ings Journal" which announced that
Henry Petty, the president of the Green
vile Republican League Club, would be
a candidate for the nomination of Alder
man from the Seventh ward this spring.
whats more,'' the speaker went on,
ST don't think that Petty would ever be
offered the nomination"
The term of Alderman Edward Barr,
Democrat, expires this spring, and in
conversation with a reporter of s'The
News last evening Mr.. Barr said that he
would not be a candidate for reelection.
st have done my duty as citizen so
far" said the Alderman, land when my
term expires will retire.
Mr.. Petty, when asked last evening
whether he would be a candidate for the
position of Alderman, said:-"I have not
yet fully decided whether I will accept
the nomination if it is offered to me-
Many of my friends have urged me to
hustle for the place, but must take time
to consider
Many other Republicans in Greenville
say that Petty will never be elected from
that ward, if nominated, for good many
of the "Minks,' in spite of the iron-clad
harmony agreement which was recently
passed by both the LeaguerS and the
'sMinks,'' would cut Petty badly, it was
said
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-15
HARRISON in A FUME.
Attempt to Lay a Grade Cross
ing on Bergen Street
Police Call for Aid.

A gang of men. at 1:30 O'clock. this af-
ternoon, attempted to lay track across
Bergen street, Harrison, from the Centre
street line of the Pennsylvania Railroad
to the Farlie & Wilson coal yard.
Property owners have long objected to
the laying of this track, which it is pro-
posed to place at grade. When the la
berers began work this afternoon the
property owners turned out in body and
protested. The men refused to stop
work.
Chief of Police Callahan, of Harrison,
was called upon to prevent the work. He
summoned all the police officers in the
town and hurried to the scene of the dis
turbance. The railroad employees re-
fused to stop. They showed fight.
Chief Callahans force could not cope
with them. He telephoned Chief of Police
Murphy of Jersey City to send a squad
of police to his assistance.
Chief Murphy replied that without per-
mission from the Police Commissioners
he is not at liberty to send police officers
out of the city. He advised Chief Cal
lahan to call upon Sheriff Heller for as
sistance.
1t is expected that squad of deputy
sheriffs will be sent to Harrison as soon
as they can be mustered.
The fight between the property own
ers on Bergen street and the Farlie &
Wilson Coal Company is of long stand
ing and is at present before the courts.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-15
DETERMINBD9HIBF HUNT
Down the Pillars Of a Viaduet
and Through a swamp
Good and Bad Po-
lice Work.

An exciting thief chase occurred in this
city shortly before midnight last night
and but for a blunder two crooks would
have been landed in jail. A more excit-
ing or eventful chase never took place in
Jersey City. 1t led policeman down the
pillars of viaduct seventy-five feet
high and through the swamps above his
knees in mud and water. Had other Off
GERS been on hand, as was their duty, the
thieves could not have escaped. As it is,
Patrolman Mahoney of the Seventh street
station has covered himself with glory.
Inspector Lange is investigating the
hardness of the other officers in coming
to his assistance.
AT eleven O'Clock last night Constable
Livingston was going home when he saw
two men break pane OF glass IN the
cigar store of F. Schreiber, No GA New
ark avenue, and grab a gross box of
cigarettes. The store is around the cor
ner from the Oakland avenue police sta
ton. Livingston gave chase, but the men,
who ran through Cook street to Hobo
ken avenue. had such a start that he
could not hope to catch them.
He saw. that they were making for the
viaduct at the foot of Hoboken avenue,
which leads to lower Jersey City. Liv-
ingSton ran to the Oakland avenue sta
ton, and told Sergeant Soloman what
had occurred and which direction the men
H..
lice Headquarters. Solomon was notified
to turn out the reserves, four in number,
from this station, and the reserves of
the Seventh street station were ordered
to hurry to the foot of the viaduct and
head off the thieves
Patrolmen Monahan, Mahoney and DON
ovan were assigned to this duty. When
they arrived at the foot of the viaduct
which is a quarter of a mile long, the
thieves had just reached the other end
They were coming on dead run. When
nearly at the foot, they caught sight of
the officers and turned to go back to the
HILL Mahoney and Monahan gave chase
blowing their whistles to warn the officers
who were supposed to be at the other end
Donovan ran under the viaduct to be on
hand in case the men climbed over. They
did climb over and they worked their way
down the pillars, but not before they were
heavy swamp beyond Donovan's reach
them when they climbed over the rail He
followed them, and was on his way down
the pillar before they reached the bottom
The thieves pushed their way into the
swamp Mahoney hot upon their heels. He
followed them until he sank into the mud
to his knees and the water was above his
thighs. AT last he lost sight of the fugi-
tives in the swamp, and had to abandon
the chase. He recovered the cigarettes
which the thieves dropped in their fight
The Oakland avenue reserves were no.
where to be found.
Sergeant Solomon says he turned them
out, but they were nowhere near the
scene of the chase
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-15
GRIGGS is ALL RIGHT
If MeKenna Is Not Confirmed
the Governor Will Go on
the Bench.

