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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-25

Row the Mponswes Prepare Human
Meat For Eating.

Meat EOE EIGGflS.
P. A. Mccain, VINO has just returned
to England after 10 years residence in
west Africa, tells a thrilling story in The
ST. James Gazette Of his stay among the
cannibal Mpongwes. These savages be-
lieved that the white men ate white men,
as they themselves eat their fellow blacks.
A big chief offered Mr.. Mccain the
smoked thigh Of a native. This was con-
sidered a gracious act. To refuse it would
be u%nfriendly. Mr.. McCann was in a di-
lem1na. But he feigned illness and said
he was not eating just then. The chief
eventually put the matter off good hui
moredly by saying he supposed the white
man preferred white maj to eat instead
of black man.
The Mpongwe cannibals of the most
pronounced type thickly inhabit the banks
| and forest regions of the Gaboon and
Elobey rivers. Although they kill game
for food, they much prefer human meat
to any other. Human flesh, they say, has
a rich flavor about it which is entirely
| absent from any other kind of meat. They
| eat all enemies they kill or capture in
war. The latter are tortured before being
put to death. In fighting with an enemy
who has pressed them hard and caused
them much loss the bodies are eaten very
soon after the capture and when the heat
of war is upon them.
The bodies of enemies killed by stealth
they generally treat differently, for, not
being excited by hard fighting or losses,
they deliberate more over the pleasure the
| eating will afford them n go more lei
surely about the preparation of the meat.
The flesh, having been cut up, is cooked in
plantain leaves. The method OF doing
this is as follows: Several leaves of the
| plantain tree are cut at the base of their
shafts from the trunk of the tree, n the
midriff of the leaf, which is thick and full
of sap, and so prevents the leaf from bend
ing easily, is dexterously pared down with
q single cut of a knife. The leaf is then
held over a fire and, under the influence
of the heat, softens and becomes as flexible
as cloth. All the leaves are treated like
this and are afterward put one on top of
another and then gathered up so as to
form a basinlike receptacle.
A quantity of human meat, cut into
small pieces, is then placed in this, some
water and dika fat made from the fatty
kernels Of the seeds Of the Mangifera ga
bonensis are added, after which the leaves
are gathered together at the top and tied
round with the fibrous strips cut from the
midriff when preparing the leaves. The
bundle is then placed over a slow fire for
seven or eight hours, and the flavor. of the
meat thus cooked, according to Mpongwe
connoisseurs, SURPRISES everything an the
worlds bill Of fare.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-25

WILLIAM T. JAGGERs, PRIVATE 49,"
I'd this messenger with a large package
Of the souvenirs to London, that they
might be delivered there to his profess
/ sional friends, including Sir Henry
Irving, Mary Anderson, Mrs. Kendall,
Beerbohm Tree, George Alexander, Will
| liam Terriss and many of the most inn
portant actors and actresses of the
English capital, the press and also
Buffalo Bill who was then giving his
first exhibition in England.
buffalo Bill'' had the entire Wild
West show photographed, with Mr..
Frohman's messenger boy in the center
of the group. This picture is still on
exhibition among other relics at the Ly-
ceum theater. The messenger boy re-
turned on the same steamer which took
him over with the signatures of all the
persons who had received the memento
of Mr.. Sothern's fiftieth night.
1t was the first time that a messen-
ger boy had been sent upon so long an
! errand, and many of the newspapers
| computed the time at SO much per hour,
and many counted a large financial
outlay at the rates named. A special
contract, however, had been made with
the company. The young man who was
sent was Eugene B.. Sanger, who has
since become an actor of some repute.
Then there was that instance of the
New York clubnan who sent a mes
senger from that city to Aiken, S. c.,
last fall. William c.. Eustis, a well
known pony polo player and a member
of the New York Knickerbocker Athlet-
ic club, was responsible for the trip.
Mr.. Eustis had engaged to take part
in a private theatrical presentation in
Aiken, an enterprise which was being
arranged by some of the swell society
people who have made that a famous
resort. AT the last moment Mr.. Eustis
found tina business would prevent him
from keeping his engagement. So he
rang for a messenger boy, packed the
| costume for the part in a suit case and
sent it with his apologies and regrets in
the same offhand manner that he would
dispatch a messenger a dozen blocks on
a business errand.
These are some of the longest trips
on which messenger boys nave been
sent. Perhaps the shortest was the one
on which a messenger was dispatched
by O wealthy and eccentric young mar
whose odd ways of spending money
greatly interested the residents of At
lantic City about two years ago. This
man bought a hotel because he wished
to stay there overnight and purchased
a livery stable because he wanted a
team. Among other property he owned
a building In which he had an office
that was not more than eight feet wide.
One day he called a messenger to hand
him his suit case. which was on the 9TH
er side of the room.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-25
R DS.
Pennsylvania
RAILROAD.
The Standard Kailvyay of Amerlca
In Eaect March I2, 1899.
Trains leave Jersey city as follows:-
FOR THE WEST.

