The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-09
POLICE DINNER.
Captains Archibald, Wohlle-
ben and Cody Entertain
ed Their Friends 4
Last Night.
ON ALL SIDES
Well Known Men Approve
the Recent Appointments
Congratulatory Speeches

All present agreed that the Police Com
missioners were wise in their choice of
police captains. Praises for the three
men, whose guests they were, were heard
on all sides. The hosts said nothing.
They were content with seeing their
friends enjoy themselves.
The dinner began shortly after seven
o'clock. The menu was
Blue Points on Half Shell Sherry
Soup.
Consumme Printaniere Royal.
Relishes
Sliced Tomatoes Queen Olives
Kalamazoo Celery
Fish
Broiled Blue Fish, Maitre d'Hotel
Bermuda Potatoes Sauterne
Entire
Filet de Boeuf, aux Champignons
Asparagus on Toast Pommes c=r%SG 'nm
Philadelphia Capon, with Jelly
Salad
Lettuce, French Dressing
Dessert
Neapolitan lee Cream
Fancy Cake Fruit Cigarros
Roquefort Cheese Water Crackers
Demi Tasse.
At the tables ~were-Police Commission
ers West and Walters, former Commits
sioner John P. Feeney, E. w. Woolley,
Colonel Samuel Dickinson, Postmaster
Wanser, Emil Datz, DR.. John ]. Nevin,
Police Justices J. Herbert Potts and John
Nevin, Frank Higgins, James Norton,
John Weastell, Horace Farrier, Colonel
J. w. Holmes, T. w. Dinkins, Police Cap
tains Charles Cox, Frederick Farrier,
John Kelly and Thomas Nugent, Detec-
tive Gustav Hottie, August Dieterle,
former Inspector William Lange. Acting
Inspector Archibald McKaig, Director of
Education William H. Quinn, Alderman
Barr. Warden George O. Osborne, Arthur
Archibald. Robert H. Archibald, William
Foley. Fred. Mersheimer, Louis Keisen-
wetter. Elliott Green, Jr., ]. M. Mailer,
Harry Smiley. Charles Wohlleben. Emil
Adolphus, George NJ. Mccarthy. Health
Inspector Daniel Benjamin, Phillip Heck,
Patrick Powers.
AT the head table there were thirteen
guests when the Inner began. Some
person remarked it and for a time there
was a furry. Horace Farrier stopped the
comment by calling on the superstitious
man of the thirteen to leave the table.
Not a man of the thirteen moved. Later
in the evening a fourteenth guest sat at
the table and the thirteen felt easier.
After the dinner had been eaten Chief
Murphy, who acted as toast master, call
ed upon Philip Heck to sing. He COM
manded perfect silence while he sang
s'The Holy City, He is possessed of a
remarkably sweet voice and he was at
his best last night. He was encored sew
eral times. In the evening he sang a
number of popular songs, including
several Irish ballads. He sang Sweet
Inniscarra,' by request.
The first speaker introduced by Chief
Murphy was Postmaster Wanser, who
was presented as Mayor" He said
ST am glad to be here this evening as
the guest of the three men who have
been honored by promotion in the Police
Department. They nave merited the
great honor that has been bestowed up
on them by the Police Commissioners.
I have been more or less connected with
the Police Department, having been for
six years a Police Magistrate. I became
acquainted with these gentlemen in that
capacity. It is an honor to know them,
and l want to congratulate the Police
Board on its selection of men who have
been as true and generous as these men
nave been. I feel that they will do them
selves and the force credit. The Chief
is lucky in having such able assistants"
Chief Murphy, in introducing Police
Justice Potts, the next speaker, said
''Of course each person here is a law
loving and law-abiding citizen. If he
were not he would not be the guest of
policemen. Everybody here, and thank
God, a large proportion of everybody, be-
lieves in the enforcement of law and or
der. For the protection of property it is
necessary to have a police force"
fsrTIa polica forra iS a11 riOhf h11f IF
the criminal class knew hat all it had
to do was to submit to arrest and spend
a night or so in Jail we would need not
300 policeman but 5000 and every citizen
would be obliged to carry some sort of a
weapon to protect himself. The arrest
of criminals for the preparation of
crime would do little good If the police
had not the courts to sustain them.
Without proper support from the judi
ciary, and by the Judiciary I do not mean
the upper courts, for the criminal class
is not acquainted with the upper courts,
the police would be useless. Jersey City
is fortunate in having good police magis-
trates. l will now call upon the senior
magistrate for a few remarks"
Police Justice Potts read from his menu
card, archibald, Wohlleben. Co~dy-three
Oh a klnU. "A SOOQ ndHQ 10 draw 10. IL
we hang on a little longer we may fill 1t.
Gaughter.) These police captains are
great fellows. They will swear a man
into Jail and Ten minutes later they will
beg h m out. l think in the selection Of
the three men whose guests We are to-
the Police Commissioners lave
done well. We wish them well. I think
l voice the sentiments of all present when
l wish success to Archibald, Wohlleben
and Cody"
Colonel Holmes, proprietor of the Bijou.
made a few remarks.
Police Justice Nevin made one of his
witty speeches. He said he knew Archi-
bald and Wehlleben when they were ser
geants in the Pee Wee precinct, when a
patrolman could lose a sergeant on a
post that extende from Montgomery
street and Bergen avenue around the
cemetery and down to Marion. and when
there were no signal boxes to disturb the
slumbers of the sergeant at the desk.
Chief Murphy delivered a glowing eulo-
gy on John P. Feeney before introducing
him. I'VE rave with US tonight he
said, "a man who did more for the de-
than any other one man. We
ba u q hara tha man who brouphf the Pa /