Some of the admirers of and sycophanss
that circulatesabout Governor Griggs are
worrying very much over the situation
at Washington. They seem. to fear that
somehow or other Attorney General NC
Kenna may not be elevated to the Su-
preme Court, in which case their IDOL
will not get a seat in McKinleys Cabi-
net. In that case all the talk of honor
and the. like being thrust upon Griggs
and New Jersey will have been prema-
ture and will make Griggs the most ludi-
crous instead of the most honored man
in the State.
These things need not worry the Griggs-
ties. That has all been provided for.
Governor Griggs. is too shrewd a man
thing was said about going into the Cab
met, Mr.. Griggs had an understanding
with President Mckinley that if in any
way there should be any failure in Me
Kenna's appointment he, Griggs, was to
go on the Supreme bench. So whether
the Senate confirms or not, Mr..
Griggs will be a United States law officer
before the ideS of March.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-15
COUNTERFEIT CENTURY BILL.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is, 1SSS.-Consign-
ments of S1O0 silver certificates are being
received daily at the Treasury Depart
ment but so far the number of counter
feits is surprisingly small. Up to this
time only eighteen have been reported
from all sources. One of the new coun-
terfeits received from Cincinnati has a
new feature in the numbering, which be-
gins with 1923. All the others begin with
346. The Secret Service is making every
effort to locate the maker of the note, but
SO far with little success. Mr. Crane, of
the firm of Crane & Co., which makes the
distinctive paper upon which all Govern
ment notes are printed, was at the De-
partment today and made a careful ex-
animation of the new counterfeits, with a
view, if possible, to Identifying the make
of the paper. He. however, declined to
express an opinion on this point
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-15
ONLY ONE WITNESS.
Mr.. Prigge's Charges Against
the Firemen Fail for Lack
of Support The Reich
Tragedy.

A special meeting of the Fire Board was
held last evening at headquarters, No. 24l
BAY street 1t was for the purpose OF
hearing all those interested in the Ger
mania avenue fire, in order to hnd out
whether the firemen performed their duty
properly or if they taeted like a lot OF
school boys as Mr.. Prigge said they did
at the meeting held previously to last
evenings.
At that meeting Mr.. Prigge said he
couldSsummon at least twelve people who
would substantiate what he said. The
Clerk of the Board was directed to sub
poena all the witnesses he could name. He
named twelve persons, and out OF the
whole twelve only one responded When
the names were called off by the Clerk
last night.
Auguste Reuter-, who lives next door
10 where the fire occurred. After Mr..
Reuter- had been sworn, Commissioner
Mills asked him if the companies that at
tended that fire were slow in ARRIVING,
and if the men were in proper condltlon
or if they were drunk.
Mr. Reuter- said he was awakened by his
mother. who told him there was hre,
and he did not know whether it was MS
own house or not, but hurriediy dressed
himself and ran out to give the alaIH,, f4Fli,,
200 feet of the Reiches' home. the alarm
had already been sent in. He then re-
turned to the scene OF the hre ana trleu
to gain an entrance to the front Of the
house, but he could not. The only way to
get entrance to the building at that time
was by window on the second floor. He
thought that the people must have been
overcome with smoke and fallen wrere
they were found. They certainly Were
dead he thought, before tlN f1remen ar
rived Mr.. Reuter- told the Commission
ers the time the engines arrived. He said
it was in less than five minutes after the
alarm. He noticed that one of the hy-
drantS was frozen.
Commissioner Cone asked Reuter- # any my
of the firemen showed signs of drink. He
said no, that they all went right to work.
Commissioner Mills and Chief Engineer
Denmead said that they had made an in
vestigation in regard to the firemen being
late in arriving, and they found that all
the fire companies had answered the
alarm on January at 1892 in the morning
and that that they were at the scene in
less than five minutes.
Commissioner Brennan then moved that
the investigation close, as there We're no
more witnesses present. He said the
Commissioners were now satisfied the lire
men did their duty.
The Board they adjourned until Wedpes-
1av IanuarV 10.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-15
MR.. FdVLER'S' FUNERAL
Public Departments and
Business Circles Fully
Represented Among
Mourners.
PULPIT BANKED WITH FLOWERS
Rev. Mr.. HOagland and DR.. LoWris
Pronounce Eulogies-Vet-
erans' Tributes.
PULPIT BANKED WITH FLOWERS