FOR THE VEST.
SIS A. NJ, Fast Mall. with Buffet Parlor Car
daily 70 Pittsburg, CONNECTING there for Chi
Us A. NJ. Fast Line. with Vestibuls Parloi
Car, daily for PlttsbuTg.
tied. the pioneer Of this. class Of the service:
composed exclusively Of Pullman vesti5uls
&c electric lights, daily for Pisssbqrg.
g. sh's Ieg0iis, e cineinasti and anais Toiedo.
2.l3 P. NJ, Chicago and St. Louis ExpTeSs;
W Mlfs g.. Vg Io : and ndss ccnieago. through sleeplns
Car for Nashville Cvia cincinnatD ana IN
isnap :. M. western Express. with vsstibuls
Sleeping Cars, daily TO Pittsburg ane Cnlcaso.
Dining Car to Philadelphia. and Pittspurg q
500 F. NJ. southwestern Express. sleeDing
and Dining Cars daily TO Cincinnati, LouisViAe
as Els p ?. ~, Pacific Express. Pullman slespIlng
car to Pittsblrg Connects for chie nss,v dai fyr
Knoxville. Tenn. via Shenandoah saney
R S.oo p. NJ, Man and express. Pullman sSftsI
SlaaSia and points West wesk.sa Eayl;aa Ne 9 Jsoaehss-
via Southern Railway. for Jacksonville and
St. Au 3 M weekdays, "Florida Special via
Atlantic Coast Line, for Jacksonville. St Au-
justine and Port Tampa.
BALTIMORE. WA soHITH AND 1AA
For baltimore. Washington and the South
at a IL. g.A, J.44, 4S.S= -t'.-iAhS CaAlg +4tF III
I m Parior Cars and Pennsyfganta Rail
raad Diiniag Carr. 4.A Dining Carr. 51s dim
ina carr. and 9.15 P. NJ. and 1880 night. On
s1ndaVs / "A, s.44, lila DINING carr "A: Nils
x a Congressional Limited Parlor Cars and
Pennsylvania Railroad Dining Carr, 4.H .(Din-
no Carl, obs CDInlAs Carr, and 9.15 p. NJ. and
20 az night. For Baltimore only, LIS p. II.
"ee FOR PHILADELPHIA.
Exnress for Philadelphia, 6.33, 7.43, T.+4, S.13,
3 il. SIS, ga COLA Pennsylvania LimitedJ-
10 x and lila Dining Carr A. M: I.l6, LA.
! n, q 23. 3.12, 3.13, Alb, 4.43, 4-44. 5.13, 6.14 Dining
carr. 500. SIS, BIS P. NJ, and 1890 night.
sunday, ga. S44. . 15. "a po.14 Pennsylvania
limited, 1916, lila Dining Carr A. NJ, LA,
ali Dining Carr, Alb, IA Dining Carl, 5Is
mining Carl, GA Dining Carr, SOC, SIS, 9.15 p.
M. and IL. 80 night. -commoda 11.15 A. NJ.
4.52 and 715 P. NJ weekdays. Sundays. sis
aug For * atlantic city, 1870, 11.14 A. NJ. La. 22s
Buffet Parlor Cars, Passenger Coach. and
Combined Coach weekdays; and Il. 80 and ass
For Cape May. 1870 A. NJ, LIS P. N. week
DAYS; 1890 A. NJ. Sundays. !,
For Long Branch, Asbury Park. Ocean Grove
Point Pleasant, and intermediate stations. via
Railway, 9.23 A. NJ. 1.N, 3.52 and h-22 p. Nj
On Sunday, 1000 An, SIS p. NJ. (Stop att
Interlaken for Asbury Park or Ocean Grove on
The New York Transfer Company wiiacait
for and check baggage from and to heteisEand
residences. 4
]. 3. HUTCHINSON. J. r. WOOD 4
Genl Manager. Gen'1 Passenger Agent!
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-25

THEIR SMOKE ATTRACTED No ATTENTION.
peared to attract no attention, and the
vessel disappeared withoutl drawing near
the land.
So detected were they that several aban-
doned hope and undoubtedly would lave
soon died but for the fact that two days
later the brig Amherst was sighted run
ming from the south along the east coast.
The castaways launched their boat and
were seen by those Oh board the vessel.
They were taken on board and given
every comfort by Captain Gilroy and his
officers, who carried them to Auckland,
New Zealand, where they were Hospitality
received and provided for.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-25
MOVING SIDEWALKS.
WILL SOLVE THE TRANSPORTATION
PUZZLE AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION. !

To BE Not Mere Toys, ns They Were
mt the Chicago worlds Fair, but
Reaa Factors in Shifting Dense
Masses OF People.
The latest development in transporta-
ton will be seen at the Paris exposi-
ton next year. 1t promises to be the
grand stroke-the elou, az Parisians
say-of the big fair. Nothing more or
less than moving sidewalks puts the
finishing touch to the French effort to
Guido the Chicago triumph of six years
ago.
"But moving sidewalks are nothing
new or wonderful" you say. You saw
them at the Columbian exposition, Ell?
Yes, and Ben Franklin saw the sparks
he had drawn from the clouds, but an
arc light would doubtless be a great
surprise to the old gentleman could he
but see one now.
At the Worlds fair you saw a little
strip of moving sidewalk. 1t was a
very nice, interesting toy-when it was
in working order. 1t was novel and
wonderful because it was the pioneer.
We did a big thing to produce it, but
there we stopped.
E liz L Al AcR 49, SOaaS -
show us something more han a toy.
They will have in operation the side
walk of the future, not merely amusing
a few hundred people at a time, but
actually doing herculean work in NOV
ing thousands of people from place to
place. This problem of transportation
has been a nightmare to the exposition
directors for years n in their des-
perate efforts to solve the puzzle they
nave changed methods almost mirac-
ulously.
From being Is years behind the times
in the matter of transportation Paris
will soon be a quarter of a century
ahead. When the big show opens, the
armies of franc scattering tourists who
rush there from the ends of the earth
will find Paris equipped with an under
ground railroad, a system of automobile
buses and cabs and the ~trottoir mobile,
or rolling sidewalks.
The two moving platforms of the
Paris exposition will be nine miles long.
They are counted on to play q princi-
pal part in the handling of the crowds
within the crowded grounds. Indeed
should they fail to work successfully
there would be serious embarrassment,
for it is becoming clearer every day
that certain sections, like the two long,
narrow strips on either side of the riv-
er, will be peculiarly exposed to con-
gestion. These are the two strips of
river bank connecting the new exposi-
ton grounds with the old.
The sidewalk that is to hustle the Wis
itors from the great underground rail-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-25

TO JOHN w. FIELDER, A FEN
neman, Emily Watts. James B. Watts. her
husband, and James A. Gordon
You are hereby notified that at a public sale
made by the City Collector of Jersey City, on
the 9Th day OF october, 1896, The Mayor and
Aldermen Of Jersey City purchased for the
sum of sixty-two dollars and ninety-seven
cents ALL the land and real estate situate in
Jersey City, in the County of Hudson and
State of New Jersey, lying northwest of Sand
street mo frontage), which is laid down and
number twelve hundred and fifty u250, upon
an assessment map annexed to a report NUM-
Der ninety-three 93), made by the "Commis
sioners of Adjustment appointed in and for
said City by the Circuit Court of the County
and map was filed in the office of the City
Collector of Jersey City, on the 24th day Of
October. 1898, said report and map and said
sale being made pursuant to the provisions OF
an act Of the Legislature Of New Jersey,
passed March Soth. 1856. entitled
ton of arrearages of unpaid taxes, assess
ments and water rates or water rents in
cities of this State. and imposing and levy
ing a tax. assessment and lien in lieu and
instead Of such arrearages. and to enforce
the payment thereof, and to provide for the
sale Of lands subjected to future taxation
and assessment"
And the several supplements thereto.
And You are further notified that you appear
to have an estate or interest N said land and
estate shall be redeemed, as provided in said
acts. before the expiration of six months from
and after the service hereof. a deed for the
same will be given conveying to The Mayor
and Aldermen Of Jersey City, the fee nipple OF
said land and real estate according to the pro-
visions of the said act.
Dated Jersey City. N. j., January slst. 1893.
THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF JER-
e. Hoos.
{Seal.) Mayor.
Attest M. ]. o'DoNNELLs
City Clerk.
lSa1A No. 6442.)
~ 49, -. rsi+t. fx,,o rorfaa q. T~r,sf M
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-25
LehighV Valley Railroad