The City Hall is deserted today. The
nag is at half mast and gloom prevails.
Everyr office of the Street and Water
Board Department is closed. and SO are
many of the other public offices.
The officials were away all morning
making ready to attend the funeral SER
vices of the late Chief Engineer L. D.
Fowler, which took place at o'clock in
Emory M. E. Church. Belmont avenue.
The funeral was attended by almost
every prominent official of the city and
many other prominent citizens The
hearse. containing the body, was escort
ed from the Chiefs late home, in Clifton
place, by the Van Houten Post, G. A. R.,
and by Hiram Lodge, F. & A. NJ.
AS the cortege approached the church
detachment of the Grand Army Posts
fife and drum corps was playing a dirge.
The veterans and masons were deployed
in front of the church entrance, the vet
Grams presenting arms as. the casket,
borne on the shoulders of Grand Army
and Masonic, and followed by the be-
reaved family was carried into the
church. The sombre casket was draped
with the Stars and Stripes and covered
with floral tributes. The widow, leaning
on the arm of her son Kenneth, and the
daughter, on the arm of her uncle, City
Collector Simeon H. Smith, followed.
The church service was conducted by
the Rev. Mr.. Hoagland, the pastor of
Emery Church, of which Mr.. Fowler was
a member, assisted by the Rev. Daniel r.
Lowrie, former pastor of the same
church.
The puluit was banked with finral trib-
utes from Mr.. Fowler's associates in mu-
nicipal affairs and intimate friends. The
services opened with the singing of what
a Friend We Have in Jesus by quar-
tette from the Emery Church choir.
Both Pastor Hoagland and the Rev.
DR.. Lowrie made addresses, in which
they eulogiZed the character of the
dead
Owing to the inclement weather the G..
A. F. and the Masonic services were held
in the church. at the conclusion of the
church ceremony. Commander Charles
Bowers, of the Van Houten Post, con-
Quoted that of the Grand Army Veter-
ans, and Worshipful Master George W.
La Forge the Masonic.
The body was temporarily placed in a.
receiving vault at the New York Bay
Cemetery. 1t will be placed in the family
plot in the same cemetery on Monday
The pail bearers were: = President
Charles Boltwood of the Street and Wa
ter Commissioners, E. F. c. Young, John
]. Voorhees,, James Muller, John Edel-
stein and James Osborne.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-15
WAS IT A DOVE Or A OROW9
The NIissfve Sent by the Lafayette
Battery to the AssociatiOn.