Leave PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Station. +Daily ex
cept Sunday. FSunday only. Other trains daily.
TIA AN. Local for EASTON.
S.22 Am. For BUFFALO, NIAGARA
FALLS and West, and principal local
points. Parlor and Dining Cars. Connects for
Coal Branches
+I2.I4P.M. ".5LAck DIAMOND Ex-
PRESS" Handsomest train in the world.
Limited to seating capacity. Due Buffalo
9.55 P. M; connecting with through
SleepersA to Detroit and Chicago. Dining car
service a la carte.
For WILKES-BARRE
I.I6P.M SCRANTON, Coal
+4.22 Pm. Branches and interme
diate points.
500 Pm. Local for MAUCH HUNK.
rs. "a PM. Local for EASTON.
1922 PM. Local Express for EASTON.
6.23 PM For Buffalo and Points West.
Through Sleeping Cars to Chicago and Toronto.
SLAP. NJ. Express for BUFFALO and
TORONTO. None but Sleeping Car passen.
4 PM. For ITHACA, ROCHESTER,
BUFFALO and West. Sleeping Cars to
Chicago.
SOUTH rAINFIELD and BOUND BROOK locals
daily except Sunday: l1.0S AM. GA to South
Plainheld only, ASS and S-46 pm.
Tickets and Pullman accommodations at Penn
sylvanla Railroad Station.
N. Y. Transfer Co. will call for and check baggage
from hotel or residence through to destination.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-25
Alcohol From smoke.

Chemists who can make sugar from old
shirts and perfumes as well as eolors
from coal tar, says the London News"
have other triumphs awaiting them in rlle
manufacture of alcohol from the smoke
of blast and other coal furnaces. Coal
smoke If the kin contains ethylene. from
which shcohol is readily made by simple
means. and II is recognized that ere long
the smoke of high furnaces, coke ovens,
and gas works will be turned to account
in this way. Meanwhile we can imagine
some ~phiIcEophic Scot sitting BY his sins
gle-neuk Rnd deplorIng the waste of all
lum (chimneg)
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-25

Knox County lays claim to having the
youngest grandmother in the State. il
not in the United States, says a NIn-
cennes Ind. dispatch in the Cincinnati
eEnquirer.. Her name is Mrs. James
Burke, and she is barely t~hirty-three
years old. She lives at Deekers. Her
daughter. Bertha. married John Midkiff
two years ago. and then to them a little
daughter was born this week. The mother
while the father is but nineteen. The COM
bined age of the father and mother is
but one year older than the grandmother,
grandmother. mother. father and child IS
only 100 years, yet this represents three
gene ~atiens.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-25
GOLD UNDER THE OCEAN
Efforts to Search the Wreck of
the General Grant.
LOST IN 1866 WITH $3.50, 600.

Hcw the Stanch Ship Was Drawn
to Destruction by the Strange Mag
netfc Force of Auckland Islands
SuTerings of the Survivors.
Recent efforts to discover $3.50, 900 in
gold lost in the wreck of the ship General
Grant in 1866 recall the details of that re-
markable tragedy. The General Grant
was built in Bath, Me-, in 1868, by ]. p.
Morse and went to Boston TO load for San
Francisco. She was a fine vessel, well ap-
pointed in every detail and met with no
mishap until after ~circling the globe once.
She sailed from Hobson's bay, Australia,
May 4, 1866, for London.
For the first week she experienced light
westerly winds. The weather being very
foggy, a sharp lookout was kept for land
on the 18th. The last observation had
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-25
ESTrSHOR
-RAILROAD=
PICTURESQUE LINE OF TRAVEL TO T
NORTH AND WEST.
THE NIAGARA FALLS ROUTE.

H NIAGARA FALLS ROUTE.
Trains leave Franklin street North RiyerD
station. New York. as follows, and nTtesn
Terminal station at Weehawken, y. J.. can
be reached via trains of N. J. J. Rd.. leaving
Cornwall. Newburgh. Kingston and Albany
= cra m1S s west aa' POINT. Kingstsn. New
XII Mountains, Albany. Saratoga and Lake
George. Parlor Car to Albany.
Niagara Falls, cleveland. Detroit. Chicago.
Louis next afternoon. Dining Car attached
C. S:45 P. n. daily, except sunday. 19r Son
burgh and intermediate stations to Albany.
5:45 P. NJ. daily, except Sunday, Tor Albany,
5:s s5rf =. H., N 9Rieaso AND 81. Louis Limited.
daily go minutes later from foot W. 4zd
fsfoetl s;ia aeT a'i Fans, s Toronto. fi Detrois. ieieSs-
land, Chicago and St: Louis: p..,..
7:i ssrl ?. B Nj asil AND IF ToT H J syracuse R''ns'-
s:5 P. N daily; for A Mss utic s1 sySr cr 9
b befndt.sf cileSeland, chiesso and st. Louis:
B. c.-Leaves Brooklyn Alex: 3, 1o;45 A. NJ;
{; az 8 F M Jersey 9 s aityi P N R. R. Station:
HaSverstray1 Locals: s:l5 4. M. .5w. 4sd street,
7;l5 A. M; $50. 4:iS. SIS. soc. ''s;4S and
Nelwb1rgh Locals: 10000 A. M; 1900. s:Oo.
sDaily. sssundays only. Kingston Local.
Wagner Sleeping Cars for Albany, Utica
Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Niagara Fails
Detroit. Cleveland, and Chicago on through
uWeStcotts. Express check baggage through
to de stination. For Cab or Carriage. phone
1870 or 6S6. Thirty-eighth street.
For tickets, timetables. parlor and sleeping
car accommodations or information apply
offices:-Rrooklyn, Nos. 1888: 3Ss; 726 Fulton
New York city: Nos. 11S. 1868. ST. and 9E3
Broadway; No. 81 West One Hundred and
Twentv-nfth street, and at Station.
G, b. LAMBERT. Genl Passenger Agent.
Grand Central Station. New YORK.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-25

The greatest orator that ever lived in
Texas was Frank Bowden, who died in
Henderson several years ago. He came
to Henderson from Alabama. and it was
made his great reputation. 1t was gene
rally known among his associates that
he charmed the ears of Clay and Webster
and other great men of that period, and
in the South. He practised law in Hen
derson, but did not succeed remarkably
well, nor was his oratory fully appreci-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-25
CHM AND Ills KNIFE.
A Unique Product Of the Blue
Grass Country.
READY TO DEFEND HIS HONOR.
The Cory Colonel Is Proud of His
Trusty Blade, which Has Figured
In Many Encounters-Handy Weap-
ON In a Row.

Kentucky is still in o state of feyerish
excitement over the Jack alinn and SEN
ator Bronston incident, in which the colo
mel referred to the state legislator as "a
redheaded thief. The trouble with
Bronston was due to the fact that he was
the attorney for Mrs. Sally Crawford, a
creditor of Chinn's. Being unable to find
a~nyaproperty Of Chinn's that was not in
his wife's name, Bronston intimated that
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-25
His LAST CRUISE.

Rear Admiral HowisOn, Commander
of the South Atlantic Squadron.
Rear Admiral Henry L. Howison, who
has been given command of the re-es-
tablished south Atlantic squadron, was
a classmate OF Admiral Dewey. The lat
ter graduated No. g. while Howison was
next behind him in order of merit.
Rear Admiral Howison was born in
the District of Columbia and was ap-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-25
N~77F
SInlANS SAIL A SHIP.
How Trained Gorillas Saved a
Vessel In a Storm.
rARs THAT NEVER GRUMBLE.

Thrilling Story of What a British
Captain Saw In the Red sea-Mon-
keys as the rel Mariners of
the Future.
Captain McLauchlan of the British
steamer Nyanza arrived from Sourabaya
recently, says the Philadelphia Times. He
brought an account of a violent storm in
the Red sea, during which he observed a
dhow saved from destruction by her crew,
nearly all of which were gorillas.
The Nyanza left S~ourabaya, Java, on
Jan. 4 for the Delaware breakwater. Her
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-29
JAMES FLOODS FIANCEE.
The Mining millionaire to Wed His
Deceased Wife's Sister.

KANSAS CITY Mo-, Jan. 2S.-The an
nouncement of the engagement of James
Flood of San Francisco, and Miss Maud L.
Fritz, of Kansas City, will put end to the
gossip that has been periodically revived
concerning the intentions of the son of the
famous late California mining millionaire.
The wedding, it is said will take place
about Feb s. Miss Fritz is now in this
city with her mother and her father, who
is a prominent and a wealthy contractor.
1t is designed that the wedding shall take
place quietly, and that there shall be no
demonstration or show. This wedding Will
have a peculiar interest, inaSmuch as Miss
Fritz is a sister of Mr.. Floods former wife.
The two sisters were very much alike when
they were girls, but Miss Maud who was
the younger of the two, was not so strikingly
handsome as the late Mrs Flood. Still she
is q very beautiful woman and will make
fine matron for the principal heir of the
Flood millions. When Mrs. Flood died it
was common gossip that her sister would
take her place at the head of the Flood
household. The younger sister is more bril-
liant in personal appearance than was Mr..
Floods late wife. but she has not the amaz-
ing regularity of feature which distinguished
that very beautiful woman. Miss Fritz'S
niece the little siX-year-old daughter of Mr..
Flood, is now here with her aunt Miss
Fritz has lately returned to Kansas City
from q triD abroad.