Despite the strenuous efforts of leading
lights of the Lafayette Republican Bat
terry to bring about an amalgamation OF
the Republican Association and the Bat
terry, there is no indication of success in
that direction. In facts, the efforts of the
Battery appear to have resulted only in
s'enthusing'' the members over the prln-
cipleS which caused the split in the Bat
terry three years ago and led to the organi-
zation of the Association. 1T is plain that
the Association does not propose to surren-
der those principles, and it is still further
evident that the Association doesn't care a
continental what the Battery people think
of their rejection of overtures for amalga-
nation.
1t is painful to a Battery, sympathizer
to witness the cool, half jocular express
sion which the faces of Association mem
bers assume the moment the subject is
preached to them. They will not talk upon
the subject much, except among them
selves. But it is plain they consider it a
joke. At last nights regular meeting of
the Association, the invitation which the
Battery people sent inviting the Associa-
ton to attend their "house, warming
Wednesday night last was read. 1t was
been posted on the bulletin board No
special action had been taken relative to
the nvi5aton in time to attenS S,t the Bat
written Invitation sent to the Association
has been figuratively alluded to as a
white winged dove. II was sent 1ortn
from the Battery's "ark' in search of an
olive branch after the flood was supposed
to have somewhat subsided.
But no such looks of dismay are record
ed in Holy Writ as having ever mantled
the faces of the anxious members of
Noah's family as that which crept into
the countenances of the Battery's leaders
when they discovered only a few scatter
ing feathers of the dove floating about the
ark on the night of the house warm
ing" The doves fate is still being anx-
iously inquired into.
1t was taken from its perch on the asso-
5ciations bulletin board last night and
placed before its inquisitors. Reporters,
who besieged the associations headquar-
ters after the meeting, were denied all in
formation concerning the "bird's' fate.
For it was a bird Every Association
member intimates that it was. There
were no outward signs of its having been
cremated, and the only information that
could be elected from those who knew
its fate was that it had fallen into the
hands of gentlemen and was courteouSly
treated
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-15

CLIFFORD MUST DIE
Board of Pardons Today
Refuses a Commuta-
tion of the, Sen7
tenCe.
TO BE HANGED FEBRUARY is
His Counsel Argued That Alcoholism
Affected His Braln-Scene
in Chancery.

Edward Clifford, the murderer OF
Superintendent Watson, of the West
Shore Railroad must hang for the crime.
The Board of Pardons this afternoon re-
fused to interfere and there is no further
chance for him to escape the hangman'
noose which will be placed around his
neck on the morning of February 16 next,
The rooms adjoining the Chancellor $
Chamber in theFfrst National Bank Build
ing this morning was crowded with
friends of the doomed man. His faithful
counsel, Messrs. Hoffman and Speer,
were on hand punctually and among the
sympathizers were Rev. Kennedy Duff,
Simon Kelly of Weehawken, two women
and a brother of the murderer. They
were all apparently confident that the
Board would commute the sentence to
life long imprisonment. Had they not a
score of petitions from men of all sects
and creeds and all sorts and conditions OF
men, bearing at least 5000 signatures.
When Governor Griggs arrived and was
JUS. about to enter the room the Rev'
Duff stopped him and pleaded for lenlency.
He quoted st. Pauls plea for the slave
and uttered many Scriptural passages
urging mercy. The Governor quietly nSt-
ened to the clergyman but did not reply:
The door was locked after the counsel
were admitted.
The point made by Messrs. Hoffman and
Speer was that alcoholism had so be-
clouded the mind of the murderer that
he was not responsible. The argument OF
counsel was well presented, but the races
of the members of the Court gave nttle
hope.
Then after an hour the door was opened
and Clerk Edward Fox came out OF the
room. To the newspaper men waiting
eagerly for the news. he said simply
Pardon refusedi" and Clifford's doom
was sealed. When the news was com
municated to the friends some burst INTO
tears and the brother of the murderer
was lead from the chamber. SINCE elf
ford's counsel have already taken the
case to the Court of Errors there IS no
agreeable duty next February 16.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-15

DIED.

TALLCN-On Friday, January IL, 1898, at
his late residence, No. 71S Park ave-
nue., Hoboken, William P. Talon, be-
loved brother of the Rev. Walter Tai
Ion.
Notice of funeral hereafter.
FINLEY.-Anniversar solemn high mass
of requiem for the repose of the soul
of the late Mary Finley will be said in
All Saints r. c. Church. Lafayette
and Whiton streets on Saturday
Jan. Is. 1898, at $3.50 A M. Relatives
and friends are invited to attend.
IYLAND.-On Friday, Jane14, 1898, Mary
A., widow of Patrick Hyland.
Relatives and friends are requested to
attend her funeral from her late resi-
dence 367 Railroad avenue, on Monday,
Jan II. at A. NJ; thence to St. Brid-
gets Church.
PERKINS.-On Thursday Jan. 13 1895,
Ada May, eldest child of Charles F.
and Josephine Perkins, aged years.
Relatives and friends are respectfully
invited to attend the funeral from Willing
Workers Mission, 625 West Side avenue,
on Sunday, Jan. 16, at 2 P. NJ
BRUNS.-On Wednesday, Jan. II, 1898.
John B. Bruns
Relatives and friends, also members of
the Merchants Protective Associations, the
Retail Grocers Association and the Ger
mania Bowling Club are invited to attend
his funeral from his late residence. 1S7
Jackson avenue, on Sunday, Jan. 16, at 2
p. M.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-15
Boards in ancient Rome.

The Roman barber, besides cutting the
hair and shaving the face trimmed the
nails and kept the fingers in order. The
Roman philosophers, with a scorn of
fashions mandates still common to their
kind in the nineteenth century, affected
boards Of enormous length, which became
known as the badge of their profession.
Lucian mocks them for considering these
as a mark of wisdom.
Shaving actually became sacerdotal at
Rome. One of the most important per-
iods in the life of a Roman was when he
celebrated his entrance into manhood and
assumed the toga virilis, marking the full
rights of citizenship. In the religious
rites that accompanied this observance
the purile face felt the razor for the first
time; the cuttings of the adolescent beard
were c2-efully inclosed in waxen ball
and consecrated to some divinity. When
Nero assumed the toga, his youthful
beard was shut ,up in golden casket
studded with pearls of great price, and
then offered to Jupiter Capitolius.
Hadrian, having a face full of unSightly
scars. covered them with a beard, and
was the first of the Roman Emperors to
wear such an adoTnment, setting FASH
ion that was followed by his successors. 2
The majority of the Latin and Greek
gods were represented with flowing
boards; there was even bearded Venus
r
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-15
VIFE'S IUNERRING nose
When Patrick Emerged From
His Warm Couch the House
Was Hotter Still.

Roundsman Patrick Hammond, one of
the oldest members of the Hoboken police
force, was slumbering peacefully in his
home, at No. 513 Bloomfield street, about
midnight last night, when his wife awoke
him sand said that she smelled smoke.
Not being particularly anxious to leave
his warm couch, Hammond shifted the
atmosphere and then replied in a half
dazed condition.
No you don't; you're dreaming"
Mrs. Hammond tried to convince her
self that she was, but her efforts were
fruitless.
Come, Pat she exclaimed, again
arousing her husband; " tell you the
house is afire."
'.Well I suppose whatever you say
goes responded Hammond. dragging
himself out of bed; TN get up and in
vestigate just to satisfy you"
AS he opened a door leading into the
hall cloud of smoke burst into the
room.
He then realized that his wife was
right.
Without stopping to learn whence the
smoke came, he rushed out into the
street in his night shirt and started for
the nearest fire box. shouting, Fire,
Fire!'' as he went along.
In few minutes the residents in the
neighborhood began to gather in the
street, and by the time Hammond had
rung an alarm there were several hum
dred people in front of the house. The
firemen arrived shortly afterward and be-
gan to rescue the inmates. Hammond
returned to the house in the same garb
he had left in.
One of the neighbors gave him a blan-
ket, and when he had wrapped this about
his manly form he started in to assist
the firemen. The Hammond family, in
Guiding Mrs. Hammond and her daugh-
ter Katie, had escaped shortly after
Hammond left to ring the fire alarm.
The house, which is a three-story frame
building, was filled with smoke, but the
flames were confined to the first floor
and basement, which were occupied by
the Hammonds.
y On the second floor lived Mr.. and Mrs.
George Green, and on the third floor was
the family of John Elliott. The firemen
rescued Mrs. Green by a second-story
window The other inmates escaped be-
fore the fire had reached-tfle stairway
After an hour of hard work, the firemen
succeeded in extiEguishing the flames.
1t is estimated that the damage will
exceed $500. An investigation revealed
the fact that the fire had originated, from
an overheated stove in the basement.